Unreleased Star Wars Toys

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[@thethoughtcriminal8786]

Did you say Snow Speeder? Speaking of the Blockade Runner. If they had continued with the Micro Collection play sets, I would have loved them to create an interior of the Blockade Runner where you have the rebels fighting the imperials as Leia hid and Artoo and Threepio fled to the escape pod.

[@jimbob3262]

I have a star wars atat driver who has a right leg shorter than the left is it rare

[@ThatJunkman]

jim bob never seen that. Would have to see a photo to know. Guessed a errror while making it

[@jimbob3262]

@@ThatJunkman I can take a couple of pictures of it if you want to see it

[@ThatJunkman]

jim bob love to. [e-mail]

[@Vexer-rl9fq]

The C3PO walkie talkie makes perfect sense. He is fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.

[@thetruth5210]

This is what I was going to say! 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@krdragon6950]

I think they got the idea from the Star Trek communicator from the 1970's

[@RetroActionUK]

Yep that’s what I printed out too.

[@peppermintspacecapsule9898]

At 4.43, after Junkman says "Ask my uncle," the look of shame makes me laugh every time! Despite the scale, I'd have loved that Blockade Runner....

[@_The_Worst_]

I sold my Nintendo Virtual Boy about six months ago on eBay for $400.00...💯✔ I then used the funds from that to buy more Star Wars figures...🧒

[@notmrdemo]

911

[@NickBartolo]

The scale on the Blockade Runner would have bugged me even as a child.

[@martok2112]

Me too...but I still would've loved to have it just because it IS the blockade runner...my fave ship in the SWU.

[@jamiebraswell5520]

It's a toy. Even as a child, I understood that you couldn't get scale ships other than with single pilot ships. I would have LOVED that blockade runner.

[@bra5081]

@@jamiebraswell5520 Indeed it didn't prevent the death star playset from being popular

[@toddnolastname4485]

Yeah, either make it big enough to open up to the hall where the fighting happened, or make it smaller as a die-cast toy.

[@Villafarrell]

The truck looks VERY Battlestar Galactica!

[@martok2112]

Yeah, it does look a bit like the old Landram, doesn't it? LOL! The front of it also reminded me (slightly) of the Seeker shuttles from the old Space Academy/Jason of Star Command Saturday morning live action shows.

[@mdgrono]

The vehicle with tank treads (7:30) looks like the description of a vehicle stolen by Luke and Leia in the book Splinter of the Minds Eye published in 1978. It is likely that the Kenner designers got the inspiration for this vehicle from the book.

[@sjdrifter72]

Makes me wonder if a large scale Rebel Blockade Runner ship will be the next vehicle offered on Hasbro's Haslab after Jabba's Sail Barge. I've always wanted one so I'll be all for it.

[@MikeFrazee222]

Cool stuff from an alternate 80s. The speed bike would be epic if it had a VR endor, hoth, Luke's planet. A moving image that speeds up and turns when you do . . .

[@camcordernonsense5264]

I miss Morse code and constant static. And running so hard the battery cover falls off your walkie talkie yanking the battery wires. When you fixed it you felt like a genius!

[@julianmaymon5862]

I straight up would have lost my mind over the blockade runner. That is SUCH a cool toy.

[@JediBob]

4:40 that was the most subtle joke I’ve ever heard ever it took me a minute to catch that

[@MichaelSmith-mh2km]

I was thinking more about what other rare unreleased toys are out there. Well, I think I might have the holiest grail of all. I live in Cincinnati, where I'm sure you know Kenner was based. When I was very young, I remember a local news story about a girl who was told Star Wars toys are for boys from a store.. Kenner heard about this, and gave the girl a one of a kind at-at/walker that actually moved. They featured her on the news and showed the at-at/walker they gave her that mechanically moved. Go find that story or even better, the toy. If it exists today, it has to be the rarest Star Wars collectible ever.

[@DanielS2001]

I think the Death Star game may have been an electronic LED game, similar to some of the other handheld electronic games released by other companies. I could be wrong though.

[@martok2112]

I agree with you on that. I think it would've been some kind of LED display with a few imprints of an enemy fighter that you shoot at as you race down a shoddily animated trench. After you shoot a few down, you make the shot that destroys the Death Star. That's how I envisioned it when it was shown here.

[@MichaelSmith-mh2km]

I live in Cincinnati and my cousin worked at Kenner. I had prototypes and unreleased items. I took my collection to a friends house to play right when I was growing out of Star Wars. I left everything at his house and never picked them back up. My guess is a lot of prototypes reside in Rumpke dump.

[@GreyHulk2156]

Some of these are fascinating. I wasn't previously aware of most of these. Thanks, Junkman.

[@brianartillery]

Hello, Junkman! That 'Hoth Tow Truck' looks very much like a cut-down Battlestar Galactica 'Land Ram', to my eyes, and it is also like the crawler vehicle featured in the novel 'Splinter Of The Mind's Eye'. The 'Death Star Battle' game would have been cool to have, as it's casing is in the shape of a Hoth Rebel soldier's Macro Binoculars. Even if it didn't work, it'd still be cool to own because of that.

[@harrycollins3248]

You would thing a Blockade Runner toy would have been a no brainer for Kenner seeing how its the first ship we ever saw in Star Wars.

[@Astinsan]

The stuff that projected onto the walls was likely not made because fisher price landed the movie projecting toys (licensing) like the hand held “movie viewer” and the mechanical “movie viewer projector”. These were cartridges with about 45 seconds of movie to show. Fisher price also got the rights to still image viewer projectors under the “view master” brand. They had all the good licenses like Disney and pop culture licenses.

[@RockandrollNegro]

The Death Star Battle viewer was similar to a viewfinder, except it was backlit. It took two nightlight bulbs (one on the left, one right). It had a built in roll of film that rotated via a winding disk. You could wind it slow and view individual frames, or you could rotate it quickly and it played like a movie (no sound of course.) The interior was molded plastic that sort of looked like the inside of a spaceship, so it kind of looked like you were watching a theatre screen inside of an AT-AT, if that makes any sense. The basic design had been around since the sixties and you could buy variations of it in the back of Famous Monsters magazine. I had one that was The Creature From The Black Lagoon, and it was basically a three second clip of him climbing out of the water. I think there were 12 individual frames. Mine wasn't backlit, so you had to be standing in front of a lamp to watch it. It was cool for about five minutes, but the Star Wars model was created at the time when home video was making things like that obsolete, so I can see why it was cancelled.

[@jcbvortex22]

Weird to think No Exo-skeleton suits in Star Wars, just armor guys wear.

[@jokerproduction5135]

Art Carney action figure sign me up Michael from retro blasting has a Bea Arthur action figure Great video

[@RichardAugust]

The Star Wars Holiday Special, though, has beat out The Last Jedi in terms of love and respect for the franchise.

[@glyn420]

i agree

[@hediho-ry6rs]

Dude that snowspeeder tow track looks awesome

[@kevinmelicant9566]

When I'm done building that time machine we'll go down to Kenner with a couple ball bats and have a small talk with them. See if we could get some toys made.

[@KenshoBeats]

Once again, informative vid, love your humor. Did you know there was also a Bantha planned, a prototype is made. It's being release by a custom artist in original Kenner box, it's amazing, I wanted the Bantha so much as a kid!

[@Hyapatia77]

That tread tank looks like the landram from 70s Battlestar Galactica.

[@raulchapa3667]

Hi Junkman, I got my GB proton pack in Circus Circus, a toy store in Mcallen, Texas, then this toy store was buy by KB Toys.

[@RockandrollNegro]

The Tree Top figures I had as a kid had a wooden "body" and a plastic head.

[@jamiebraswell5520]

I would have loved to have the Blockade Runner. It was always an absolute favorite for me as a child. I always wanted an Emperor's Throne Room playsey. We nearly got one for the Micro Collection Death Star World.

[@michaelferdinand5229]

The blockade runner was actually made from a transport ship from the tv show 1999. Watch the new Lights and magic documentary series. I just found that out. Amazing when u actually see how they had to legit make everything to make Star Wars. Make new cameras and film cameras to everything, just amazing

[@michaelferdinand5229]

Hey brother. I was born in 79 so by the time I was old enough to see Star Wars and understand it it was 186-87 ( 5-6 yrs old ). By 86-87 Kenner Star Wars was declining but man when I tell u all the G.I. Joe’s I has dude wish I never gave them to my younger cousin Frankie. We where the only 2 boys in the family. And still are to this day. All nieces. Anyway I’ve just started watching your channel and love how u explain how u played with toys and going over kids houses. Brings back memories. I tell my daughters that everyday. You wanted something u had to go to the store and get it, none of this Amazon / ebay. Use your iPhone to buy stuff

[@michaelferdinand5229]

Didn’t want to write one huge reply. But I remember going over my mom and dads friends house they had a son Mark Ns although not blood cousin like I explained earlier he was family. Close friends our parents where. But he had the Millennium Falcon and a X-wing. I remember he told me his dad took the X-wing to work and was able to remove the R2-D2 cap fake head in the back and cut out that area and such so his real R2 could go inside the back. I said cool. Because I never saw what it looked like before hand. But man thinking back on it now they should of made it that way. But I get it some kids might not have the money for R2 so having it look like he was there is the best for kids

[@Raysboss302]

If you look closely, the snowspeeder is also a prototype. So the tow truck was a early design.

[@jeffstark8449]

Great video junk man. A few more nuggets I didn't know. Congrats on passing 6k subs!

[@roguecomics4775]

My uncle used to work there, and he brough boxes of these home all the time.

[@LocalManMike]

Keep up the good work my dude, love how you make so many video's compared to other collector video's, keeps me coming back! legend.

[@ThatJunkman]

Thanks. It might slow down some but hope still 2-3 a week. Some I watch do 1-2 a month if that.

[@LocalManMike]

Well I'll be there when they're out haha! I almost pissed through the ceiling laughing at old grandma Anakin Skywalker!

[@danielkegley690]

I watched TBS to as a kid. Kids beat, Starcade, and Georgia Championship Wrestling.

[@tommybenefield1480]

Just saw this and the Star Wars toys for pictures for your uncle was pure gold!!

[@trollking99]

Although it's not to scale, the Blockade Runner from the Micro Machines Action Fleet series is really well done in my opinion.

[@zapusama67]

I dig your vids and the southern accent (which I'm sure you don't think you have) is awesome. Funny, how, the name C-3PO was shortend in the film to "3PO or Threepio", and most put the emphasis on the "C" (or "Three") when saying his name. But you put the emphasis on the "PO". It's not hate mail, just intriguing.

[@toddnolastname4485]

There was five Han Solos on the truck. That should have told them they really needed to make a Rebel Soldier figure.

[@scotthintze5901]

I have seen these in the dvd documentary Plastic Galaxy: The Story of the Star Wars Toys. The former Kenner designers also shown different design ideas that were not used in the movies, like a Darth Vader pencil sharpener, a TIE fighter sound F/X for your bicycle, R2-D2 gumball machine, etc. You should watch this dvd. It also shows prototypes, history of the lightsaber and rise and fall of the original micro collection line

[@TheSheehanjr]

I loved the Kay-bee toy store T-shirt

[@D.Pensak]

The Family Tree House (Tree Tots) was all plastic with the exception of the patterned floor, which was a fiberboard with heavy duty decal attached to it.

[@ThatJunkman]

Figures were plastic?

[@D.Pensak]

Yes figures were plastic.

[@t.y.talksbotsfiguresandgam3822]

The Troop Transporter was never in the movie, but it was a toy release. Great Toy, but it's a shame that I don't have it any more. :(

[@juedkolbeck4230]

I am still down for the tow tank.

[@monashsq4001]

The holiday special is awesome

[@duckmann5000]

I love that Greedo on the back shelf great video 🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@articulatedtoyden4268]

A family of Cookies would look great on a shelf! Hopefully someone from Hasbro will watch this video and make these products happen. Blockade Runner would be sweet!

[@inthetoyroom4life]

I was reading through some old ToyFare magazines and i stumbled upon something of interest in issue #53 They have pictures of extensive figures of all the Holiday Special figures from Chewies family to animated Boba Fett If you havent read any of these magazines they're alot of fun and a good sourse for toy knowledge. Sadly they dont print them anymore RIP ToyFare 1997 - 2011

[@loydstafford1633]

I had a hookup in Decatur Alabama with a guy that owns the blockade runner he showed it to me and it was amazing

[@leebush4053]

Kenner made a prototype sand speeder. it's very similar to the snowspeeder. I think there was an unreleased 12 inch set from ESB.

[@jeffreycoogan09]

The original concept art for the Snowrider looked like Gypsy from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

[@bobs3302]

Great video, Junkman. And, yes, it will always be Blockade Runner. And the first Luke figure is "Luke Skywalker", no further classification necessary. lol

[@ThatJunkman]

Still not needed. Luke is Luke :)

[@TheLeatheryman]

I dream of the Imperial Outpost playset from “The Adventure Continues” campaign that never happened.

[@SimonPeter611]

The snowspeeder tow looks like a Cobra Hiss tank

[@figrindantatooine]

Awesome video like all your other vids. The cartoon Yoda holding a He-Man figure in your opening always makes me laugh. That Hoth tank/tow truck vehicle sure reminds me of the Cobra Hiss tank from G.I.Joe. I wonder if that's where they got the idea from?

[@infinitegodaikinbrent8174]

Great video and fun information on unreleased stuff! I wonder if they used the molds from this to make the later POTF FX Corvette Blockade Runner from 1996. It is almost big enough to stick a figure or 2 in it, if the space was made. And though not Kenner, Hasbro did make the later Animated Boba Fett from the Holiday Special in the 30th Anniversary figure line.

[@Astinsan]

Love your intro.. makes me laugh every time

[@michaelferdinand5229]

I think the blockade runner didn’t get made because it was actually made from a transport ship from the 1999 tv show. Maybe it got tied up in legal over who would get what money. Stupid when that happens.

[@tommybenefield1480]

Furthermore, if they wanted to do something amazing, and wanted to make some money, make a Build-a-Ship set of those cardboard sets like they made for Solo. Drop in a couple 5 POA figures, goofy backdrop. But it includes a huge piece of a ship you want. A $45 price tag doesn't look that bad, now does it?? Hell, even add more cardboard inserts so the "kid" can build a new Death Star. A Death Star and a vehicle???? My mind is reeling!!

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Even if the Holiday Special figures had been released as a limited edition-only item by Kenner in either 1978 or 1979, kids in the late-1970s would've been disappointed as they were nothing more than just blatant modifications to the existing Chewie figure, and they would've sucked anyways. (10:32)

[@thrashingjedi72]

the way he says c3po

[@garrettparker8792]

Why didn't they ever release the Rebel Trooper first the first movie on the blockade runner.

[@deadspacecollector8420]

Man, your shirt brings back so many memories. I miss kay bee toy shopping in the mall for sure. Are you from the Carolinas by chance? if so did you ever go to that big vintage Star Wars toy store in Asheborro NC back in the early 2000s called Collectible Planet? I use to head down there alot.

[@ThatJunkman]

Sounds like a cool place. Never been. I’m in GA

[@tommybenefield1480]

The word of today.... Landspeeder.... Good stuff as always. I'm bored, okay?!? Overdosing on Junkman!!

[@scottstalcup4453]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Nice Audra Lee Kid's Beat reference at the end. Took me a bit. I'm old.

[@ThatJunkman]

Glad someone got it!

[@monsterhobbiesonlinestore]

Ha! I had a Fisher Price Action Johnny...I named him "Boy". I use to play with all my action figures in the back yard, but I left Boy out in the tall grass one summer and my Dad "Killed" him with the lawn mower.

[@braxtonbaltruczak8770]

I love stuff like this and nobody does it thanks for the good nice facts

[@toomanyhobbies8351]

SW Holiday Special figures would been sweet

[@billharding6693]

Steve Sandsweet has a lot of these in his collection

[@ThatJunkman]

He mostly has released stuff. Gus Lopez has most of these things :)

[@brandonthetoyandgamecollector]

I love videos like this

[@jnichols3]

No Bea Arthur action figure?

[@cybertronnation9247]

7:50: Hooray! Kenner's 1986 Extension makes an appearance!

[@alwaysamysteryyes2021]

The uncle line is so wrong but so hilarious!!!

[@martok2112]

HA HA HA! Dude, love the intro! Well done! Since I was a youngling, the Tantive IV/Corellian Corvette/Blockade Runner/Princess Leia's starship has been my favorite ship in the SWU. I would've killed to have that blockade runner toy, even if it did have the swing out sensor dish to put an action figure in. The closest I ever got to having a Tantive IV toy as a kid was when they released the die cast miniature Star Destroyer, which held an even mini-er miniature of the Tantive IV (which was just a white piece of plastic vaguely shaped like Princess Leia's ship.) Of course, now, I have several miniatures of the Tantive IV in various sizes....so...childhood dream come true. 😀 Keep up the great work, Junkman. May the Work Force Be With You.

[@ThatJunkman]

Thanks for watching

[@bigpun7916]

I built my own blockade runner ! And plan on building more !

[@scoutisabelle]

This channel is so cool. Love these videos!

[@s4m_1223]

OMG those Star Wars Tots are so adorable!!!😍😍 I would definitely have that if they released it.

[@davep3786]

hey, i got one .....does anyone remember and imperial star destroyer playset ?i remember seeing it in a catalogue when i was 6 it was supposed to be like bad guys version of the milenium falcon playset ...obviosly it was not to scale ...but it was BIG .. sadly i never saw anything past the the catalog pages ...after a while everyone forgot about it .

[@shawnhull9988]

Don’t remember these but I appreciate the video

[@CaptainArrrgh]

Those first ones you mentioned I saw at a swap meet in Arnold, MO

[@lottovegas]

BEST ONE YET!!!! GREAT JOB!!!

[@gregsmith1792]

the tantive 4 is obviously not a hot commodity 3 movies after it appeared and during the slowdown

[@qualityserviceexperts9996]

I had the tree tots- they weren't wooden.

[@TortureVisionTV]

I would've bought all those Holiday Special toys, even if they made Bea Arthur and Art Carney figs. :)

[@antichristian74]

they missed the boat on wookiee talkie.

[@rigohernandez2809]

Probably it was for the Star Wars script or the character to Arno?

[@noname-et8xd]

"Ask my uncle" lol

[@mross8991]

The rebel tank reminds me a lot of a later toy the G.I. Joe Havoc.

[@darthg6505]

Maybe we could have a Haslab Blockade Runner the size of the Gi-Joe USS FLAGG!

[@muddfoot69]

Although the scale is off...Man I would have loved that blockade ship

[@alwaysamysteryyes2021]

What did you originally say before you overdubbed Landspeeder?

[@Vampiranhador]

Fun and entertaining vid. I've already heard from Snow Rider by way of the 'Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys' documentary but the rest is completely new to me. Cool. If there's some people possessing any those prototypes, they can consider themselves friggin' lucky folks ! Ps Love the Filmation intro

[@GhostofCicero]

5 Han's on that truck thing. Ha ha.

[@V-grandraccoon]

Some incorrect information here. You might want to do some fact checking. The vehicles you looked at were not intended for 1980 or 1984 but they were actually intended for a 1987 line that would continue the Star Wars story however lucasfilm didn’t want Kenner making their own stories so it was vetoed.

[@ThatJunkman]

The snowspeeder tow tank was at for 1980/1981. At least according to Kenner documents. Also this why we only see series 1 and 2 toys on it for display. The Blockade runner was designed in 1983 for a 1984 release and not for the 1987. I did a video on the line for 1987 if you like to know more. Also check out theswca.com/index.php?action=disp_item&item_id=50959

[@reepacheirpfirewalker8629]

You didn't show the Imperial base that would have been a place for AT-AT's to saunter on up getting ready to attack those New Republic heroes or the ATAT that had the cannon on the back end or the Luke Skywalker Jedi Master I could go on and on.

[@WishedUponAVlog]

Very Cool video Mr Junkman

[@cybertronnation9247]

9:22: It's a bummer that the Kenner Rebel Blockade Runner never saw the light of day and has gone missing! Anyways great vid mate!

[@cichlidjedi]

Love the Kaybee toys T-Shirt!

[@ThatJunkman]

Thanks. But it at our shop !

[@ravenhawk538]

great video dude

[@ThatJunkman]

Thanks