Christopher Grant, I lived in Vegas until I was 5! It was weird I was in the desert when Star Wars came out (saw it inna drive-in!) in then intha snow when Empire came out... in then in Oregon(Endor) when Jedi came out... I always hadtha natural playsets.
RetroBlasting Oh I know it was a joke. I was just remembering back to how glad I was to have it. Believe me it was one of the greatest presents I ever received.
cineman73 I was poor as hell too, I never got any cool playsets. I got one Swamp Thing playset from the short lived cartoon series, and I think that was it.
Poor kid here, too. Hollowed out tree stumps and dollar store action figures completed my one Star Wars gift each year. I loved cardboard art pieces to add to the scene.
You do realize the irony of this (and the reason MOST people can't identify Ratzenberger in the film despite him having his mustache back then) is that they overdubbed his voice with another actor's? They did that with many of the supporting casts' characters including Rogue Two (who was NOT Wedge in the film; there was a misidentification at one point but it was clearly meant to be another character, Zev Senesca).
@Projekt Kobra I honestly don't know. I recognized Ratzenberger in Superman 1 and 2. He was living in England and married to an English wife at the time they made Superman 1, 2, and The Empire Strikes Back. He just happened to get cast. They used his voice for Superman 1 and 2. I think all the ADR for Star Wars was done in the States unless they made arrangements and did work for that in the UK as well. All the major Imperial voices were the voices of those actors as far as I know and not replacements. For the Rebels, you can tell they used American actors if the British actors couldn't do American accents. It's that whole thing of identifying Imperialism with the British. It's a trope of science fiction films in the 1970s and 1980s. Note that the bad guys in the American films of that period speak with British accents. Yeah, I'd get annoyed if my nationality were getting constantly slammed, too, but Hollywood had the money!
I remember getting the Imperial Base and being bummed because it wasn’t in the movie and I wanted the Probot set..... on the plus side, I remember my grandmother screaming very early one morning after Christmas when she caught a glimpse of my new AT-AT and thought a dog got in the house.... lmao... good times!!!
I had the Imperial Attack Base as a kid. I always assumed it was from the scene in Empire where Han gets Leia to the Falcon and she says “this bucket of bolts is never going to get us past that blockade.” As Han says “This baby’s got a few surprises left in her sweetheart” the scene cuts to a few Snow Stormtroopers setting up a big gun while a little gun emerges from underneath the Falcon and takes out the Stormtroopers before they can get the big gun activated. I always thought that this play set was from that scene in the movie and was not meant to be part of the trenches the rebels fought the AT-AT’s from. Just my theory 🤷🏻♂️
I believe Hoth got bigger attention over Bespin because of playability. These toys were introduced in the summer sure, but the big idea was to pump out things for the Christmas holiday and most of the northern states like Ohio see snow in December. They would also know that Kids love playing outside with their toys, I know I did and by taking your probot and attack base outside, in the snow, you now transformed your winter wonderland into the icy planet of Hoth. Designers also probably looked at Bespin as being too cold and sterile to really come up with fun ideas. Or perhaps because the Death Star set couldn't be sold overseas, the cardboard set was the only alternative to creating a new playset as expansive and cheaply as Hoth.
It wasn't until I went back to collect the figures in the 90s that I realized there even was a Hoth Luke. I thought the generic soldier was Luke my whole childhood. To this day, the real Luke seems wrong.
Ah, the memories! There was something special about the toys of the original trilogy. Although I did later fill in my collection with figures that should have been in the original series starting with Tarkin. Another great video! Thanks!
If it makes you feel any better, Hoth Rebel Soldier, my Hoth Luke's leg snapped off in the cold when i dropped him. Don't let Major Cliff Claven boss you around.
It seems troop transport vehicles always get a bad rap, like the GI Joe APC, now the Rebel Transport. I think the big transition from the sand dunes of Tatooine in the 1st movie to the harsh snowy mountains in Empire was such a refreshing change Kenner couldn't help but focus on it. Bespin must've felt like the Death Star too much, but that's just my theory. Great video, Michael! Your content is always well worth the wait. =)
Im a 20 year old from Serbia, i have nothong to do with 80-90s toys, but your channel is my favorite. Its a window into a different world. Thank you for everything you do
Many were the days when my Hoth Wampa battled my He-Man figure. Being able to lift He-Man over his head and slamming him to the ground led to many victories for the aforementioned Wampa. Good times...good times indeed.
As far as I know, there were no snow-based toys prior to the ESB Hoth toys. There were sleds and hollow snow-brick makers (make your own igloo or fort), but few actual toys that you would play with in the snow. Once these toys came out, any kid could not wait to get outside and try them out in the snow. So maybe that’s one reason why Kenner gambled on so many Hoth based items.
I like watching this video over and over because i like to see what my dad played with when he was my age he had every empire strikes back playset and vechile and figure but we no longer own any off them and I really wish I could have played with these toys
Great post as always, interesting and plausible thoughts on why there was an Empire Imperial base. I can completely understand why they gravitated to the Hoth battlescene: watching this at the cinema as a ten-year old, just how awesome was the entire Hoth chapter taken as a whole? From the tautans to wampa's to the Rebel base, they were visually and mentally stunning. And when you bring in the Imperial Walkers facing off against a rag-tag underdog, it's not wonder Kenner gravitated to Hoth. I totally agree however with your comments that they should of done more toys for the different scenes: Clould City was criminally underused.
I am 42 been a starwars fan my whole life found your channel a year and a half a go subscribed then and I have learned so much about starwars toys since then and I had a lot of the original Kenner line great channel brings back a lot of good childhood memories
Great video. I rather suspect that the shear amount of Hoth toys was related to the fact that Hoth, being the most elaborate and FX laden part of the movie, was the part that had all the production designs locked down first. So Kenner had more final production art to work with, earlier in the process. We see similar things quite a lot in more recent movies. Strange incongruities in toys because they were based on early art. Toy’s from The Hobbit burned a number of vendors very badly because Peter Jackson changed major things just weeks from release, including cutting his 2 movies into three. They ended up with millions of dollars of first wave merchandise like the female elf and giant spiders, that never got introduced in the first movie.
3:40-3:55 - you had me laughing hysterically!!! I have this playset as a child and thought exactly the same thing! I totally agree about the ice planet Hoth playset, too. I remember purchasing that with my own money and Yakima, Washington when we were visiting my uncle. It was the only store I had ever seen it in and I was pretty disappointed in the playset because it was almost identical to the Land of the Jawas, which was the first place that that I ever had. Then again, I was 12 years old and starting to see the light and marketing.
The Hoth playset were great! I had them as a kid. The Imperial Attack Base, well, there were early Ralph McQuarrie production art that showed a ground invasion by Imperial troops. This was before the Imperial Walker attack was written. Those may have influenced the naming of said toy as well.
As a kid, I suppose I also first interpreted "Imperial Attack Base" as being something ominous belonging to the Empire and its Imperial forces... but then I realized it's really just a lingusitics thing ; it depends what word you put the emphasis on. If you call it the IMPERIAL Attack Base, then yeah, that sounds like some kind of Imperial stronghold or fort which the Empire might launch attacks from (which makes no sense as a set of snowy trenches and doorways fixed on a frozen planet - especially when they already had such means of a mobilized attack base in the first film, and called it a DEATH STAR). But if you call it the IMPERIAL ATTACK Base, running those first two words a little closer together (just short of hyphenating them), then you get more of the impression that this is the (Rebel) BASE on Hoth which succumbed to an IMPERIAL ATTACK. They probably would have been more clear in the name, but to do so would probably have meant more words to get the point across. I know for myself, I found it too much of a mouthful to say "(Bespin) Twin Pod Cloud Car", and I just called it the "Cloud Car", so had thtey called the Imperial Attack Base something like "Hoth Rebel Base Imperial Attack", I, and possibly most other kids, would be prone to just leave it off their Christmas Wish list to Santa cos it involved too many "big" words and more writing, let alone the aformentioned "mouthful" name that probably would have made asking for it from "Mall Santa" just as much of a child-equivalent pain in the ass as well. And a name that long probably would have left less space on the carton for photos of the actual toy once all the text and fonts were in place. I'm exaggerating of course for the sake of a few chuckles. But my point is that the name was really not that misleading or complicated... it just depended on, as Obi-Wan put it, "a certain point of view"... :-)
How Kenner interpreted ESB pre-release art made me think of the recent Wonder Woman movie. A Mattel build-a-figure Ares was released based on production art that was later redesigned completely (from a man with a goat-skull helmet and ancient Egyptian-looking armor with exposed legs and arms to what we actually saw). I wonder if this has happened with Star Wars, in which designs changed and toys reflected an earlier pre-release design.
Actually the scout walker is in at least a couple shots, maybe three. But yeah it's barely there, heh. Kind of funny they released that for the Empire line but skimped out on the Bespin playset. Had no idea about the ill-timed release of the various vehicles and figures. Oof! I grew up with the 90s toys but the AT-AT there is basically the same as the original. Even as a kid I didn't like the toy because of the over-sized head and undersized body and legs, it didn't look imposing at all. I opted for the Micro Machines Action Fleet version which is much more accurate. It meant you would have to "change scales" in your play scenarios, but no biggie.
YUK ! There's was actually a tauntaun figure with the open belly ??? Man...Wasn't aware of that. That's gross. Thanks for the vid RB, like always, nice work, put your heart into it.
Really interesting stuff but as a kid I didn't really notice much of the problems. I would play with all my SW guys in the sand. We'd dig trenches and use the plastic ones to supplement or as the main base with the turret nearby. I also had a scout walker and found I never really wanted for a full size AT-AT. And then there was the speeder which was also one of my favorites. Great size and it fit two figures and it came with the cable as you mention. We'd hang troops from that cable for rescues or air assaults. I don't know how many times I plowed that ship into the sand and had luke escape the crash site. Great info and great memories!
I was always curious why there was so little toys for Bespin. Now I see why because Kenner focus more on Hoth since it was the big battle of the movie.
I had always wondered the thing why Kenner had waited so long to release they Luke in Both outfit. My brother got the snow speeder, but I missed out and is still a ship I want to get one day.
I never had the whole line of sets or vehicles.I got the snowspeder fro Christmas and had to use McDonalds cups turned upside with the straws as the cannons of a turret
ROFLMAO!! Am I wrong? Was it just me? Or was that Rebel Commander (during the Rebel soldier lamenting scene) voiced with the "Bahston" accent of "Cliff Claven" from Cheers? Good lord, one look at that moustache, I am now surprised it was not more obivous to me sooner. Now I'm gonna be formulating all kinds of little "Cliff Claven" monologues for the Rebel Commander, pontificating about trivia based on all kinds of SWU crap, like how the Snowspeeders are actually modifed airspeeders outfitted for arctic conditions or the little-known health benefits of Tauntaun poop...
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I grew up in Alaska... all the Hoth sets seemed redundant.
I can imagine!
If I actually got snow here in New Mexico I'd be playing with Arctic/Hoth themed toys all the time.
Instead all the Tattooine toys look best here.
RetroBlasting... every spring there was a blaster/Easter egg hunt after the snow melt.
Christopher Grant, I lived in Vegas until I was 5! It was weird I was in the desert when Star Wars came out (saw it inna drive-in!) in then intha snow when Empire came out... in then in Oregon(Endor) when Jedi came out... I always hadtha natural playsets.
Same couldn't be said for California.
Loved the John Ratzenberger reference lol
Love this! Brilliant!
That was great. Well worth the wait.
Loved that Rebel Transport. it became so many different spaceships
I love Star Wars
growing up a poor kid, I'll disagree with most that say the cardboard AT-AT playset was lame. I'd say I was lucky to have it and wish I still did.
It's just a joke. No need to take it too seriously.
RetroBlasting Oh I know it was a joke. I was just remembering back to how glad I was to have it. Believe me it was one of the greatest presents I ever received.
I had the cardboard AT-AT too. The real AT-AT was much too expensive for the time.
cineman73 I was poor as hell too, I never got any cool playsets. I got one Swamp Thing playset from the short lived cartoon series, and I think that was it.
Poor kid here, too. Hollowed out tree stumps and dollar store action figures completed my one Star Wars gift each year. I loved cardboard art pieces to add to the scene.
That John Ratzenberger impression put a huge grin on my face, obscure reference to the fact that he WAS in ESB albeit very briefly.
I got that right off the bat!! Nice Easter egg.
Well worth the wait!
Great John Ratzenberger impression
You do realize the irony of this (and the reason MOST people can't identify Ratzenberger in the film despite him having his mustache back then) is that they overdubbed his voice with another actor's?
They did that with many of the supporting casts' characters including Rogue Two (who was NOT Wedge in the film; there was a misidentification at one point but it was clearly meant to be another character, Zev Senesca).
His Harrison Ford is pretty good as well.
@Projekt Kobra
I honestly don't know. I recognized Ratzenberger in Superman 1 and 2. He was living in England and married to an English wife at the time they made Superman 1, 2, and The Empire Strikes Back. He just happened to get cast. They used his voice for Superman 1 and 2. I think all the ADR for Star Wars was done in the States unless they made arrangements and did work for that in the UK as well. All the major Imperial voices were the voices of those actors as far as I know and not replacements.
For the Rebels, you can tell they used American actors if the British actors couldn't do American accents. It's that whole thing of identifying Imperialism with the British. It's a trope of science fiction films in the 1970s and 1980s. Note that the bad guys in the American films of that period speak with British accents. Yeah, I'd get annoyed if my nationality were getting constantly slammed, too, but Hollywood had the money!
I remember getting the Imperial Base and being bummed because it wasn’t in the movie and I wanted the Probot set..... on the plus side, I remember my grandmother screaming very early one morning after Christmas when she caught a glimpse of my new AT-AT and thought a dog got in the house.... lmao... good times!!!
I had the Imperial Attack Base as a kid. I always assumed it was from the scene in Empire where Han gets Leia to the Falcon and she says “this bucket of bolts is never going to get us past that blockade.” As Han says “This baby’s got a few surprises left in her sweetheart” the scene cuts to a few Snow Stormtroopers setting up a big gun while a little gun emerges from underneath the Falcon and takes out the Stormtroopers before they can get the big gun activated. I always thought that this play set was from that scene in the movie and was not meant to be part of the trenches the rebels fought the AT-AT’s from. Just my theory 🤷🏻♂️
That's how I took it too.
same here.
I had the set and assumed it was from the scene you described.
I believe Hoth got bigger attention over Bespin because of playability. These toys were introduced in the summer sure, but the big idea was to pump out things for the Christmas holiday and most of the northern states like Ohio see snow in December. They would also know that Kids love playing outside with their toys, I know I did and by taking your probot and attack base outside, in the snow, you now transformed your winter wonderland into the icy planet of Hoth. Designers also probably looked at Bespin as being too cold and sterile to really come up with fun ideas. Or perhaps because the Death Star set couldn't be sold overseas, the cardboard set was the only alternative to creating a new playset as expansive and cheaply as Hoth.
It wasn't until I went back to collect the figures in the 90s that I realized there even was a Hoth Luke. I thought the generic soldier was Luke my whole childhood. To this day, the real Luke seems wrong.
Robd collector there WAS a vintage Hoth Luke...I just didn't know it existed when I was little. I used my Hoth Rebel Soldier as my "Luke."
Ah, the memories! There was something special about the toys of the original trilogy. Although I did later fill in my collection with figures that should have been in the original series starting with Tarkin. Another great video! Thanks!
If it makes you feel any better, Hoth Rebel Soldier, my Hoth Luke's leg snapped off in the cold when i dropped him.
Don't let Major Cliff Claven boss you around.
It seems troop transport vehicles always get a bad rap, like the GI Joe APC, now the Rebel Transport. I think the big transition from the sand dunes of Tatooine in the 1st movie to the harsh snowy mountains in Empire was such a refreshing change Kenner couldn't help but focus on it. Bespin must've felt like the Death Star too much, but that's just my theory. Great video, Michael! Your content is always well worth the wait. =)
Im a 20 year old from Serbia, i have nothong to do with 80-90s toys, but your channel is my favorite. Its a window into a different world.
Thank you for everything you do
Thanks for watching!!!
Many were the days when my Hoth Wampa battled my He-Man figure. Being able to lift He-Man over his head and slamming him to the ground led to many victories for the aforementioned Wampa. Good times...good times indeed.
As far as I know, there were no snow-based toys prior to the ESB Hoth toys. There were sleds and hollow snow-brick makers (make your own igloo or fort), but few actual toys that you would play with in the snow. Once these toys came out, any kid could not wait to get outside and try them out in the snow. So maybe that’s one reason why Kenner gambled on so many Hoth based items.
I like watching this video over and over because i like to see what my dad played with when he was my age he had every empire strikes back playset and vechile and figure but we no longer own any off them and I really wish I could have played with these toys
I always felt the rebel transport was a cool vehicle.
Great post as always, interesting and plausible thoughts on why there was an Empire Imperial base.
I can completely understand why they gravitated to the Hoth battlescene: watching this at the cinema as a ten-year old, just how awesome was the entire Hoth chapter taken as a whole? From the tautans to wampa's to the Rebel base, they were visually and mentally stunning. And when you bring in the Imperial Walkers facing off against a rag-tag underdog, it's not wonder Kenner gravitated to Hoth.
I totally agree however with your comments that they should of done more toys for the different scenes: Clould City was criminally underused.
Just in case you didn't realise yet Michael. I discovered that the ROBO-FORCE playset 'Fortress of steele' acts as a fantastic Echo base!
Nobody respects my flying pickle in my display. Just makes me like it more.
I really enjoyed this video. 👍👍 There was some really cool info in it. I'm a subscriber now thanks
I am 42 been a starwars fan my whole life found your channel a year and a half a go subscribed then and I have learned so much about starwars toys since then and I had a lot of the original Kenner line great channel brings back a lot of good childhood memories
Ur videos are so creative
Thanks Joe
First an epic crossover with WCB and now a new Follies vid?!? It must be my birthday!!! Thank you!!!!!!!
Great video. I rather suspect that the shear amount of Hoth toys was related to the fact that Hoth, being the most elaborate and FX laden part of the movie, was the part that had all the production designs locked down first. So Kenner had more final production art to work with, earlier in the process. We see similar things quite a lot in more recent movies. Strange incongruities in toys because they were based on early art. Toy’s from The Hobbit burned a number of vendors very badly because Peter Jackson changed major things just weeks from release, including cutting his 2 movies into three. They ended up with millions of dollars of first wave merchandise like the female elf and giant spiders, that never got introduced in the first movie.
3:40-3:55 - you had me laughing hysterically!!! I have this playset as a child and thought exactly the same thing! I totally agree about the ice planet Hoth playset, too. I remember purchasing that with my own money and Yakima, Washington when we were visiting my uncle. It was the only store I had ever seen it in and I was pretty disappointed in the playset because it was almost identical to the Land of the Jawas, which was the first place that that I ever had. Then again, I was 12 years old and starting to see the light and marketing.
Hipsters 'n their scarves. They think they're so cool...
The Hoth playset were great! I had them as a kid. The Imperial Attack Base, well, there were early Ralph McQuarrie production art that showed a ground invasion by Imperial troops. This was before the Imperial Walker attack was written. Those may have influenced the naming of said toy as well.
That scrambled my memories! I thought I had all the Hoth stuff in 1980, I didnt realize I waited another year for the AT-AT.
Great review, in addition to the slit belly Taun Taun, there was also the solid belly version
See I like how you had an entire themed battle available in this line. I wish Hasbro had done something similar with G.I. Joe.
Love the opening of this video! Probably my favorite retroblasting video besides build your armies vid and last 17 vid.
Love the Cliff Clavin voice for Rebel Commander! Ratzenberger!
This production was brilliant! Thumbs up x 10 on this one Michael! I loved it.
Thank you RetroBlasting for another wicked addition to the Star Wars Follies series.
Might be your best one yet. Nicely done.
Rebel Soldier was relegated to latrine duty
HOTH - my ultimate childhood stop and influence of Xmas and snow in general
Always well produced, fun, and entertaining. Love all of the follies series of videos!
Would you mind loading these backpacks in that large pickle hahaha, great line
Rebel Soldier was My Hoth Luke,Even had him stand guard xmas eve . :)
Yes!!!! Finally! Thx retroblasting, your the best!
As a kid, I suppose I also first interpreted "Imperial Attack Base" as being something ominous belonging to the Empire and its Imperial forces... but then I realized it's really just a lingusitics thing ; it depends what word you put the emphasis on.
If you call it the IMPERIAL Attack Base, then yeah, that sounds like some kind of Imperial stronghold or fort which the Empire might launch attacks from (which makes no sense as a set of snowy trenches and doorways fixed on a frozen planet - especially when they already had such means of a mobilized attack base in the first film, and called it a DEATH STAR).
But if you call it the IMPERIAL ATTACK Base, running those first two words a little closer together (just short of hyphenating them), then you get more of the impression that this is the (Rebel) BASE on Hoth which succumbed to an IMPERIAL ATTACK.
They probably would have been more clear in the name, but to do so would probably have meant more words to get the point across. I know for myself, I found it too much of a mouthful to say "(Bespin) Twin Pod Cloud Car", and I just called it the "Cloud Car", so had thtey called the Imperial Attack Base something like "Hoth Rebel Base Imperial Attack", I, and possibly most other kids, would be prone to just leave it off their Christmas Wish list to Santa cos it involved too many "big" words and more writing, let alone the aformentioned "mouthful" name that probably would have made asking for it from "Mall Santa" just as much of a child-equivalent pain in the ass as well.
And a name that long probably would have left less space on the carton for photos of the actual toy once all the text and fonts were in place.
I'm exaggerating of course for the sake of a few chuckles.
But my point is that the name was really not that misleading or complicated... it just depended on, as Obi-Wan put it, "a certain point of view"...
:-)
Hahaha........Commander Cliff Clavin! Thats priceless❤️ Nice video, as always!
I dropped everything to watch this the second I saw this!
My eyes are blind but I can see
The snowflakes glisten on the tree
The sun no longer sets me free
I feel there's no place freezing me
How Kenner interpreted ESB pre-release art made me think of the recent Wonder Woman movie. A Mattel build-a-figure Ares was released based on production art that was later redesigned completely (from a man with a goat-skull helmet and ancient Egyptian-looking armor with exposed legs and arms to what we actually saw). I wonder if this has happened with Star Wars, in which designs changed and toys reflected an earlier pre-release design.
I found this channel because of my obsession of Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and slowly i have become a Star wars fan lol!
Tbh, that ship looks more like a fat loaf of sub sandwich bread than a pickle. Maybe it's the whole splitting thing getting me into that mindset.
Thanks RB. #1 channel on YTube showcasing the #1 SW toys of all time!!!
I can feel the pain: I begged my parents for the AT AT, and I got the cardboard playset! :-(
it really makes you wonder how they 'planned' what to release. It is so crazy there was so much rebel hot stuff yet no imperial stuff really.
NORM!!!... er, uh, CLIFF!!!
David T1000 Same here! I am 44 now and I learned so much about the Kenner toys. I even were able to repair some old vehicles from my childhood.
Woah. Michael is wearing a star wars costume. Guys, I think he's a nerd.
Ace video as always Mike. Great to see another Star Wars Follies on my birthday.
Thanks Tim
Best toy review video I have ever seen on YT....WELL DONE......
If you can afford vintage star wars, you can afford deodorant for vader!!
Sunday Retroblasting content. I’m so down for this. Great as always 👍🏻
One of my favorite follies yet.
Michael has a Calvin sized imagination
Thus was a awesome video guys :D I had to go run and check if I had a hoth rebel trooper or a hoth Luke :D :D
holly heck! love this channel, just subbed! have to say, will you be getting the milk action Luke figure fro TLJ? jk lol
HAHAHAHA! No.
Thank you for making another Star Wars follies!
You should also do vintage star wars toy reviews
What is the line for Melinda in the opening song? I just can't seem to hear it. It is driving me crazy. Love the channel btw.
Thanks! Here's a link to the lyrics. www.retroblasting.com/new-blog/2015/8/4/retroblasting-theme-song-lyrics-what-the-heck-are-they
Great content as always from Retroblasting. Also cool Hoth costume.
*sees retro blasting pop up in my subs* I broke my finger clicking that button.
Retro blasting more like retrocomplainer
new sub, found you threw wcbs, how did I miss your channel????
Thanks for subbing!
A new Follies! Yes! Top stuff. And for the record I love the Rebel Transport.
Thanks for the fun video
great video as usual
These toys... I WANT THEM!
What other names could this be episode be called
Hoth Blooded
Echoes of Hoth
Sells worse on the outside
Any other Hoth puns I missed?
Hahahahaha
Yay another star wars follies
Actually the scout walker is in at least a couple shots, maybe three. But yeah it's barely there, heh. Kind of funny they released that for the Empire line but skimped out on the Bespin playset. Had no idea about the ill-timed release of the various vehicles and figures. Oof!
I grew up with the 90s toys but the AT-AT there is basically the same as the original. Even as a kid I didn't like the toy because of the over-sized head and undersized body and legs, it didn't look imposing at all. I opted for the Micro Machines Action Fleet version which is much more accurate. It meant you would have to "change scales" in your play scenarios, but no biggie.
YUK ! There's was actually a tauntaun figure with the open belly ??? Man...Wasn't aware of that. That's gross. Thanks for the vid RB, like always, nice work, put your heart into it.
great video ! Thanks!
Really interesting stuff but as a kid I didn't really notice much of the problems. I would play with all my SW guys in the sand. We'd dig trenches and use the plastic ones to supplement or as the main base with the turret nearby. I also had a scout walker and found I never really wanted for a full size AT-AT. And then there was the speeder which was also one of my favorites. Great size and it fit two figures and it came with the cable as you mention. We'd hang troops from that cable for rescues or air assaults. I don't know how many times I plowed that ship into the sand and had luke escape the crash site. Great info and great memories!
😆 this episode was so awesome 🤣
Love the John Ratzenberger
I love Kenner Star Wars!!!
Although Hoth took a brief segment of the movie, I think we cannot remember TESB without remembering the battle of Hoth.
I was always curious why there was so little toys for Bespin. Now I see why because Kenner focus more on Hoth since it was the big battle of the movie.
Another excellent video
So much Hoth. So much Snow
I had always wondered the thing why Kenner had waited so long to release they Luke in Both outfit. My brother got the snow speeder, but I missed out and is still a ship I want to get one day.
I never had the whole line of sets or vehicles.I got the snowspeder fro Christmas and had to use McDonalds cups turned upside with the straws as the cannons of a turret
He dressed up as the Rebellion soldier from Star Wars
ROFLMAO!!
Am I wrong? Was it just me? Or was that Rebel Commander (during the Rebel soldier lamenting scene) voiced with the "Bahston" accent of "Cliff Claven" from Cheers?
Good lord, one look at that moustache, I am now surprised it was not more obivous to me sooner.
Now I'm gonna be formulating all kinds of little "Cliff Claven" monologues for the Rebel Commander, pontificating about trivia based on all kinds of SWU crap, like how the Snowspeeders are actually modifed airspeeders outfitted for arctic conditions or the little-known health benefits of Tauntaun poop...
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I have a clay custom yoda my r.i.p. mother painted, but I can’t find any examples of it on line anywhere. If I send a picture could you help me find out what I have? I still have Voltron/go lion and many transformers including two... yes two jet fire/sky fire ala robotech, my favorite toy still. I love your stuff as am an 80’s kid who with little money was blessed to have great toys. Many have been lost but what I have are my most prized possessions. Thankyou for making me not feel like a total nerd... oh ya, I am! Larry Zeno is my name and TH-cam channel. I hosted Disney’s “OFF THE WALL” and was a regular on mtv’s SINGLED OUT as Larry the Loser. Sorry for the self promotion but I want to start a relationship based on mutual respect, or not. Much love and appreciation to you both.
It took me forever to find the hoth Luke,after awhile i think i thought rebel soldier was Luke.
Yay more Star Wars Follies! That intro was awesome btw