Vintage Class-6 Escape Pod from 1979 Star Wars Land of the Jawas Playset

Description: Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into various films and other media, including television series, video ganes, novels, comic books, theme park attractions, and themed areas, comprising an all-encompassing fictional universe. Star Wars is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. When George Lucas began shopping around for a company to distribute products and toys for Star Wars in 1977, nobody seemed too interested. Mego Toys had famously passed on it, but a small toy company named Kenner stepped up and took a chance on it, and the toy world was forever changed. Kenner decided to shrink down their Star Wars figures to a more economical 3.75 inch size. This new action figure design allowed Kenner to create more scaled accessories, playsets and vehicles for their Star Wars line, with a whole new playability factor that many other past action figure lines just didn’t have. It all began with the “promise” of new Star Wars action figures at Christmas in 1977 with the release of the Early Bird Certificate, which led to the first four action figures being sent to eagerly awaiting fans everywhere. The rest of the regular figures were released later in 1978, and the world was never the same. With all of their action figure and accessory innovations, Kenner began a new era in the toy industry and revolutionized how toy lines are marketed and sold. The Class-6 escape pod was equipped with four escape thrusters, and several maneuvering thrusters positioned around the pod. Each pod could carry up to six individuals and was fitted with a viewscreen connected to externally mounted holocameras The escape pod was designed to accommodate only living passengers. During the first battle of Tatooine in the Galactic Civil War, the Corellian corvette Tantive IV was captured and boarded by the Imperials. During the Tantive's capture, R2-D2 — the astromech droid onboard, who carried the stolen plans of the first Death Star — overrode a Class-6 escape pod's computer to allow mechanicals to enter. R2-D2 and C-3PO, his protocol droid companion escaped the beleaguered Tantive IV in the pod and crash landed on Tatooine with it.This offering is a Class-6 Escape Pod from The Land of the Jawas Playset. The playset contained the droid’s escape pod and a neat looking Tatooine terrain surface to go in front of a cardboard Jawa Sandcrawler. The Sandcrawler also came with a working elevator to transport the characters in and out.

Price: 35 USD

Location: Huntsville, Alabama

End Time: 2024-11-15T19:41:18.000Z

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