We featured this last year on the site, but we found a new picture, so we’re revisiting this Kenner recycling project. Back in 1990, when Michael Keaton’s Batman was all…
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Flashback: The Bossk mail-away offer!
Thirty-five years ago this summer, kids across America got a hold of one of the coolest figures in Kenner’s original vintage line: Bossk the bounty hunter! Kids had until May…
These limited edition Star Wars Kenner figure t-shirts disappear in hours!
The other day, we mentioned Revenge of the Shirts and their awesome Boba Fett design. Well, we didn’t realize that they had these cool shirts featuring your favorite vintage…
Flashback: Kenner’s plans for the Star Wars ‘Early Bird’ Package
Hard-core Star Wars vintage toy collectors likely remember, but back in 1977, the unexpected success of Star Wars caught toymaker Kenner flatfooted. They held the license to make toys for…
Not a joke: Jabba Jam was an actual thing
Sometime in the 1990s, pop culture gift shop Archie McPhee got a hold of thousands of Kenner Jabba the Hutt torsos. Not the whole body, just the torso. When…
Throwback: The Kenner Star Wars aisle
Remember the days when Star Wars was so big, it had an ENTIRE aisle at the toy store? Here’s a cool reminder from the Empire Strikes Back era. If you…
Gamorrean Guard unmasked to reveal actually Robin Hood’s Friar Tuck?!?!
Double vision: Robin Hood’s Friar Tuck is just a Gamorrean Guard?!?! Source: Kenner’s Twitter
Check out this vintage Kenner Star Wars booklet gallery!
If you bought Star Wars toys back in the day, you probably remember those cool little booklets Kenner would stick inside boxed Star Wars ships and playsets. Before the internet,…
Not even Batman can help a Stormtrooper’s aim
Check out this Batman “Sonic Neutralizer” gun from 1990, actually a repurposed Kenner Stormtrooper gun from the 1980s! Check out this Batman “Sonic Neutralizer” gun from 1990, actually a repurposed…