
Boba   Fett? Boba Fett? Where? Oh, right here. Yes, believe it or not, Boba   Fett was the last figure produced from the first movie line – even   though he wasn’t in it (until the Special Editions came out much, much   later). Boba Fett was probably the most hyped figure from the vintage   line. First he was promoted as a mail-away with a rocket-firing jet   pack. Naturally, you could poke your eye out, so the rocket-firing part   was removed before it got into the stores or to customers, and any   mention to it was blacked out. The figure actually came out two years   before Empire Strikes Back.
Fett came on an SW, ESB, and ROTJ   cards (2 different photos for the ROTJ card). The SW card also had some   additional writing on the front kind of explaining who this character   was. He came with the same gun as the Stormtrooper and many other   figures in the first line. Boba Fett only appeared in an animated   segment of the atrocious and cheesy Star Wars Holiday Special, making   him the only figure made from it (originally).
Why should you own this figure? Five reasons:
1.  The bountiest of the bounty hunters!
2. That Cylon-like helmet!
3.  The Mandalorian armor!
4. Yellow! Green! Red! Blue-grey!
5.  Card shows use of the flamethrower – waaaaaaay before it was ever used!
Backstory:
Boba  is the  unaltered clone of Jango Fett, and was raised by him until  Jango was  beheaded by Mace Windu in combat. Boba went on to a  successful bounty  hunting career like his "father" before him. He  became one of the most  feared bounty hunters in the galaxy, and often  teamed with or crossed  paths with other hunters. While on assignment  for Jabba the Hutt, he  fell into the Sarlacc on Tatooine and was badly  injured but managed to  escape. He went on to live a long life,  continuing hunting and reuniting  with his lost daughter as well. His  primary ship was Slave  I, but he also had Slaves II-IV.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Boba Fett (SW 1978-79)
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