
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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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Boba Fett (SW 1978-79)
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