Every kid who grew up seeing Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back in theaters in their original releases is familiar with the rocket-firing Boba Fett. First of all, you didn’t watch Star Wars and not at least stare in amazement at your local Woolworth’s or Woolco or Target displays or the Sears Roebuck Christmas “wish book” catalog and drool over the small initial run of action figures. Then, once your parents caved and bought you even one, there was the little ad for a FREE (!) figure–if you only bought three more–of this mysterious new character with a cameo in the now infamous Star Wars Christmas Special. Just save those little blue Kenner proofs of purchase. You wanted to get your four figures fast, because… what if they run out of this Fett guy? Should I tape these circles to a postcard so they don’t get lost in the envelope? You wait and wait at the mailbox like the little kid in A Christmas Story. Finally it arrived, and you have the first discussion with your parents about “bait and switch”.
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