Robstyley
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Intrigued to know what this is all about :?: Would be great if it's a big untouched vintage find from some remote shop or something.
Historic find to be disclosed on 12 back Facebook group tomorrow
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I reckon 12 back palitoy proofs ...
skywalker
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indianawars said:skywalker said:Oh come on the wait is killing me..
Even I'm checking the forum every 5 minutes to see what the news it all about!...
I'm tell ya, if it's something I already know, I'm going to be very disappointed :lol:
The countdown is upon us..... Better be good or I will be seriously pissed off.. :lol:
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lejackal said:
Jeez creating more hype than TFA release...
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skywalker said:
That's pretty funny. I wish there was a 90 second teaser!
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darth_daddius said:
LOL... Coming soon to a Facebook near you.....
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J-Slot Rocket Firing Fett with 2 rockets including baggie and mailer.
Being honest I am somewhat underwhelmed although I'm sure this is very exciting for a lot of people and no doubt they will tell me I should be bowled over and picking my jaw up from the floor.
Being honest I am somewhat underwhelmed although I'm sure this is very exciting for a lot of people and no doubt they will tell me I should be bowled over and picking my jaw up from the floor.
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Story behind it was a good read.
Anyone want to hazard a guess on how much was paid for it - I wouldn't be in the game long enough to try!
Anyone want to hazard a guess on how much was paid for it - I wouldn't be in the game long enough to try!
No they were never released - none have shown up in kids collections. They were thought to have been pulled before the boxes and final packing had been engineered, but this find proves otherwise. The find shows how they would have been issued (2 rockets is pretty cool) and is the 2nd example of a packaged rocket fett proto to show up (the first being the toy fair mockup card). I think it's one of the cooler things I've seen recently - it really shows how close they were!
The J slots were literally ready to go, that's why they are painted and have copyright info - but no, as Max said above, this doesn't prove that some kids received them, they still never made it out.
It's a cool find for sure, the inclusion of the mailer box and the two rockets which finally shows us what kids would have received if they hadn't pulled the rocket firing feature at the last minute is fun to see. I did perhaps think it was going to be slightly more interesting (who wouldn't have loved to have seen a wax sculpt for an unproduced character or something else totally unheard of before now?) but hey, at least it was more interesting than someone selling 3 DT Luke Farmboys for $400k each :lol:
It's a cool find for sure, the inclusion of the mailer box and the two rockets which finally shows us what kids would have received if they hadn't pulled the rocket firing feature at the last minute is fun to see. I did perhaps think it was going to be slightly more interesting (who wouldn't have loved to have seen a wax sculpt for an unproduced character or something else totally unheard of before now?) but hey, at least it was more interesting than someone selling 3 DT Luke Farmboys for $400k each :lol:
Jimi Woolley
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Wow! I think it's amazing 8)
Here's the text for you none Facebookers....
First..ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank each and everyone of you for all the funny comments yesterday on the teaser thread that my good friend Mr. Steve Evets Reywd posted. I really had fun reading those. I am thrilled in my and certain experts in the hobby's belief that the discovery of this piece is an important and to date missing part of Kenner vintage Star Wars action figure history. That is, I believe "as a whole" this find serves as a missing link, so to speak, in all the lore that has always surrounded the Rocket Firing Boba Fett Mailer Program!!!
In early December of last year I saw a posting on this site from Dan Flarida about a Kenner Toys Symposium that was gonna take place on Saturday, December 12th at the downtown library in Cincinnati, Ohio. On a whim, Brendi and I decided we would make the 4 hour drive and attend.
We arrived early that Saturday morning and spent most of the day listening to panel discussions about the History of Kenner Toys. Near the end of the program, many people had already started to dwindle out when Kim Kim Simmons flagged me down. He told Brendi and I that he just met a gentleman that had something very special for sale that I would be interested in. Several minutes later I met the guy and he asked if I was a collector. He then said he used to work for Kenner as an engineer and had something that I might be interested in. He pulled out his iPhone and proceeded to show me pictures of a J-Slot Rocket Firing Boba Fett. But there's more.....
The gentleman told me the figure had both its original rockets, its original ray-gun (lol), and its original box. Well, I was so excited that the words "original box" didnʼt even register with me. I just wrote it off as him being confused because everyone knows that Rocket Fetts donʼt come in boxes. Nor did it really register to me that he said it came with TWO rockets. I made the guy a very fair offer and told him to think about it. We exchanged phone numbers and then Brendi and I left.
Well, after several phone conversations and almost two months later, we finally worked out a deal that we could both live with.
Brendi and I finally drove up to Cincinnati to purchase the piece. I called the gentleman that night because I wanted to re-confirm that the piece would be delivered with both original rockets and its blaster. He said "yes" and then he told me something that almost floored me. He proceeded to say that it also comes with its "original plastic baggy." He also stated its "not in great shape," but that it also had "its original mailing box." I couldnʼt believe what I was hearing!!!
When Brendi and I met with the gentleman in his lawyer's office the next morning, I couldnʼt believe my eyes!!! There was the mailer box, plastic baggy, TWO eight sided missiles, the blaster and the most MINT Rocket Firing Boba Fett I have ever laid my eyes on. As an unexpected bonus, he threw in two of his original Kenner Business cards!!!
I couldnʼt believe what I was looking at because to my knowledge no Rocket Fett had ever been found in a mailer box - nor did I know that they ever got in production to that very close stage of being ready to be distributed in that manner - and that's when he explained to me that some mailer boxes were shipped to Kenner Cincinnati "for Testing Purposes Only". They were basically test samples. He further stated that everything I saw before me, the mailer box, the plastic baggy, the two missiles and the blaster are 100% original to the piece and that was exactly how he received it, and exactly how it was intended to be shipped had the promotion not been pulled before it ever was released.
After the Rocket Firing Fett program was scrapped, the gentleman told me he took the piece home in its box with all of its contents and tossed it into a box full of miscellaneous junk in his bedroom closet where it basically remained for the next 30+ years!!!!
Another fact that I think you guys will find interesting. In our conversation in the lawyers office Brendi asked the gentleman if most of the Rocket Firing Boba Fetts were just tossed out in a dumpster after the program was scrapped. He told her yes, but there was an order that had come down that all of the Rocket Firing Fetts were to be broken into pieces before they were discarded!!!
So taken all together, what I and other experts in this field believe I have here is the only preproduction sample of the entirety of the Rocket Firing Boba Fett mailer, including the baggy, mailer box, blaster and two rockets it was intended to come with. I have included a picture of an ad for the Rocket Fett mail away, which appeared in the 1979 Toy Fair catalog, which describes that it was intended to come with TWO rockets, presumably in case irresponsible kids (lol) lost one of them; they would still have another. So the inclusion of two rockets with this mailer signals that this a complete preproduction sample of the mailer we unfortunately never received.
I want to end by saying that it was a dream come true to have the opportunity to finally be at ground zero during a find and to be able to acquire it from its original source is an unbelievable feeling!! I believe this piece is a very unique part of Kenner history as it represents just how far Kenner got into the process of mailing out the Rocket Firing Boba Fetts before the project was scrapped for safety reasons!!!
Brendi and I want to Thank several people........ Kim Simmons, Steve Evets Reywd, Tracey Hamilton, Bill Wills, Sean and Ryan Lehmkuhl!!! Also a special Thank you goes out to Chris Georgoulias and Brian Rachfal for all your information and last but not least, I want to Thank the Best Star Wars FaceBook Site..........12 Backs and Early Vintage Collectors Group!!!
Jimi
Here's the text for you none Facebookers....
First..ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank each and everyone of you for all the funny comments yesterday on the teaser thread that my good friend Mr. Steve Evets Reywd posted. I really had fun reading those. I am thrilled in my and certain experts in the hobby's belief that the discovery of this piece is an important and to date missing part of Kenner vintage Star Wars action figure history. That is, I believe "as a whole" this find serves as a missing link, so to speak, in all the lore that has always surrounded the Rocket Firing Boba Fett Mailer Program!!!
In early December of last year I saw a posting on this site from Dan Flarida about a Kenner Toys Symposium that was gonna take place on Saturday, December 12th at the downtown library in Cincinnati, Ohio. On a whim, Brendi and I decided we would make the 4 hour drive and attend.
We arrived early that Saturday morning and spent most of the day listening to panel discussions about the History of Kenner Toys. Near the end of the program, many people had already started to dwindle out when Kim Kim Simmons flagged me down. He told Brendi and I that he just met a gentleman that had something very special for sale that I would be interested in. Several minutes later I met the guy and he asked if I was a collector. He then said he used to work for Kenner as an engineer and had something that I might be interested in. He pulled out his iPhone and proceeded to show me pictures of a J-Slot Rocket Firing Boba Fett. But there's more.....
The gentleman told me the figure had both its original rockets, its original ray-gun (lol), and its original box. Well, I was so excited that the words "original box" didnʼt even register with me. I just wrote it off as him being confused because everyone knows that Rocket Fetts donʼt come in boxes. Nor did it really register to me that he said it came with TWO rockets. I made the guy a very fair offer and told him to think about it. We exchanged phone numbers and then Brendi and I left.
Well, after several phone conversations and almost two months later, we finally worked out a deal that we could both live with.
Brendi and I finally drove up to Cincinnati to purchase the piece. I called the gentleman that night because I wanted to re-confirm that the piece would be delivered with both original rockets and its blaster. He said "yes" and then he told me something that almost floored me. He proceeded to say that it also comes with its "original plastic baggy." He also stated its "not in great shape," but that it also had "its original mailing box." I couldnʼt believe what I was hearing!!!
When Brendi and I met with the gentleman in his lawyer's office the next morning, I couldnʼt believe my eyes!!! There was the mailer box, plastic baggy, TWO eight sided missiles, the blaster and the most MINT Rocket Firing Boba Fett I have ever laid my eyes on. As an unexpected bonus, he threw in two of his original Kenner Business cards!!!
I couldnʼt believe what I was looking at because to my knowledge no Rocket Fett had ever been found in a mailer box - nor did I know that they ever got in production to that very close stage of being ready to be distributed in that manner - and that's when he explained to me that some mailer boxes were shipped to Kenner Cincinnati "for Testing Purposes Only". They were basically test samples. He further stated that everything I saw before me, the mailer box, the plastic baggy, the two missiles and the blaster are 100% original to the piece and that was exactly how he received it, and exactly how it was intended to be shipped had the promotion not been pulled before it ever was released.
After the Rocket Firing Fett program was scrapped, the gentleman told me he took the piece home in its box with all of its contents and tossed it into a box full of miscellaneous junk in his bedroom closet where it basically remained for the next 30+ years!!!!
Another fact that I think you guys will find interesting. In our conversation in the lawyers office Brendi asked the gentleman if most of the Rocket Firing Boba Fetts were just tossed out in a dumpster after the program was scrapped. He told her yes, but there was an order that had come down that all of the Rocket Firing Fetts were to be broken into pieces before they were discarded!!!
So taken all together, what I and other experts in this field believe I have here is the only preproduction sample of the entirety of the Rocket Firing Boba Fett mailer, including the baggy, mailer box, blaster and two rockets it was intended to come with. I have included a picture of an ad for the Rocket Fett mail away, which appeared in the 1979 Toy Fair catalog, which describes that it was intended to come with TWO rockets, presumably in case irresponsible kids (lol) lost one of them; they would still have another. So the inclusion of two rockets with this mailer signals that this a complete preproduction sample of the mailer we unfortunately never received.
I want to end by saying that it was a dream come true to have the opportunity to finally be at ground zero during a find and to be able to acquire it from its original source is an unbelievable feeling!! I believe this piece is a very unique part of Kenner history as it represents just how far Kenner got into the process of mailing out the Rocket Firing Boba Fetts before the project was scrapped for safety reasons!!!
Brendi and I want to Thank several people........ Kim Simmons, Steve Evets Reywd, Tracey Hamilton, Bill Wills, Sean and Ryan Lehmkuhl!!! Also a special Thank you goes out to Chris Georgoulias and Brian Rachfal for all your information and last but not least, I want to Thank the Best Star Wars FaceBook Site..........12 Backs and Early Vintage Collectors Group!!!
Jimi
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Cool story and a very nice find, I'm sure there are probably other things still sitting in the possession of ex-Kenner employees.
I also thought it might be concept items for an unproduced first 12-type figure. That type of thing would be great to see.
I also thought it might be concept items for an unproduced first 12-type figure. That type of thing would be great to see.
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