A vintage Star Wars figure question.

[TrueDave]

Three figures I wanted desperatly as a kid, Grand Moff Tarkin, Cantina Band Member, Rebel Fleet trooper.

Anybody know why they didnt make them?

( A removable helmet vader would have been cool but I was too grown up for toys by the time Jedi came out )

[toys2cool]

I don't know why bro, but a Tarkin should've been done for sure and also Uncle Owen and the aunt

[4NDR01D]

I'm surprised they didn't make all the cantina aliens. I'd have wanted them all.

[TrueDave]

I don't know why bro, but a Tarkin should've been done for sure and also Uncle Owen and the aunt

I can see why no Uncle and aunt but Tarkin was the head bad guy!

And They already made a old guy figure with Kenobi.

Maybe if Tarkin had done some Saber slinging we would have seen one

[mego73]

I think I heard they figured Tarkin was too old to appeal to kids and not a big enough character in the movie like Ben Kenobi, to overcome that. But I thought they made some Cantina aliens. Hammerhead for sure.

[toystalker]

yeah plenty of character you 1st see at the cantina are produced

sy snootles and max reebo band
walrus man
hammerhead
red snaggletooth
greedo
chewbacca lol

but yeah some of the other characters would have been to cool for school

[Jason73]

I guess Kenner didn't think kids wanted a doomed old man to play with.

[david_b]

I guess Kenner didn't think kids wanted a doomed old man to play with.

I'd agree that obviously Kenner didn't think the initial line needed to include a guy that dies in the movie anyways, kids would want to play 'continuing adventures'.., but saying that, Kenobi (and later the Death Star) were included, so there goes that argument.

david_b

[apes3978]

Three figures I wanted desperatly as a kid, Grand Moff Tarkin, Cantina Band Member, Rebel Fleet trooper.

(A removable helmet vader would have been cool but I was too grown up for toys by the time Jedi came out )

All of these were made a few years back when they did their new line of original trilogy figures... I think the Cantina Band was sold as seperate figures and I know Walmart had them as a packaged set... But I know what you mean, "back then" those would have been cool... At least they had made the "Imperial Commander" who could sort of stand in for Tarkin (even though the figure was wearing the cap.)

yeah plenty of character you 1st see at the cantina are produced: sy snootles and max reebo band

These guys were Jabba the Hutt's band in JEDI... (And they, along with a LOT of the other Hutt aliens suck due to their total "muppet" like appearance...)

[toystalker]

oh yeah doh... brain freeze moment right there

[4NDR01D]

I meant I wanted ALL of the cantina aliens.

[English Paul]

Re. Vader with a removable helmet - I have read that the tooling capabilities weren't advanced enough at the time to be able to do this.

[Remco Monster]

Yet they made a Luke in Stormtrooper gear with removable helmet, so there goes that theory.

[English Paul]

I just knew somebody would come back at me with that

It was 8 years later though. I suppose they could have done it as the years moved on but chose to release other characters instead. There was nothing wrong with the original Vader and he was always a strong seller.

[Nostalgiabuff]

actually, they did not make tarkin because he was not action oriented enough and they did not think kids would play with him. From what I understand about Vader with a removable helmet it was because they could not produce it without him looking like a pinhead. I agree they did it with Luke in trooper and Leia as Bousch so they should have done Vader.