The Last Star Fighter Action Figure Line

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Seeing as the film was released on Blue Ray and DVD this week, I thought it would be fun/sad to take a look at the action figures we got screwed out of when the film was in theatres.




As the Star Wars franchise started to slow down with the finality of "Return of the Jedi", Hollywood scrambled for another big Science Fiction franchise and "The Last Starfighter" looked like it was the one. The movie tied in America's love of video games with an honest to goodness space adventure, it was also the first movie to use CGI effects. Licensors lined up, Atari had video games ready, Marvel did a tie in comic and Galoob was ready to unleash a line of action figures. Sadly the film was a disappointment and the line never saw release, here is what we missed out on.


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[ScottA]

I always liked this movie and was disappointed these were never made.

[MegoNutt]

that af line looks cool. they would have been in my collection. i loved that movie too. any time it was on I was watching it. Plus Maggie was/is super hot! I loved her in "Night of the Comet."

[TEXASFETT]

That would have been awesome to collect......so does someone actually own these badboys or burnt to extinction?

[vulcan2074]

Damn those would of been great. I would have loved those
Sammy

[starsky]

would've been cool for sure. the only figures i can think of from galoob are the 3 3/4 inch a team guys.

[Sowth]

Wow, had no idea these existed, thanks for posting!

Really a great movie, I don't understand why it wasn't a massive hit. I bought it on DVD a couple of years ago, waiting for my kids to get a little older to see what they think.

Cheers!
Will

[toys2cool]

man those fig's would've been bad ***!!

[samurainoir]

Those would have been really cool.

Last Starfighter is on the list of films that I really don't want to revisit as an adult. I think I would prefer the version that the kid in me remembers from back in the day.

[Toy Talk]

I loved the Last Starfighter, it's still a good movie. Honestly I had no idea a toy line was ever developed. Those figures would have gotten some serious play in my house, especially the fighter.

[BendyZaius]

I loved this film back in the 80s and I still do, it holds up pretty well. We make a 1:1 scale replica model kit of the Rylan sidearm from the movie. Lance Guest (the lead) was at Chiller this past Oct but I couldn't get there. Would have been cool to get some pistols signed.

[Thor]

I'm sad that these were never released. I hope we will see customs of these characters someday.