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Here’s the Biggest Star Wars spoiler you missed… ‘There is a female character’

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We’re expected to believe that Rey was not promoted heavily in the Star Wars toy lines because it would have been a ‘spoiler’ for the film. Let’s forget she was in the trailer, she was one of the three new lead actors in all the promotion, and that Hasbro would rather put Darth Vader into Star Wars Monopoly than a character from the film it was branded with. No, just the idea of Rey was enough to stop selling toys to stop ‘The Force Awakens‘ being spoiled. Or… The insider, who was at those meetings, described how initial versions of many of the

How the Millennium Falcon decided the height of every Star Wars figure

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The Logbook looks at the design issues Kenner faced with the first Star Wars toys: Kenner’s designers had to come up with the Falcon first for a very simple reason: the scale of the vehicle would determine the scale of the figures. Prior to Star Wars, it was generally accepted that action character toys aimed for boys were along the lines of the foot-tall G.I. Joe toys. Obviously, a Millennium Falcon scaled for that kind of figure would have been less an action vehicle and more of a piece of furniture. With a certain price point in mind for the