As they walk in, a giant spider-looking thing skitters across the background, scaring the crap out of Threepio as usual. You may vaguely recall the scene in Return of the Jedi where C3P0 and R2D2 enter Jabba’s Palace.

Here’s a list of some of the coolest mail-in figures.ġ0.) B’omarr Monk (Star Wars: Power of the Force, Hasbro, 1997) Some were bigger and more complex than the figures sold at retail (e.g., the B’omarr Monk), and others were completely different sculpts of another figure (Mumm-Ra). While many mail-in figures were simply popular “regular” characters (like the Emperor or Boba Fett), the best mail-ins were for figures that were unusual in some way.

It was a quest that required begging one’s parents for enough action figures to cut out the required number of Proof-of-Purchase cards, then begging them again to write out a check for the $5 or so needed for “shipping and handling.”Īnd even once that was done, you had to wait six to eight weeks for the figure to arrive–an eternity in childhood.īut one day, your parents would come back from getting the mail and hand you a small, nondescript brown or white box, labeled only with your address and a return address of “Hasbro” or “Kenner.” And inside would be a little clear baggie, and inside that…Īt that moment, you knew what it felt like when Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb–or when Indy first laid eyes on the Ark. Unavailable at regular stores, they required a quest in order to get them. For young action figure collectors in the 1980s, the most desired, treasured, magical items were those enigmatic mail-away (or “mail-in”) figures.

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