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Forty Years Ago, Kenner Had a Wild Plan to Keep Their Star Wars Line Going Without New Movies
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When Return of the Jedi left theaters in 1983, it also left Kenner’s massively popular Star Wars toyline with an expiration date.
As with Tarkin, this demonstrates Kenner incorporating existing designs from the original trilogy that hadn’t made the cut for their 1978-1985 line into the plans for The Epic Continues.
In a 1995 interview with Star Wars Galaxy magazine, Boudreaux explained that “They were very complimentary.
Kenner elected to move away from new Star Wars product for 1986, and the line ended with the last of the Droids and Power of the Force offerings, with these tail-end items becoming some of the rarest Star Wars toys ever produced.
This leaves The Epic Continues as a strange footnote in Star Wars history, another scenario for a post-Return of the Jedi scenario designed in a vacuum from George Lucas and Lucasfilm.