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Had a great time at WonderCon Friday.  Not a hell of a lot of vintage Star Wars selling, but certainly a few treasures surfaced.  For example this 1980 shipping container for Kenner’s Tauntaun.  There were still 3 unopened boxes inside, each looking like they’d never been touched by human hand.  Ker-POW.

Star Wars From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by Neato Coolville on Flickr.

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Ralph McQuarrie (with sketchbook in hand) walks past his matte painting of the Echo Base interior in this cameo from The Empire Strikes Back

RIP Ralph McQuarrie. He worked as designer/artist on films that shaped my childhood. Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind…

ratherchildish:

A Jedi craves these things.  (Pepperidge Farm, Inc., 1983)

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Droids A-Wing Pilot (Kenner, 1985.  via finalfrontiertoys.com)

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Discover Magazine, August, 1984.

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Time Magazine, May 23, 1983.