I’ve wanted one of these for some time and with my Luke Jedi focus it only made sense to get one with that figure. These boxed figure packs were available through mail order catalogs, so they do not come up for sale very often. This particular one that I picked up was available from two different retailers. You can tell by the numbers on the box. The first number 49-59222 was for Sears and the second number 57-6280 is for Spiegel. The figures inside the box were sealed in baggies and included a catalog showing the figure available at the time.

Here is the ad from the Sears 1983 Christmas wishbook showing the pack. It is numbered 11 in the catalog and was originally $7.99. I wish that was the same now.

Here is the front and back of the box that the pack came in.

This one that I picked up, unfortunately only had one of the figures still sealed, which was the Princess Leia Boushh figure. I did get the other two figures as well, but the bags had been opened. I plan to get the sealed figured down the line to complete the set.
Here is an example of another collectors set showing the figures in the bags.

There are two other packs that contained Luke Jedi. One of them is similar to this pack in that it has Luke Jedi, Land Skiff Guard, and Leia in combat poncho instead of the Boushh figure. This pack was only available at Montgomery Ward in 1984.

The other one contained a whopping 7 figures which include: Rebel Commando, Lando Skiff Guard Disguise, Chief Chirpa, Admiral Ackbar, Logray, Luke Jedi, General Madine. This pack was only available from J.C. Penny in 1983.

I would love to add the other two packs if I can find them for a decent price. As of right now I am happy to at least have tracked one of them down.

This weekend I have been tweaking some things with my Star Wars site powerofthetoys.com Some of the links to pictures were pointing to pages I made years ago, so they didn’t quite fit and I think they made navigation a little confusing. I changed to a simpler wordpress theme and also changed the logo to have just a black background making things look a little less busy. The major change is now I have imported all my pictures into gallery instead of just linking to where the files reside on the server. Doing it this way makes it easy to give a more visual experience on the site. Now when you click on the individual movie headings you get thumbnails of all the items I own from that movie. Clicking on the thumbnail now gives you the larger picture. I’ve broken a few things up too by adding individual pages for my Luke Jedi focus and coins. I’m still doing a little tweaking here and there and also plan on taking some new pics of things. That brick background from our old apartment in St. George just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Recently on rebelscum.com there has been some discussion about what it must have been like collecting back in the 80s. One collector mentioned an old publication that many would post what they were looking for and what they had for sale. I managed to find one of these on ebay and it is a fun look back. This one was published in 1985 when interest in Star Wars was pretty much gone from the general public.

There are two collectors in particular that are highlights of the publication. First, is Steve Sansweet who is now head of fan relations at Lucasfilm. Here is the old school picture from his want ad.

and here is a more recent picture

The other collector is Walter Stuben who was known at the time as having one of the largest Star Wars collections. Here is the picture of him.

Kenner toys also featured Walter at New York in 1984 for people to come and view his collection. There are some copies of the press materials from this event floating around that I would like to get a hold of at some point in time.

Finally, his collection was also shown on T.V. before the first airing of Star Wars. Here is that clip narrated by Mark Hamill:

Here is the cover of the publication.