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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And from 1978 to 1985, which I think was the whole run of the Star Wars lines, the original run with Kenner,

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Kenner sold 300 million units.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

So if they're selling 40 million a year and making 100 million each year from that, they sold 300 million total.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

So Kenner made some serious bank off of Star Wars.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, off of me and my lawn mowing fund.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

For sure.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

I had...

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

I feel like I had at least doubles of most of the major characters, many of the minor characters.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

My dad had a whole other life that we never knew about.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

The TIE Fighter, the X-Wing, the Death Star.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

The Landspeeder.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

I also had the big dolls.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

I don't know if they were 12 inch, but I've.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

What is it with you and big dolls?

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Maybe 10, man, they're huggable.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Yeah, I had the big Luke and the big, I think the big Luke and the big Vader and maybe like one other, maybe Chewbacca, but not all of them.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

And basically whatever I could either get for my birthday or Christmas or save my allowance to buy.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

Right.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

I would get and I was,