Kenner’s Rebel Transport in A Universe of Star Wars Collectibles
My Rebel Transport arrived yesterday — complete with battered box! — and to celebrate I ran a few searches for information on the Rebel Transport toy. Not as much info out there on the web as I had expected, but I did run across this page from A Universe of Star Wars Collectibles* where the first thing I noticed is that the Landspeeder pictured is the 1995 toy and not the 1978 toy. Okay, that’s a strange thing for my mind to focus on.
Anyway, I’m happy to report that despite missing one gas mask, one backpack, and a few stickers, the Rebel Transport is in excellent condition and is absolutely going into my new book about action figure carrying cases. The “vehicles as carrying case” section may be small, but the toys in that section are incredible.
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Very cool! I love the Rebel Transports! I wish I had one (I do have the very cool Micro Machines playset, though).
I find it interesting that Kenner/ Hasbro continued to release carrying cases well into the POTFII and Episode 1 eras. Just from those eras alone I have the plain Darth Vader box case (my daughter currently uses it to store Star Wars Mashers), a C-3P0 molded case that lights up, a millennium Falcon case, and an R2-D2 that folds out into a Trade Federation playset. I have a hard time remembering any other line (well, G.I. Joe may have had one) that had a carrying case released during that era.
@Barbeque17 – There are a handful of carrying cases from the late nineties. I’ve got a Godzilla case on the way. In the mid-nineties we’ve got The Shadow and X-Men cases.