This Rocket-Firing Boba Fett Is Formally the World’s Most Useful Classic Toy

It’s not stunning that a pristine example of Kenner’s notoriously rare Boba Fett motion determine with “rocket-firing” motion—by no means launched to the general public after being deemed a choking hazard—commanded a jaw-dropping sum at a recent auction. However $525,000 is fairly the good-looking bounty.

Based on a Heritage Auctions press launch, “its worth greater than doubled the document for the costliest Star Wars motion determine offered at public sale, held by a rocket-firing Boba Fett that realized $236,000 in June 2022.” This newest sale featured considered one of solely two surviving examples of a hand-painted model of the never-released, circa-1979 determine, therefore the rise in worth; extremely, it solely exists at this time as a result of somebody at Kenner rescued it “from a field of discarded toys deposited there for workers to take house.”

Heritage additionally notes that “this miniature Mandalorian additionally bested a Barbie to turn into probably the most worthwhile classic toy offered at public sale. In 2010, a one-of-a-kind, 1-carat-diamond-wearing Barbie offered for $302,000. Her reign ended Friday because of a protracted bidding struggle that landed this holy grail in a single collector’s cargo maintain.”

Right here’s a full glimpse of Boba Fett in all his glory. Who wants diamonds if you’ve acquired rocket-firing motion?

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