Satellite of Love said:
Saul Goodman said:
I'll be honest, I never understood the Boba Fett love. His suit looks cool, but outside of that, I don't understand the fascination.
You should read Tales of the Bounty Hunters. Boba is a BA and is still alive post falling into the pit during RotJ
Because in the late 70's you could save up 5 or 6 proof of purchases from the action figures and send them off to some mysterious Kenner toys address and months and months and f'ing months later, they'd send you a special Boba Fett action figure in the mail. The figure was a super big deal as a sort of a sneak peak to ESB which, you know, back then we didn't get jack sh** for movie media. It was actually pretty brilliant on Lucasfilm/Kenner's part to whip about 10 million American boys into a frenzy.
The figure had a little spring propelled rocket that came out of there about 27,000 feet per second and could stun a charging bull rhino. Urban legend was that some kid in Ohio or Iowa or someplace got one shot into his mouth and it blew out the back of his skull like a suppressed 45 ACP round in a mob execution.
That toy became the crown jewel of every Star Wars memorabilia/toy collection and overnight Boba Fett became the most bad ass motorfinger in the galaxy.