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Item: Vintage
Condition: Average
Age: 1977
Kenner

Small tear in box by flap, works like a viewmaster, comes with two cartridges, one cartridge is buggered, but someone clever could open it and try and repair it.
Second cartridge is "Destroy the Deathstar" works fine, but is stratched with age, still a great example of early Star Wars merchandise.

Star Wars hit our screens in the early days of the home video wilderness, and though there was lots of cheap merchandise associated with the film, getting a home copy of the movie itself was a real investment. Home movie enthusiasts could find "highlight reel" versions of Star Wars on Super 8 film, or you could watch an even shorter version using this toy movie viewer made by Kenner.

Kenner already had this movie viewer toy in their catalog before Star Wars came along, so it was relatively easy to create a Star Wars cartridge to snap into the viewer (they also had a projector model). The operation is easy – you simply hold the viewer up to a light, and the crank moves the film along showing a short compilation of several scenes from the blockbuster movie.

The scant 45 second cartridge manages to cram in plenty of stunning special effects shots, the droids, and the climactic (spoiler alert!) lightsaber fight.

$100.00

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