1985: Star Wars was still bringing new adventures to our screens, though they were Ewok Adventures and the screens were in our living rooms, not the local theater. It wasn’t dead yet, but after Return Of The Jedi, it seemed like the saga of a galaxy far, far away wouldn’t be continuing anytime soon. (Click here to see the rest of the article plus pictures.)
If you believed the advertising hype, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was going to be the next Star Wars. Now, of course, we all know it wasn’t, but that’s beside the point - we still got some decent toys out of the whole thing.
Mego, who also made toys based on the Buck Rogers TV series and Disney’s The Black Hole, (and had earlier based a 12-inch G.I. Joe-style line of figures on the characters as they appeared in the original series, opted for figures with no more articulation than the original Kenner Star Wars figures (whereas the Buck Rogers and Black Hole toys borrowed the nine-jointed design of Mego’s popular Micronauts toys). (Click here to see the rest of the article plus pictures.)
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