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Captain Kelsten

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Right, when he was a kid he watched a stadium full of Jedi have a massive battle swinging their fancy light swords around and generally cutting shit up. He watches his own dad get his head chopped off by a Jedi with barely any effort.

So years later when he sees a Jedi get out his fancy light sword and start swinging it around, he doesn't keep his distance and use his gun from range, no he flies right up to him so he's within striking range of the fancy light sword and tries to shoot him from five foot away! (maybe he is that bad a shot if he needs to be that close). Then when his gun inevitably gets chopped in half in an instant he tries to use a piece of string to stop him! What a tool. There's nothing in the films to suggest he's a bad ass so just drop it now, OK?

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Darren

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His armour is badass though. And so was the action figure. When I got that I thought it was cool and I'd never even noticed him in the films.

I remain convinced that the reason he's so popular is that he was the "preview" figure you could get for free before Empire even came out by sending Palitoy however many tokens from the existing figures. By the time we all saw the film he was already the coolest character just because he was new and mysterious but we already had the cool new toy.

In the states the equivalent effect may have come from his cartoon in the Holiday Special, I don't know, but over here it was freebie preview figure hype.

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He's a bounty hunter - that's cool. His armour is cool. And he has a jetpack. A jetpack! :omg:

Maybe you whippersnappers are too young to remember that once upon a time we were promised we'd use jetpacks on a daily basis (by 1996, I think). And this guy uses one in his job.

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Look at the line up of the other bounty hunters...IG-88 - An anorexic pile of metal and lights, Bossk - a walking dinosaur, Dengar - thought it was Mr Men fancy dress and came as Mr Bump, Zuckuss - A fly with a gas mask. Ok, 4-LOM does look pretty cool, but Boba Fett didn't have much competition AND he gave Vader a bit of lip on Bespin.

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I remain convinced that the reason he's so popular is that he was the "preview" figure you could get for free before Empire even came out by sending Palitoy however many tokens from the existing figures. By the time we all saw the film he was already the coolest character just because he was new and mysterious but we already had the cool new toy.

In the states the equivalent effect may have come from his cartoon in the Holiday Special, I don't know, but over here it was freebie preview figure hype.

So in another universe he's "Bounty Hunter III" and nobody gives a crap?

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Darren

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So in another universe he's "Bounty Hunter III" and nobody gives a crap?

Well he's got the whole Man With No Name* attitude going on which is obviously cool. He's clearly the coolest of the bounty hunters and he's the only one who even reappears after their introduction on the Star Destroyer. So it's no surprise he's more popular than 4-LOM.

I just think he had a head start on on all the other new characters in Empire because we were playing with his action figure (and desperately wondering who he was going to turn out to be - IIRC on this side of the Atlantic we didn't even know if he was a goodie or baddie) months before we finally saw him in the film.

*Boba Fett. His name's Boba Fett.

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Also he's got a rocket launcher that he has to aim by bending over in front of the thing he's trying to shoot and then bowing his head down. Excellent design.

It's a grappling rocket launcher, so one assumes he's always going to fire it upwards...although that doesn't make it much less gaffe prone. His offensive rockets are on his wrists.

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I sent off for the pre release Boba figure for collecting the Kenner tokens and he arrived in a plain cardboard box. Entrances and exits were always his failing.

I remember a similar token mail in thing to receive a Nien Nunb figure (or Numb Nuts as my dad used to call him) and being equally disappointed that he came in a plain old box. Cool figure though.
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The best thing about the packaging as a kid was looking at the back of the box and seeing all of those figures you wanted but would never get. I seem to remember wanting the Max Rebo fig (or the blue elephant with piano) as he looked so different. In fact most of Jabbas court were faithfully recreated as cool looking figures (I still have my Bib Fortuna fig with trampy looking cloth coat)

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