Heritage Auctions' Justin Caravoulias sits down with Star Wars expert and dealer Brian Rachfal to discuss the prototype Rocket-Firing Boba Fett heading to the auction block on May 31st at Heritage.
This Boba Fett has the L-shaped latch in the back, of which there are some 70 known examples of the surviving 100 (or so) prototypes. Rachfal notes in his letter of provenance, “it’s uncertain exactly how many Rocket Firing Boba Fetts were created” or survive 45 years later. But this is absolutely among the rarest.
“One of only two examples known, this hand painted figure is still unique in its class,” Rachfal writes, as it’s the only one with its head and appendages painted gray. This AFA-graded, CIB-authenticated figure has been so thoroughly examined that hobby historians can pinpoint where it was made (“Kenner’s 10th floor at the Kroger building” in Cincinnati), how it got out (“it was salvaged from a box of discarded toys deposited there for employees to take home”) and where it eventually landed (with Justin Kerns, revered among Boba Fett-ishists as he once had nine unique survivors from the discarded lot).
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