What about the Shadows of the Empire figures? Shadows was treated a like movie without the movie. The made a big deal about it. SW Galaxy magazine, the SW Insider magazine of its day was pushing it hard. It had a novel, N64 game, Soundtrack, comics, trading cards and figures. In fact when the SE came out they added Dash Rendar's Corellian transport to the skies over Mos Eisley.

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

Did a video on them but they don’t fall under this line

@SimpleTricksNonsense

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThatJunkman thanks. I'm sad SOTE didn't make the cut to be in the SW canon even with all the effort LF licensing put into it. Elements of it have since been retconned. :(

@TheEvilpossum

4 жыл бұрын

I never understood why they made such a big deal about it. I thought the novel was literally the worst of the EU novels I read. Darksaber was maybe about as bad, but at least that had a batkr@p-crazy factor that gave it a measure of energy. SotE was just dull, dull, dull.

@russellharrell2747

4 жыл бұрын

The SotE figures were on purple cards, years before purple lightsabers became canon. SotE probably should be canon given how much effort was put into it, but I can do without Xixor, Dash Rendar or whatever.

@brianartillery

4 жыл бұрын

I have everything from SOTE except the game, as I don't play games.

There also were figures from ‘Shadows of the Empire’ figure line Luke in Red Stormtropper armor, Dash Rendar, Chewbacca as a Wookiee bounty hunter, and Leia in her Bounty Hunter Gear . These were from the Novel of the same name as line that took place between Empire strikes back and return of Jedi. Also it was a PC Game too.

1991-1999: the golden resurgence of star wars today: look how far we have fallen...

@brianartillery

4 жыл бұрын

Before the dark times. Before the Disney times.

@Ljordan093

3 жыл бұрын

Goddamn that was a great time to be a Star Wars fan!

I want Hasbro to make Blavk Series on McQuarrie's Concept Art.

I still have all of these,you should do a video on "Shadows of the Empire figures"..they had nice purple cards. And the video game was pretty good too

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

Already have

While I've never read the comic books, I had all of the action figures mentioned in your video. I'm not sure if I still have them, though. I do still have the Concept Vehicles . . . SEALED. I loved when they came out, as it was the first time Ralph McQUARRIE's designs saw the light of day as a toy and not just as a picture in a book. This is one of the reason I LOVE "Rebels". Seeing Mr. McQUARRIE's designs finally introduced as on screen canon is so damn cool.

@Alex-ji6ob

4 жыл бұрын

I really wish the Black Series line would do some of the Ralp McQuarrie versions of the characters

My biggest secret of my teen years was buying Star Wars action figures in 1997. I was 17 and played in a very popular heavy metal band in high school and I drove a Monte Carlo. There was no way in Hell I could ever let out that I was spending my money on Star Wars, lol. I have a strange nostalgia to this era. I preferred the original stuff, but I bought the new figures. I personally don't recall the expanded universe packaging. I remember the Shadows Of The Empire though, but that had unique packaging. So yeah, I agree with the packaging didn't stick out. Or maybe since I stopped buying new Star Wars at the end of 1997, these could have came out after that? I still strolled down the aisle to look at new one's. I just didn't buy them. I remember the Episode 1 cards extremely well despite never owning them.

I remember being so mad when my brother got Kyle Katarn and they didnt have an Jan Ors figure lol. I settled for Mara Jade tho, she was pretty bad ass. Also the Dark Empire figures were definitely what made me check it out.

@conradojavier7547

4 жыл бұрын

Cuz Hasbro in the 90's think a Female thats not a Fighter is not Worth making a toy.

@DarthVader-1701

4 жыл бұрын

About 10-15 years later they made another Kyle Katarn figure based on the yuzhan vong war, it's somewhat similar to Kyle's appearance and Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy except for he has blue pants.

@conradojavier7547

4 жыл бұрын

@@DarthVader-1701 if they make a Black Series Kyle Katarn, They would need Jason Court's Likeness.

@DarthVader-1701

4 жыл бұрын

@@conradojavier7547 No they would not, the video game character likeness looks nothing like Jason Court.

I have a complete set of these - and by chance, too. I went into my local TRU (RIP), and on the floor by the Star Wars figures were some unopened cases. My friend who I was with, wanted a figure that wasn't on the pegs, so we opened the first case to see if it was in there. It wasn't, but figures from 'Dark Empire' and video games were. Furthermore, they were on cards that folded out to create scenes from the comics and games. Did we think about not buying them? Hell, no. I lent my friend the cash to get a set. They're still some of my favourite figures and vehicles made by Hasbro.

4:50, my favourite ever Luke Skywalker. Why don't I own one yet?!? 5:22, if I recall correctly, the Imperial Sentinal was based on Kenner's previously unreleased ATHA PRIME figure. 6:49, I love that speeder-bike, I was glad to see it slightly reworked into Star Wars Rebels as EZRA BRIDGER's bike! PS. Glad you've got the COPPA situation in hand, Junkman! :)

Yep, they needed their own unique cardbacks, most definitely...💯✔

When these came out, I couldn’t find them anywhere. Nowadays, my local vintage toy store has most of them in stock.

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

1998

This line was a lot of fun to collect! Most of it was hard to find n my area. I had to do a lot of hunting for them. I totally wish they had done more. There have been many more expanded universe figures done in the years since but this was the only dedicated line. I wish they would continue to do more. The more the merrier!

This is the only series that I buy in the boxes, because it’s only about $10 a figure. I got to start getting more of these. Also, I thought that Dash Rendar from Shadows of the Empire was a part of this line, but I guess it wasn’t

I only saw these figures in the flea markets and they were asking way out there prices! Lol another great video!

Good video I really like the expanded universe! Think it’s better than most of the Disney stuff these days.

Even back in 1997/1998, I thought that concept art speeder bike vehicle looked like an armchair recliner. The figure that comes with it looks kinda like a WWII vet watching war movies in his recliner, with half of his pilot gear on to remind him of the glory dayzzz...

From what I recall these were hard to find when they came out, don't know if they didn't release that many or not. even years later they were still sorta high to buy on the secondary market.

@paulb3476

4 жыл бұрын

They were hard to find, because they were cancelled Because Ep I figures were coming out.

Dash Rendar, the Outrider and Luke with the red lightsaber from Dark Empire were the all the reason I got back into toy collecting. The day I found those figures at Target and Kay Bee Toys back in 98/99 was one of my happiest. I remember buying the Shadows of the Empire comic book and playing that game on the N64 to death. It was like having another Star Wars movie. I was aware of the Heir to the Empire and Dark Empire that followed Return of the Jedi. I only found some comics, not all. I have all the Omnibus comics for that now so I'll go back to those when I need to get my fix.

I remember getting some of these, especially the snowspeeder.

I have all of these figures and vehicles i thought they were great. Did you notice how the pilot for the small snow speeder was like out of scale? He is as tall as Chewie!

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

He did see a little tall

The cut out display was a great idea. I liked it. I never cut them out but the idea was brilliant. I purchased a few. .if I purchased doubles I would have opened them.

Good job as usual! Loved this line. The storm troopers rocked. I bought 2 emperors so I could open one and display it. Was a cool concept. Mara Jade and Leia - it was refreshing to see female characters featured.

Hey Junkman, play the video games that Kyle katarn is in and you will appreciate the character more, Mara Jade was in the Jedi Knight expansion called Mysteries of the Sith which was a very cool expansion pack. Kyle Katarn is the king. He saved the Valley of the Jedi but before that stole the Death Star plans first Rogue One can eat dung.

I remember those days. We fans were so damn happy to have new Star Wars even if wasn't a movie. Sadly, Disney dismissed all those wonderful days of Hope.

My toys r us were the only ones that got these figures and only a couple cases for 80k people. I never even saw any of these in stores untill the line failed and you couldnt find any of them. I bought mine at my local comic book store. They only had a single set for like $150. I thought that was ridiculous so I only bought the 2 stormtroopers. Years later I found out those were the most sought after in the line. So lucky me!

I read the books and comics, but didn't know these toys were made. Might have to look for that Thrawn figure.

The Darktrooper got re-released and repainted in the saga legends line almost 12 years later.

@brianartillery

4 жыл бұрын

The Darktrooper is actually General Mohc, in the enhanced Phrik armour.

I never knew about this line. I would love to have them.

I had the Airspeeder when I was little. In the winter when snow was on the ground I would take it out and play.

Cool vid! Didnt know they did Dark Forces figs. Here's hoping a Shadows of the Empire vid maybe coming soon.

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

Always done it

Ah, the old Expanded Universe - many people were trying to answer the question, "what happens next?" before the Disney acquisition...before The Force Awakens...before the Last Jedi...before The Rise of Skywalker... (I could go on, really!)

I liked the Kenner Expanded Universe toyline, from Power Of The Force II. The Imperial Sentinel, Darktrooper and Spacetrooper were nice additions into the line, and the Imperial Sentinel was actually based off the unreleased Atha Prime from Kenner’s 1986 extension “The Epic Continues.” To see one of these at last released in 1998 was very cool.

Yup I had that weird snow speeder as a kid

my favorite line from POTF2 ....i was lucky enough to find these at Kmart in a case before they put on the pegs

Junkman, if you would dress up as the toyman from justice would be epic👍

You should do a whole episode on the Kenner “Shadows of the Empire” line-plus all the other books, comics, soundtrack, video games, and other items that Lucasfilm rolled out. It was truly treated as a movie promotion (with no actual movie involved).

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

I did one on the figures already

I remember seeing these when they came out, but I only bought Grand Admiral Thrawn and the Snowspeeder. I hated the idea of them bringing the Emperor back and turning Luke to the Dark Side, so I never read Dark Empire until much later. Bringing the Emperor back is a stupid idea regardless of whether it happens in a comic book or in a movie.

And then there was a few figures from ‘ Rouge Squadron’ like Empire Tie Figther Ace Pilot Baron Fel, and also Wedge Antillias who was Baron Fel’s brother in Law.

@hessian1

4 жыл бұрын

Oh sry Also a Storm Tropper looking guy names Derge?

I loved this line! The old EU was what brought me back into Star Wars in the 1st place!! I wanted Pellaeon, C'baoth, Rukh and Talon Karrde (who was in a 2 pack with Thrawn in 2010) from Heir to the Empire, Sedriss, Vill Goir and Kam Solusar (Luke's 1st Jedi student, Mara was a part time student) from DE 2, and we should have gotten Jan Ors from Dark Forces, plus a Jedi Knight Kyle Katarn and Jerec.

I remember seeing this line but never brought any of the figures. Great content Junkman. Cheers👍🍻

Great video junkman. I knew about a couple of these. I wasn't collecting toys at that time. Gonna have to check these out to add to my collection now

That was the Speeder bike Lazy-Boy model.

Some of the expanded universe was okay. It's too bad Disney wouldn't use it in the canon of the new movies.

What I want from the next Black Series Wave: The Star Wars Rough Draft Comic, Infinities, Concept Art

Very informative. Thanks Junkman!

I just finished getting the entire Shadows of the Empire 3.75" and Micro Machines line. I need to get my mitts on those Dark Empire figures.

This Is the best vid you had ion a while... Do the 90s lines next!!!!! Thank you junk man!

The late 90s Star Wars figures, where everyone was He-Manned up.

The dark trooper ws deadly and a droid machine thing

The snow speeder is a Ralph Marquery concept when i saw that at the local flea market i swiped that up post haste

I Like the Twin Cloud Car but not sure I would say favorite. I appreciate this line more as an adult then I did as a kid though.

I had some of those figures and accessories.

I have most...loved collecting them but it's a shame they aren't worth much. Still an amazing line

Would love a relaunch of the figure line today!!

Keep it coming junk man.. Love your content 👌

I'm sure you may already know, but the Imperial Sentinel is a leftover from the 1986 POTF line. As much as I loved the Expanded Universe line, I'm glad they only did nine figures and three vehicles. Instead of the cloud car, I would've produced the E-Wing from the Dark Empire comics. The cloud car pilot looks like someone from the Wizard of Oz. :)

Thanks for doing this. I absolutely love this line. I thought all the figures were done very well, but one that stands above all the rest is the Jedi Leia figure, I thought she was done the best. You could put the Jedi Leia figure with almost any line and it wouldn't clash. I hated Dark Luke's hair, so I switched heads with the regular POTF2 Luke head. I loved the Dark Forces video game and the Dark Empire comics. I'm glad they did the concept art vehicles, I thought there was a nice touch, something different. Thanks for the video

I had to get them from the star wars club I still have them

I don't recall seeing the figures as a kid, but I do remember the ships, and thinking that the cloud car was boring enough in the movie, so why would I want this alternate version. As an adult, I think the speeder is really cool. I think I'll have to grab one someday. And I didn't even know they made a Kyle Katarn figure, that's really cool.

Lol! I had that Airspeeder concept ship. But the pilot, he looked like he belonged to another toy line so much i thought he did. (I bought it opened n reboxed at a garage sale.) I hadn't ever really looked until i saw yr vid, JM, which was great as usual. I thought he went to some adventure set where he was a snow commando or something, with the red/blue stripes n all. Ha!😄

Love the video would like to see more videos like this on modern lines lile this

My family owned a restaurant that gave special edition tickets with meals. I had a stack of 200 each movie and saw it that many times and would get a figure every time we went. Our toys were better in the 80s and 90s they just were kids

This line didn't fail. Low distribution and high collector hype made these impossible to find in the wild. Only time I saw these in person as a kid (beside mara jade who i bought at TRU) was at collector stores at a high premium

@andrewgrant2990

4 жыл бұрын

I think there was some hype about the day of release as I thought there were crowds. I forgot how many of them I bought on that 1st day or so. Also there was many people clamoring for card back version 0.00. Maybe a week or so later, I was baffled when I couldn't find them in any stores save for a GameStop or EB in the mall. I kept them for many years & even used the Power of the Force points to get 1 of the last mail away figures- Mace Windu Ep 1 sneak peak? I had to carefully cut the points off without going all the way through the card. Sold Mara Jade off 3-4 years ago when I was strapped for cash. Wish I had kept more of that stuff to give to my son now- too high priced & low quality.

Around that time there was a lot of figures from the EU that came out. I remember a Chewie dressed as a bounty hunter and Luke in a red armor. Good times indeed.

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

Thats from the shadows line.

I actually bought the line of figures still have them and they shore were hard to find ,in fact Mara jade was my first buy and bought her at a flee market as for the rest bought them through the fan club! The only ones ever bought in Walmart were the 3 ships!

I wish Disney would find a way to fit Dash Rendar in somewhere. Assuming that the Mandalorian takes place not long after Jedi, he would be a great fit! I know the Outrider has been confirmed to make a brief background appearance in the Special Edition of Star Wars.

I had the speeder bike and cloud car as a kid

I had the Airspeeder as a kid

I've collected all the figures and ships, but sadly never read the comics!!

Wasn't 96 or 97 that Junkman Was 98-99 Right before Ep I figures came out They purged the toy aisles to make room for Ep I. They did release the flashback series after this line was canceled.

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

They card copyright right and the figure dates says 1996 or 1997. So going by that. But I thought 1996 at lest seem odd. Thanks

I still have the speeder-couch-thingy. I replaced the figure with 4LOM for extra awesome.

THey did make figure specific to the Shadows of the Empire line of comics and the Video game. Carded as Shadows of the Empire too. I am going to look for the Dark Forces ones next time I am at the antique mall. They have a crap ton of Shadows ones so I be tthey will have a few Kyle or Dark Trooper. Mara Jade would be cool too since you play as her in the series too.

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Did a video on those

I like Cloud Cars. That concept one has been on my want list for a while but I still haven’t acquired it. It’s got a bit of Flash Gordon Flair about it. Not great but still cool looking.

I got all of these but god only knows where they are now.

I have no idea why I don't have any of those figures. I think I might have some Shadows figures in my small 90s and later collection. I wonder if Hasbro has ever thought of doing you as a Star Wars character. Send photos of your face in, and they will put you as a Star Wars character. You can be a Jedi, a Rebel soldier, X-Wing pilot, a Stormtrooper, Mandalorian. etc.

I collected only the 90s concept vehicles they were to cool to pass up

I find it amusing that the portrait of Kyle Katarn on the card is of the Dark Forces Kyle but with a poorly photoshopped beard.

That Kyle Katarn figure could be easily customized into a Junkman figure.

@ThatJunkman

2 жыл бұрын

I need to do that

I grew up with POTF2 I never saw any of these I'm sure if the t-16 would be considered expanded universe Shadows of the Empire had some cool stuff. Good figures boushh leia. The xizor 2 pack was the only way I can get a Vader.

I have that same Dwight Yoakam shirt!

@ThatJunkman

6 ай бұрын

Cool man

FUCK! They did make a Kyle Katarn. They whole series was amazing!

Do you have a video for shadows of the Empire. I loved the video game.on Nintendo 64.

@ThatJunkman

3 жыл бұрын

Not the game just the toys

@tomcreech4848

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThatJunkman they had a lot of toys. The figures. Dash Rendar's outrider

you failed to mention, was that these figures were on a very limited release schedule. They really were not a lot floating around upon initial release. Out of all the power of the force figures from 95 and beyond, these are the only ones that I have never, ever seen in person.

@ThatJunkman

3 жыл бұрын

Should have come here :)

@aerofool66

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThatJunkman I remember going to more than 15 Walmarts looking for these. Never found them. Was the missile trooper (the stormtrooper in the winged torpedo-like device) part of this line?

Didn’t realize there was a Dark Trooper before The Mandalorian series. (Algorithms are popping in your old vids Junkman.)

@ThatJunkman

2 жыл бұрын

There was almost one in the vintage line :) did a video on it

I never saw the ships but I have most the figures

There was a Kyle Katarn and I wasn't told!? How much is he on Ebay!?!?! Shame no rookie 1 ...or a moldy crow! Hasbro you could have made a killing making a moldy crow vehicle! :S

You also left out Grand Admiral Thrawn and Mara Jade from "Heir to the Empire" Dark Horse series.

@ThatJunkman

8 ай бұрын

Rewatch the video

Don't be the Toyman or you'll have to join the Legion of Doom, live in a swamp and wear your underwear on the outside of your pants.

Varrey interesting facs

Check out Lamont hiding behind Han in carbonite. Why Larry upside down? Star Wars Burger King Glasses.........

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

Larry... see last video. And good eye on the Lamount.

I don't remember this stuff at all. The only thing I kind of recognize is the snowspeeder looking ship. My guess would be that stores kept reordering the recognizable stuff and this stuff didn't get many pegs on the display. Starwars really REALLY needs the "saw it in the movie" to have any appeal to me. Maybe I'm just still traumatized by the mini-rigs. Things that weren't in the movies just seem like bad bootlegs designed by the toy company to make money rather than coming from the creative driving force. It would be cool if these things were previews of what was to come in the movies but is usually not the case. If I had already been reading the comics it would have been exciting to me to see some of these figures but since those ones weren't marvel I paid no attention to them. I sound like such a snob today. HA!

Kenner under Hasbro? No Hasbro was under Kenner and Kenner was under Dunn. I was sure you was about to break into a skit

No Shadows of the Empire Mention?

@ThatJunkman

2 жыл бұрын

no, I did a whole video on it

Do a video on how fricken expensive star wars figures have become. And they look terrible for $14. 1995 I paid $3.99 for each of my figures. I almost bought a couple episode 9, 4 inch figures untill I saw that B.S. $13.99 price tag. I put them back on the pegs for some other sucker to get robbed, lol.

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

I think that might be covered in my F**K Hasbro rant

Junkman, how are you gonna deal with COPPA?

@ThatJunkman

4 жыл бұрын

I filled out the info they wanted saying I’m not a child channel. I think it’s more hype then anything else. But if not there isn’t much I can do :(

Great line..but vehicles are meh...speeder looks like a wheelchair..also like the Ralph McQuarrie concept figs a lot !!

$tar War$ Expanded Wallet Figure Collection

Kyle Katarn

These mother fuckers are like $30 a piece now for theawn and Jade