The Story of R1-G4

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This is the story of the R1-G4 hand-crafted, prototype figure created in late 1977, because Kenner was working on expanding their new toy line from 12 Star Wars action figure to 20. And, they were looking primarily at two categories: cantina aliens and droids.

One Kenner designer hand-crafted a prototype figure intending to depict a droid seen outside the sandcrawler as Luke and Uncle Owen purchase R2-D2 and C-3PO from the Jawas in Star Wars…

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