The model that he created was perfect for what I wanted.īut of course printing it at Jumbo size was going to be a bit of a challenge, so first I decided to try just recreating the figure at actual size. So I sent him one of my vintage Jabba figures, with the request that he scan it at as high a resolution as possible so that it could be blown up to a large size. Maybe this was my chance to finally get a Jumbo Jabba. He had scans of a lot of vintage Kenner figures, and while he didn’t have a Jabba, when I reached out to him it seemed like he was open to the idea of scanning one. But as the days turned into months and then years, and the momentum for Gentle Giant’s Jumbo line seemed to wane, it seemed less and less likely that they would actually be releasing this figure.Īfter about five years had passed, I discovered the 3D scans of vintage action figures that Desert Octopus had been making and selling on. I also picked up a number of other Jumbo figures that I knew would go well with Jabba in a future display. It looked pretty impressive, and even though I knew it would be expensive, I eagerly awaited news of when it would be available for preorder. Speaking of YouTube, in my latest video I talk about the process of preparing my “Visible Hutt” figure for release, including making boxes and opening an Etsy store, and give details about their upcoming release (this Friday the 23rd!)īack in July of 2015, Gentle Giant showed a prototype of a Jumbo Jabba the Hutt figure that was supposed to be released in their line of Jumbo Kenner Star Wars figures. And of course it would be great if you could subscribe to me on YouTube. If you like the site, please follow me on Instagram, as that’s where I’ve been posting additions to my collection. Still, I don’t expect to be posting a much here moving forward. I like having a permanent “home” like this, and there’s more than a decade of back posts that show up when people Google various collectibles that I’ve featured. That said, this site won’t be going away anytime soon. But it’s generally not worth it to me to be posting here if nobody reads it. I understand that’s just the nature of the modern internet - people don’t really read blogs much anymore. When I make a post on platforms like YouTube and Instagram I get hundreds or thousands of views and dozens of comments. I haven’t been posting here very much recently (in fact I see that this is my first post for 2021!). The two examples in my collection are the only ones I’ve seen come up for sale in any form. It also tends to not be very sought-after or expensive, so people probably aren’t incentivized to look for it and put it on eBay. I’ve said this many times, but vintage kids’ clothing like this can actually be some of the hardest stuff to find since so much of it got used and then thrown out. I’m not sure if all the yellow ones were long sleeve and the blue ones were short sleeve, but that’s how my examples are. I was finally able to pick up a set of these many years later, and it wasn’t until I compared the stains and creased tag on mine with the original auction photo that I realized it was the same exact set that I had missed out on years before! (I also have the pictured pajama bottoms, but they don’t have any Star Wars branding or anything on them).Īs you can see, they made yellow and blue versions. I saved the picture from the auction for reference, (see below). The first time I saw a set of these pajamas come up on eBay, it was back in 2011 or 2012 and I missed the buy-it-now by mere seconds. While I have unused in-package examples of the Jabba pajamas, all I have for the Rebo Band are these very well used examples. If anything these were even harder to track down than the Jabba ones. So in the interest of getting these images into a Google image search, here are my Max Rebo Pajamas. I don’t really update this site anymore, but today I was asked if I had a photo of Max Rebo Band pajamas, and I realized that I got mine after I stopped posting here, and there weren’t any good images on Google.
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