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In 1982 at the age of nine, Santa brought me (among other things) a Star Wars Rebel Transport. <\/p>\n
<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object><\/p>\nAlong with the Millennium Falcon and the AT-AT (“Snow Walker”), the Rebel Transport is one of the biggest ships from Kenner’s original toy line. While many of my fellow Star Wars collecting friends carried around their action figures in those Darth Vader-shaped carrying cases, I used this thing. For comparison, the Darth Vader carrying case — something designed to hold action figures<\/i> — stores 31 figures. The Rebel Transport officially holds 45,<\/b> with three sitting in the ship’s chairs and 42 standing on pegs in the middle. If you don’t use the pegs and just toss your figures in the middle in some sort of intergalactic orgy, it’ll probably hold 200 or more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\nYeah. It’s that big.<\/p>\nTo me, the Rebel Transport kind of marks the turning point in Star Wars toys — yes, all the way back in 1982. Pretty much all the toys before the arrival of the Rebel Transport were integral to re-enacting scenes from the movie, but starting with this thing … not so much. The Rebel Transport appears for just seconds in The Empire Strikes Back as the rebels are evacuating Hoth. Sure, other ships like the Twin Pod Cloud Car and Boba Fett’s Slave One barely got more screen time than this thing, but at least those ships were cool. The Rebel Transport is the equivalent of a bloated, intergalactic pickle. Trust me, no kid ever stood up during the evacuation of Hoth, pointed at the screen and shouted, “Oh yeah — I gotta<\/i> have one of those!<\/i>” This is around the time we started seeing action figures for every character that appeared on screen for more than a second. You can almost feel executives combing through those movies a frame at a time, wondering just how many toys they could mine from those fertile fields.<\/p>\nThe coolest thing about the Rebel Transport was it’s hidden storage compartment. Located underneath the pilot’s chair is a hollow space where small accessories could be stowed away and hidden. Originally the ship came with four gas masks and five backpacks — odd choices, to be sure — but personally I found the storage compartment a great place to hold spare guns, lightsabers, and … Yoda’s snakes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nYup, the stash is still down there, 28 years later. Should we get attacked by the Empire, we’ve got guns-a-plenty tucked away ready for use. And if we run out of ammo, I suppose we can start hurling Yoda’s snakes at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1982 at the age of nine, Santa brought me (among other things) a Star Wars Rebel Transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Along with the Millennium Falcon and the AT-AT (“Snow Walker”), the Rebel Transport is one of the biggest ships from Kenner’s original toy line. While many of my fellow Star Wars collecting friends carried around their action figures in those Darth Vader-shaped carrying cases, I used this thing. For comparison, the Darth Vader carrying case — something designed to hold action figures<\/i> — stores 31 figures. The Rebel Transport officially holds 45,<\/b> with three sitting in the ship’s chairs and 42 standing on pegs in the middle. If you don’t use the pegs and just toss your figures in the middle in some sort of intergalactic orgy, it’ll probably hold 200 or more.<\/p>\n
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Yeah. It’s that big.<\/p>\n
To me, the Rebel Transport kind of marks the turning point in Star Wars toys — yes, all the way back in 1982. Pretty much all the toys before the arrival of the Rebel Transport were integral to re-enacting scenes from the movie, but starting with this thing … not so much. The Rebel Transport appears for just seconds in The Empire Strikes Back as the rebels are evacuating Hoth. Sure, other ships like the Twin Pod Cloud Car and Boba Fett’s Slave One barely got more screen time than this thing, but at least those ships were cool. The Rebel Transport is the equivalent of a bloated, intergalactic pickle. Trust me, no kid ever stood up during the evacuation of Hoth, pointed at the screen and shouted, “Oh yeah — I gotta<\/i> have one of those!<\/i>” This is around the time we started seeing action figures for every character that appeared on screen for more than a second. You can almost feel executives combing through those movies a frame at a time, wondering just how many toys they could mine from those fertile fields.<\/p>\n
The coolest thing about the Rebel Transport was it’s hidden storage compartment. Located underneath the pilot’s chair is a hollow space where small accessories could be stowed away and hidden. Originally the ship came with four gas masks and five backpacks — odd choices, to be sure — but personally I found the storage compartment a great place to hold spare guns, lightsabers, and … Yoda’s snakes.<\/p>\n
Yup, the stash is still down there, 28 years later. Should we get attacked by the Empire, we’ve got guns-a-plenty tucked away ready for use. And if we run out of ammo, I suppose we can start hurling Yoda’s snakes at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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