Most Valuable Vintage Toy Record Already Broken Again By Another Rocket-Firing Boba Fett

Just 2 months ago, 1 of rarest and astir famous Star Wars toys ever made, Kenner’s prototype for a rocket-firing enactment fig of Boba Fett, made collecting past erstwhile it became the most invaluable vintage artifact ever sold, going for $525,000. Now, its grounds has been taken by an even rarer mentation of the figure, and the grounds itself has much than doubled.

Last nighttime Goldin Auctions confirmed that they had sold an highly uncommon iteration of the infamous prototype astatine nationalist auction for a whopping $1.342 cardinal dollars, making it acold and distant the caller grounds holder for the astir invaluable vintage artifact successful the world. The mentation sold by Goldin was a “J-slot” iteration of the Kenner prototype, an adjacent more-limited alternate mentation of the rocket-firing mechanics connected Boba Fett’s backpack that ne'er made it to release.

Approximately 100 prototypes of the rocket-firing Boba Fett are believed to stay successful existence, aft plans to merchandise the fig arsenic a escaped mail-away promotional bonus successful 1979 were scuppered. During Kenner’s prototyping signifier for the figure, Mattel made headlines erstwhile the rocket-firing mechanics connected 1 of its Battlestar Galactica toys pb to the decease of a child, sparking concerns that Boba’s included rocket was a imaginable choking hazard. While the Boba Fett fig inactive yet released–inspired by his debut the twelvemonth anterior successful the similarly infamous Star Wars Holiday Special–it did truthful with the rocket-firing diagnostic glued shut, alongside a informing astir the alteration successful functionality.

Of the surviving prototypes, astir 70 had the archetypal “L-slot” mentation of the firing mechanism, portion astir 30 had a “J-slot”–a aboriginal iteration of the prototype designed to marque the mechanics much hard to misfire erstwhile Kenner started having concerns astir the figure’s safety. The mentation that sold astatine Heritage Auctions for $525,000 backmost successful June was 1 of the “L-slot” prototypes, but the 1 sold by Goldin was adjacent rarer beyond being 1 of the remaining “J-slot” Boba Fetts. Hand-painted arsenic a prototype for its illustration mailer packaging, included successful the auction alongside the rockets and Boba’s blaster rifle, conscionable 3 of its benignant are known to exist, with the sold prototype the lone known “J-slot” mailer to person ever been publically sold.

It’s improbable a rarer illustration of the rocket-firing Boba Fett is going to marque it retired of backstage collections immoderate clip soon, truthful for now, whoever snagged this 1 is going to clasp rather a prestigious bounty.