The Land speeder is likely the most popular Vehicle of the Kenner Star Wars Universe- It is also one of the Few Toys actually made In the USA in the Star Wars Kenner Line. There are variations of the vehicle from other licensed manufactures.
here are a few box cover variations included in my Guide
More o the guide go to : www.starwarsfigurevariations.com
When you dig a little deeper into this old Jedi, theres a lot of difference between the COO variations.
There are several grey colors to the hair along with the white and distinct mold variations to his head. There are long and short fingers on the hilt of the saber hand. There are several saber and cape variations, as well as two distinct colors to both the brown plastic of his body, as well as his face. Some vars. are much rarer than others
More information on Obi-Wan variations in my Guide. 3rd edition now available for download.
Happy collecting !
www.starwarsfigurevariations.com
Here are some great classic Vintage Comic Star Wars Toy ads.
When Star Wars Came out in 1977 General Mills and Kenner were not ready for the onslaught of interest in toys for the movie. In fact it was not until 1978 toys hit the shelves.
This opened the door for a lot of Manufactures to fill voids in the market place. Here are some fun Vinyl action figure cases. Thee were available at Sears, Woolworths among others. The graphics are great on some of these cases, most were 12 figure, 24 figure cases can also be found. Its always fun to find one and see what treasure is inside. No matter your flavor if collected Mego Super heroes, or Star trek, or MASH, Micronauts Lord of the Rings, or Dungeons and Dragons, Zee Toys Metal masters figures these cases filled the bill.
I will be adding these to my glossary of my e book, Vintage Kenner Star Wars Action Figure Variations of North America.
Got any more versions not shown here, please share them with me would love to see what else can be found.
There is a unique head variation for the Luke Taiwan COO. Notice the elongated chin, compared to the more familiar head similar to the Hong Kong Figures, The elongated chin head appears to be more common than the more traditional molded head. My suspicion is the left two shown are ROTJ era figures, where the far right one is an early SW release 12 back TAIWAN release. The
Figure also has either a bar in the slot int he arm or no slot. And a few other differences which I have updated in the newest revisions of my figure guide.
12 back Taiwan figures are relatively hard to find compared to the Hong Kong figures, Luke, Leia, R2, Darth and Chewy were also released on 12 back Taiwan Cards.
To answer a question from a collector, No Luke’ s From China are not fakes.
It can be hard to authenticate a DT (double telescoping) saber as original. Reproductions are becoming rampant, and a fake saber can be had for under $20. I am dedicating a page in my figure guide, Vintage Kenner Star Wars action figure variations, to the issue of reproduction sabers. Vs originals. etc..
Here are some pictures of an original saber- marked N- originals can be found with marks for A to ZZ and some with just a dot on the hilt also can be found. They are slightly transparent, and with age they can be come very brittle. 
Reproduction sabers are becoming very precise- but there are some things to look for- Some, but not all Repro’s by Revalvit are marked REV on the hilt, theres are not marked abut have II mark on the hilt. Any saber that is unmarked should be suspect as being a repro.
Note seam, on the shaft, rounder tip – REV on the hilt. Ejection point marks on shaft. 
pix of revalvit sabers- from website.
I was 13 when I read this book called STAR WARS The Adventures of Luke Skywalker. It was the spring of 1977, I recall devouring the story after finding about the book after reading a blurb in a new magazine I saw called STARLOG. Of course it changed my life. I was a farm boy, My folks recently purchased a farm in the country, and we had been there 2 years. I moved form the City of Minneapolis, to a small town in Central MN. I could relate to seeing the rest of the universe.
So what are my favorite things? Not surprising some of the earliest items available. 
My Autographed picture form Darth Vader, he visited the Mall B Daltons Bookstore.
WonderBread Trading cards, and the GM trading card sets and of course the Topp’s cards.
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The Die cast ships…
Model Kits.. I customized a falcon with black light paint, and lighted interior. – Of course, I wanted to go to hollywood and be a special effects artist, after seeing the models Brian Johnson and Derek Meddings 
did for space 1999 and other Gerry Anderson productions.
and Lastly the early posters, the Fan Club ,Trench poster, the Soundtrack space battle,poster , and finally Marvel Comics, Awesome art, and cheap for a kid to buy. at 35 cents. !!
The next update is coming fall 2016,
I had to take a break over the summer, to many other projects. Ive been working on revisions, updates, and have added about 30 new variations. I have added new cardbacks, new words to glossary as well as more vehicles and playsets and bootlegs. . As always whenever you purchase you will get a notification of the newest update, and get the newest edition link and a free copy. The guide is north of 450 pages now. ! Heres a chance to take save $5 bucks
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If you were lucky enough to hit discount dollar stores in the 90’s , you know the one’s, with lots of cheap China plastic lining the isles- You may have found these.. One of the few Bootlegs Lucasfilm did not catch and got into the US market.
Galaxy Empire toys were knock offs of the POTF sculpt of figures but about 6″ tall. The packages are dated 1997. The cardbacks are very flimsy
The entire release included 7 total figures, with some paint ops in the series.
heres the list. of what to look for.
Luke, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Chewbacca as Snoova, Darth Vader, and a Stormtrooper.
US Kenner 65 back country card variations.
Summer has come to a close now on to editing new additions to my Star Wars figure guide. Here are Kenner ROTJ 65 bk card country variations.
From left to right: ROTJ / HK figures- blocked out, 65k “Hong Kong”, 65k” Taiwan”, 65bk “Made in Hong Kong or Taiwan”. The latter appears hardest to find of the four 65 back cards.
