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Blue Snaggletooth Painted Hardcopy

YEAR UNKNOWN · Action Figures (3¾-inch)

Documented painted hardcopy for Blue Snaggletooth development.

Development OriginUSA

Developer / LicenseeKenner

Development PeriodUnknown

Research ConfidenceHigh

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Development storyBlue Snaggletooth is already one of the strangest production stories in the original Star Wars figure line, and the painted hardcopy takes collectors one step further back — to the point when the tall, blue interpretation still existed as a working pre-tooling object. A hardcopy was not ordinary production plastic. It was a hand-cast polyurethane working copy produced from the sculpting process so Kenner could preserve detail, evaluate the figure and create the tooling that followed. This surviving example is…

How to identify itHand-cast heavy polyurethane hardcopy with metal limb pins. Larger than the production figure; hand-painted royal-blue outfit; no production foot holes or copyright markings; exposed hollow metal limb pins.

Production outcomeReleased product development · This prototype record is linked to the corresponding V2 production family/listing.

Surviving evidenceConfirmed survivors · At least one documented fully painted hardcopy.

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