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1980 Toltoys Catalog — Prototype Snowspeeder

1980 · Vehicles

SWCA identifies the Snowspeeder catalog image as a prototype with different cockpit, main guns and rear gun.

Development OriginAustralia
Developer / LicenseeToltoys / Kenner
Development Period1980
Research ConfidenceHigh
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Development story1980 Toltoys Catalog — Prototype Snowspeeder is known through the imagery Kenner or one of its licensees used before the final retail presentation was fully settled. Catalog and advertising prototypes are especially revealing because they can preserve abandoned colors, kit-bashed parts or hand-built models that disappeared before consumers ever saw the finished product. SWCA identifies the Snowspeeder catalog image as a prototype with different cockpit, main guns and rear gun. Different cockpit, main guns and rear…
How to identify itHand-crafted conceptual Snowspeeder model used for early catalog/presentation photography. Different cockpit, main guns and rear gun; SWCA also documents a rough unpainted Kenner-slide view of the same conceptual model.
Production outcomeDevelopment record
Surviving evidenceDocumented catalog image
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