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- #1587376
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- Help needed! Kenner DROIDS and Ewok Battle Wagon commercials
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1587376/action/topic#1587376
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There’s actually a good number of lost Kenner SW commercials out there. It’s unfortunate not much effort has gone into finding them. Here’s a more complete list: https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Kenner_Star_Wars_Commercials_(Lost_Commercials_Of_Toy_Line)
Considering the total number of Kenner commercials (somewhere around 100), there’s actually very few that are missing. We were lucky that a lot of the original ones turned up as 8mm/16mm films that were scanned by collectors and shared. There was a fantastic fan-made DVD that collected all of those with a great menu and cover back around 2007. It had about 99% of the total commercials all on one disc, and was only missing a few.
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On SWCA, there is a “Destroy the Death Star” board game commercial that is listed as a 16mm. I am checking to confirm that this actually exists, because it was not on the DVD collection and I’ve never seen the commercial. There is, however, an “Escape From Death Star” board game commercial - maybe it was mixed up here?
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The Anakin Skywalker mail-away one I’ve never seen. It sounds like it existed (based on recollections), but never surfaced. So that one’s lost for now. But all it takes is one person to upload the right VHS rip and hopefully that one will surface again.
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The POTF toy line commercial with a flyover of the toys is well and truly lost for now, since I haven’t seen that turn up anywhere. Again, hopefully someone posts a VHS rip.
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The POTF coins commercial was lost for ages, but was the most recent commercial to resurface when it showed up on YouTube. It is partly incomplete, so hopefully someone posts a better copy someday.
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The DROIDS toy line commercial has been around a long time in that slightly incomplete RetroJunk commercial. It was posted in what looked like pristine quality on StarWars.com, but was not saved by anyone we know of yet.
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The Ewoks toy line commercial I think is the one featuring the Ewok Battle Wagon plus the Ewoks figures. It was also posted on StarWars.com but not saved. Like the DROIDS commercial, this can’t be considered truly lost - just not publicly available.
I’m surprised that these later ones haven’t turned up more widely, since quite a lot more people had VCRs by 1985. Maybe they just weren’t shown much before the line ended.
–SKot