CUSTOM TOY DISPLAYS AT COLLECTORS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: STAR WARS MULTI DISPLAY AT PROMENADE-DAGOBAH & ENDOR

[D. MARQUIS]

OUR DISPLAYS OF SCENES FROM ENDOR AND DAGOBAH WILL CLOSE OUT THE SERIES OF STAR WARS DISPLAYS THAT WE DID AT PROMENADE MALL. YOU'LL HAVE TO FORGIVE THE PICTURE QUALITY BECAUSE THE CAMERA THAT TOOK THESE PHOTOS NEEDED A FLOPPY DISK (NOT KIDDING-THANKS GENTA!) FOR STORAGE-SO THE DIGITAL QUALITY HADN'T EVOLVED AND WAS VERY NEW. SO AS WE CAN SEE IN THE PIC ABOVE- WE HAVE A VERY BASIC SHOT OF LUKE TRAINING WITH YODA AND R2D2 IN THE SWAMP AT DAGOBAH. YOU CAN SEE THE XWING EMERGING FROM THE SWAMPY BACKGROUND. REAL SIMPLE BUT RE-CREATING A GREAT ICONIC SCENE FROM EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. SOMEONE DONATED THE ACTUAL AND FIRST DAGOBAH PLAY SET YOU SEE IN THE BACKGROUND-A VERY RARE TOY-BY COLLECTOR'S STANDARDS. WE MADE GREAT USE OF THE MOSS- AND THE STONE THAT LUKE IS LEVITATING WAS A SIMPLE BALL OF CLAY THAT I RAN FISHING LINE THROUGH(I WAS ALWAYS MORTIFIED THAT SOME KID WOULD TRY TO TOUCH IT AND THE ROCK WOULD SPLIT IN HALF- BUT I NOTICED THAT OUR CUSTOMERS ALWAYS RESPECTED OUR DISPLAYS- A TESTAMENT TO HOW WELL WE EXECUTED THEM.

OK I KNOW THIS PICTURE IS VERY VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE- BUT I'LL SHARE A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT THIS DISPLAY:
1.) WE FACED SOME MAJOR CHALLENGES TRYING TO DO THIS ONE FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THAT WE DID NOT HAVE EWOKS! THESE WERE SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT FIGURES IN THE LINE AND ORIGINAL EWOKS WERE EXPENSIVE SO WE HAD ZERO (0)WE ALSO DID NOT HAVE ANY EWOK VEHICLES AS THEY WERE JUST AS OBSOLETE- ROBIN (TOYMOM),MEGS AND JASON-NOT ONLY CREATED EWOKS FOR ME OUT OF CLAY- BUT ROBIN MADE LITTLE VESTS FOR THE EWOKS. I CRAFTED THE EWOK GLIDER AROUND A CLAYWOK -BY THE TIME WE WERE FINISHED WE HAD SIX (6) EWOKS TO FIGHT AGAINST AN ENTIRE SQUAD OF IMPERIAL TROOPS AND A WALKER-WHICH WAS PLENTY CAUSE MAKING EWOKS WAS TEDIOUS WORK. BEST OF ALL PAUL DID A MIRACULOUS JOB ON PAINTING THE BACKGROUND- HE REALLY SAVED US ON THIS ONE.

Jason Ackerman,  D., and Robin Ackerman (ToyMom)

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