Galoob's larger-scale line of Action
Fleet sets had these little Battle
Packs with incredibly complicated packaging, I think the point was that by
the time you'd fought you way into them you thought you'd got more for your
money (they weren't cheap first time round) than a few figures and a small
accessory, but who knows!
On his correct mount, he still looks more
like a drum-major than a dino-rider! A dewback is a sort of giant tadpole with
quadruped perambulation from giant chicken feet, and it's never made clear if
they are called dewbacks because they drink or filter dew from the sand in the
mornings like grazing cows, or have slimy backs like tadpoles!
The set comes with two bounty hunters from The
Empire Strikes Back and the
sneak-thief Greedo from Star Wars/A New
Hope, who gets his! The Action Fleet figures
are really mini 'action figures' with two points of articulation - at the hips
and shoulders.
This re-issue from 2002 came with the
escape pod the two comedy-droids occupied for their trip to the salubrious
planet of Tatooine, I have a lose one, but it's in with the other ships and
vehicles, so can wait! Obviously pushing the new name of episode one/IV; was
that when the fifth or sixth film came out? Or the first DVD issue? It's all so
long, long ago and far, far away now!
Other sand troopers from the MicroMachines line on the left and Action Fleet on the right, with an
alternate Boba Fett also an Action Fleet
figure, between them. The diminutive dewback rider (on an even more diminutive
dewback - scale-wise!) has a proper lance for poking recalcitrant dinosaurs and
restores you faith in the imagination behind the story-line! Note also - he has
a striped black & white shoulder-board?
Another forced-perspective shot; lost in a
sea of pink!
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