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Kenner Products, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy brand owned by Hasbro.Kenner Products began as a toy company founded in 1946, going on to produce several highly recognizable toys and merchandise lines including action figures for the original series of Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Batman as well as die cast models.
Additional action figures, consisting of a taller blue Snaggletooth, and the three members of the Rebo Band (Max Rebo, Sy Snootles and Droopy McCool), were produced for inclusion in Kenner Star Wars toy sets, but were never released on blister cards. Jabba the Hutt and several other Star Wars creatures were also produced for this line, but are ...
A 2020 episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars features a group of three aliens wearing outfits matching original Kenner toys. [32] An episode of the History Channel documentary series The Toys That Built America has Kenner and its line of Star Wars action figures and playsets as one of the subjects.
Kenner Products produced figures packaged for the US domestic market and, as with their Star Wars master toy license, also sub-licensed production of the Super Powers Collection brand, characters, and toys around the world. Just as Kenner/DC Comics created the characters Cyclotron and Golden Pharaoh to augment the Super Powers franchise, so too ...
Kenner typically created two or three sets of different sizes for each theme of the Girder and Panel toy line, offering the buyer a choice of "basic, better (and best)." Thus, the initial theme of "buildings" was offered as sets #1, #2 and #3, with set #3 having the most parts of the group.
Those aren’t the only items dropping in value. Below is a list of collectibles that are showing signs of marked depreciation. Stamps. Collectible stamps have been in decline for several years ...
Kenner debuted the Starting Lineup figures in 1988 by releasing a 132-player MLB set, a 137-player NFL set, and an 85-player NBA set. [3] Each MLB team had at least four players in the set except for the Canadian teams of Montreal and Toronto, which had only one player each because Kenner was unsure of the set's appeal in Canada. [4]
Bernard Loomis (July 4, 1923 – June 2, 2006) was an American toy developer and marketer who introduced some of the world's most notable brands including Chatty Cathy, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Baby Alive, and Strawberry Shortcake, but perhaps his biggest marketing success was bringing a then-unknown film property called Star Wars to the toy shelves.