Main Menu Index Page About SWTNZ Links Creative Build a LightSaber The Vacuum-Saber DIY 12' Bandolier Inside the X-Wing Restoring Toys Creative Reviews Inside RC R2D2 Broken 12' R2D2 Prop Reviews The Hildebrandt's Collecting Vintage Collectibles Collecting & Pricing Toy Concepts Wampa Revealed Behind the Beast Behind the Vehicle Droids & Ewok From Steve to Star Death Star Play Sets Downloads Video Edits Rebel TieFighter Wallpapers Star Wars Browser R2M-Player Toy Company's Kenner Toltoys Palitoy Remco SWTNZ Review - The Star Wars, "Droids" and "Ewoks" Cartoon Phenomena In 1978 Nelvana Studios produced an 11 minute Star Wars animated segment for the Star Wars Holiday Special, this was the infamous "Boba Fett Cartoon". Seven years later in 1985 Nelvana created 13 "Droids" episodes and 13 "Ewoks" episodes, but because of production costs, Lucas films decided to halt the making of anymore Droids series and focus on another season of Ewoks instead. The show suffered a huge number of cuts and edits by ABC which saw it through to doing a third season and after 26 episodes it was finally canceled forever. The series wasn't a success financially and this also included a whole range of merchandising such as lunch boxes, toys, clothes, coloring books etc. Droids, 13 episodes 1985-1986 Ewoks, 26 episodes 1985-1987 The Droids and Ewok Cartoons can be found on DVD Below are a selection of items made during the promotion of both the Droids and Ewok animated television series, the packaging is quite good using strong bright colors. I especially like the graphics on the Ewoks Cards and its all very difficult to find good examples of these, different characters were released to various country's for unknown reasons like Spain and Brazil.. Un-produced Droid Figure Case - C3PO and Kez Iban, Carded Droids - Kea Moll, Kez Iban Figure,Thall Joben and Vlix, Carded (Brazil) Three large store displays that were never issued by Kenner, with numerous un-produced toys featuring both Droids and Ewok items.. Ewoks Carded Figures, which also included collectable coins.. If you want to learn more about the characters of both animated series you could visit this website below.. http://www.lucasfan.com/animated/ SWTNZ Vintage Toy Review - Droids, A-Wing Fighter - Kenner 1985 Above, Boxed A-Wing and Booklet, (Click To Enlarge) This is one hard to find item, the Droids A-Wing Fighter is also one cool looking collectible. Its quite a large ship that will accommodate the 3 3/4 inch droid fighter pilot or other figure, it even has electronic sound effects which makes it even more appealing. Difficult to price this one with such little reference, but the picture above gives you a better idea of what to look out for.. Star Wars Trader - New Zealand , © 2005-2008 Copyright SWTNZ Original photographs, graphics & text etc is the property of SWTNZ unless otherwise stated, "Star Wars" related media including images, video and characters etc are copyright to and owned by Lucasfilm Ltd. SWTNZ is neither sponsored or endorsed by Lucasfilm nor does it affiliate with any other division thereof. This website is best viewed at 1024x768 with Internet Explorer Affiliates VidBox Buck Rogers The Time Machine