SW ESB 12/32 Back

Release Date:

1980

Carded Availability:

Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back

Force fact:

Well I had to put this one somewhere so I decided on Star Wars given that is technically what the card is. This is a 12 Back in all ways except it was released in 1980 and with a sticker on the back of 32 ESB figures. My best guess is that this was left over inventory found in a Kenner warehouse and they being of the proper business “waste not want not” philosophy printed up another sticker, slapped it on the back and off they went. Given that these are rare figures in any vein the fact that the most “common” of these are the R2-D2, Chewbacca, Leia and Luke (and I do use the term common only in regards to the ESB 12/32 Back releases as none are common overall) I wonder if there was some leftover unsold Early Bird figures that got put to card late and then found. Anyway like any theory on such things we will probably never know. I remember a similar theory of mine given like circumstances I supposed the General Veers, R2-D2 Senscope and Luke Hoth were the more again “common” of the vacuformed Canadian ESB cards that they were left over inventory from the Sears Rebel Command Center as they were the same figures. Good theory until I was informed by a Canadian customer many years ago that they never got the Rebel Command Center in Canada. So as said, just a theory and words on a page.