Vintage Action Figure Profile: Star Wars 1977 Han Solo

Whether you thought of him as a piratical scoundrel or a dashing hero, no one can deny that the character of Han Solo from the original Star Wars trilogy made quite an impression. In the Spring of 1978, when the belated Star Wars action figures finally began arriving in stores, kids snatched up the Han Solo figures faster than a Landspeeder zooming towards Mos Eisley.

In fact, sales of Han Solo's action figure outweighed Luke Skywalker's figure enough to be indicative of who the real hero of the story was. Although the farmboy with a destiny was intended to be the main protagonist of the tale, kids all over the country wanted to play with Han Solo more, making him the hero of their own imaginary adventures.

Here we take a look at an action figure that made being a Corellian space pirate look easy.