Looking Back At The First Line Of Star Wars Toys From 1978

By: Justin Marsh

With the global unboxing for the next toy collection from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" only hours away, ABC News takes you back almost 40 years to check out the first line. If you can believe it, it doesn't exactly seem like making "space toys," as they were called back then, was a sure thing for years to come.


A spokesperson from Kenner Toys goes as far as to predict that C-3PO and other characters could embody "the next Disney."...And they were right!

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