Star Wars knock-offs
Gallery of vintage starwarsploitation products from the '70s and '80s. The pics are great, but it's a pity the Flash UI is so teh suck and there's no background information on the products depicted.

One of the toys in the "Star Wars" knock-offs -- specifically, the one you actually pictured on Boing Boing -- is not actually a cheap rendition of a Lucas copyright. It's just a cheap toy from the Micronauts line, which came out a year before Star Wars. Check it out. I know this because, as a kid, some of the only comics i could afford were 25 cent back-issues of, well, the lame comic book inspired by these rather boring toys. Wheeeeee!

Chris Eng says,

Check out how bad-ass Baron Karza looks when he's not all small and sad and blurry! Cone missiles! Magnetic scowly-head! Intense! Link

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