In 1986, a company known as Comics Spain produced a line of PVC figures from both of the 1980s Star Wars cartoons: Droids and Ewoks. While the popular toymaker, Kenner, released action figures from these cartoons as well, Comics Spain produced characters that were not made by Kenner and also matched the likeness of each character to their appearance in the cartoon. This blog will explore all the figures that were released, and identify the variations that made their way to the market.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Latara
The next addition to the archive is the Comics Spain PVC figure of Latara, another one of my favorites and one of only 2 female figures in the line. She was produced in 1986, and has no known variations. I have seen one Latara figure from a private collection that had black paint on the feather, but this was a factory error, rather than any type of real variation. She is marked "1986 LFL Comics Spain" on the back of the feather. Compared to all the other Comics Spain Ewok figures, she is marginally difficult to find (3/5 in rarity) in the US, but seems to be more widely available in Europe, and I've seen her up for auction multiple times by herself.
