Palifan said:
edd_jedi said:
It seems to depend on your era. I only got in to Star Wars in the Jedi era so have no recollection of small head Han, mine was a large head. Those around for the first toys in 78 are probably the opposite. I assume the change was because it looked too small.
Strangely I had the large head Han growing up in the late 70's and that came from a 12 back card. I'd never even seen a pin head one until 2000 or something close to that as all the kids I knew who had one had a large head.
Ian
Yes, I've often wondered why the large head Han on a 12-back is so rare these days. When I was looking for a pin-head Han in 1978/9, I couldn't find one carded anywhere. All my local toy shop had were balloon-head Hans on 12 backs. I never bought a pin-head carded from the shops because I never saw one! My childhood pin-head eventually came in a swap with a friend of my brother, because I could only find balloon-heads in the shops, and even as a child of 6, I thought they looked shite and didn't want one!
But all that begs the question, why are the balloon-heads so hard to find on 12 backs these days, yet the pin-heads on 12 back are (relatively) quite common?