(Playskool was acquired by Hasbro, as well, in 1984.)īut, when it’s all said and done, the rarest of all Hasbro’s promotional contributions to the Star Wars Expanded Universe may very well be a story that is all but unheard of outside the Mediterranean. Most recently, in 2011, the storybook Watch Out for the Wookiee - once again written and illustrated by unnamed parties - sold exclusively with the Jedi Force Millennium Falcon Playskool playset. Then, in 2002, came the four Hasbro comics - written by Jason Hall and illustrated alternately by Francis Portela and Manuel Garcia - distributed by Toys“R”Us and published by Dark Horse to promote the action figures tied into Attack of the Clones and Hasbro’s Star Wars: Short Story Collection - with three original Clone Wars tales by Jude Watson, Matthew Stover, and Timothy Zahn - included with various toys in 2003.
Stackpole and illustrated by Daniel Veesenmeyer - contained within the Invasion of Theed Adventure Game boxed set by Wizards of the Coast (a subsidiary of Hasbro since 1999). in 1999, it inherited historical claim to the 1996 mini-comic - written by Ryder Windham, illustrated by Bill Hughes, and published by Dark Horse Comics - packaged with various versions of Galoob’s famous Micro Machines line tying into the Shadows of the Empire multimedia bonanza.Īnd this side of the new millennium, the year 2000 saw the publication of the Battle for Theed comic book - written by Michael A. Likewise, when Hasbro purchased Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. bought the toy company Kenner Products in 1991, it became heir to not just the legendary line of Star Wars action figures but of the weird and wonderful 1978 Imperial Troop Transporter pamphlet, a small storybook penned and illustrated by unknown creators chronicling the Stormtrooper attack on the Jawa sandcrawler alluded to in A New Hope (and which includes a plethora of unintentionally hilarious symbols, like ™, attached to every nameable Star Wars action figure and playset). Granted, some of that legacy is a result of inheritance - or acquisition, as it were. Insofar as there are annals of Star Wars promotional fiction, the tradition of Hasbro is truly storied.
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