Million Dollar Porotype Boba Fett Action Figure
In 1979, Kenner offered kids a mail-away Boba Fett action figure that could fire a rocket from its backpack. After a Mattel Battlestar Galactica toy with a similar mechanism caused a child to choke, Kenner pulled the feature and shipped Fett with the rocket permanently fixed in place. Only 100 firing prototypes were ever made, split between roughly 70 L-slot and 30 J-slot versions. The J-slot was the revised design meant to prevent accidental firing, making it the rarer of the two. Fewer than 25 are believed to still exist. This example, a 3.75-inch hand-painted figure graded AFA NM+ 85+, is one of only a handful of high-grade J-slots, accompanied by a Collectible Investment Brokerage Certificate of Authenticity. A J-slot from the same run sold at Goldin in August 2024 for $1,342,000, the highest price ever paid for a toy at auction. This one is up next.
