It’s always a little disappointing when licensed products reuse artwork like this, but it’s probably preferable to reusing the same stock photos of the characters that we always seem to see. The images used are the same line art images that I’ve seen on other products (the Jabba was used on a baseball cap made by Fresh Caps a few years ago, for example). They’re all the same on the inside: lined with a stormtrooper on one side and R2 on the other. The other set has Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, Yoda, Darth Vader and Chewbacca notebooks. The have 30 pages and are 179mm x 252mm (or roughly 7 x 10 inches) so they’re on the small side.Īll of the notebooks have a different image on the back cover: Princess Leia giving R2 the plans to the Death Star for R2-D2, Greedo for Han, Slave One for Boba Fett, Vader for the stormtrooper and Salacious Crumb for Jabba (as you can see above). This one comes in a set with Boba Fett, Han Solo, R2-D2 and a stormtrooper, as you can see below. This notebook from Japan is part of a recently released collection of Star Wars notebooks by Kokuyo. Still, I’m very happy to add this unusual item to my collection.
I think if you handled it very roughly at all it would soon start to fall apart. You can see that the outer material is sort of starting to rot away. Both the outer material and inner foam rubber are deteriorating even on this example, which came from a collector and was never played with. One reason these pillows are so rare is that they have not held up well over time. It also looks quite a bit more cartoony than the actual design.
#Salacious crumb stuffed animal archive#
The Star Wars Collector’s Archive just lists the manufacturer as “unlicensed” so I really don’t know who made it.įor some reason in the illustration, Jabba’s tail is facing the opposite direction. There is a cardboard tag, which you can see below.
I think it’s also interesting that they went for a brownish color scheme - probably influenced by the vintage Jabba the Hutt figure. There are no copyright notices anywhere, or even any tags on the pillow itself. They also saw fit to give him a bellybutton. From what I can tell, it dates from 1983, which would make this the first Jabba the Hutt plush by a considerable margin. It’s made of a fuzzy fabric sewn over some sort of foam rubber and stands roughly 13 or 14 inches tall, making it rather large if you think of it as a plush. It’s usually referred to as a pillow or a throw pillow, but because it’s in the shape of Jabba, I think it qualifies as a plush. Unfortunately I was outbid on that when it went quite a bit higher than I was expecting. So as you can imagine, when a dealer I know acquired one last month, I didn’t hesitate to buy it. (They also still haven’t removed it from their website, so if you happen to stumble upon it, it’s not actually available.) The next time I saw one for sale was on an eBay auction a year or two ago. I tried buying it but after a long time they were unable to locate it. I first heard about this pillow about 5 years when I stumbled upon a listing for one on an online collectibles store. The item I’m posting about today was another. One item was a pair of Jabba the Hutt pajamas by Wilker Bros. In the meantime, I have been able to check a couple of items off of my long-term want list. I don’t know if there will be any hutts in the film, but I wouldn’t be surprised if something Jabba-related came out around then just because of the renewed interest in Star Wars. A lot of manufacturers seem to be saving up for a big push to coincide with that release. I attribute this partially to the new Star Wars film coming out later this year. I’ve picked up a few items here and there, but there hasn’t been that much new stuff coming out. Things have been a little slow recently when it comes to Jabba collecting.
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