Star Wars.Com update with a great feature on some rare collectibles from a, seemingly, bygone age:
With The Clone Wars returning fans once again to the animated Star Wars universe, it's time for a brief look back at the history and early memorabilia associated with our favorite faraway galaxy's animated past.
Back in the days when the Clone Wars was nothing more than a vague reference made in A New Hope, animation was taking its first step into the Star Wars universe. A small Canadian start-up company named Nelvana, which has since become one of the world's leading independent animation studios, first caught the attention of George Lucas back in December of 1977 with a 30-minute special entitled A Cosmic Christmas. Impressed, he contracted the small studio to produce an animated short that would air during the two-hour Star Wars Holiday Special a year later in November 1978. Though the special itself is admittedly silly by today's standards, the 12-minute animated sequence, which introduced the world to the galactic mercenary Boba Fett, is considered a cult classic....Early Star Wars Animation Collectibles
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