Love this article, and it pretty much summed up my whole childhood "toy dilemma" between each movie.  Except, unfortunately, I had Jabba envisioned for many years as an unimpressive greenish-yellowish walrus-whiskered alien thanks to the Giant-Sized Marvel Comics Star Wars adaptation I had.

And, yes, Luke and Leia figures in the hands of a six year old... yikes!

Ha ha ha! This is awesome. I think I went through this toy dilemma as well back in the day. I was the right age to be a Star Wars geek with my action figures and playsets (age 8).

When I got back home after seeing Empire. My bro and I "froze" Han, so to speak, and then didn't know what to do with the further adventures after that. LOL!

I remember that when i was a kid, but after seeing 'Empire, I was MORE interested in the bounty hunters not less, I played with them even more...

Lucas never understood Boba Fett's popularity it seems and this is evident in what he did with the prequels... He REALLY missed a trick in not producing a bounty hunter TV series between the release of 'Empire and 'Jedi, it would have been HUGE i think, it would have had almost no competition, either!

DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!!!!!!

Just imagine the awkward silences at the christmas dinner table every time Luke asks Leia to pass the butter. The uncomfortable smiles as they make unintentional eye contact. They know they did it,.. naughty little jedi luke.

My buddy Lance and I both wanted to be Luke in his x-wing outfit. Their could not be 2 Lukes, that made no sense at all! So he concocted "Brother John." Luke's brother, who ended up working as a storm trooper for a while. My friend totally duped me! I played as Brother John for many weekends before I finally called BS on that. Why weren't either of us Han Solo? I guess niether of us could bear the judgement -we were nice kids, and Han was just so morally reprobate (thus, awesome).

I was only 6 years old when Empire came out.  I didn't fully grasp what had happened in the movie such as Frozen Han or one handed Luke.  Since I had so many Hot playsets plus an Imperial Walker, I just replayed the battle of Hoth over and over again.  I already had the Millenium Falcon, a TIE Fighter, and an X Wing plus the Imperial Star Destroyer, so I played space battles.  Sometimes, it is just better to be ignorant.

I never made the toys do what they did in the movies anyway. I had my own remakes I guess - before they became so popular - ha, ha. I also used to have crossovers before I knew what they were. They Star Wars universe versus the GI Joe universe.

This is true I turned Zartan into a Bounty Hunter and Snake Eyes into a Sith...

nice list have to admit i had some of the same dilemas and questions toy wise mostly what did jabba look like . and finaly when seeing hte toy was like om he is a giant slug.  that and how is Luke going to be a jedie with out a light saber. plus wound up trying to stick my Han in the freezer to recreate him being frozen in Carbonite. went through a few hans that way.