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There’s a big market with artisan toys, I mainly follow the Star Wars ones, but there’s a lot of different ones out there. There’s Stan Solo, Fans Strike Back, The Next 17, etc… they all make quality toys on the same level as the Kenner originals. Now sometimes they make “repros” of vintage figures to try to get them out there, a big example being Stormtrooper disguise Han Solo because it was a difficult figure to get back in the day that fetches a high price. But they also provide us with things we never got, like the Bantha that Kenner showed a prototype for, but never actually released. Or Slave Leia, which was a big miss from the original Kenner line. Does /toy/ appreciate these artisan toy makers or do we see them as “stealing” Kenner’s designs?
