Star Wars Action Figures
An anonymous reader writes "Star Wars nostalgia buffs: X-E just added a fairly long feature detailing some of the many mail-away offers made by the Kenner company to keep kids interested in SW action figures in the 80s."
PBS had some documentery on the marketing of the GI Joe doll (thats how I know). I found a little here: http://actionfigures.about.com/library/weekly/aa01 1201c.htm
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