Sears Cloud City Playset

This post features all the vintage Cloud City or Bespin artifacts I have acquired over the years. The Sears Cloud City Playset was exclusively sold through Sears between 1980 and 1981. So as you can imagine it is a very rare find. This was actually the first one I've ever seen in person. I found it at a shop called Rebel Base Comics in Charlotte, NC. I think I paid $200 for it. It included the four figures pictured on the box loose. But after opening it to check the contents I came to realize that the box inside was sealed with another set of the figures. I am a collector of sealed Kenner bagged figures, so I jumped at the opportunity to own this set. I have since opened the box to display the Kenner bagged figures.

Here is a slight rearrangement of the toys. I included the Slave 1 box and the Twin-Pod Cloud Car box. Above the Slave 1 box is a reproduction of a very rare store display.

This is yet another arrangement of the playset. The shot includes a very rare Revenge of the Jedi pre-production prototype for the Bespin Millennium Falcon vehicle. Everybody wanted to acquire the rare Revenge of the Jedi movie poster back in the 80s and this piece blows that away in rarity. If the move name wouldn't have changed to Return of the Jedi, this piece would have been glued to a box that would be used to sell the actual toy. So any pre-production prototypes are rare but ones that have the Revenge logo on them... forget about it! This show also includes a rare ESB "shelf talker" that was used in toy store back in the early 80s. The Tusken Raider in the upper left corner is holding the new Lightsaber Chopsticks from Japan.

This shot displays most of the ESB Kenner bagged figures. When your ordered figures through the mail from JC Penny or Sears, they'd come sealed in these little baggies instead of being stamped on a cardback. These type of figures also came in some playsets as incentive to buy the playset. It's actually harder to find these than it is to find them on the regular cards. Remember, these are all from the late 70s to early 80s. The only figure I'm missing is a Luke in Bespin Gear.

This is a print that a Kenner photographer was selling a few years ago of a prototype of the Cloud City Playset. Hand signed print.