Basically, parents would go to their local toy store and pay $7.99 for a thin cardboard package, about the size of a manila envelope, with painted renderings of the proposed 12-figure Star Wars ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — He had one thing on his Christmas wish list. Star Wars. Star Wars "anything." On the morning of Dec. 25, 1977, Matthew Fox unwrapped more than what he wanted. He got Star Wars ...

CINCINNATI -- He had one thing on his Christmas wish list. Star Wars. Star Wars "anything," to be exact. And on the morning of Dec. 25, 1977, Matthew Fox unwrapped more than what he wanted. He got ...

But Kenner, like just about everyone else, had failed to anticipate just what a phenomenon Star Warswould become on its release on the 25th May 1977. As the summer of Star Wars unfolded, it became ...