Vintage Jabba the Hutt Action Playset (Kenner Star Wars) 

What would we Jabbamaniacs do without MJC & your videos filled with a huge plethora of facts and information about anything and everything Jabba-connected. Thanks for all that you do, friend.

I had this as a kid back in 1983. I vaguely remember burying it in our backyard like a time capsule. My parents still live there and now I am 43. One of these days I will go digging!

This Jabba playset was my very first Star Wars toy ever… nearly 40 years ago - hard to believe, and I still have it!

I got this set for Christmas when I was around four years old. It's still one of my most favorite Christmas memories of all time. I can still remember the weird smell (which my brother and I were convinced was intentional), and I could swear the eyes had a parallax effect so they seemed to follow you when you moved past his face. Unfortunately, it was lost to the great Star Wars purge of '98 when my mom began throwing out all our old toys since we had outgrown them.

9:24 why do I need so many Jaba the hut figures you sound like my wife XD

As a child, I thought the dungeon inside was incredibly detailed, even a little scary

As a child in the early 80s I used to cover Jabba in hair gel for an authentic worm riddled filth effect

Thanks to you I recently bought it for around $12 without Jabba, railing, or crumb although I did already have Jabba and crumb.

I remember my older cousin had this. I would play with it at my babysitter's (his mom). So surreal that I remember everything about it. He had so many Star Wars action figures

This is an amazing review! You sir, are a legend!!!

"YOU ALWAYS GET EM AT THE END JABBA!" That line was perfect for the joke. I am also a huge Jabba fan and I enjoy your humor. Subscribed.

jabba is amazing

Thank you for the memories. I was 4 in 83 and my best friend at the time had a bunch of star wars figures, played all the time. Thank you again

Kudos for having a channel dedicated to toys from one character. Now there is true talent!

2:00 I always get him in the end jabba

Slowly going to watch all your Jabba videos. I am a HUGE Jabba fan, and your videos are great. That soap though.

I was given a sealed salcious crumb figure as just a "bonus" to a purchase at a vintage toy show in 2010. Who knows how many the guy had!!! Thanks for the videos.

Thanks for sharing! I love your Jabba collection.

This is probably my favorite RU-vid video ever released

Dude your videos are the best. This one is no exception. Kudos!

I just picked this up at an antique store the other day! Loved watching this video!

this xmas gift gave me proof santa was my parents. the details are hazy but when ever I see this toy (long gone now) I think " oh yeah... mom and dad are santa."

Happy you're making videos now!

These videos are FUN! Honestly I wasn't really interested at first since I follow your Jabba's review on the blog... But i gave it a try and I really liked them. Congrats, it's not an easy task, looking forward to see more. =)

This was my first ever vintage Star Wars action and I really love this set

I'm late to this, but just wanted to say how much I have been enjoying all of your videos. I remember getting the Jabba playset when I was in 2nd grade. It was my favorite Christmas present that year. We were allowed to take one gift to school for show and tell and that was what I took with me. I still love this playest to this day. I sadly lost my original but have since acquired a couple more. I would eventually like to get some variants or MIB versions. I love collecting anything Jabba or Jabba's palace related. It's great to see another fan.

4:19 NOOOOO!!! YOU KILLED JABBA!!!!!!!!

This was quite funny! Thanks for the laughs!

Your videos are really well done! Great collection.

I was around 7 at the time the Power of the Force 2 toys representing the A New Hope Special Edition came out and I remember seeing the Jabba from that and similarly taking an instant shine to the character for whatever reason. By complete coincidence around the same time we were shopping for furniture and I encountered one of these original Jabba the Hutt figures, serving as part of a collection of toys intended to keep children amused while their parents bought furniture. At that time I assumed it was a recolor of the new one and didn't realize it was its predecessor from the 80s. The toy had seen better days and had no arms, but the tail-wagging feature still worked. The store has changed hands since then, so I have no idea where armless Jabba resides today, but I'm sure he kept plenty of other kids entertained over his years at that store.

Thanks for a nice video ya I have lots of fond memories from when I got Jabba on my birthday Every Christmas until I was like 12 years old I tried build Jabba's palace out of plain cardboard. Lots of joy came from making a working trapdoor for Ranccor. (which I actually never had).

Awesome. I was 10 years old when ROTJ came out. Loved Jabba the Hutt. My favourite character. I enjoyed the first half of the movie more than the second half. I wanted this playset, but my mom took one good look at the shoddy plastic used to make it and that it was made in China (or Taiwan???) and said no, you can't have it. Last time I saw it for sale brand new was at a clearance outlet years later. I think it was going for $10 at the time. When it was brand new it was $20. They used to sell the whole line of ROTJ at a place called "Consumers Distributing". It was a catalog store. Every year you'd get a catalog in the mail. Then you could go to the store, fill out a "pick-slip"and one of the retail helpers would run to the back into the warehouse and pull it off of the shelf and bring it out to you. That's all the store was. Just a front counter.

I still remember the day I bought the Jabba playset. My Aunt Janine drove me down to the local toy store in Wentworthville... (Parramatta area in Western Sydney) and I purchased him with my allowance for about $20 or less?. My Aunt commented how patient I was in the car for not opening him there and then. I totally understand your obsession w/ Jabba, M.J.C.!! . Remember before Jedi came out and watching Empire and wondering who Jabba the Hutt was when Vader mentioned him to Boba Fett in Cloud City!!.....ah the memories

I still have this 100% complete and in great condition and have it on display

Love all your videos my brother

Your intro bit just worded every reason I love Jabba! By far my favorite genre of movie is (Italian) Mafia and I feel he possesses every trait that a mob boss would, except fully translated into the Star Wars universe.

I just bought a Jabba's Playset last week thanks to this video

Great video, nice work, you know a lot about the history of the toy awesome.

Dude you are whacked out and I love it!!! :-) And something I never ever expected to encounter in this existence or any other, you have managed to bring into being: Jabba Kenner Figure Art! And you hypnotize with it! Truly unique ho ho ho. :-)

Hello I"m from México and I have my Lili ledi Jabba since I was a kid, I'm 49, thanks for the videos, u make me laugh🙂

for my display i use the old 90s cardboard Jabba palace with the base from the modern era set and a vintage Jabba cause i still think it looks best. in general im not a huge fan of the vintage figures and prefer modern, but some of the ROTJ figures were really nice sculpts and made a huge leap past the figures for the first two films.

The commercials! So exciting!

I have a shelf dedicated to the different releases of Jabba over the years. You make me want to buy more. Funny, my wife asked me that same question too...Bo Shuda...

your videos are so interesting. thank

You are amazing..great research. Your a genius. thanks i enjoyed so much

I never had the Jabba Play-set. I pretty much stopped collecting around Return of the Jedi. But my favorite item was the Landspeeder and all my favorite characters and play-sets were from Tatooine, especially Jabba's Palace.

Brilliant vid!

You inspired me to collect Jabba figures

Yes I had the playset along with the Max Reebo Band! :)

I really never thought of the toy the way you talked about it.it was cool

I just bought my first vintage misb Star Wars playset, and it is... Jabba the Hutt! The condition is pretty nice. I got a very warm and fuzzy feeling taking this bad boy out of the shipping box. I have very clear memories of getting this toy for 1983 Christmas... I also bought the misb Rancor in the same haul. Now the challenge is not opening them! Thanks for sharing your passion and knowledge. Stay away from that Sarlacc pit!

Loved this figure! You could wag his tail! :)

I used to have that Line art boxed jabba at 7:55, complete in mint. I sold it long time ago though... sometimes (like right now) I miss it, but in all honesty I never played with it or displayed it so I hope it's new owner put it to good use. Great video!

WOW! Amazing!

i had one, loved it

You actually made Jabba my favorite character lol. As of now I only have the original Jabba and 1997 figures

Just expanding on the Jabba throne a little bit, I'm proud to say I have not one, but two Oola figures from the 90's. She is my favourite original SW trilogy babe. (Her and ANH Leia). (...and maybe Camie.)

I remember getting this on my birthday with I was a kid

I loved this toy as a kid. I remember one of the arms kept falling off. Living in Ireland, I had the European version.

Very entertaining video. It's amazing all the pieces you have in your collection. I have wanted some bootleg stuff like you show in the video but they are really hard to find.

Need an asmr video of swirling jabba to sleep too please

In the battle front 2 jabbas palace map they based the design of his throne on this toy, it has the grates underneath where he would sit

3:59 I don't know what figure I was expecting but it definitely wasn't The Great Goblin

I love your channel

When you said it was cherry scented, I smelled cherry really strongly. I thought I was going crazy but turned around and saw my 6 year old daughter using some hand sanitizer. HA!

Just got one!

Got it !!! From Sears catalog !!!

I recently got an original Jabba with hookah pipe for $10 in mint condition in its original bag, now I'm going to track down a salacious crumb and the playset

This was one of my favorite play sets, but I lost all the frogs and the pipe pretty early on. It was one of the last things I let go of when I was young. I wish we would have known then how important those toys were when we were younger.

There used to be a chain of surplus stores where I live called "Axe Man", which (fittingly) sold Jabba heads in the 90's.

Saw Gamleys on the price tag of you European version, made me so happy as this was my childhood toy store. There were only 3 Gamleys stores in the UK that I know of. All closed down decades ago. Sad.

ur vids are great so i subbed

nostalgia is strong with this one

A great film. Fun.

I still have this set

dude i love jabbas and his sweet huge palace

Mine got tons of play and now almost 40 years later has never lost its arms

This held up as the best 3.75" version of Jabba for 27 years, until the 2010 WalMart Jabba's Throne version was released. So many figures of the original ROTJ line held up long passed the POTF2 and POTJ lines, including the original Max Rebo Band, which I feel still hasn't been surpassed in quality by Hasbro to this day.

Forever and ever

I love your video

9:18 "... You sound like my wife." (LOL!:)

How hard to make the frog chamber bubble and the pipe bubble and have vapor come out

Something that I just noticed, in the TV commercial and the photograph on the box, the Jabba figure is painted like the ROTJ figure while the actual toy is just one color. Interesting

The June Taylor Jabba Dancers!

"his belly movments are almost..hypnotic" "yes........it's like a lavalamp o.o"

I could have sworn that Jabba's eyes had the illusion of following you if you moved the head from side to side.

I have that play set but i am missing the hooka stand

One thing you can make to fix a broken arm peg is to pierce the peg/whole arm with red-hot needle/nail.

Simplemente hermoso

owned it as a kid this is one of the few sw playsets i dont own today ..

Actually got a little hypnotized there

how u get the jabba I love jabba

man, i acually really want this. my frind has just the jabba but thats it.

Hmm, I'm curious on the line drawing box. I think i got it when I was a kid. Don’t remember the box but my Jabba didn't have a hookah nor the manacle though everything else. I am told it was purchased at Service Merchandise.

I also love the vintage Jabba playset - Kenner at its best. I was hoping Hasbro might produce some Jabba figures based on the concept art and molds created for ROTJ, like the Fu Manchu version with four arms and the snail version with many, many arms. But this seems very unlikely at this point.

Toy Polloi has a video showing how to attach broken Jabba arms without gluing them in place.

Salious Crumb was the best addition.

Gym teacher: no excuses class, you are doing pushups today, no making the "I have no arm" excuse. Me: 6:00 Gym teacher: fair enough

best eyes on a jabba fig imo.

Does anyone know where to find this for fairly cheap