{"id":3676,"date":"2014-07-01T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2014-12-13T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T19:19:21","slug":"walgreens-exclusive-prototype-boba-fett-black-series-officially-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/collectibles\/walgreens-exclusive-prototype-boba-fett-black-series-officially-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens Exclusive \"Prototype\" Boba Fett Black Series Officially Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/multimedia\/galleries\/displayimage.php?pid=2789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/boba-fett-prototype-black-series-tn.jpg\" alt=\"boba-fett-prototype-black-series-tn\" width=\"340\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Official Star Wars website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/prototype-boba-fett-black-series-figure-exclusive-reveal\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> today that the rumored Walgreens exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/bounty\/toys\/black-series\/black-series-prototype-boba-fett\/\">&#8220;Prototype&#8221; Black Series Boba Fett<\/a> is indeed coming this Fall 2014. The figure will also be a pre-order at this year&#8217;s San Diego Comic Con.<\/p>\n<p>As some of our Facebook followers pointed out, this is a re-paint only and not a true sculpt of the &#8220;prototype&#8221; armor photographed in June 1978, prior to Boba Fett&#8217;s role in 1980&#8217;s The Empire Strikes Back.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, starwars.com had this to include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Boba Fett&#8217;s iconic Mandalorian armor has become one of the most famous designs in all of Star Wars, it started out with a very different color scheme. In early concept art by Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston, seen in the gallery below, the bounty hunter was depicted wearing sleek, all-white armor. On June 28, 1978, Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt and The Empire Strikes Back assistant film editor Duwayne Dunham debuted the costume with a test <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-yF5HFFcv8E\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>, detailing its weaponry and functionality; the colors would later be developed to what has become Fett&#8217;s definitive look, but it all began with this early version.<\/p>\n<p>Hasbro&#8217;s figure is a tribute to this important piece of Star Wars history and design &#8212; look for it exclusively at Walgreens this fall, with pre-orders opening at San Diego Comic-Con later this month!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Official Star Wars website confirmed today that the rumored Walgreens exclusive &#8220;Prototype&#8221; Black Series Boba Fett is indeed coming...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectibles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}