Inventor: Joseph E. Johnston
Assignees: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Patent number: D277214 / D277215
Filing date: Sep 30, 1982
Issue date: Jan 15, 1985
Back in the day there used to be two types of kids; those who played with their Star Wars figures and those who blew them up! The Kenner toy company produced and sold over 300 million Star Wars action figures between 1977 and 1984, most of which have long since been blown up or chewed to bits by the dog…
Ewoks are everybody’s favorite fictional species of space-teddy-bear-like-hunter-gatherers that inhabit the forest moon of Endor, a tribe of primitive creatures that bring down the technological Empire. The Ewok are named after the Miwok, a Native American tribe indigenous to the Redwood forest in which the Endor scenes were filmed for Return of the Jedi… …and they love to drink and moonwalk!
