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Auction History Result 8f858 STAR WARS birthday style 1sh 1978 Kenner toy figurines by cake, machine-folded, rare! Date Sold 8/13/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Star Wars (now known as "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope"), the classic 1977 George Lucas (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) outer space fantasy action adventure science fiction (sci-fi) epic ("A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."; "George Lucas, the man who brought you American Graffiti now brings you an adventure as big as the cosmos itself: Star Wars, the story of a boy, a girl, and a universe. It's a spectacle light years ahead of its time from 20th Century Fox."; "Written and Directed by George Lucas"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Mark Hamill (as Luke Skywalker), Harrison Ford (as Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (as Princess Leia), Peter Cushing (as Grand Moff Tarkin), Alec Guinness (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Obi-Wan Kenobi), Anthony Daniels (as C-3PO), James Earl Jones (as the voice of Darth Vader), David Prowse (billed as "Dave Prowse"; as the man inside the Darth Vader suit!), Peter Mayhew (as Chewbacca), Kenny Baker (as R2-D2), and Phil Brown (as Uncle Owen) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that there is something very unusual about this poster! It has been machine-folded, and all but three of the previous examples of this poster we have auctioned have been unfolded. We would say there is virtually zero chance that it was folded by hand, so how to explain that it was machine-folded? The answer would seen to surely be that some of these posters were sent to theaters, and obviously some of those were machine-folded. We know that all true Star Wars fans know this, but this poster (known in the hobby as the "birthday" poster) was only issued to theaters that showed Star Wars for 365 days straight through, which makes this an exceedingly desirable poster (and far more rare than almost all other Star Wars posters)! George Lucas had to get permission to use the action figures on the poster from Kenner, and it reads "'STAR WARS' ACTION FIGURES COURTESY OF KENNER PRODUCTS". It is considered to be far more rare than all of the theatrical posters from the 1977 release! Also note that there are reproductions of this poster. The reproductions measure 39 1/2" tall and originals measure 41" tall. We have carefully measured the poster we are offering here and it measures 41" tall and the printing is sharp. Please bid knowing that this is 100% the original "birthday style" one-sheet! Condition: good to very good. The poster was machine-folded (see above). It has some fine surface paper loss along portions of some foldlines (typical of high-gloss posters of this time period). It also was folded in half an extra time, and there are extra creases along those two extra vertical folds (see our super-sized image to get a good sense of exactly how this poster appears.) Learn More about condition grades 
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