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Sometime in the 80s, this Boba Fett cel replica was produced
and sold through a magazine ad. Whether or not this was a licensed
seri-cel or an unlicensed fan-produced item is unknown at this
point. The cel is smaller but very similar to the later Lucasfilm-produced
ones (see below) and was matted the same way. But the image appears
to have been redrawn, silkscreened onto the cel sheet, and then
overlaid on a white background. The art is also flipped left to
right so that the image is backwards from the original cartoon.
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In 1996, many years after the Holiday Special had been mostly
forgotten, Lucasfilm offered limited edition (5000 copies each)
15" x 17" seri-cels of 2 scenes from the Nelvana-produced
Holiday Special cartoon. Basically these were hand-silkscreened
reproductions of orginal animation cels from the cartoon, double-matted
and sealed in protective plastic. The seri-cel showing the stormtroopers
on the gunship was basically the same as the original scene, but
the Boba Fett seri-cel had an entirely different background showing
dark clouds. The original background for this cel had a cityscape
and a wall behind Fett, where he and Chewbacca were keeping out
of sight of the troops.