Hasbro’s ‘Star Wars’ Tantive IV Hallway Playset 44 Years in the Making

Star Wars Tantive IV Hallway Playset

It all began in 1977 when giant starships slowly crawled across the cinema screen and a pair of frightened droids communicated in the Tantive IV’s stark white hallways. The opening scene of Star Wars: A New Hope is impossible to forget, yet has never been properly immortalized in toy form. That is, until now.

Back in the late 1970’s, Kenner prototyped a scaled-down version of the Tantive IV for its hugely popular 3-3/4″ Star Wars action figure line. For whatever reason the ship would never delight kids and adults around the world.


Sine then, hundreds of Star Wars action figures have been released by Kenner and now Hasbro, who owns the Kenner brand. It took a second return of what Hasbro refers to as the “Heritage” scale for The Vintage Collection (TVC) in order for the Tantive IV to get a proper second look.

Rather than scale down the entire ship with figures comically looking over-sized next to it as their Kenner predecessors had, the designers at Hasbro zeroed in on the infamous hallway where Stormtroopers breached the door and fought against over-matched Rebel Fleet Troopers. They replicated it in playset form, with a reversible back where Princess Leia meets R2-D2, and the ability to connect multiple playsets together to form longer hallways and T-junctions.

For $49.99, Star Wars: The Vintage Collection buyers get one hallway wall, two opening and closing doors on either end, the gray floor, and a Rebel Fleet Trooper reissued action figure with new digital face printing and card art from the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

It only took 44 years for action figure collectors to finally reenact the opening scene of A New Hope.

Now about that Star Destroyer bridge…

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