Russian AT-AT Drivers (Comparison Photo): Oddly enough, to my knowledge, only one unlicensed figure of Russian origins has surfaced, an all-silver version of the AT-AT driver. While the figure is fairly bland, the two different cards it has been found on are both, in their own ways, quite interesting. First, at the left of this photo, is a version packaged on a card with rather attractive Star Wars graphics, which, interestingly enough, mimic the look of a particular Russian book closely. The piece on the right, however, although the figure is identical, is affixed to a very generic, albeit very colorful, card reading simply "plastic toys." Both of these figures are downright rare, and are real prizes to anyone interested in bootleg items.

Description: Ron Salvatore
Photo: Nick Stathis
From the collection of Joseph Yglesias