Original Artwork for Unused Kenner Paint Set Images: What you see here are original pieces of Kenner artwork. That much is clear. Their exact function, however, is a little more mysterious. This is due to the fact that they don't match up exactly with any product known to have been released by Kenner.

Nevertheless, we can make some guesses as to their purpose based on their appearance. For one thing, the black-and-white, linear quality of the images suggests that the consumer was intended to color them in some fashion. And Kenner did release two coloring sets with their first wave of Star Wars product: one, entitled Playnts, was a large poster-size kit with containers of standard paint; the other, called Dip Dots, was more of a water color affair.

Of these two, the images you see here most resemble those of the Playnts set: they are a little more sophisticated than the Dip Dots images, particularly in the tight, wavy linear details meant to indicate shading and highlights. Also, although none of these images matches a Playnts sheet exactly, the first one seen on this page, depicting the Millennium Falcon and its interior, is nearly identical in parts to one Playnts image in particular (namely the sections including Luke and Ben Kenobi and the chess table).

Whatever these are, the fact that they seem to have never been produced doesn't diminish their attractiveness. Hand-rendered product art like this is always nice to encounter.