Vintage 1980's Death Squad Commander Star Wars LFL Yupi Premium Figure 1.75" Blue - Colombia - Rare. Fast shipping. It looks good. Your order will be sent with signature required for confirmation of delivery.
Here is some background information that I found online regarding these figures
Yupis!
Productos Yupi, a snack food company based out of Colombia has been a
major distributor of snack foods produced for children for many decades.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the company marketed their products by
including a small colorful plastic toy figure premium with their snack
products.
The Yupi corporation cycled through many popular genres of children's
entertainment, creating short lived lines of individually and uniquely
sculpted figures in different colored PVC plastic.
The figures were licensed products and included lines of figures from
multiple licensees including Hanna-Barbera, Marvel, DC, Lucasfilm,
Disney, Warner Brothers and many others.
The lines included sets of figures from the Flinstones, the Thundercats,
Masters of the Universe, Woody Woodpecker, the Adventures of Tintin,
and many superheroes and villain sets including figures like Wolverine,
Spider-Man, Batman and Superman. There was even a set produced for the
A-team!
Of particular interest to collectors is the short lived line of figures
made by Productos Yupi for Star Wars in the late 1980s
This extraordinary line of figures are amongst, if not *the*, rarest
production line of vintage Star Wars figures ever produced.
However the intrigue of the Star Wars Yupi figure line is far more
interesting then its obscurity.
When the Yupi sculptors went about planning and choosing the characters
that would be used in the Star Wars line, it was at a point when the
entire vintage run had already been produced and released. Instead of
sculpting the characters from scratch , they chose to sculpt their line
of figures copying the Kenner sculpts in mini proportion to the vintage
Kenner line. This included the Kenner choices of figure weapons, often
comically oversized! (This holds true for the majority of the figures
with a few exceptions including Kenner figures that had soft good
coverings and were produced with unique sculpts by the Yupi Corporation.
)
The end result were a set of licensed mini vintage Star Wars figures
that spans the entire saga and were based on the Kenner action figures
beginning with the Star Wars line from 1977 and ending with the droids
line from 1985.
The figures are unarticulated and come in a variety of colors for each
figure produced.
As far as copyright information, on the reverse of each figure the
letters LFL are prominently stamped. Also of peculiar note, the bottom
of each figure has tiny foot holes reminiscent of the peg holes on the
bottom of the Kenner figures as if Yupi was planning a playset or stand.
As far as rarity is concerned, at present most figures are only known
currently to exist in the low single digits in all colors combined. In
addition, no advertising or discarded packaging has been found to date.