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Nute Gunray Figure (The Phantom Menace) - Episode 1 Collection, 1999 Action Figure Star Wars...

Nute Gunray Figure The Phantom Menace Episode 1 Collection

Nute Gunray (The Phantom Menace) Action Figure: Overview

Nute Gunray Figure Episode One Collection

This Episode One Collection action figure is a great likeness of Nute Gunray and has really nice detailing. The detail on Gunray's robe from the rear is particularly impressive, and the folds, creases and flow of it are visually compelling.

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It could be my imagination, but I suspect that when this character's name was created someone set out with 'nuke ray gun' and started moving letters about. Someone may have even had in mind President Reagan ('Ray Gun') and his Star Wars project, if that's not an imaginative stretch too far. If by any chance this is the case then he has a great name as a character appearing right at the start of the sequence of Star Wars trilogies. It probably wouldn't be the first time that Star Wars naming conventions seem to make a subtle nod towards the name of a controversial world leader who was big in the 1970s and 1980s (see for instance my article on Lucas's sources for Tatooine in A New Hope.

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All Star Wars action figures, vehicles, collectibles and Star Wars toys shown on this website are the 3.75 inch scale and from my own private Star Wars collection unless otherwise stated. Where possible original vintage accessories have been used but in some instances I have placed Kenner Star Wars figures with either reproduction weapons and accessories or for Hasbro figures close approximations have been used. This is mostly the case for modern Star Wars lightsabers where the correct item can be very difficult to identify on some ocassions. Vintage Star Wars action figures are shown with their original weapon or accessory when I have them. When a vintage Kenner action figure is shown with an accessory which is not original I have tried to point this out where possible.

All of the Star Wars action figures shown were purchased second hand, usually incomplete, and in bulk. They have been reunited with their original weapons and accessories where we could get hold of them.

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