Wired Magazine’s Sail Barge Recap Contains Interesting Tidbit

Yesterday, Wired magazine posted a great recap of the Sail Barge campaign. It's a fun read. But the last paragraph contains an amazing piece of information.



I've often heard mention of this over the years. But it's always been grapevined from third party sources. You know how that goes. What starts as "Vermin is going to kill Johnny's brother at the Savoy theater tomorrow night" suddenly becomes "Johnny and the Mothers are playing 'Stompin' at the Savoy' in Vermont tonight". Alas we have a direct quote from Steve Sansweet himself about the oft rumored Death Star playset prototype:

"Hasbro asked me to bring a bunch of fellow collectors to chat about the future of Star Wars and how to move forward," he says. "This was 1995 or so. They had this modular Death Star. And of course, [when I picture it] in my mind's eye it was just an incredible piece. I can't even give you the diameter—maybe three or four feet in radius. It had different levels, and each level had scenes from a movie ... we were all going, 'Oh my God! That's amazing! When are you gonna make that!?' Those of us who were there talked about that for years afterwards. If they can do the sail barge, they can do something like that too."

What's interesting is that the prototype was modular. If you recall when we first spit-balled a HasLab Death Star, the #1 requested feature was modularity. Seems like Hasbro has a winner somewhere in their archives.

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