This landspeeder is a Kenner toy concept from the early years that never saw its way to market. In many ways it is clearly different from the landspeeder action figure toy that was released by Kenner in 1978.
First, the colors are an extremely close match to the on-screen landspeeder with extra details such as the red stripe down the middle and in front of the windshield, and the knob on the trunk. The base coloring of this prototype is a more accurate representation than the final toy. The foot pegs indicate it was designed for the action figures, although without seat backs as in the production toy, the droids would have been standing up for a ride.
The most noticeable feature that sets this toy apart is the radio remote control. Kenner never produced a radio-control version of the landspeeder although they did make the radio-controlled sandcrawler and R2-D2. Kenner did produce a sonic-controlled landspeeder that was released as a JC Penney exclusive, although that toy had a simpler design with a thicker version of the regular action figure vehicle, and the R2-D2 sonic clicker caused a wheel under the vehicle to change direction. This radio-controlled landspeeder would likely have had the same forward, backward, and stop agility as the other radio-controlled toys, noticeably lacking from the sonic version.
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