{"id":4132,"date":"2026-02-27T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/star-wars-figure-packaging-to-sell-for-15k\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:19:56","slug":"star-wars-figure-packaging-to-sell-for-15k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/star-wars-figure-packaging-to-sell-for-15k\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars figure packaging to sell for \u00a315k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-02-27 14:19:52<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Cardboard packaging for a Princess Leia figure from Star Wars may sell for a whopping \u00a315,000 at auction.<BR><br \/>\nThe 1978 pre-production proof card was used by Kenner to check quality control on its toy line, meaning it has no blister bubble and no actual figure of the late Carrie Fisher\u2019s iconic character attached.<BR><br \/>\nIt will go under the hammer in Louisiana on March 8.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to The Sun, Mark Montero, founder of LCG Auctions, said the rare find is \u201can exceedingly rare Leia pre-production proof card\u201d from the original run.<BR><br \/>\nHe explained the lot comes from a long-time collector\u2019s estate and described it as \u201ca stunner\u201d with vivid colours front and back, &#8220;virtually free of imperfections&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe card is &#8220;perfectly flat and unpunched&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nMark added that proof cards have \u201creally caught fire\u201d in the past couple of years, largely thanks to their scarcity. <BR><br \/>\nMost have populations under 30, compared to 500 to 1,000 standard figures.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-02-27 14:19:52 Cardboard packaging for a Princess Leia figure from Star Wars may sell for a whopping \u00a315,000 at auction. The 1978 pre-production proof card was used by Kenner to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}