Product placement: Kea and Threepio hide behind the One-Man Sand Skimmer vehicle from Kenner's Power of the Force line outside the speeder shop. The Fromm Gang uses two Side Gunner vehicles from the Droids toy line. Sise Fromm uses an Imperial shuttle (released late in Kenner's Power of the Force line). During the evacuation of the Fromm base, an A-Wing (aka R-22 Spearhead starfighter) can be spotted.
Action figures of Thall Joben, Jord Dusat, Kea Moll, Tig Fromm and Sise Fromm (without his hover chair) were released in the Star Wars Droids toy line in 1985. The line naturally also included C-3PO and R2-D2, albeit repaints of the figures previously released in Kenner's Star Wars line. A figure of Vlix was planned for the second series, but was released in Brazil by Glasslite in 1988, making it the rarest vintage Star Wars action figure to be produced.
This story takes place on the planets Annoo and Ingo.
In 1987, an adaptation of this story featured stills from the cartoon was published by Dragon Picture Books in the UK.
Images based on stills from this installment appear in "The Droid Colouring Book of the Future", published by Dragon Picture Books in the UK in 1987.