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- In 1980, Meco produced a similarly-themed Christmas album entitled Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album. This was Jon Bon Jovi's first record appearance.
- In 1979, one year after the special's broadcast, Lucasfilm published Star Wars: The Wookiee Storybook, a children's storybook which reunited characters from the special.
- Prior to the special's airing, the Kenner toy company considered creating a toy line based on the special. While the project was cancelled due to the unpopularity of the special, several prototype versions of the figures are known to have been created. Those depict the Chewbacca family and seem to be simply modifications of Kenner's officially released Chewbacca figure.
- A press kit was released prior to the special to promote its airing.
- Jefferson Starship proclaimed on their single "Light the Sky On Fire" (included as a separate disc with the album Jefferson Starship Gold) that it was "as seen and heard on the CBS Star Wars Holiday Special." It was released before the show aired.
- The Star Wars based MMORPG, Star Wars Galaxies, had several items and in-game storylines relating loosely to Wookiee Life Day.
- The tracks "Bloodstain" and "Unreal" from UNKLE's album Psyence Fiction sample a few of Boba Fett's lines from the animated segment.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic is shown making a shady deal with a thug in a back alley to acquire a bootleg VHS copy of The Star Wars Holiday Special in his video White and Nerdy
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