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Post by The Movie Mark on May 17, 2005 9:55:41 GMT -5
OK, my Star Wars Fact of the Day (Tuesday) is in regard to the issue of action figures. Anybody have their own cool stories? Any favorite less-known action figures? Any cool battle scenes you created? What pieces of furniture did you usually use?
I once tried to use our cat as a creature that Luke Skywalker would ride, but ol' J.R. wasn't too cooperative. He just took off running, throwing my Luke action figure to the ground in a less-than-heroic fashion. The cat was immediately deemed an enemy of the Republic and hunted down by the X-Wing Fighter.
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Post by Laslo Hollyfeld on May 17, 2005 13:01:01 GMT -5
My best friend when I was a kid was Russ Olsen. Russ was an only child, and his parents bought him every single Star Wars toy they could get their hands on.
I mean, he had everything and everyone and was very anal about them. He taped over the ends of his Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi action figure hands so that the plastic retractable lightsabers would never get damaged or lost.
I tried to point out that it made it difficult to have lightsaber battles without said lightsabers, but he didn't care. He would have his lightsaber battles pretending that the weapons were drawn.
In the end, his wisdom proved better than mine because all my action figures either got lost or broken over the years, and I'm assuming he's still got his, probably is some sort of trust fund for his own kids.
The most unusal thing he had (and I never saw it anywhere else) was the trash compactor set, complete with foam rubber pieces of garbage and a green plastic Dionanga to torment our heroes. This was unusual, because I had never seen anything of that trash monster except his one eyeball that pops up briefly and the tentacle that grabs Luke.
Along those lines, how exactly does a creature like that get aboard the Death Star? Are they placed there specifically by the Empire in case some good guys happen to make it on board and fall into the trash chute? Or were they originally bought as pets for the children of Imperial officers and the flushed down the Death Star toilets when they got too big and ate the cat?
See, this is what I think about.
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Post by ntm7885 on May 17, 2005 18:59:56 GMT -5
I got a bunch as a kid and still have em! I still get one ocasionally and hang itup with the others.
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Post by The Movie Mark on May 18, 2005 10:28:44 GMT -5
Along those lines, how exactly does a creature like that get aboard the Death Star? Are they placed there specifically by the Empire in case some good guys happen to make it on board and fall into the trash chute? Or were they originally bought as pets for the children of Imperial officers and the flushed down the Death Star toilets when they got too big and ate the cat? Those are actually good questions. Here's some more info on the creature: www.theforce.net/swtc/zoology/dianoga.htmlI guess the generally accepted theory is it somehow got aboard the Death Star in an egg or larvae form and then grew. I was pretty particular about my action figures as well. I was never too bad with the Star Wars figures because my friends never really messed with those. What would bother me was when Andy Walker would come over and start switching outfits on my NWA Wrestling figures. Man that drove me crazy.
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