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30 Pieces of Star Wars Junk!

Here's a big one, full of junk. It's a smorgasbord of Star Wars crap, ranging from figural erasers to wallets, night lights to keychains and watches to more watches, all from the early `80s and all opened from their packages specifically for this article, and thus, C10 minty fresh. Thirty different items are featured, and at least five or six of the reviews are worth reading. Seeeee you later.

Posted by Matt on 02/18/2005. E-mail me!

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Watch the movie again, he pays a guy with gold foil wrapped money, the gold glow we see from out of the briefcase and why the two crazy kids were so eager to take it.

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 02/22/2005 4:10 PM

That Tarantino. Always making us think. Like in From Dusk Till Dawn, where I swear that halfway through writing the script he said to himself, "Self, wouldn’t it be cool if there were vampires, for no apparent reason, even though I haven’t even hinted about it for the past sixty pages?" But hey, anyone who likes The 5.6.7.8′s enough to put them in a movie is a) unbalanced and b) totally awesome.

*cough* Anyway, onto the article…Matt, you’ve done it again. You are just the cutest little ball of nostalgia, ever. The Princess Leia smiley face things at the end of each blurb totally did it for me. I don’t know why I found this article so cute, but it was cheek-pinchingly so.

I love how subject matters like these take your tone back to your childhood, in turn taking us all back with you. It brings out the child in you and that brings out the child in the rest of us. So with deepest gratitude from someone who couldn’t care less if Star Wars never existed but could still deeply appreciate this article, thank you.

Chestnuts roasted by Nikkii @ 02/22/2005 4:11 PM

hmm.. my post doesnt seem to have posted.. but anyways.. I always thought Leia was giving him a small brick of cheese. I mean, it looks kind of like cheese and there were no crunching noises. Also for some reason that scene always makes me want to eat cheese.

Chestnuts roasted by Toxicity- @ 02/23/2005 3:29 AM

Hey wouldn’t it be great if the guy who was inside the Akbar suit read this article and then mentioned it on his website?

Ahhh maybe not.

Chestnuts roasted by Sweetie @ 02/23/2005 4:15 PM

Just noticed that CLip Along reused the plastic packaging for their vader crayon sharpener and their Ewok plastic magnifying glass. Took me a couple seconds to figure out why the ewok needed an empty point in the packaging. Raise a glass to Penny-pinching!

Chestnuts roasted by TAK @ 02/23/2005 6:01 PM

You mean those things cost 99 cents at the time? Eesh, my dad was at a store in Wal-Mart and saw this bin full of godawful movie discs that were on sale for eighty cents each!

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 02/24/2005 12:14 PM

We sell those for eighty eight cents at my (Canadian) Wal-Mart. I saw one I thought might be good for Matt because it had Mario Van Peebles. I dont know who he is or anything but Matt seemed to rave about him in a (I think it was) Jaws article?

Chestnuts roasted by Toxicity- @ 02/24/2005 12:24 PM

Damnit. After reading the article, I went and dug up the Gamorrean Guard and Max Rebo figural erasers that I got for fitty cents at a flea market, and took a whiff. Lucky the plastic bubble had helluva detiorated, otherwise I would’ve had to open the erasers to smell them. Aaand you’re right, they smell good.

The smell reminds me of something from my childhood, but I can’t put my finger on it. It’s not the erasers, I never had any of them as a kid (I was born in 1985). It’s driving me mad. I’m sniffing the erasers like every two minutes. There’s a childhood memory somewhere there, and I aims to find it.

Chestnuts roasted by Daniel @ 02/24/2005 4:13 AM

I actually own the R2-D2 toybox that you have a picture of there in the article. Found it at a yardsale.. it even has wheels so it rolls around!

Chestnuts roasted by hugsnstuff @ 03/03/2005 7:16 PM

Longtime reader, infrequent poster. Saaaaaay, did I miss last year’s Cobra Chia Pet Part IV, or did it not come out? I’d love to see the end – the toy comics hooked me on X-E a few years back and it’s what keeps me coming back for more!

Thanks,
Nate

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/04/2005 7:01 PM

hello matt and everyone involved with this site!
i appologize in advance for posting this here and not emailing you directly, but maybe other people feel the same as myself….i am a long time surfer, as well as a big fan/unofficial advertiser (amongst friends) of you’re site.
although, as of late ive been slacking ALOT and havent visited in quite some time.
now, i understand that this site needs money to stay up, and with all its success you needed more expensive means to keep it going. not to mention i love the new changes you’ve made with the look of the site; these changes are a direct result of you’re advertising profits im sure. but is it entirely necessary to have all these pop-ups that nearly flood my stupid computer?
im mostly referring to the ‘lord of the rings’ ad. i couldnt find the close button, i assume there is one but arg! egad! i couldnt find it! is it hidden to force us to watch the whole thing? it is only 10-15 seconds but all the same, i wish i had the option to close it out immediately if i so wish.
i dont mean for you to percieve this comment as discourteous, im just sharing my personal opinion on the subject…. and again i appolgize if i offended anyone…. i mean well
this turned out much longer than anticipated and i appologize for that as well ;oP
haltyne from miami beach

Chestnuts roasted by Haltyne @ 03/04/2005 11:56 PM

Get pop-up software whiner!

Chestnuts roasted by sixpointsix @ 03/08/2005 2:12 PM

I remember when I was a kid and collected/played with the Jedi figures…we couldnt find Vader ANYWHERE. Not Toys R Us, not Kay Bee, not fricking anywhere.

I used that Vader eraser as my Vader figure for like a year.

Chestnuts roasted by Big J @ 03/16/2005 6:31 PM

I still OWN the R2D2 toybox. It’s beat to hell, but survives to this day. Maybe someday I’ll restore it and give it to my kids to use (when I have kids).

Chestnuts roasted by t3knomanser @ 04/17/2007 11:52 AM

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