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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!



Discussion Thread: 90 comments

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Chestnuts roasted by melonian @ 02/20/2005 7:55 PM

Crescent fresh matt, another premo article. Dang, those erasers and combs are awesome!! Matt, I would totally sell enough organs, and excess toes to be in your will for all the goodies you have in your apartment, especially the Coach Potatoe. An what the hell George Lucas, you numb nut! From the first Star Wars toys to the most recent, the posability is not that far off from the erasers, when are you going to get it straight!! I always wind up using the stiff ass Star Wars toys as hostages for Cobra Commander when I play GI JOE. Crescent Fresh :]

Chestnuts roasted by Skynet1984 @ 02/20/2005 9:06 PM

Trajeal,
I don’t know what to say. That is very sweet of you. I guess the big question is, how would we go about something like this? Not to sound like a wet blanket (pun intended, unintended, whatever) but unlike Skynet1984, I am not too comfortable posting the old email up for everyone to see. Hmmm, ehhhh, *grasping at straws as to what to say*. MAniMaL noT goOD wITh wOrdS soMetimE. (Sorry for the ineloquence of this post. It was not as witty laden as my earlier post attempted to be.)

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 02/20/2005 10:36 PM

Matt, did you happen to, by any chance, see "Robot Chicken" that was just on Adult Swim? omg, I totally thought of you when it came on. :D Lots of animation involving figurines, such as Transformers. :) Good stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 02/20/2005 11:49 PM

Very good article, Matt. It really got me in the spirit for Episode III. Let’s see if Lucas can redeem himself with this last one…

Chestnuts roasted by Dean @ 02/20/2005 11:51 PM

I think it was somebody here in the blog who correctly predicted the person coming out of the closet on the Simpsons? I can’t find it, but good call, whoever you were.
(Well, Traj, since you brought it up of course I was excited (though I was a little sad to see my best conspiracy theories go out the window with this week’s ep). I’m actually working on putting together a weekly fic challenge over in my http://www.livejournal.com/community/carnivale_fic/">LJ community, I just dunno if there’s going to be enough interest.)

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/21/2005 12:38 PM

Holy crap I want Batman!
Love Star Wars. Of course talking about the original trilogy. I’d like to find this stuff somewhere. Go to thrift stores around where I live all the time, no Star Wars stuff. Some cool things, but no SW. Oh well.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 02/21/2005 1:07 AM

It was probably me, but I’d already heard it was Patty and there was Futurama-style evidence-dropping in past episodes. You can see her running from Le Mason Derierre in that one episode. Yes, that early an episode…

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 02/21/2005 2:08 AM

Quick rundown off the top of my head of episodes that foreshadowed Patty’s gaiety:
1. Marge offers the twins ballet tickets, Patty(?) snorts, "That’s girl’s stuff."
2. The aforementioned exit from Maison Derriere
3. The gay pride parade, the "still in the closet float" we hee one of the twins’ voice saying, "but don’t tell Mom and Dad" (that we are gay)
4. The coup de grace (?), her declination of Principal Skinner’s marriage proposal.
That last one was a missed opportunity last night. Skinner was at the wedding; seems logical that he would have SOME comment on the situation.
I’m sure that there are more, I just can’t think of any.
P.S. I am as surprised as anyone that I am on X-E at 7:30 AM on El Presidente Day. I should be out putting gifts under the Lincoln Memorial…

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 02/21/2005 7:58 AM

Manimal, you can email me your address (just click my name), unless you don’t want it floating around on the ‘net.

squee, I thought Ben was such a wussbag in this ep. "My laws, whassa man to do-a?" I think his deciding to side w/ Scudder is going to screw him in the long run, though. Although, now he can come into his full power, and Justin still needs to kill Scudder to come into his. Hmmm…

I’m off to sacrifice some history books to the Gods of President’s Past.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 02/21/2005 9:55 AM

Okay, WAYYYY off the subject here, but is anyone else still holding out some small bit of hope that we will EVER see what happened to Storm Shadow and Frack, Tunnel Rat and the Turtles, and Cobra’s Chia-Now-Rock Tumbler Plot???

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 02/21/2005 10:02 AM

Trajeal, you are the greatest. EMajorwitz79@aol.com is my email and I’ll correspond to you about it.

Hey everybody, I don’t care, as long as you aren’t spamming me, you can email me.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 02/21/2005 1:39 PM

ROBOT CHICKEN RULEZ! Where else will you see Kirk’s junk smashed in the auto doors? Thank you Seth Green, thank you so much.

Chestnuts roasted by PRIMUSBOY @ 02/21/2005 2:05 PM

I’ve gotta say Matt, this was one of your better recent articles. The smell of the erasers, the crappy vinyl wallets/billfolds, stoned Ewoks, so many memories. Awesome stuff. I to am surprised by the large number of combs. That was unexpected. I want one of those Darth-Vader-in-the-buffalo-stance wallets.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 02/21/2005 3:04 PM

And I also have to say, no, I doubt we will ever have an ending to the infamous Chia Plot. Perhaps it’s just as well. Maybe it’s like no knowing what was in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. It’s whatever you want it to be. Or, maybe Matt will finish the story in 20 years, much like, well, Star Wars.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 02/21/2005 3:21 PM

I long for M80s.

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 02/21/2005 4:39 PM

Ah, the days before spirits were crushed with the hideous Episodes I and II.

Does anyone know where I can get that Yoda billfold, I must have it, its the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, ever.

Chestnuts roasted by -=--=- @ 02/21/2005 5:22 PM

I’m pretty sure that what Leia gave Wicket was delicious Monterey Jack cheese. At least, that’s what I always thought it was when I was a wee lad.

Every time I see that scene I want cheese.

Now you know.

Chestnuts roasted by blizack @ 02/21/2005 6:36 PM

Robot Chicken OWNS!!!!!!! It was everything I expected it to be. I was very very impressed. Matt you should become a writer for them because it is totally your schtick. Perhaps we could see an animated Chia Plot??? Or maybe those ghosts you were posting during halloween.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 02/21/2005 7:57 PM

That ruled! AND it took up the 20 minutes necessary to get me from having nothing to watch to a new episode of 24.

God bless you, Matt, and Star Wars.

Heh…the book I’m reading right now is a relic from 1980: A journal of the making of Empire Strikes Back. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 02/21/2005 9:16 PM

I had the Royal Guard and Darth Vader erasers. I feel bad for kid who got the Bib Fortuna eraser. Why make anything else for that guy?

Chestnuts roasted by dfdfg @ 02/22/2005 5:16 AM

It was a RICE CAKE!

Chestnuts roasted by dfdfg @ 02/22/2005 5:31 AM

jhnnywalkr, Marsellus Wallace’s soul was in that briefcase on Pulp Fiction. So that’s at least ONE mystery solved!

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 02/22/2005 8:02 AM

God, those erasers were awsome, especially Jabba Du Hutt! Damn the people that actually used those erasers. Damn them all to HELL…

Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 02/22/2005 1:27 PM

Actually bad karma, I heard several theories on what was in the briefcase, but that one is my favorite. Some choices on Snopes are the diamonds from Reservior Dogs, the Oscar Tarantino wanted to win, a human ear, a human head, and a few others including an homage to an old movie where a briefcase contained a nuclear bomb. I’ve heard Tarantino in interviews say it’s what you think it is. He left it ambiguos on purpose, or so he claims.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 02/22/2005 3:13 PM

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