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07/26/2008: X-E’s ‘08 Summer Megaparty: Star Wars Burger King Glasses.

I was going to lie and say that today’s entry was the result of someone daring me to write about glassware, but the truth is, I was drowsily searching one of our less-consulted kitchen cabinets on the hunt for a clean coffee cup, saw these and thought, “hellllooooo content.”

Beginning in the late ’70s and ending in the early ’80s, Burger King and C-3P0 teamed up to bring us three sets of absolutely pimped out Star Wars glasses — four for each film in the original trilogy. For promotional items, the glasses were really well made, and even after over twenty years of dishwashing and general use, they still look like glasses you could drink from without thinking twice.

The sets of glasses arrived whenever one of the three original Star Wars films debuted, but I only caught the Return of the Jedi set. I never actually owned them as a child, but my old buddies across the street did. No visit to their house was complete without drinking something from a Return of the Jedi glass.

We were little kids at the time, so my friends’ mother usually had the honor of pouring our drinks. I used to drop subtle hints in an attempt to get her to let me have one of the glasses, but she never bit the line. In retrospect, I couldn’t have been more than five or six years old, so I wonder just how “subtle” I was in these attempts. My kid-version of subtlety probably amounted to something like, “GEE I REALLY WISH SOMEONE WOULD GIVE ME THIS GLASS THAT I’M DRINKING FROM RIGHT NOW.”

I think my youthful shamelessness is understandable. The glasses were really great. Many years ago, I picked up the full set of 12 (4 from each movie, in case you didn’t catch that from the first seventeen times I said it) for a bargain price off eBay. Later, I broke my favorite from the set — the ROTJ “Emperor’s Throne Room” glass, featuring shots of Palpatine making perverted faces as Luke and Vader lunged giant, light-up Fla-Vor-Ices at each other. Still, the three remaining ROTJ glasses more than adequately convey how unbelievably boss this promotion was. And I don’t use the term “boss” loosely. Or ever, really.

My favorite is the Jabba glass, not just for its thankful inclusion of the Rebo Band, but for the random shot of a Gamorrean Guard molesting Princess Leia. Interestingly, even in mid-molest, both the Gamorrean Guard and Leia pose with their best Kodak “cheese” faces.

Another glass depicts the big battle scene near the Sarlaac pit, back before Lucas’s team gave it a big stupid CG plant mouth. Hate that plant mouth. The final glass features an Ewok Village scene, which is barely worth mentioning when compared to Sarlaac pits and pigs touching Leia.

Click here to download and watch Burger King’s original Star Wars glasses commercial from the ’70s. I’d tell you to play close attention to the disco spin on the classic theme, but you’ll be too busy staring with awe at the actress playing a Burger King staffer, who is so unbelievably excited about this glassware promotion that it’s a miracle no one was hurt.

Happy SNT. Hard to believe the Summer Megaparty is almost over. Oh wait, it isn’t. I’ve sort of maybe unofficially decided to extend it into August, for a few reasons. I don’t feel terribly winded yet, and to be honest, I wanted to actually cover some summer-specific stuff. Aside from cutting a watermelon up like a pumpkin — and that’s pretty borderline — I don’t believe I’ve actually done that, yet. Only catch will be that I cannot guarantee posts for every single day in August. I’ll try to hit most of them, though. Even if it’s just with doodles of the Retarded Penguin.

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I just picked up Final Fantasy VI for Game Boy Advance for $8 bucks at Toys “Backwards R” Us. My patient waiting for the price drop paid off!

Of course, no I will have no life again and get sucked into a Final Fantasy Game…

sweet pics! I’ve actually got the R2D2/CP30 glass from the first movie. It’s still going strong, thirty years later!

I miss getting usable prizes from fast food places. The Batman Forever glasses are still in my mom’s cupboard at her house, now my 6 year old nephew likes to use them.

I remember these glasses. I was so proud to have almost a complete set till I tripped and dropped MY Luke glass shattering it completely and the paint washed off my Ewok one. I’m still not sure what happened to the Vader glass

“We can get all 4, but we’re not going to because Ronald Regan has made your Daddy unemployed. We can’t even afford to eat Burger King junk food. Yeaaaaaaah!”

Wow! My dream of having the Batman Forever glasses has now extended about dreams of having some Star Wars glasses!

I know getting the Batman glasses would probably be a breeze, but I can justify spending money on myself. Damn me for being a good mom!

I seem to remember drinking Kool-Aid from these glasses at somebody’s house back in the day. I never owned these glasses. I seem to remember about somewhere about 1985 my mom getting similar painted glasses from Pizza Hut but with Carebears on them. Lame.

These. Are. AWESOME. If I had any extra cash, I would seriously consider buying these mofos on eBay. Unfortunately we are poor as shit right now.

Those glasses are awesome. I vaguely remember those glasses I’m trying to think of what other movies were depicted on glasses like that.

Happy SNT! I had the original Darth Vader glass but the rim chipped and Dad tossed it for “safety reasons”. I piece of me died when that glass chipped. I found it on YouTube but it has a creepy sound effect when they show it. Doesn’t soound like Vader at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zj2oejvgdk

I only had the Jabba glass. But I did have the entire BK DC Superheroes ones. The figures held the cups. I remember Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and Darkseid. Those cups rocked.

I feel kinda awkward looking in your cupboards, and wishing you would show me that Ronald Mc Donald glass.

*falls dead from tiredness* I had school this morning 8 to 3:30. We had The Muppet Movie and Great Muppet Caper glasses at my house when I was little. They broke though. I still have some disney ones from 96 and couple garfield ones too.

OMG!!!! I totally have some outrageous story to tell! My medical coding teacher…she was telling us about a guy she had as a patient with a gerbil in his ass! it was in a plastic baggie and got halfway out and his claws were stuck on the guys intestines! WOW……and this one student who worked at a gyno office was talking about this lady who had a broke off hot dog in her va jay jay

Ordered that new Gotham City Pizza with the shiny black box from Dominos. Had to get it because I’m watching The Dark Knight for the first time tonight. Pretty good saturday so far.

A few years ago my family (and basically all of America seemed to be, as there were a ton of antique shows on tv at the time) was into antiquing/collectibles. Since I’m a huge superhero guy, we would frequently get glasses Pepsi did in the 70s that featured seemingly every character DC had at the time.

Strange that I come here and see this as the new MegaParty entry, because my uncle came by to pick up my little cousin who I was babysitting. He brought a couple of his old glasses he’d found, knowing that I was a collector. I now have at least two of each of the four original glasses, and three C3POs.

These are really well-made. I actually don’t think I’ve EVER seen the ESB glasses. My aunt had the Ewok and Palpatine glasses from ROTJ long ago.

My sister had the Throne Room glass! I say “my sister” and not “we” because that thing was hers and woe be to anybody that forgot it.
Happy SNT! How’s everybody? I’ve missed posting the last few days, Comic-Con is fun but kicking my ass.

I was gonna ask you about that squee. If your ass is going to be kick, by fun is a good way for it to occur.

i’ve got a pretty boss ‘78 Superman glass i scored recently at an antique mall.. - it’s got a few scenes from the original film, inc. Superman and Lois taking flight and of adorable little baby Kal-El in a blanket..

I was pretty bummed that BK didn’t have LOTR glasses for the second and third movies.

It’s funny how you posted about these fastfood glassware because I recently acquired some myself. I got the full sets of the ‘78 McDonalds Collectors Series, the ‘94 Flintstones set, and the ‘95 Batman Forever set off of eBay.

Jeremy: I’m not sure if BK made ESB glasses but rather re-released the original glasses from 77 or 79.

Happy SNT. It’s always a surprise when Burger King has something worth giving a damn about.

I can’t believe I’m a “Star Wars” fan and have never heard of this promotion before. I was trying to think of why, since my mom is an equally big fan and would have been all over these glasses, when I saw that they were a Burger King promo. That explains it. There was only one Burger King in the entire Cape May County area in the late 70s and early 80s, and it was on the Wildwood docks. It was really scuzzy, too. It closed around 1985 when someone reported seeing rats in the building and in the food. The building remained closed and abandoned for over a decade, until Wildwood went through it’s so-called “Doo Wop renaissance” and someone finally decided to clean up that part of town. At least as of 2005, it was a very popular jazz club.

(Cape May County did eventually get two more Burger Kings, in North Cape May and Cape May Courthouse. Mom told me last week that the one in North Cape May has since closed and is rumored to be replaced with a Taco Bell. As far as I know, the other is still around.)

I want to be a part of this SNT. I really do. But I have nothing to say about glassware. So I will open myself up to you like a book and reveal a True Confession.

Rev it’s never too late to atone for your sins, just stick with the original trilogy and skip the prequels.

Poor Rev. I’m sorry.
Make sure you start with IV and the original IV. If you see a really shitty Jabba in it than you know you have the edited version.
Don’t feel bad. I saw The Godfather for the first time last year.

I’ve got the ROTJ set, and I recently completed my collection of the “Peanuts” camping glasses that McDonald’s had back in the day. Man, I wanted those so bad back then.

Last year, McD’s had “Shrek 3″ glasses. I managed to get all of those, but its just not the same…

I havenâ€™t commented in ages, but Iâ€™ve been reading the blog pretty regularly. Matt, you said you hadnâ€™t covered much â€œsummeryâ€ stuff, but the Flavor Ice and Super Soaker posts totally count. They also really took me back to my childhood summers, and reminded me of stuff I hadnâ€™t thought about in years. Good job, and please keep it up!

I think I had the Jabbaâ€™s Palace glass when I was a kid. I donâ€™t know what happened to it, but I suspect it got given to Goodwill along with my Millennium Falcon, Slave I, and X-Wing. I thought I had gotten too old for toys. Iâ€™ve regressed, and I love toys again. I would never tell my friends in real life, but you people wonâ€™t judge me. You understand my strange desire to possess Transformers and Legos.

My budget has been blown over the last few weeks and months. I havenâ€™t played on Xbox Live in quite a while, but Iâ€™m bored, and I need to do stuff thatâ€™s already paid for. Since my current crop of Live friends are either too good at Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4 for me to keep up, Iâ€™m going to shamelessly beg this community for company. If you feel like playing Halo 3, Rock Band, Orange Box, Gears of War, GTA4, or Forza 2, send me a message on Live. My gamertag is CaptainSpaz307.

Iâ€™d join in the Wii gaming, but I donâ€™t have Smash Brothers (or any other multiplayer Wii game).

Starwenn: That Burger King you described reminds me of the one in my “second hometown” of Harahan, LA. It had been around since before I was born, and never received any cosmetic updates since the ’70s. It was finally shut down around 2001 or so, and we suspect it was for health code violations. I remember seeing someone dump a vat of grease on the floor, and the MANAGER scooped it up and poured it back in the fryer.

Bill, I checked on Ebay, and there was a set of four ESB glasses. Vader, Lando, Luke & Yoda, and the droids on Hoth. I’m not sure how we missed out on that one.

And speaking as we are of movie/fast-food tie-in drinkware, does anyone remember the plastic Batman cups from Taco Bell that were released to promote the 1989 movie? I remember trying to collect these things, and only ending up with one.

BTW. finally saw “The Dark Knight” yesterday at a matinee. It was awesome, though definitely not your parents’, or even your older brother’s, Batman. Mom saw it, too, and she called the Joker a “rotten terrorist.” I think she was expecting Cesar Romero.

Rev, if it makes you feel any better, I haven’t seen any of the Star Wars movies either. It drives my brother in law crazy. He’s part of the 501st, which is this group of Star Wars fans who dress up and to charity work. He has a couple of different costumes and has built a working replica of R2D2. I spent a year living with my sister and him and never watched the movies.

To those that haven’t seen Star Wars I feel sorry for you. You’re missing some great movie making–at least with the original triliogy. Get your hands on the original cuts (NOT the “Special Editions” and watch them. They’re worth it.

My film-centric friends think it’s a sin that I’ve seen both SW trilogies multiple times, and can quote a good deal of Episode IV, but haven’t seen “Citizen Kane,” “It Happened One Night,” or the second “Godfather” movie, among other undisputed classics.

To those who haven’t seen a single Star Wars film, at least give Episode IV a chance. It’s the only one that I feel can be watched on its own, and a VERY enjoyable and well-written film, no matter what genre you like. If you like it, give “Empire,” “Jedi,” and perhaps even the prequels a shot.

i’ve only seen one of the new ones (not sure which…the one with the yoda light saber fight scene) and i felt embarassed to be there. everyone was cheering and it just didnt mean that much to me.

Citizen Kane is a really good movie, but you have to watch it several times to appreciate it.

There was only one BK in Cape May County in the early ’80s? Isn’t Cape May kind of a big city? Maybe it couldn’t compete with all the seafood places on the Jersey Shore.

My thing with not seeing any of the Star Wars movies at this point is that I kind of like being an oddity. It wasn’t an intentional thing at first, I just never got around to seeing them. I don’t really enjoy watching movies. I don’t have the attention span. I have to be doing something else. For instance, I’m watching Dr. Horrible right now, but I’m also participating in three different message boards. It’s just isn’t worth giving up my oddity to sit through six movies.

I miss Star Wars. Currently, I do not own any of them except Jedi on VHS, and it’s the one I like the least. Gimme Empire over Jedi any day.

I’m alright with the Special Editions for the most part– the FIRST ones from 1997, anyway. After all, the SE is the reason I got into Star Wars in the first place. But the new SE is bullshit. The whole Hayden Christensen in Jedi thing really pisses me off. It’s why I haven’t bent over backwards to get my hands on the DVDs.

I haven’t seen the Star Wars movies in a long time. I should check them out again soon. I just needed time to get the stink of Episode One off of me. I didn’t watch 2 or 3. One was enough!

A few years ago when ROTS came out Target had for about ten bucks a figure/cup set that were similar in size to those BK glasses. I bought about 9 different ones and did not open them due to space issues.The day I finally opened them I was so pissed to find out the cups were plastic.I don’t know why I thought they would sell glass with childrens toys, but I guess thats what I get for thinking. Anyone remember these?

Yeah DC, I wish I’d never seen any of the new movies. When Episode I came out, I was a teenager, and I loved it to death, but have since seen the error of my ways. Unfortunately, I went to the theatre for all three of the turds, since I was holding onto the hope that they’d get better.

Anyway, wow. I didn’t think there was anyone over the age of 20 that hasn’t seen the original Star Wars trilogy.

All of the movies are right in my house, 15 feet away from me at this very moment. My husband has them.

Some people don’t want to see Star Wars, and some people don’t like any of the (orginal or prequel flavor). That’s fine. I would probably hate their favorite movies in return. I’ve heard people (admittedly they were almost all women) rave about how “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Thelma and Louise,” or “Titanic” are great movies. Frankly, I haven’t seen any of those movies. I’d rather staple my hands together than watch them.

Karen, I totally get that. I was the same way with the Sopranos but then I broke down on a Friday night and watched an episode. Then Ikicked myself for missing out on one of the greatest shows I have ever seen.
Moral of the story is, the Hoth Wampa is awesome.

Well I admit I am a poor excuse for a woman who has also never seen Fried Green Tomatoes OR Thelma and Louise. I don’t think I like their original flavor. But I cried with joy when Hannibal escaped so I guess I’m just a big sensitive girl.

Well, I guess I’m a poor excuse for a man. I haven’t ever watched Silence of the Lambs in it’s entirety, only snippets on TV. I never had any desire to see any of the sequels.

I used to go to a friend’s house where they had a glass with a picture of a town in the snow. I would use it for milk and it made the town look like it was snowed in. So fun. I always kind of coveted that glass too, but I was already in high school so I didn’t drop any hints outside of using that glass at every opportunity.

The Target sets were pretty cool and encompassed all six films from the Star Wars saga. The glasses were produced to look almost exactly like the vintage BK ones, but were plastic instead of glass. I still have a few of them unopened but wound up selling a lot of them on eBay as I had all 12 at one point in time.

As for glass sets, I still have the Batman Forever glasses and used to save a lot of the plastic cups from McDonalds for my “hope chest.” As a kid, I felt like an adult using the ginormous XL cup to drink from. To this day, I still have a bunch of the Batman Returns cups to go with the Looney Toons/NBA and Dream Team I and II cups that were out. I do miss a lot of the great old promotions where glasses could be had fairly cheap and count me among those disappointed by the fact BK didn’t do a second and third glass set for the Lord of the Rings films.

I think the only collector’s glass we ever got was one for Bugs Bunny’s 50th anniversary in 1990. It had a large centerpiece pic of Bugs of course, with line drawings of the other Looney characters running around the bottom of the glass. I would pretend I was drowning them in whatever liquid I was drinking out of it. Sadly, it shattered on the floor sometime in the mid-90s.

I actually watched “Fried Green Tomatoes” on HBO last week. Pretty good movie, actually. Titanic is alright. But I have yet to see “Thelma and Louise.”

That seems like a good topic for a survey. What movies that people/critics say you have to see, haven’t you seen yet?

I haven’t seen any of the Karate Kid movies.
Same goes for Jaws.
Haven’t seen any of the original Planet of the Apes movies, just the remake.
Never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Never seen DR. Strangelove.
Easy Rider.
Haven’t seen the original King Kong, just the two remakes.
Good Will Hunting
Gone With the Wind
Casablanca
Miracle on 34th Street
Platoon
It’s a Wonderful Life
Harvey
Frankenstein or Bride of Frankenstein
Nosferatu
Wolfman
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The original Mummy
Metropolis
Never seen a Hitchcock film outside of The Birds.
American Grafitti
Sound of Music
Never seen the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope movies
In the Heat of the Night
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Never seen the original Star Trek films

Any and all actual glass drink ware that I acquired in my earlier years were either broken or sold off by my mom in rummage sales. I do, however, still have a complete set of the 1992 US Olympic Basketball “Dream Team” cups from McDonald’s. I also, somewhere, have a cup or two from Subway back from when Terminator 2 was in theaters. The ultra-spectacularly bad-ass “Thirst Terminator” cup with half of Arnie’s head split open to show the endoskeleton beneath. God I loved that cup. Yes, I am dork.

JLAJRC: You haven’t seen JAWS? So, can you swim in a swimming pool alone at night without any fear? I’m curious why I have a hard time doing that.

I haven’t seen It’s a Wonderful Life either. Or Gone With the Wind, or Total Recall.

Bill I was the same way. I was living in MI when I saw Jaws for the first time. I didn’t care that Lake Michigan was fresh water, water = sharks to me! Same with pools!

JLAJRC, off your list, the only movies I have seen are The Sound of Music (I did the costumes for my high school’s production of it and watched the movie for ideas) and some of the original Star Trek movies. The Star Wars fanatic brother-in-law actually met my sister in a Star Trek chat room back over ten years ago. I grew up with a Trekkie; at such a young age, not watching the movies was not an option.

But oh! I almost forgot to mention! One of my cousins had a baby today! And just three days before my b’day (26th). She wasn’t the first of my cousins to have a kid, but I know her a lot better than the one who already has kids, so this seems a bit more special. Wanna raise our glasses?

I am really not a “chick flick” person, but Fried Green Tomatoes and Thelma and Louise are both great movies. They’d both be better if the lesbian subtext was a little more text and a little less sub, but still.
I can see skipping Star Wars, as misguided as I think that is. But never seeing Godfather II? That is a sacriledge.
doho, you and me both. I was actually thinking of writing an article on what it’s like being a Star Wars fan who saw the Special Editions first, but then I realized it could be boiled down to just “It’s like being a Beatles fan born after 1980, you never feel like you belong”. I also remembered I don’t write articles so much as just post about how much I love LOST.
I have been having a lot of fun, kb! So far the highlight has probably been making an ass of myself to Patton Oswalt and Brian Poeshn. Plus all the LOST stuff.

I saw the last one that had Pierce Brosnan in it. soooo awesome. There is only a few of those movies that Jlarclisted that I have not seen.

I loved Metropolis. so so so wicked awesome…especially when you have a fever and think you are hallucinating the whole thing.

HAPPY SNY YA’LL!!! =D Well , I just got back from a party at my brothers house for kids,and let me tell ya, I THANK GOD I’M HOME HOW! LOL! Man those kids really tortured me. They weren’t misbehavin or anything, they were just bein kids, and I just had to find some quiet after being there for a while. Anyway, those Star Wars glasses look AWESOME! If I had them I probably wouldn’t drink from them, just keep them for collectors purposes. Doho: I prefer the special editions too. I guess were in the minority. =)RevBIOU:Would you watch the Star Wars flicks if I asked you too? =)

JLAJRC, I haven’t seen most of those movies. Dr. Strangelove is a personal favorite though. I highly recommend it. I remember sometime in the early 2000’s I went to a video store and tried to rent it. When I asked the elderly clerk if they had it, he looked at me & my friends with disgust and told us “those hanky panky movies are in the back.” He pointed at an honest-to-god “Adults Only” room, with a cheesy curtain over the door and everything. We were in Maryland at the time, and we’re from Kansas. We’d never seen such a thing before in our Bible-belt homeland, and it cracked us all up. I think the clerk thought we were making fun of him or pulling some kind of prank. We were laughing so hard we just left the store.

My own list of unseen classics includes:
Red Dawn
The Big Lebowski (although I will occasionally remind people that “Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”)
Porky’s
Any Godfather movie
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Blade Runner
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Because you asked me to, I will watch them tomorrow A.M. My sifu will be very aroused I think, if I request this.

That is how ultra you are. You have swayed the Big Boss of This Area to watch the Forbidden Trilogy. You’re the ultraest.

While I’d agree that part of the Special Edition hate comes from people like me who just saw the originals too many damn times to accept change, a lot of the edits were soooo headscratching. A few, ranging from important to trivial, that I really didn’t like:

1) The Wilhelm scream added to Luke letting himself fall during the duel with Vader in ESB. It was supposed to be him being all heroic and not at all panicked in his decision to take an unknown and likely deadly fate over the Dark Side. Instead, he screams like a lunatic the whole way down. (In the original, there’s no scream.)

2) The whole revamped Rebo Band scene was fun, but so “off-brand.” The original had such a neat, realistically science fiction quality about it. Plus, by adding all of those alien women to the scene, it sucked that feeling of dread you felt for characters like Oola and Leia.

3) Sticking Hayden in the end of ROTJ — the Jedi spirit scene — ugh. I can’t really argue about the logic because I know there are passable arguments for it, but it just feels sooo off to me.

On the other hand, I don’t mind most of the changes as much as I used to. I think some of them just took a while to get used to. A few are really great, too. The revised celebration scene at the end of ROTJ is pretty amazing, even if we lost the awesome Ewok song that used to score it.

So Matt I admit I’m curious, did you get your McDonald land glasses from E-bay as well? I remember having these when I was really young but don’t remember what happened to them.

I don’t think so, but I can’t remember. They don’t seem like something I would’ve bought from eBay, so they were likely a yard sale score.

I’ve also never seen Big Lebowski
Cuckoo’s Nest
Never seen a Man with No Name or a Dirty Harry movie.
Jacobs Ladder
Exorcist
The Bodyguard
Taxi Driver
Never seen a John Wayne movie.
Never seen a silent movie either.
Deliverance
Smokey and the Bandit
Cannonball Run
It’s Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Cool Hand Luke
Hustler or Color of Money
Cocktail
Days of Thunder
They Live
Children of the Corn mpvies
Puppetmaster movies
House
Ghoulies

I’ve never seen any of the Harry Potter Movies. And I think I can sleep at night without having seen them.
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Dan, I don’t think your fear is irrational.

In the Special Edition 2.0 release of ESB (aka the DVD), Luke’s scream is gone again.

The one thing I never understood about Return of the Jedi is the sudden face turn for Vader. He kicks luke’s ass in Empire and has no trouble with killing him there. But all of a sudden in Jedi he gets a heart and saves Luke and kicks the Emporers ass. I was expecting a outer space version of “Dahoo Dorey (or whatever that song from Grinch is called, with maybe the Ewoks singing it ) to start playing over that scene.

Bill: I’m with you on the Harry Potter pics…never seen them, don’t care to ever see them.

Bill I had heard about people catching Bull sharks as far north as St. Louis but that’s insane! I’m staying in the pool from now on!

i just checked my top cupboard of crap i buy at goodwill. i do have one of the rotj glasses from burger king, the one with the ewoks on it. i also have a chipettes glass, but that one doesnt say where it’s from, and a camp snoopy one from mcdonalds. my dream is to find the original great muppet caper glasses from mcdonalds, but mine all broke when i was little, so i’m guessing everyone else’s have too. i haven’t checked ebay, but i prefer to think i may just stumble across them for 99 cents someday.

I am a long time lurker… I have only posted a couple of times. I just wanted to say thank you, not only for the Summer Mega-Party (which has rocked), but just for your site in general. I check it every day, and when there is a new post, it makes my day brighter. I can imagine that sometimes it is a drag, but I wanted you to know that it means a lot to fans like myself! THANKS!!

I just checked Ebay and them Muppet glasses are not THAT expensive actually! A set of 2 is going for 4 dollars and 5.95 shipping.

and there is a set of 4 with a starting price of 15 dollars, but 15 shipping too…so that might be a smidge costly. They are a bit faded though.

I just saw Cool Hand Luke for the first time not many months ago. I absolutely loved it, but then I’m a total sucker for any religious imagery/allegory. The curse of a lapsed Catholic.
Dan, it wasn’t really that bad, I hope. I had just seen Patton host the MST3K panel, and I caught them both walking and said I was a big fan of them both, which was fine. Told Patton the panel was great, that was fine also. Then I tried to say something to BP that referenced the fact that he’s…distinctive looking?…and that’s how I noticed them. But it came out more like, “Hey you, you’re a big old tall freak huh?”
God, it really was that bad now that I type it out. This is why I didn’t fight to get into the Robert Rodriguez signing, I couldn’t stand to make myself an ass in front of him too.
I didn’t bother seeing the latest Harry Potter movie. If you’re not a fan of the books, there’s no reason to watch them, since they’re a pretty poor imitation.

Okay, by the time I finished reading the comments the focus changed. But who else thought the Willow color-change cups (plastic, not glass, sadly) were cool. Val Kilmer fighting a three headed ogre-monster on your Wendy’s??? cup o’ Coke.

I can also add to my list just about ANY classic western. I can’t say I avoid the genre, but I haven’t seen “Shane,” “The Searchers,” “Once Upon a Time in the West,” etc. And my grandpa loved watching them on AMC. Weird…

And I promise, PROMISE, I will see “Godfather II” soon. I think it’s safe to say I can skip out on part III, right?

Oh damn Squee that sucks! I’m sorry! At least you got to see the panel before you insulted them!

Annette: I wouldn’t make eBay your first stop for these glasses, actually. I’ve been able to see them pretty cheap in antique stores, even thrift stores. They seem to have been fairly plentiful.

JLAJRC
The ending of Jedi didn’t surprise me one bit. In fact it has become more meaningful to me as I get older.

Here is a man that has lived a tortured life. His body is mostly machine. His hatred has consumed him.

And then he sees his son being tortured in front of him. He hears the cries of “Father please!” Despite all that he has done, his son is still asking for his help.

Anyway, as I get older and the relationship between my father and myself has changed and grown, I find the ending even more poignant…It’s a powerful message about the love between fathers and sons…

My discovery of the night has been that I can Brawl pretty well with Marth. Not Pika-level, but getting there.

I saw the new toys that were released for Clone Wars today when I was at Wal-Mart. They had a big cardboard display in the middle of the store of all the action figures, Clone Wars voice changer helmets, fucking $150 Millennium Falcon. Also saw some of the original figures loose and in baggies while I was at Zern’s…. was debating getting one but decided against it. I did get a cool silver bell though that I’m totally using for crazy pagan-ness. And of course as soon as I turn my back for a second to look at a gemstone stand I turn around to hear, “Hey I bought new nunchucks!!” Lol, can’t let him out of my sight for a second.

Cameron: I understand the message of it, but I still feel it came from left field. Here is a man who had no problem possibly killing his son himself in Empire. However, all of a sudden he develops love for his son and saves him? It’s sweet and poingnant, but there should’ve been more.

Here’s more films I haven’t seen:
Patton
Carrie
Re-Animator
Phantasm(s)
Hellraiser
Gandhi
Lawrence of Arabia
Ten Commandments
Passion of the Christ
I’ve only seen bits and pieces of the first three Indiana Jones films.
Legend
Dark Crystal
Tron
Clash of the Titans

Saw HB II today. It has the same problems I saw in Dark Knight, so to not be a hypocrite I will dispense with, and apologize for the joyous DK hate ;_;;

It’s sacrilege on this site, but I haven’t seen any of the Friday the 13th movies. Same with “Nightmare”.

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mm, I feel slightly better now. I honestly have nothing to contribute tonight, mood’s too sour. I have a perfectly good full weekend off (never happens), and I have to put up with my family’s bullshit. I’ve got a headache and should probably go to bed, but I don’t feel like it. Anyway, link in the name’s good if you want to see a broken mind trying to release in the most controlled way possible.

Andrew: Don’t feel too bad…I haven’t seen any of the Friday the 13th movies, and I think the only one in the Nightmare series that I’ve seen was Freddy’s Dead. *shrug*

just picked up Brawl tonight. it is great but i`m horrible. need time to practice. writing this from the wii right now - better get back to playing.

Cameron T: Yeah you have the GBA version of FFIV but the DS FFIV with the hawt new grafix just came out this week. So that’s probably why the price drop. It’s a great game no matter what version you own though… I’m looking forward to plowing through the DS one since I haven’t played it since the easytype SNES version.

As for the cups! Oh they are glorious! I remember many cups from the fast food places promotions, but these Star Wars cups were special. My 12 years older than me cousin had the Star Wars cups when I was younger and everytime I went over to his house, I wanted so bad to use them but his mother (my aunt) would not even let me touch them… sucks. I did have a Garfield cup from Burger King? I think? That had a handle on it and was made of a thick glass, almost mug quality stuff. I loved that cup but it did eventually break, some ten years later after heavy use.

Blade Runner
that last Batman movie (not the new one but the one before it)
and alot of war films.

I remember coming home from seeing Return of the Jedi on opening day. My cousins and I were really jazzed and told my Mom and Aunt all about it. Just then the Burger King glasses commerical came on the TV. It was the first time we had ever heard the term Ewok. They never say it in the movie. I still consider Jedi to be my favorite of the saga and admit to liking the ewoks. Must of been my age (10) at the time.

I have seen all the Star Wars movies, mostly the originals, multiple times. That is all.

One movie that’s very popular and well known, that iv’e never seen is Blade Runner. Iv’e just never gotten around to it. But now that I think about it, i’m gonna find time. It seems really cool. Iv’e also never seen Re-Animator, or it’s sequel. As a horror junkie, I CAN NOT let this be any longer.

Not crazy about the Ewoks, but I like that song at the end of the the original ROTJ.

I’d say that this entry definitely belongs in any Summer Megaparty. I’m drinking a frosty Arnold Palmer from my Leia/Gammorean Guard glass right now, and I feel like a goddamn millionaire.

i hate the way she says C3-PO. hate isn’t even the right word…it borderlines on loathing.

Review the World I have a plastic cup from the first Superman movie with a piece of paper that goes around it in the inside with a picture of Christopher Walken being all Superman like. That movie came out before I was born but the cup was so deliciously vintage I had to buy it. I believe it was for a quarter at the local Goodwill.

Matt I just want to say that I love the Megaparty so far just for the fact you make us want to be obsessed about Congo one day and then super soakers the next. It is really a great thing. And have you got my God Damn emails yet? I have sent two this last few days.

Just for the record, I did grow up with the tapes of the original editions of the original trilogy, passed down to me by older siblings and I’ve watched them plenty of times each. I really appreciate them for what they are too and I’m glad they’ve been digitally perserved now on the DVD format. That said, I have zero interest in rebuying my trilogy collection just to have them. While not perfect, if I have to choose one version, I’m going with the special editions.

Oh, I already had FF4 for GBA. Bought that last year (ALSO at $9.98!, although I think it was a pricing mistake on K-mart’s part). I probably won’t buy the DS version…I love the 3D look from FFIII DS, but I just can’t justify spending $40 for what is essentially the same game, when there are SO many other games I want first (Pokemon is somewhere in there..and Wii fit…and a bunch of other things!).

No, I got FF6 for GBA, which I’ve never played and which I had waited patiently for a year and a half for the price to drop. Thanks to waiting, I’ve paid less than $50 combined for FF I, II, III, IV, and VI….That’s pretty awesome if you ask me.

Movies I haven’t seen:
The Godfather
Blade Runner (strange since I like SciFi)

Cameron T I have watched Blade runner not The Godfather though. Blade Runner is a great sci fi movie that looks very dated. Which is a good thing around here. Have you ever seen Logan’s run? I have, but just last year. I am trying to watch all these supposed classic sci fi movies. I finally earlier this year watched Soylent Green and Clcokwork Orange. I made it last Halloween a tradition to watch movies that I didn’t get to watch when I was a kid because it was Rated R or I never have gotten around to watching specific movies when they were in the theater or on tv. So I am slowly but surely catching up on all of these movies everyone loves but I have never watched.

You guys should be ashamed of yourself. I can’t believe you’ve never seen Blade Runner! It’s the best scifi movie out there.

Oh it keeps getting worse! JLAJRC hasn’t even seen Metropolis!!!
Oh well,now you might as well wait. They actually just found the full uncut version in Brazil,and they’re remastering it for DVD and Blu Ray. Previously there were several scenes people thought were lost forever,but this Brazillian guy had the full version on film.

Goob-
I’m pretty sure your Superman cup had Christopher REEVE,not Christopher Walken,allthough that would be pretty damn awesome.

Hello all. Sorry I’m late in the SNT game, being SMT now. I was going to post last night but I got caught up in playing Lego Indiana Jones on my 360. I find it a bit easier than Lego Star Wars was which is why I’ve almost completed. Just need a few more treasures and parcels to find.

Anyway, I remember always getting glasses, especially from McDonalds. I don’t recall ever getting ROTJ glasses, but we weren’t really a BK family growing up. I was going through the storage area when I was home over the 4th of July break and I came across a bunch of old plastic cups from McDonalds and elsewhere. Found two from “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” a couple from “Batman Returns” and those ones that had the Looney Tunes stars interacting with NFL players. Probably the oldest cup I found was one from Marriotts Great America, the owners of the theme park before Six Flags bought it out. Reconized some rides they used to have there back in the day that I never rode on because I was too scared. Found the old Garfield glasses we had that were from McDonalds, not Burger King and the Batman Forever glasses which we had of the Riddler and Batman.

As far as movies I haven’t seen, I’ve seen many of them so my list if not as full, but the catchy part is I saw them only a few years ago. When I was still going to school, I would occasionally take a film class. I took one class where we saw Citizen Kane so that was my first time seeing that. This is also the time I first got into the Marx Brothers movies, and I’ve seen all of them since then except “A Night in Casablanca.” Then when AFN used to have those annual lists of 100 Greatest…whatever, that’s when I really got into classic movies. I would see a movie from the list and then check it off as having seen that. It was through that that I finally watched classics such as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”, “A Clockwork Orange” , “Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull”, and others.

Anyway, I could go on but I’m not into writing much else. Been a boring weekend for me since I’m literally broke. I’m actually overdrawn in my bank account and we don’t get paid until Thursday. Had to ask my mom to send me money Western Union. Don’t think I will see X-Files this weekend, that may have to wait until next weekend, which is good because there’s really not a new movie coming out that I’m into seeing. My Summer list is pretty much over after X-Files so I guess I want to savor the last one and see it at the right time. Anyway, that’s all from me for right now.

I just picked up the Jabba glass July 4th weekend at some yard sale in Pennsylvania. That was the only Stars Wars glass they had but I also got a bunch of McDonald’s character ones as well as Hank Aaron and Willie Mays ones…

The Godfather needs to be watched by anyone living in a country with electricity.

Ah, Shark Week. Nothing says “summer” quite like it (other than the Megaparty of course).

Nice. I’m sure we had at least some of those glasses. They totally look familiar, but I can’t really recall drinking out of them. Maybe we just didn’t because we knew they were holy relics.

Movies I’ve yet to see:
- Star Wars Episode III - I even bought it on DVD, just never watched it.

Perhaps I shall remedy this in the next 2 days, while I’m off.
- Fight Club
- … Jesus Christ I can’t think of any others, though I know there’s TONS.

Oh and what is this new Lost Boys movie coming out on DVD? I saw a commercial for it yesterday but was baffled.

Kid Nicky That is what I get for not proof reading!! And I always proof read. I meant Reeve, I was thinking Reeve, but my quick typing fingers typed out Walken. Sigh. I should take a picture of that cup.

After your done looking at that one, click on the next thumbnail I uploaded 4. It’s almost like a filmstrip type of design.

Ryane Yes there is a Lost Boys movie that is a sequel to the other movie called Lost Boys the Tribe I have already watched it and I can’t believe I sat through the whole thing. It’s like the last movie but not as good and there is a girl instead of a guy that turns into a vampire. Corey Feldman is in it though. I guess it’s ok if you like cheesy bad horror movies and don’t take it too seriously.

- The Secret of NIMH
- Sin City
- West Side Story
- Citizen Kane
- Metropolis
- Young Frankenstein
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Exorcist (I know, I know, I just never get around to it)
- A Clockwork Orange
- Die Hard

Goob,I assumed it was a typo,lol.
Anyway,I know we’re all familiar with the G.I. Joe “Knowing is half the battle” PSAs,but did you know Transformers made them too? They weren’t ever aired on TV. Go ahead and click my name,these are awesome!

My husband is actually contemplating buying a new HD television just for shark week…I have a feeling that’s all I’ll be seeing today on tv.

I know I mentioned the plastic Batman cups from Taco Bell, but who here remembers the magic-motion “Last Action Hero” cups from Burger King? Each one had a removable film around the cup that make the images on the cup move when you turned it. I didn’t like the movie at all, but I was obsessed with getting all those cups for some reason. I think I ended up with three.

I especially love how that guy from MTV calls it “the biggest movie of the summer” when it was one of the most notorious flops of all time.

Okay ya’ll, I need help in proving to everyone that I haven’t killed TOO many braincells in the last twenty years or so. Does anybody remember a snack food in the late 80’s called ‘Munchies’? Everybody says they’re a figment of my imagination, but I know I ate at least a truckload in my day. They came in chocolate, cheddar and some other God awful flavor. Anybody? Matt? Somebody redeem my soul.

I’ve also never seen The Graduate, Fame, Oklahoma, A Chorus Line, Fiddler on the Roof, Moonwalk, A Fish Called Wanda, Homeward Bound, Adventures of Milo and Otis, Harry and Tonto, and Soylent Green.

The Razor Himself: We have a potato chip around here called Munchies but I don’t think they come in any other flavors beside lip hurtingly salty.

“Empire” had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader’s his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that’s what life is, a series of down endings. All “Jedi” had was a bunch of Muppets.

I don’t remember those Star Wars glasses. We had those Garfield mugs and I think the Muppet glasses…I’ve seen them at an antiques place near here. We had three of the Shrek glasses, but my dad broke one.

I’ve never seen a lot of older movies…Godfather, Blade Runner, Citizen Kane, Metropolis, any of the James Bond flicks, most Kubrick movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark…lots more.

That MTV guy is dan cortese he used to do like an extreme sport show on MTV.

I love Last Action Hero! My dad got free tickets from some friend he knew and everyone got free popcorn and sodas I think.

In my early teens, all you had to do was hand me popcorn and a soda and I would watch any movie you put in front of me.

The Razor Himself:There’s a snack where I live caled Munchies. It’s a chex mix type snack with pretzels, cheese crackers,bread chips, and doritos etc… all mixed together. It’s pretty good. I think that’s what yur describing, but i’m not sure. Hope this helps. =)

“Citizen Kane” in full (saw one short sequence as part of a film class)
The last Godfather film (Dad had the first two on tape)
I avoid slasher and “torture porn” horror series like the plague - I don’t handle blood or really freaky scares well. I have never seen “Saw,” “A Nightmare On Elm Street,” “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” “The Exorcist,” “Halloween,” or “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Saw part of the first “Scream” and “Friday the 13th Part 8″ and those were MORE than enough.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
“The Graduate”
“Blade Runner”
All of the Star Trek movies but “Wrath of Khan” and “Search For Spock.” Mom was a big Trekkie, but she was never able to pass this onto her kids.

Vague memories of seeing “Metropolis” with that weird 80s synth score when I was really little, but I haven’t seen it since then or without Pat Benetar on the soundtrack.

Thank you, mandy_Reeves! Dan Cortese! I remember that sports show…he co-hosted with Gabrielle Reese. I think she’s got a husband and kids now…I wonder what Dan’s up to these days?

I had a dream this afternoon. I’ve been running a fever so that probably didn’t help.

Anyway, I was watching TV in this dream, and the Duck Tales theme song was playing. But it wasn’t Duck Tales. It was Mare Tales. Yes, THAT Mare.

I remember a guy on MTV in the late 90’s named Jesse he was a VJ during the lunch hour. He won a contest they had so that is why he became a VJ. My cousin and I hated him with a passion because he was such a stoner hippie type of guy totally dopey and retarded. We thought it was lame he got a job during the lunch hour because he won a contest. He would go out on the street and talk to people.

I remember Jesse. Didn’t matter that he won, because Dave got “the job” when it came down to it.

BJ, half the time i still call that place Mariott’s because that’s what it was called when I was little.

i totally miss the tidal wave and the shock wave. i also hope they never update the batman ride. i love that it’s still got the 1989 style and prince music. i know they have that one at other parks too…but it’s still one of my favorites.

I remember Jesse too. I haven’t watched mtv since around that time but I believe they never did that contest again because him winning was such a disaster.

Haven’t seen any of the original Planet of the Apes movies, just the remake.
Never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Never seen DR. Strangelove.
Easy Rider.
Haven’t seen the original King Kong, just the two remakes.
Good Will Hunting
Gone With the Wind
Casablanca
Miracle on 34th Street
Platoon
It’s a Wonderful Life
Harvey
Frankenstein or Bride of Frankenstein
Nosferatu
Wolfman
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The original Mummy
Metropolis
Never seen a Hitchcock film outside of The Birds.
American Grafitti
Sound of Music
Never seen the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope movies
In the Heat of the Night
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Never seen the original Star Trek films

I had to watch American Graffiti in one of my classes in high school, but I have no idea which one or why.

I remember Jesse, and I remember him winning. I think I secretly wanted him to win for the same reason people want the really shitty singers to make it on “American Idol,” the train-wreck put in a spotlight. And boy, was he bad, with the ratty hair and confused stoner delivery…I think he was only there to promote his glam-rock band. I’m pretty sure it was an act, just like that Yankee guy who plays the redneck Cable Guy. I remember the runner-up in that contest was the one who ended up with the full-time VJ job. But are there still VJs? There don’t seem to be that many videos to jockey these days when you can have a Cribs marathon.

That was also around the time I stopped watching MTV. The night I watched the series finale of “120 Minutes” was the night I stopped watching the channel, period.

Burger King flashbacks. My first ever job, in February of 1980. I was 17. I worked at Burger King. The chicks had those same polyester outfits like you see in the frame capture Matt provided. And the guys had to wear polyester shirts, with a more subtle color scheme. Yep, Polyester Pullovers that were something like 300 mils thick, similar to the material NASA used to insulate Skylab from the heat of the sun. God, those were frickin’ hot, especially when we worked the french friers. BK HISTORICAL TRIVIA: In those days (1980) guys weren’t allowed to work the register; for some reason girls were thought to be more honest. STAR WARS GLASSES: YEP, you crazy kids, as I sit back on my rocking chair with my cane and long white beard, I remember serving up drinks in the “Return of the Jedi” glasses. Don’t know what the policy for fast food joints is now in these crazy lawsuit happytims, but in thos edays WE POURED THE SODA RIGHT IN THE GLASS. HOLY FUCKING SHIT; RIGHT IN THE GLASS! And I think the volume of the glass was considered the same size as a “medium” soda, but the plastic lid to cover the glass was the “small” drink lid. I think Michael Moore’s next movie is about that controversy.

By the way, can someone do an old dude a favor, and tell me what SNT means? All you kids and your crazy Internet, and your Blueberries…

Goob - Thanks for the info. I had my doubts it’d measure up to the first one, and now that I know there’s a woman instead of a guy, I really don’t think I want to watch it at all! lol

Maybe I’ll give it a shot though, one of these days.

“WE POURED THE SODA RIGHT IN THE GLASS. HOLY FUCKING SHIT; RIGHT IN THE GLASS!”

Wow, I’d be pissed. lol I want my commemorative glasses as hermetically sealed as possible.

go ahead and make fun of me…i have a vast vintage glass collection. These Star Wars glasses are part of it! nice post Matt!

These arent too terribly hard to find around here (metro detroit), thrift stores usually have em, and if not the local flea markets have em for 2 bucks each! i love em , but keep em out of your dishwasher - i had 4 or 5 break just from normal washing (i guess it gets too hot or something).

The McDonalds in my area is offering coca-cola glasses if you buy a large value meal. I bought one and it broke after one wash in the dishwasher.

My grandmother still has her Return of the Jedi/Jabba the Hutt glass after all of these years, in perfect condition. (Much like Matt, I constantly hint that I would like her to give me the glass…but she hasn’t given in yet.)

Either they don’t make them like they used to, or I am a brute and can’t take care of dishware like a normal human being. (No wonder Grandma won’t give me her Jabba glass…)

I have the entire original set of collector’s cups for the original 1992 Dream Team basketball squad from McDonalds. Many other sports memorabilia. Anyone interested? Contact directly fourward@yahoo.

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