Originally posted by: C3PX Oh what I'd give for a box of those right about now. I had really hoped they would start remarketing those with the PT. Alas, Nothing. I had hoped it might become a permanent thing like Count Cocula. How great would it be to be able to walk into your local grocery store and buy a box at any time. It would become a permanent addition to my breakfast cabinet. Nothing better than tea, toast and 3POs.
You really dug them?
I really dug the Batman cereal that came out about 1989 or 1990. I wish I could get a box of those again!!!
Maybe eBay would help...although I don't know about buying any kind of food from there.....
You know what cereal is really disgusting? Frankenberry, of the triumvirate Count Chocula (which isn't TOO bad if you like sugary cereals), Frankenberry and the ever elusive Booberry (featuring a droopy-eyed MJ-smokin' ghost).
Originally posted by: skye_solo You know what cereal is really disgusting? Frankenberry, of the triumvirate Count Chocula (which isn't TOO bad if you like sugary cereals), Frankenberry and the ever elusive Booberry (featuring a droopy-eyed MJ-smokin' ghost).
I totally agree, Frankenberry was terrible. You know I sent off for one of those Ghostbuster glow in the dark frisbees when I was a kid from a cereal box. Used my whole allowance and never got anything. That sucked.
That does suck. They should have sent that shit out. Kids go to all the trouble to cut stuff out of freaking cardboard boxes, and send away for geek treasures...need something cool to show for the effort.
I would use the 3po flip flops! Come on! So would you! “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
Originally posted by: Nanner Split I actually got a Han Solo in Stormtrooper Armor action figure from Froot Loops when I sent in money. You could remove his helmet!
I never did cereal mail-aways that often, but I never had any trouble with the few times I did it. I seem to remember that I collected some box tops and send in some money as a kid and got the kenner action figure for the Emperor, or maybe it was Admiral Ackbar. I can't really remember now.
Originally posted by: Nanner Split I actually got a Han Solo in Stormtrooper Armor action figure from Froot Loops when I sent in money. You could remove his helmet!
Yeah, I think I got too or three of those. I was feasting on fruitloops for a very long time. It was an exclusive offer, but just a short time later they released him in the regular action figure line with the slight variation of a straigtened arm rather than a slightly bent arm. That kind of ruined the exclusiveness of my small army of Hantroopers.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
Originally posted by: Nanner Split I actually got a Han Solo in Stormtrooper Armor action figure from Froot Loops when I sent in money. You could remove his helmet!
I remember the commercials for that figure. If I recall, it came out right before the Power of the Force collection was released for purchase. I never did get one. But you've seen them for regular purchase, C3PX? I've never seen or heard of it outside of that offer!
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
Star Condoms?! Would they be Han Solo or Chewbacca flavored? Or better yet, would they come in red and blue, depending on what side of the force you felt like being on tonight?
Ah, I had forgotten about the Jar Jar tongue suckers. It is very unsettling to see children going around Frenching with a small likness of Jar Jar.
I looked on ebay for the retail Han in Stormtrooper uniform, and this is all I found.
So maybe he never was sold individually and this is what I was remembering. Anyway, as you can see his arm is straight, while the Fruitloops offer had a bent arm (so he could hold the helmet I think).
Oh, it is depressing reading the prices SW figures are selling for on ebay. I have bought a ton of POTF 2 figures and never opened them so I could resell them later. I even have almost all the old orange package steroid ones (think I am missing one or two). Oh yeah, and I have some of the rare variants, like Hoth Han with the open hand, who later reissued with a closed hand so he could hold his gun. I also have Boba Fett with the stripe on his glove. Now I don't think I will ever get ride of them, or even come close to breaking even.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
I have an old R2-D2 action figure, and I think it's from the first run of ANH action figures from when the movie came out. It's just a white plastic cylinder with a decal wrapped around it, two plastic legs and a shiny head that twists.
Orange steroid ones? Now, I know what you're talking about when you say the orange packaging (which I found immensely more aesthetically pleasing than the green packaging they adopted when the SEs came out. But what... steroids? Please clarify.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
I think he's talking about the older figures that were so unreasonably buff that it was almost to the point of being obscene. I have a Luke Skywalker action figure that looks like Ah-nuld from Terminator 1 with blonde hair and a lightsaber.
