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C3PX
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Discussion: Awful Star Wars Collectibles
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28-Feb-2008, 10:53 PM
You mean Hasbro never made a dead youngling figure? What a missed opportunity. I remember when Hasbro starting making Luke figures where his hand would pop off. Moms everywhere absolutely loved that figure. They could have made a series of youngling figures where various parts of their... oh never mind. Note to George: when making a movie for little kids, don't put scenes in the movie that cannot/should not be portrayed in an action figure. Especially when the toy makers are going to make Wampas with fallaway limbs, and Tauntans with slitopenable bellys for Luke insertions. Wow, if you really dwell on that scene, and imagine what had to have gone on off screen... kind of ruins the whole PT right there.

(Seriously, don't read this part. Skip to the third paragraph)
On second thought, George might be on to something interesting here. I think I will get to work on a screenplay about a sweet little boy who loves his mom and likes to build things. The kid will be a vunderkint, and everyone will love him. He will also be portrayed by some kid who can act worth a dime. The story will show him growing up, and will be really happy and lighthearted. Then eventually sometime near the end he will start to become afraid because he thinks his girlfriend might possibly have a potential risk of maybe getting cancer sometime in the possible distant future, but he can't bear the thought of living without her, so he kills her. Then he goes out and kills a bunch of other people, blows up some orphanages and chilrdens homes, and daycares, and preschools, and maternity hospitals, and maybe there will be some canabalism involved somewhere in there. It would make a great exploitation film. But it will be absolutely important that the first two thirds of the movie have a happy "Magical World of Disney" made for TV family movie quality about it, then in the third act I will release the hounds.

Hmm, yeah, I guess that poptart thing is kind of in bad taste. But really it is nothing when you consider the original idea was to go with the "Charred Limb Chocolate" theme as a way to tie the popular breakfast food in with the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, but many of the people on the poptart's planning board didn't think it was a good idea, so they went with "Lava Berry Explosion" instead. Interestingly enough, "Lava Berry Explosion" is a recycled theme reused from their "Catastrophe at Pompeii" promotion from several years ago.