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Post #580126

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xhonzi
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General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread
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Date created
5-Jun-2012, 5:20 PM

I was buying some plastic kids' cups at Target the other day. The Avengers ones were on the end-cap and I followed them into the aisle. They had lots of girl ones (barbie and whogivesacrapaboutgirlstuff ones) and I snagged a bunch of boy ones. Transformers, Captain America, aforementioned Avengers... and they had 6 or 7 Star Wars ones. The first one I saw had R2 and 3PO in sharp, full-colour detail on the front, and low contrast, blue-scale Han and Leia on one side and B-Wings blowing-stuff-up on the other. I thought it was an odd layout, but in the cart it went! Then I saw RotJ Luke cutting a mean figure in his robe with his green sabre cracklin' and that instantly went in the cart.

I got a Lego Vader + Troopers cup, and a "many poses of Vader" cup. There was a Maul cup, a Quigon cup, and PT/OT Yoda cup which I did not get. There was kind of a cool one that had both Clone and Stormtroopers, but I left it on the shelf.

ALL OF THE SUDDEN!

I noticed PT Obi-Wan and PT Anakin on a cup, and then recognized it as the other side of the RotJ Luke cup I already had in the cart. It was such an instant buy, that I didn't even check to see what shenanigans were occuring on the other side of the cup!

So... for those of you keeping score:
1/7 cups had Luke on it*
1/7 cups was purely OT*
1/7 cups had Vader and no direct PT references (though I know some of it RotS stuff)*
1/7 cups had only OT Lego stuff on it.
2/7 cups were PT only
2/7 cups were mix of PT/OT

And people keep telling me I can just ingore the PT if I don't like it. *eyeroll*