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Without looking, I seem to recall Luke's chest being a bit prominent and muscular, but it never really bothered me before. The more I think about it, though, I suppose I can see where you're coming from. Ah-nuld. I wouldn't go that far. My T2 action figures could beat up Luke any day of the week based on sheer size and muscle. But I can't think of any other model besides Luke being overly muscular.

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.

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My Chewbacca figure could totally beat up your T2 figure!

http://i.imgur.com/7N84TM8.jpg

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Remember this thread guys? It was a lot of fun. There are some very interesting pictures and links to pictures of C3PO collectables that just... I dunno... just seem a bit... off??? Anyway, we kept seeing this trend of threepios, and I managed to find yet another one!

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1994/65067735gf3.png

This is not a photoshop job, this is the actual official Topps C-3PO trading card from 1977. Not sure exactly what happened here, but it doesn't take more than one look at this thing to realize something is... uh... yeah. I was reading about it the other day and it turns out that so many people made a fuss about it that Topps actually reissued the card with the offending, uh, object airbrushed out. This thing is almost on par with the 3PO tape despenser.

Any first time visitors to this thread, be sure to check out the first couple of links on page one, they are worth paying a quick visit.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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There was an article on "The Urban Legends of Star Wars" on the Official Site that dealt with this card.

I have a few of them buried in the archives of Sluggo Central.
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^ LOL! That is awesome! They did it again! Poor Threepio just can't get a break. Between having office workers "pulling his tape", holding people soap in a provacative way, having his intimate parts exposed via Topps trading card, and now having his head humped by a Kawakian Monkey Lizard... poor droid.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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You know... I still think the most awful collectible is the 30th anniversary re-re-re-release of the Special Edition 2 disc scores plus the Corellian Edition (which is nothing but a compilation disc of tracks you just bought for the 4th time) with oooOooo... screen savers ::rolls eyes::


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I remember first hearing about that card many years ago. Around the time Jedi came out, there was a sci-fi store in CT that I used to order SW items from, and they had some of those "x-rated" cards for sale.

Originally posted by: C3PX

Any first time visitors to this thread, be sure to check out the first couple of links on page one, they are worth paying a quick visit.

Whoa! I had no idea it was illegal to sell Underoos in Scotland! LOL!

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Originally posted by: Mielr
I remember first hearing about that card many years ago. Around the time Jedi came out, there was a sci-fi store in CT that I used to order SW items from, and they had some of those "x-rated" cards for sale.

Originally posted by: C3PX

Any first time visitors to this thread, be sure to check out the first couple of links on page one, they are worth paying a quick visit.

Whoa! I had no idea it was illegal to sell Underoos in Scotland! LOL!


Are you sure it is really illegal? I thought the guy was making a joke. If that was true, what would be the reason for it?

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: Mielr
Whoa! I had no idea it was illegal to sell Underoos in Scotland! LOL!


Are you sure it is really illegal? I thought the guy was making a joke. If that was true, what would be the reason for it?
Maybe it was a joke- if it was, I didn't get it (that happens a lot).

Or, it might have something to do with kiddie porn, or the dangers of used underwear?

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Originally posted by: Number20
I remember having C-3PO's back in the day, but does anyone remember what they tasted like?

They were, to be quite honest, the tastiest cereal I think I've ever had in my life. Kind of a vanilla-y, sweet flavour to it... very hard to explain.

Not only was the cereal good, but I used to love the cardboard cut-out masks they'd print on the back of the box (my personal favourite being the stormtrooper mask).

I'd go bananas if the put 3PO's back on the market.

“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers

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Some people have sealed cereal boxes in their collection. With all those preservatives, maybe they're still edible?

On a related note, I thought Episode III Pop Tarts were in kind of poor taste. Do I really want to think about Anakin burning over breakfast?http://www.x-entertainment.com/updates/pics/sithtarts1.jpg
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Fellas, I propose we begin a new petition. I think we ought to begin petitioning for them to bring back the Threepio's, original taste and all. I for one would be willing to dish out money every couple of weeks in order to keep my cubbard stocked with the things. For once it would be an SW product worth spending money on. As long as they don't pull a "New Coke" kind of thing on us and completely change the recipe.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Originally posted by: corellian77
Originally posted by: Number20
I remember having C-3PO's back in the day, but does anyone remember what they tasted like?

They were, to be quite honest, the tastiest cereal I think I've ever had in my life. Kind of a vanilla-y, sweet flavour to it... very hard to explain.

Not only was the cereal good, but I used to love the cardboard cut-out masks they'd print on the back of the box (my personal favourite being the stormtrooper mask).

I'd go bananas if the put 3PO's back on the market.

I also have a set of 3PO's cereal boxes with the masks on the back. I especially liked the Luke mask.

I didn't care for the taste of the cereal- and I'll eat any kind of cereal, so that tells you something. After eating it once or twice, I actually took all of the cereal out of the remaining boxes, put it in a plastic bag and gave it to my nephews.

The flavor is hard to explain, I don't recall it tasting like vanilla. Maybe it was more of a honey & corn kind of flavor? (but not like Corn Pops) In any case, I didn't like it.

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I was hoping to find these for you here, but no such luck... (I found this site while looking for pilots' favorite Beemans chewing gum)
I saw the original theatrical release of the Old Trilogy on the big screen and I'm proud of it...
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
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Originally posted by: Mielr
The flavor is hard to explain, I don't recall it tasting like vanilla. Maybe it was more of a honey & corn kind of flavor? (but not like Corn Pops) In any case, I didn't like it.

You're quite right... after I posted I thought to myself that vanilla was the wrong description. It was some type unidentifiable sweet taste... definitely some honey in there, but not sweet in the normal sugary sense...

Man I wish I could have some right now

“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers

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http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news1713.jpg

Oh here's a good one:
http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/26371.jpg
Because nothing makes little children happier than the most evil character in the galaxy in front of a mountain of scalding lava that burned him to a crisp.
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ADM, That's tough to look at.

I think that is the biggest problem with the being a fan of Star Wars is that culturally, you are not allowed to be just a fan of the movies, you have to be a die-hard, Jar-Jar loving, living in your mom's basement, Lucas-worshipping synchophant. It has evolved into being a lifestyle, a defined social strata. That is the thing that gives me the biggest headache, and especially lately with the wife. A stack of bootlegs and a box of action figures does not an uber-fan make. The SW universe is a fun place to visit, but I don't live there.
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I like that the Episode One figures are now 70% off in that picture.

I am afraid Star Wars themed kids party sets and boxes of Pop Tarts with Vader on them are just not that awful. C-3PO underoos is something entirely different. It is a whole different plane of awfulness. You are always going to have cereial and snack boxes having pictures of popular childrens characters on them, that has been going on for a long time. It is pretty standard to walk down the breakfast asle and be bombarded with depictions of Jack Sparrow, Darth Vader, Pokemon and Mickey Mouse. Kids party sets? I am not sure I have even seen a kids party set that was not themed. They change every year, but you will always be able to go to the store and pick out a party set with some theme of something that your kid is into that year, seaon, month. Nothing surprising there at all. And since it is for pretty small kids, I really can see it as all that awful. Things like the porceline line of SW collectables, and some akwardly planned and poorly executed products like the Threepio tape despenser or the Jar Jar sucker, those things are something that are truely deserving of the word "awful".

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Originally posted by: C3PX
I like that the Episode One figures are now 70% off in that picture.

Take a closer look: they're all Jar-Jar
I saw the original theatrical release of the Old Trilogy on the big screen and I'm proud of it...
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
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I have no problem with Star Wars Pop Tarts, (I'm a Pop Tart addict!) it's theming it to one of the most gruesome scenes in the entire saga I find questionable. It would be like Hasbro making dead youngling action figures.
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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.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Originally posted by: C3PX
Interestingly enough, "Lava Berry Explosion" is a recycled theme reused from their "Catastrophe at Pompeii" promotion from several years ago.

LOL

“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers

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I love how the original SW figures were so popular, they sold out and kids had to get an empty box for Christmas with the promise of actual SW figures the following year......and then there's the Ep1 toys.