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I really don't think SW Legos rise to the level of awful. They offer playset possiblities Hasbro still drags their corporate butts on ever making. They aren't just slapping the Star Wars name on it. And that Lego movie is a lot more entertaining than ROTS. :P

And Legos spark creativity darn it! I made myself an X-Wing for my earlybird Luke complete with droid socket months before the Kenner ship came out. After Battlestar Galactica came along, I rebuilt it into a Viper. :)

Somewhere I've seen photos of a huge custom made Lego Star Destroyer complete with interior. Some guy is probably building a Death Star in his basement as we speak...
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SilverWook said:

Somewhere I've seen photos of a huge custom made Lego Star Destroyer complete with interior. Some guy is probably building a Death Star in his basement as we speak...

He'll need a truckload of gray blocks :)
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Also, the Lego Star Wars video games were also pretty good. The legos are OK, but I'm afraid they may be wearing out the uniqueness of them.
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Sluggo said:


Personally, I can't stand Star Wars Transformers. They took two cool things and made something awful.


Yeah, I agree. I kind of feel that way about Star Wars Legos too, as well as a whole glob of other things I loved as a kid (like Risk) that can now be purchased with the Star Wars name cheaply tagged onto it (like Star Wars Risk).


I'll probably get a lot of crap for this also, but the Star Wars Potato Heads are equally awful.

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/spud-trooper.jpg

EDIT: I see that 20th Century Mark already mentioned it.
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Not exactly star wars but these were so bad I had to post them:

Business card holder

http://shop.indianajones.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=1221578_f;key2=-100_f

Paper Clip holder (wtf!!!)

http://shop.indianajones.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=1221570_f;key2=-100_f

and the Pen holder

http://shop.indianajones.com/kernel/imageload?table=cat_images;ttl2=15;key1=1221562_f;key2=-100_f

Who would actual use this garbage on their desk. I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to this kind of stuff (especially when there is so much SW crap) because... each to their own. But I howled with laughter when I saw this stuff, especially the paper clip holder (which by the way is magnetized!!1!11)

I'm not a religious person but keeping your paper clips in the Cup of Christ (I know it's just a movie) just seems..... wrong. Oh God this is making me chuckle (no pun intended) ;)

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Duck Vader on that Tiny Toons episode was funny, but this?

EDIT: Apparently, this ducky isn't an officially sanctioned item, so no angry letters to Lucasfilm this time! ;)

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According the rebelscum, Royal Guard trainees from the Dark Horse comic "Crimson Empire".

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Hopefully, they are a very limited collectable.  Or at least bio-degradable.

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Words fail me...

The horror!

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That has to be a joke- it can't be a real product (?!)

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Some of those things in the links satanika posted would actually be amazingly cool. If they tried to make them seem "questionable", IMHO they failed. I especially liked the Jabba bean bag chair the Death Star dart board, and the foosball table. The sun shades would be kind of cool too, though pretty dorky. And I'd love a Darth Vader gumball despenser.

The artist has quite an obsession with Pepsi. A hardcore loyalist toward his beverage of choice no doubt.

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I found that over at Rebelscum, and the Photobucket gallery the picture is from is chock full of legitimate items. (Including rare ILM crew patches.) They all seem to be part of the same person's collection, so unless they are playing a joke, I can't see having a bogus item in there.

http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k172/dafunder/

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Damn, so many stupid ideas, and noone suggested AMT/ERTL to release TIE Bomber model kit to match their TIE Fighter & Interceptor... the only one available is from some unlicensed garage-made short-run, that was manufactured in, like, 100 units? Yeah, good luck finding it...

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Regarding the tampons, not only were the organic essentials started in 1995, but the picture is very obviously pasted on their.

For starters, Leia is standing under a giant sunflower, which makes NO sense whatsoever. Look at her shoulder, you can see that in the original picture she was behind something or someone as there is a big chunk cut out of her shoulder. Not to mention she is covering up the "R" in the French word "Regulier", which would be a big no no in a real product. The lettering on the box would be ontop of the image, not the other way around.

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Sluggo said:

. I like hot dogs and I like Hershey's syrup, but I'll never eat them together (again).

 

Holy hell I lol'd.

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