^Silly Haw, nobody moved the cheese.
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DuracellEnergizer said:
My favourite Star Wars childhood memory revolves around this delightful commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxafIhYFOr0
It made me an instant fan of Darth Vader and Star Wars - years before I ever got to see the films.
Reminds me of ROTS Vader. Man, star wars was always much cooler as a child. I dunno why.
I had a hugely inappropriate unlicensed t-shirt from Tijuana that said BAR WARS- with a crowded image of Mad-magazine style caricatures of the cantina aliens like Greedo, walrus man, hammerhead etc., and a drunk Ben Kenobi. All brawling, dancing with scantily clad ladies, and drinking tequila from those bottles with the 3 Xs on them.
None of you older guys remembered this intro and voice for the movie of the week?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2khYg5BbOpc
this guy was the voice of the 80s
I most certainly remember all those TV intro themes. A prime time movie was a big deal. TV was only on until midnight, so burning up two or three hours before the news was a more thought out event. Broadcast time wasn't disposable.
It really was a simpler time. A handful of stations, with set programing that was easy to watch. A colorful intro, familiar theme, title of the film, then the film. It was particularly nice to watch because you were only seeing the movie. No branded logo in the corner and no pop-up ads taking up part of the picture - during the film. I watch very little TV these days. It's just not enjoyable to me. Truthfully, it won't be long and the ads will run the entire time. They're just testing the water. How much visual distraction will people tolerate before they change the channel?
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You just found out what your screenname means? Odd.bkev said:
I just found out the b is for badass. Gotta love my friends.
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Sluggo (what moved xhonzi's cheese) said:
xhonzi said:
Sluggo said:
xhonzi said:
I had two Chewbacca figures. So I pretended that they were the Chewie brothers and that they were frontmen in a rock and roll band.
They would sing "Chewies!" in perfect harmony. It was their signature.
It is also my signature.
What? But... Hey! I was going to...
Ah, man...
Can he do that?
I moved your cheese and stole your thunder.
I updated a previous post with a new pic of another of my old SW shirts.
Signature:
Chewies! (in perfect harmony)
You're skating on this ice, bub!
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
bkev said:
Whoa, I had a birthday cake when I was younger with those exact same figures on it! Somehow my dog chewed off Darth Vader's arms before I got to see the cake though... :(
I've had a similiar experience, only the dog ate half my star wars cake. Yoda was still there.
I had one star wars cake and one scooby doo and one superfriends cake.....I must say that my all time favorite Bday cake was A transformers one back in 1985.. Was optimus Prime. Did anyone here ever have a Bday party at chuck E Cheese...or Putt-Putt pr Aladins Castle?
Anchorhead said:
I most certainly remember all those TV intro themes. A prime time movie was a big deal. TV was only on until midnight, so burning up two or three hours before the news was a more thought out event. Broadcast time wasn't disposable.
It really was a simpler time. A handful of stations, with set programing that was easy to watch. A colorful intro, familiar theme, title of the film, then the film. It was particularly nice to watch because you were only seeing the movie. No branded logo in the corner and no pop-up ads taking up part of the picture - during the film. I watch very little TV these days. It's just not enjoyable to me. Truthfully, it won't be long and the ads will run the entire time. They're just testing the water. How much visual distraction will people tolerate before they change the channel?
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hey anchorhead check this one out. just hearing this guys voice sends tingles down the spine.. this was back when the movie of the week was a special night and something to look forward to. Like when wizard of oz was a once a yr special to be enjoyed every march. Now everything is just a click away. Back when you had to wait a whole year just to see something again made it special. Everything sucks today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdrCGDz_iyw&feature=related
this next one is probably my favorite movie of the week intro with ernie andersons voice backing. Raiders of The Lost Arc. The intro is almost as good as the film and his intros really set the mood to enjoy a night of films.
haljordan28 said:
I had one star wars cake and one scooby doo and one superfriends cake.....I must say that my all time favorite Bday cake was A transformers one back in 1985.. Was optimus Prime. Did anyone here ever have a Bday party at chuck E Cheese...or Putt-Putt pr Aladins Castle?
Chuck E Cheese. i think i had a Power Rangers Cake then. Still, my favorite bday was the day i got all those star wars toys and the quiz whiz, star wars edition.
It was just after i saw ANH. I remember about a week or so after i saw the movie, they at the OT out, they had the SE playing in the theaters then, and i watched the classic version of Star Wars. I'm glad i did, not that i don't like the SE, but i'm glad i got to see how different the two are.
YO Hal! Chuck e cheeses and aladdins castle back in the 80's, RULED! I had b-day parties at both. did ur town have a showbiz pizza place? Mine did and had parties there as well. It was just like chuck e cheeses. 80's CEC, unlike todays', had tons of video games!
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love the b-day cake bkev! My mom bought a darth vader cake mold for one of my b-day's and an R2D2 for another. She spent a lot of time frosting them and getting the colors accurate, and the cake would be ready by the time I got out of school! back in 77' after the movie was released and my SW craze commenced, I received that following Christmas: han,leia,3po,r2d2,luke,kenobi,strmtrooper,chewy and vader figures along with the x-wing, mini tiefighter and the landspeeder. After that all I talked about was SW and my parents ceased buying me any more toys, LOL! So if I wanted to buy anymore toys, I had to buy them myself which was a good life lesson. I absolutely loved saving up enough money for additional figures and ships and relished in anticipation the car trip or bike ride to Kmart, Walmart, service merchandise or Venture. One of my fondest purchases was the full size y-wing, admiral ackbar and boush the bounty hunter at Kmart on a saturday night. I saved up lawnmowing money for several months to get them! Another memory is having friends bring over their SW toys for a sleepover and we would combine our forces for a huge battle till the wee hours!
"There's no cluster of midiclorians that controls my destiny!" -Han Solo, from a future revision of ANH
There was an inerior balcony in my parents house, which was right next to my room. As an infant, I actually crawled through the bars (which were gapped according to "code") and fell to my death, er... brain damage, er... split lip and lost tooth.
But I didn't learn, apparently. This is where Luke and Vader had their most frequent duels. It usually ended with Luke knocking Vader off of the precipice, which was soon followed by a faint *snap* as Vader hit the floor 14 feet below and his head broke off.
My mom would super glue the head back on (no more swiveling for you, head!) and it would more or less stay on until the next battle.
Now that I think about it, it would have been a great time to re-enact "the failure at the cave". I guess I was too impatient.
Eventually, the head would riccochet off at such an angle that we never found the head. New Vader time!
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In 1984 or 1985- KayBee Toys put a steep discount on all of their remaining Star Wars figures (mostly Hoth Han, or was that 1998?) and they dumped them crudely into a giant bin. I think they were $1 a piece. Basically, my dad would often bring one home for me, and he was often able to fill requests! Due to the aforementioned headless Vader problem... it was usually a Vader. But, if I was good and didn't break/lose any Vader heads for the week, it might have been a Klaatu, or a Barada, or a Nikto. Or a Disco Lando (or was that 1996?). I was most excited when he finally found Nien Nunb.
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I tried to cut the tassel off of Hoth Luke so it would swivel and hang down when the figure was upside down.
This didn't work.
But I was very excited when POTF2 figures came out and had this feature.
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I though Hoth Luke's vest was made of Wrigley's gum. But it was too hard to chew.
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I peeled the round "hatch" decals off of my Millennium falcon within hours of getting it that Christmas morning. My mom was quite confused as to why I'd deface my brand new toy, that was my most cherished possession in the world. I'm sure I don't need to explain it to you: it was so Lando could rescue Luke, of course!
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The little round "wells" in the front of the Falcon- you could squeeze some of the figures legs together and jam their feet in there and then they could "surf" Teen Wolf style on the hull.
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The only thing that took 'C' batteries in our house were Star Wars toys. This did not make my parents very happy.
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I never knew of the actual Kenner toy lightsabres. My parents bought me a glow in the dark sword and told me it was a lightsabre toy. AND I BELIEVED THEM! For some reason, I liked to put the sword across the arms of our living room chairs and then sit on the sword. Which broke the handle off. Several times. My mom must have hot-melt glued that thing at least 50 times.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Hoth-Nudist said:
YO Hal! Chuck e cheeses and aladdins castle back in the 80's, RULED! I had b-day parties at both. did ur town have a showbiz pizza place? Mine did and had parties there as well. It was just like chuck e cheeses. 80's CEC, unlike todays', had tons of video games!
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love the b-day cake bkev! My mom bought a darth vader cake mold for one of my b-day's and an R2D2 for another. She spent a lot of time frosting them and getting the colors accurate, and the cake would be ready by the time I got out of school! back in 77' after the movie was released and my SW craze commenced, I received that following Christmas: han,leia,3po,r2d2,luke,kenobi,strmtrooper,chewy and vader figures along with the x-wing, mini tiefighter and the landspeeder. After that all I talked about was SW and my parents ceased buying me any more toys, LOL! So if I wanted to buy anymore toys, I had to buy them myself which was a good life lesson. I absolutely loved saving up enough money for additional figures and ships and relished in anticipation the car trip or bike ride to Kmart, Walmart, service merchandise or Venture. One of my fondest purchases was the full size y-wing, admiral ackbar and boush the bounty hunter at Kmart on a saturday night. I saved up lawnmowing money for several months to get them! Another memory is having friends bring over their SW toys for a sleepover and we would combine our forces for a huge battle till the wee hours!
yeah buddy we sure did have a showbiz pizza here. I loved aladins castle. back when going to the arcade was a special event almost.Kids today are so spoiled with technology. Back then everything was special because you only got the great things every blue moon. Like the high tech graphic games at the arcade..we only got to play when pur parents took us to the mall or something. Now such things sit in a kid living room. THe movies we all love and care for..back then we had to wait an entire year just to see it.. the wizard of oz, charlie browns xmas or halloween, the grinch who stole xmas. you made a point to be in front of the tv set to watch it and it meant something to you because you knew when it was over you couldnt see it again fior an entire year.. now you can just go to wal mart or click a button online and poof its there to watch. the magic is gone from it.
I went to toys r us thre other day and it had more clothes and things of that nature than it had toys. back in the day the entire store row after row after row was toys and toys and toys. I think those of us born between 1970-1975 give or take a few yrs in either direction really were blessed with being raised in the best time period. Everything we got to grow up with was the best of the best. the movies, the music, the cartoons, the technology. we are really the generation that refuses to grow up because things were so good back then. other than the advanced techology we have today nothing is better.. If god gave me the chance to go back to 1980 right now and live it all over I would go in a heart beat.
Would anyone else go or stay?
good lord, xhonzi, you were one destructive kid!
And toys r us is overrated. This is where I shopped for toys as a kid:
Oh, & the first pic on this page is about the most awesome thing ever.
canofhumdingers said:
Oh, & the first pic on this page is about the most awesome thing ever.
It's not my place to disagree with you.
xhonzi said:
I never knew of the actual Kenner toy lightsabres. My parents bought me a glow in the dark sword and told me it was a lightsabre toy. AND I BELIEVED THEM! For some reason, I liked to put the sword across the arms of our living room chairs and then sit on the sword. Which broke the handle off. Several times. My mom must have hot-melt glued that thing at least 50 times.
That reminds me - I still have the remnants of my original SST Lazer Sword, one of the first bootleg lightsaber toys. When the batteries in the flashlight handle got "cancer", I threw out the flashlight part (didn't realize you could clean off the cancer fairly easily, unlike in the human body) and ended up replacing the flashlight several times over the years. To this day, I still have the original flange, blade, endcap and detail ring transplanted on a flashlight.
My outlook on life - we’re all on the Hindenburg anyway…no point fighting over the window seat.
childrens castle blew toys r us away. do you know what location that childrens castle was at? It looks like the one we had here in Louisville. Thornberrys was also a cool toy store.
I remember the first lightsaber toys. they were yellow and the handle was a flash light. the tube broke very easy. it even had a kit to repair it. I got it in 1979. the next saber i got was in 1983 and it was vaders return of the jedi saber that had open ends at the end of the saber and made a sound when you swung it through the air. I got that and lukes blaster for xmas in 1983. Along with jabbas palace and a speeder bike. After 1983 I got heavily into asking for transformers for bday and xmas. that was about the time the power of the force figures came out with the coins.
Did anyone here ever have lazer tag?
I had one of those knock off flashlight-with-attachment I used for a lightsaber. My parents made me red, blue, and green inserts so I could change colors on the fly.
I still want a ForceFX saber.
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I would go back to the 80's too Hal! what a time to grow up! I also loved the saturday morning cartoons back then. I cherished the SW commercials featuring new action figures, playsets and ships, in the midst of watching Thundarr the barbarian, looney tunes, D & D, pacman, johnny quest etc!
Hey Hal I was also a huge Transformer/GIJOE fan, and still am. I would race home from school back then in order to catch the cartoons, along with Voltron and HE-MAN!
I didnt have one of those giant yellow/red toy lightsabers, but my friends did and we had some fun duels! We would end up whacking each others' back and butt and I'd have some bruises the next day! Great fun! I do remember them breaking easily too.
I loved it when would snow heavy enough for school to be cancelled. I loved building mini-snow bases and having my own hoth battles! My snowspeeder got too much snow in the battery compartment and stopped working! My friend would bring over his AT-AT!
"There's no cluster of midiclorians that controls my destiny!" -Han Solo, from a future revision of ANH
Another favorite commercial i remember as a child
I think i was like 23 when that commercial came out. which was around 1997 with the SE I believe.
there was another one i couldn't find which was also a pepsi advertisement. You see the Super Star Destroyer and the fleet begin to blockade hoth and it had the pepsi symbol appear on screen.
