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Star Wars Toys: Concept Drawings and Prototypes
Ant sent us a seriously cool site that has tons of unproduced and
concept star wars toys that never made it to market. These range from all over the place (coin books?) to prototype dolls with ken or barbie parts and clothing. I was just thinking a few days ago about my old star wars collection: a millenium falcon, an x-wing, a boba fett, a darth vader. Strangely all of them were broken garage sale items. But if I built a lego fortress for them to battle it was all good.
Hands up everyone who went looking for this. You know who you are.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away,
a small band of rebels produce a small,
but interesting website.
They mistakenly tell their friends that they would enjoy the pictures of
{star wars crap | exploding computers | home made missiles | robotic square dancers},
never expecting wind of the site to attract the interest of The Evil Empire.
Anyway, who cares about that moon out there -
Wait! That's no moon, and now you will feel the power of this fully operational ball of perl and MySQL.
Hobbyists beware: hide on your ice planets, we will find and destroy you.
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So which suit approved the Jar Jar Binks deep throating tongue lollypop?
Just tell me there aren't pedophile concerns about a lollypop with a three foot long extendable bubblegum tongue that shoots down you child's throat. The gas station near my friend's house still had boxes of these suggestive little numbers they weren't able to shift.
Now if we'd seen that for the first Alien film OTOH.
Xix
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
I'd ask him if he remembered when he sold out to such a degree. Everyone expects some product tie-ins, no matter what movie comes out. That's just a result of our impulse-buying society. But Star Wars has gone too far, and if the "going far" scale was circular, it has done a couple laps around "too far." I mean, I could find star wars toilet paper if I tried hard enough. I wouldn't care about all this (since I'm not Joe Drive-300-miles-to-get-X-toy) but since the last movie was such a piece of shit, it leads me (and others) to believe that $$$ comes before telling a good story now, in Lucas' world.
Unfortunately, the Star Wars brand has such momentum now in the global psyche that you can almost gaurantee that the next two movies will be even more whored out to any company that thinks the logo will sell more cereal, mouse-pads, books, dildo's, whatever... I'll watch the movies, but that's it.
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Ummm...how old are you, Paul? Isn't there an age requirement to get in this place? Sheesh...
Well, the site's being slashdotted to hell... I caught this yesterday (on memepool, which was already slowing the site down) and mirrored one of the more interesting things, a trading card peek at the 'yoda religion' that Lucas put the smack down on (and rightfully so)-- you can see the card here, along with direct links to some of the coolest things on the site. (like Atha Prime (slashdotted), possibly the first idea for a post-ROTJ storyline badguy, and this unreleased minirig (also slashdotted) clipon for the Falcon. And some other non-slashdotted, extended Star-Wars-iverse links as well. )
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As a child, just as Empire Strikes Back was released, I remember sitting down with a ton of graph paper and a ruler, and figuring out sizes for vehicles in Empire Strikes Back with respect to figures I had from the first movie. I even went as far as sending them into Kenner. Anxiously I awaited a response from them only to get a form letter stating that they had plenty of artists and designers creating things for us that would be slowly released to the market.
Being a kid, I couldn't understand why some toys were not released for quite some time after the movie and not all at once. I also couldn't understand licensing and why they hadn't used my designs! Or even understanding that they wanted to protect themselves from lawsuits. Somewhere in all my belongings I have a letter from Kenner that I just have to scan. I wonder how many other industries have to tolerate dopey kids randomly sending in ideas to compete with in-house employees.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
...when we have brand new Transformers to waste our hard-earned money on?
Jar Jar: You say site's gonna die?!?
I was expecting a Ronald Reagan action figure. Hey, with our current president, we may see a sequel.
Like the decapitated Jar-Jar?
That is all.