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Star Wars Toys: Concept Drawings and Prototypes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-x-wing-was-more-like-a-v-wing dept.

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.

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  1. The story... by Matt2000 · · Score: 4


    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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  2. If I could talk to Lucas.... by dimator · · Score: 3

    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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  3. we do the slashdotting so you don't have to by kisrael · · Score: 5

    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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  4. Speaking of SW toys by the_other_one · · Score: 5

    Joke leads to anger. Anger Leads to hate. Hate leads to suing.

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  5. Re:Where's the really popular ones? by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 3
    Obi-Wan: Do you see lights on that switch? It's the sight of a thousand terrible slashdotters heading that site's way...

    Jar Jar: You say site's gonna die?!?

  6. Wrong Star Wars... by Paul+the+Bold · · Score: 4

    I was expecting a Ronald Reagan action figure. Hey, with our current president, we may see a sequel.

  7. Where's the really popular ones? by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 3

    Like the decapitated Jar-Jar?

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