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Posted by michael on from the stuff-to-choke-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Star Wars nostalgia buffs: X-E just added a fairly long feature detailing some of the many mail-away offers made by the Kenner company to keep kids interested in SW action figures in the 80s."

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  1. Spam from a Jedi Knight? by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 5, Funny

    This letter reads so much like the start of the spam that I get in my inbox. It was funny to read...

    Dear Young Jedi Knight:
    Greetings! I hope this letter reaches you -- I am sending it over great distances and many millennia.     ...if only it read...


    I am sending it over 10000ly (TEN THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS) and 10000y (TEN THOUSAND YEARS)....

    1. Re:Spam from a Jedi Knight? by Brainboy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fear not spam. For Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to Suffering. Block spam you will, yes?

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      Just a guy with an opinion
  2. Are well used original figures worth anything? ;) by modme2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only I didn't freeze Han Solo so many times and kept the figure in the original plastic it would be worth a lot now ;)

  3. Natalie giving her reaction to her action figure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    (DivX, 770 KiB, 13 secs)

  4. So when the trilogy is rewritten... by gpinzone · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...to include Jar Jar and Queen Amidala, are they going to be considered "classic" action figures, too?

  5. How can they overlook the emperor? by gatekeep · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay, maybe it was a lame giveaway, but I remember sending in for a whole of emperors because I had the proof of purchase seals anyhow. I think I had more emperors than storm troopers. Maybe that's why the empire failed, too much management.

  6. Oh the pain... by MojoMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Raise your hand if, like me, you cried when you saw the current selling price of the original action figures you proceded to tie to a fence, shoot with BB guns and explode with fire crackers. Twenty minutes of sheer joy, a lifetime of regret.

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  7. Walrus Man Lives Again! by GuyMannDude · · Score: 3, Funny

    Star Wars nostalgia buffs: X-E just added a fairly long feature detailing some of the many mail-away offers made by the Kenner company to keep kids interested in SW action figures in the 80s.

    Thank God! I'm tired of all those disbelieving stares I get from the neighborhood kids when I regail them with tales of my treasured Walrus Man action figure I had as a wee tyke! Kids today have no respect for the classics!

    GMD

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    watch this
  8. Re:Non-shooting Boba Fett by tntguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy cow! I read this and almost thought I said it. With one exception, I found Chewbacca's gun; or at least the doctor did when she pulled it out of my knee after I was crawling around looking for Vader's lightsaber (same color carpet).

    Something about that just sounds Wrong when I re-read it.

  9. More than meets the eye by Spameroni · · Score: 3, Funny

    The BEST part of this article is the link WAY down at the bottom to this.

  10. Add the words "Star Wars" to get submission posted by loggia · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, I just figured out the secret.

    If you think you have a really good submission but it keeps getting rejected, just add change it to "STAR WARS [rest of original title]."

  11. Carbonite refrigeration by Pseudonymus+Bosch · · Score: 3, Funny

    I misread the title in your message as "How can they overclock the emperor?"

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    Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
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  12. Bossk by syntap · · Score: 3, Funny

    I remember finally getting Bossk, and all the other neighborhood kids just bowed before me.

    And the Action Figure Survival Kit with the umpteen guns, especially the ones with the straps? I was the frickin ARSENAL!

    I, too, was hopping pissed that my Boba Fett missle didn't actually shoot... as pissed as I was that my Battlestar Gallactica Cylon fighters and Vipers didn't actually shoot.

  13. How we destroyed our figures by Rimbo · · Score: 3, Funny

    When my bro and I were a kid, we played a game...

    Take a stormtrooper, or Luke. Put kid on exercise bike with large rubber wheel. Get wheel going very fast. Put head of figurine on wheel. Watch plastic head slowly burn off.

    That was great fun. I'd rather have done that than gain a few measly bucks off of another stormtrooper, anyhow... :)

    1. Re:How we destroyed our figures by gozar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or take the Hoth figures, pack them in snowballs and throw them at trees... Heads were usally the first to break off.

      What were we thinking back then...

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      What, me worry?
  14. I posted this ... by tauzell · · Score: 1, Funny

    6 to 8 weeks ago ... it seemed like forever :)

  15. Re:Darth and Luke's cheap saber by Drachemorder · · Score: 4, Funny
    "I still can vividly recall my Darth Vader action figure and his cheap light saber (the little plastic stick was always bent). It added a certain irony to the menacing dark mask."

    He just needs a voice box that says "I hate it when my Schwartz gets twisted..."