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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?

      --
      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. 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.

  4. 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.

    --

    ----- "Blame the guy who doesn't speak English." -- Homer J. Simpson
  5. 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]."

  6. 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..."