Star Wars Action Figures

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."

Comments

Spam from a Jedi Knight?

[AtariDatacenter]

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)....

Re:Spam from a Jedi Knight?

[Brainboy]

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

Are well used original figures worth anything? ;)

[modme2]

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 ;)

How can they overlook the emperor?

[gatekeep]

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.

Oh the pain...

[MojoMonkey]

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.