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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. Non-shooting Boba Fett by mikeboone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember waiting weeks for the Boba Fett with the firing missile, and how pissed I was that it wouldn't shoot. I kept trying to make it shoot, looking for a button, moving the arms to trigger it. :(

    I also remember playing with a land-speeder for weeks before I could get any figures to go in it (parents should've gone for that early-bird thing), and also how upset it was when I lost Chewbacca's gun in the dark 70s shag carpet, never to be seen again!

  4. 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.

  5. 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
  6. How I got Anakin Skywalker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This was how I got my Anakin Skywalker figure as a kid. It was the Anakin from the end of ROTJ, it was so cool and I was so jazzed.

    Now you won't believe this one, but after getting that when I was about 7 or 8, I write to Hasbro telling them how much of a fan I was and how much I loved Star Wars and that I was enclosing $3 (the going rate back then for StarWars toys, that I earned raking leaves) for a Darth Vader action Figure w/removable helmet and Anakin Skywalkers head/face. Lo' and behold a few weeks later I get a package in the mail with a Darth Vader action figure, non-removable helmet. I was so excited, I didn't care.
    I would like to see you try that now a days.

    That was one fond memory. Thanks.

  7. 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]."

  8. 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..."