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Saturday, December 16, 2017

The Star Wars toys I had as a kid

Whenever a new Star Wars film comes out, I think we're all reminded (at least people of my age) of the times when we first saw the films of the original trilogy and what they have meant to us.   I was 4 years old when Star Wars came out.  This was in the early days of cable TV when you had to pay for the movie channels.  We had HBO and I must have seen Star Wars on cable a hundred times until I pretty much had it memorized.  I was a full time Star Wars nut by Empire Strikes Back and I remember seeing Return of the Jedi in theaters at age 10.  The part above the Sarlaac when Luke springs off the platform, gets the lightsaber from R2 and goes to town with the music blaring is still one of the greatest moments of my movie life.  Anyway, such moments also remind me of the toys I used to own so here's a list of the ones I remember.  

Action figures:  All of them from all three movies, including BOTH Snaggletooth types.  The short red one and the tall teal one.  I wasn't lucky enough to get a Boba Fett with the missile that actually shot but I obviously had the action figure.  

Two hard plastic carrying cases to hold the action figures, one of Darth Vader and one of C-3PO.  

The Land Speeder from Star Wars.  

The Millennium Falcon.  

An X-wing fighter.  

A Y-wing fighter.  

(A friend of mine had a TIE fighter with battle damage decals I was way jealous of.  He also had the Death Star set.)  

The rancor from Return of the Jedi.  

A full sized plastic lightsaber with a green light that lit it up.  

A miniature Cloud City carbon freeze set with miniature figures including Han in carbon freeze. 

A two legged AT-AT (like they had at the battle on Endor.)  

Jabba the Hut on the platform he sat on in the movie.  The platform opened up and you could put an action figure in there like he's fallen in the rancor pit.  

A speeder bike the stormtroopers used on Endor (the kind Luke and Leia stole for the speeder bike chase.)  You could press a button and the Speeder would break to pieces.  

A small record player with a record of the events of Empire Strikes Back.  

That's almost if not all of them.  That's what I remember anyway.  












Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Romantic Lyrical Poem - A Staid and Stodgy Loner

I've always known I'd always be
a staid and stodgy loner.
In social life I'd have no wife,
a wanderer and roamer.

Nothing in my life's blind push has
changed this path for me.
I only deal with fate's cold feel
a failure all can see.

Alas for me it cannot be
my hopes and dreams do fade.
I age now as all humans must
accepting what God's laid.

I choose the peace of only one
who fails and lives a goner.
My saddened bane I do remain
a staid and stodgy loner.