the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

holy grail for nine year old me was a basement-sized super star destroyer, which tbqf i never actually saw, i just invented it in my head. i wanted it to come with a spaceship dock below it large enough to hold a star destroyer, which in itself would have a dock large enough to hold a senator's escape shuttle.

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closest cousin, the awesome GI JOE Defiant, with a space shuttle base that launches a shuttle that can fold out to become a sort of building-like playset, and which is host to...another shuttle:

http://www.planetdiecast.com/hwdphotos/originals/12130/1173/defiant.jpg

My buddy named his stoner rock band Blue Snaggletooth:

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Also, I always thought the USS Flagg was the end-all/be-all of 80s action figure toys, as that thing was like 7.5 feet long

http://www.timidfutures.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gijoe-uss-flagg-aircraft-carrier.jpg

Fun/dumb fact: the set was based on the aircraft carrier used in _The Final Countdown_

Also, on a related note, I scored an original FX-7 in great condition for $3 from a local consignment store:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/s640x640/1621788_10152257103346596_8544268108627425152_n.jpg?oh=bf1dc3da1f95d0766e90a8e228b54ac0&oe=545FE731&__gda__=1417510900_7a83575bdfaca484daa6cc30f48f2fac

They have a USS Flagg at this place near my house: http://bigfunbigfun.com/

Ha; my ex-gf strongly recommended I visit there last time I got sent to Cleveland. Didn't get the chance to make it down, tho.

I had one of the cardboard UK death stars as a kid! It was so rad - it had a tunnel you could throw your figures down, into the trash compactor...

Switching gears a little but, I had one of these things. Cool because it had nothing to do with the movie.

http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/5361/8439313_2.jpg?v=8CB24FA57116B70

little bit. Anyway, there were a few other similar one-man ships called mini-rigs.

should just re-name this thread "arrested development"

Shakey turned into Dr. Morbius so gradually, we hardly even noticed.

would he prefer it if we just sat around wishing Lucas were dead?

I wonder if previous generations got all "man when I was a kid I had this one stick I used to play with, it was the coolest thing" as they aged

George Washington wouldn't shut up about his favorite ax from childhood

Some people reminisced about the stick, some people prefered to walk around with the stick firmly planted up their wizened asses.

oh HELLO

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=41928

xxp yeah no baby boomers definitely were never a target market for having their own childhoods sold back to them, that is a thing that never happened.

As io9.com pointed out the other day, all this talk of unaltered Original Trilogy Blu-Rays is just talk, since Fox owns the worldwide distribution rights to Star Wars in perpetuity, and to the other five movies through 2020.

Yeah, but as also pointed out elsewhere, Fox could stand to strike a deal that would make them bucketloads of money. I think it'll still happen sooner rather than later, there is way too much money to be made for it not to.

yeah with Lucas' petty ego out of the way the $$$ will win out

i really hope osmeone writes a good article or oral history or wahtever about g-luc's decision to sell off star wars

that would def be good reading, but surely it all comes down to '$$$$ + tired of being yelled at by nerds'

afaik he'd said that if his black WWII fighter squadron movie failed he was done w movies. (It failed).

TBF, he did not try to make it good, so he was clearly looking for a way out the whole time.

yeah there could v well have been some subconscious self-sabotage there, it is kind of his overall m.o.

such a massively insecure dude

all of his terrible ideas were just cries for help

darth booger or whatever from the cartoons et al

i wanna know the moment he went from i am the mastermind and god of this complex universe and i will be overseeing it and all its technical innovatiosn for decades to come to "ah fuck it"

I mean, $4 billion

Bob Iger probably gave him a call and was like "our stock is up ever since we started this Marvel thing and we're looking for more bankable franchises, how's $4 billion for the whole kit and caboodle sound to you"

s1ocki otm

i know it was a lot of money but dude was already loaded, there had to be some sort of large shift in his consciousness

"Those ILX guys sure are mean to me. I'm getting off this boat."

(PS frogbs is George Lucas)

maybe he realized this stuff was just kinda fucking stupid?

you guys know i wasnt specifically asking YOU for your insights on this matter

Well Lucas should be along any minute

it was four billion dollars s1ocki, how can you not comprehend that

he really wanted that ivory backscratcher

maybe he was like hey kids, when i die, do you want four billion dollars or responsibility for star wars

think he's gonna philanthropize so they won't get all 4 bil

I, George Lucas, being of sound mind and body, do hereby bequeath all of my worldly belongs to the Sarlacc, where they will learn a new definition of pain as they are slowly digested over a thousand years.

so boba fett probably died of old age, i just realized

Not partic relevant but the talk upthread about ridiculously huge toys, do you think it wd be interesting to do a thread about that - consumer products so extremely expensive that (I assume) almost no-one ever owned them?

xp iirc from when i was 12 or so the expanded universe take is that boba fett somehow managed to crawl out

"this will be your last chance to own the original masterpiece"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKr5R1VNPjI

hillarious how they flogged them on video before the 97 special versions.

"this will be your last chance to own the original masterpiece"

Not partic relevant but the talk upthread about ridiculously huge toys, do you think it wd be interesting to do a thread about that - consumer products so extremely expensive that (I assume) almost no-one ever owned them?

would def read this thread

i wanna know the moment he went from i am the mastermind and god of this complex universe and i will be overseeing it and all its technical innovatiosn for decades to come to "ah fuck it"

― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:42 AM (Yesterday)

george lucas alone at 3:00 am in his vast and darkened imax chamber, peaking on 4 hits of good acid, watching attack of the clones and sobbing uncontrollably

There's a pleasant 'toys your parents wouldn't buy you' thread, don't recall specificslly, but more of a list / pics thing than a look into the economics and curious product development lives of toys designed for the Gekko tots but hyped indiscriminately to all.