The story goes that when the Kenner toy designers were making the prototype figures, the only visual resource they had for the character Snaggletooth was a grainy, black-and-white photograph of the character's head. With so little to go on, the Kenner employees did their best and just made up the rest, making a figure of a blue suited, average human height creature from a character that actually wore red and was about 3 feet tall. The figure was quickly scrapped and never seen again, making it possibly the rarest Star Wars action figure on the market.
http://actionfigures.about.com/od/historyofactionfigures/tp/top_5_starwars.htm
gotta love the haphazardness of that early merchandising.
― piscesx, Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
from the soundtrack album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqeGtCtDVqs
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 August 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
My buddy named his stoner rock band Blue Snaggletooth:
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=105410702837250
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
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_
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
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
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
They have a USS Flagg at this place near my house: http://bigfunbigfun.com/
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
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...
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Monday, 18 August 2014 08:34 (nine years ago) link
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
― how's life, Monday, 18 August 2014 09:18 (nine years ago) link
little bit. Anyway, there were a few other similar one-man ships called mini-rigs.
― how's life, Monday, 18 August 2014 09:21 (nine years ago) link
should just re-name this thread "arrested development"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 August 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Shakey turned into Dr. Morbius so gradually, we hardly even noticed.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Monday, 18 August 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
would he prefer it if we just sat around wishing Lucas were dead?
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Monday, 18 August 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 August 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
George Washington wouldn't shut up about his favorite ax from childhood
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 18 August 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Some people reminisced about the stick, some people prefered to walk around with the stick firmly planted up their wizened asses.
― The Ape In The Outhouse (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
oh HELLO
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=41928
― piscesx, Monday, 18 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Monday, 18 August 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Monday, 18 August 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 18 August 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah with Lucas' petty ego out of the way the $$$ will win out
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 August 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
i really hope osmeone writes a good article or oral history or wahtever about g-luc's decision to sell off star wars
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
that would def be good reading, but surely it all comes down to '$$$$ + tired of being yelled at by nerds'
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
afaik he'd said that if his black WWII fighter squadron movie failed he was done w movies. (It failed).
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
TBF, he did not try to make it good, so he was clearly looking for a way out the whole time.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah there could v well have been some subconscious self-sabotage there, it is kind of his overall m.o.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
such a massively insecure dude
all of his terrible ideas were just cries for help
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
darth booger or whatever from the cartoons et al
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
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, 19 August 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
I mean, $4 billion
― heck (silby), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
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"
― heck (silby), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
s1ocki otm
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
"Those ILX guys sure are mean to me. I'm getting off this boat."
(PS frogbs is George Lucas)
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
maybe he realized this stuff was just kinda fucking stupid?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
you guys know i wasnt specifically asking YOU for your insights on this matter
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Well Lucas should be along any minute
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
it was four billion dollars s1ocki, how can you not comprehend that
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
he really wanted that ivory backscratcher
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
maybe he was like hey kids, when i die, do you want four billion dollars or responsibility for star wars
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
think he's gonna philanthropize so they won't get all 4 bil
― heck (silby), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
so boba fett probably died of old age, i just realized
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
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?
― cardamon, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
xp iirc from when i was 12 or so the expanded universe take is that boba fett somehow managed to crawl out
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
would def read this thread
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 08:46 (nine years ago) link