Sometimes, when my wife is out of town, I like to take a couple cans of EZ Cheese, spray them all over my body, and roll around in the front yard.  Oooh, squishy n' mooshy...!!!    



That wasn't too much information, was it?

Still looking for one more mint card to complete your set Chris, and then I'll fire them off to you!  My next trip down to Disneyland should be January 24th/25th, so I'll let you (and Dale) know what I can dig up!

On a side note, on my previous trip down there last week, I wound up having a nice little chat with the employee who works in the Star Traders shop (that sells the figures).  When he was ringing up the ones I was buying for Chris, he asked me if I'd be back for the third wave.  I replied that if/when the last 3 droids ever see the light of day, I'll be the first fool in line for them.  I then added that the the final wave now looked pretty doubtful at this point, since not even a hint or picture of them has hit anywhere online to date.

He quickly retorted, saying "No, not at all.  We're due to receive them near the end of next month (late February)."  I asked about the rumored Saga cardbacks for the final wave, but he said that as far as he knew, they'd definitely still be on the green POTJ cards.  So there ya' go.  Take it as you will, but this fella seemed surprisingly knowledgeable about the Star Tours line (and Star Wars in general) during our 5 minute chat about it, so hopefully he knows what he's talking about!  (fingers crossed...)

I'd definitely go with the Removable Helmet Vader.  Just awesome.  But pretty much any brand new figure that had never been made in the Vintage line was highly favored by me:

• Slave Leia
• Grand Moff Tarkin
• Garindan
• Oola
• Cantina Band Member
• Sandtrooper
• Wuher
• Biggs
• Han Stormtrooper
• Ishi Tib (despite wrong outfit)
• Muftak/Kabe
• etc...

I picked up a copy of this off of eBay a couple years back.  For the $10-$15 that I paid for it, I'd say it was well worth it!  This show is a nostalgic treasure of years past - true 70's in all it's glory.  No Star Wars video library would be complete without one!

But, with that said, from a Star Wars standpoint, I must point out that this is a complete and total abomination.  An atrocity of monumental proportions.  It's like watching a train wreck, or the freak show at the circus.  You never look at some of your favorite Trilogy characters the same again!  From the very beginning, your jaw just drops open, as you sit and wonder how in the hell this show ever got produced and released on network TV.  What was George thinking when he signed off on this?!?  Absolutely unbelievable...

There are a couple of redeeming points to the Holiday Special though (kinda).  There's the interesting Boba Fett cartoon, with his first ever appearance anywhere in the SW Saga.  Then there's also the Cantina scene...  Sure, it's more than frightening to see one of the Golden Girls filling in for Wuher behind the bar, and leading the entire Cantina alien gang in a wonderous song and dance number.  But if you consider the fact that you barely got a glimpse of most of these aliens in ANH, you'll perhaps enjoy seeing them up close and personal, in much greater detail throughout this extended scene.  Granted they're singing and dancing, but from a reference standpoint, this scene is a customizers dream!

The whole show is just freakishly bizarre.  You'll never be the same after watching it, but it's so far out there that it's almost worth watching just for the pure shock value (similar to the recent Anna Nicole show).

If any of you do wind up getting a copy and watching it, listen to me when I tell you that no matter what, it will be even worse than you ever imagined - despite all the terrible things that you've already heard about it.  It was the most difficult hour or two of my life watching this thing...  But I'm glad that I did, 'cause at least I now know where my POTJ Zutton comes from!

I've been collecting these since their inception.  I've got all of the Original Trilogy ornaments, along with a couple Prequel ones which I don't care too much for.

My favorite is the light up Millenium Falcon - by far.  This thing is totally sweet!  It's the only one I've ever put up on my Christmas trees.  I plan to buy a small, fake tree sometime soon to put in the Star Wars room (when we move), to give all of my ornaments a permanent home.

Well, technically it's not exactly the same.  Same mold, but this one has a fair amount of weathering on it that's not on the POTJ version, along with a few added "blast" marks.  I'll be picking up another one to keep MIMB, and probably one more as well to keep loose, just due to the slightly different paint apps.  Yes, I'm a freak like that.  Please no flaming, thank you!  

It's nice to see this vehicle getting refreshed out on the retail market again, as it was a pretty difficult find for many folks the first time around.  I know I never saw the POTJ version in stores - had to pick up a couple on the trading boards.

BTW, there's a store report in our forums here (the Indy section) of possibly finding these at a K-mart.  Is this still solely a WM exclusive?  Perhaps that was just a typo in that store report...  Anyone know for sure?

I've been trying for months to get Morgbug to give me one of his.  Surprisingly, to no avail...  

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