Posted by Vandal668 at marl-205.befree.com on November 16, 2001 at 10:50:48:
In Reply to: Man, I wasn't that cool... posted by TheMojoPin on November 16, 2001 at 10:39:30:
: Even more traumatic was they I kept losing the original Han Solo figure. The VERY first one from Episode 4, that had a weird shaped head and looked more like Robin Williams than Harrison Ford...the first time was when my family and I were staying in this resort on Costa Rica...place had a great kids' pool, with a huge jungle-gym-type-thing that went over, in, and around the pool...well, I was climbing on top of the monkey bars with Han in hand, and I unfortunately dropped him. Now, this MUST be an example of the excellent craftsmanship that Kenner (It was Kenner, right?) applied to these figures, because after falling 5 feet, this only 2-month-old figure's head snapped clean off. And since he had just been in the pool, he was filled with water...water which came flooding out of his headless neck...which on the brick-colored tile looked very RED...
Now that would have fucked me up for life!
I didn't get very many GI Joes as a kid. My mother thought they were too violent. This however did not stop her from showering me with He-Man toys. So let me get this straight, ma. I can't have little figures who on TV shoot apparently harmless lasers at each other that never seem to wound anybody. Not to mention anytime a vehicle is destroyed, the guys inside always seem to parachute to safety (even the guys in the tanks). However, I CAN have a collection of half-naked barbarians wielding giant swords trying to get into a huge castle that looks like a big skull? That sound logical. Nooch.