Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Another missed opportunity...

While perusing through a favourite site of mine: Rebelscum.com looking at all the cool Star Wars toys that were released while I was in Afghanistan; I came across among other things, a Yavin hangar technician that bears an incredibly disturbingly accurate likeness of Neil - a bloke I know in Dublin and a new Lars Homestead playset.

I gleefully thought for a moment that the latter would be the oft-wished set for the collectors market - ie. the Lars Homestead that's a smouldering ruin after the Stormtroopers are done with their interrogation of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru! Alas it's just a depiction of a scene that was never on screen where a Sandtrooper arrives to begin questioning.

See how Owen is raising his hand to the Imperial? This is blatant disrespect! I always knew the Lars' got what they deserved! Actually, come to think of it - this scene is more in keeping more with the events in Kevin Rubio's hilarious Cops parody in the Star Wars universe - Troops! I'll see if it's on Youtube.

***UPDATE***
It is! Enjoy....




Sources: Douglas Kastle, mcmorran.org, Rebelscum.com

4 comments:

Bruce Russell said...

This reminds me of my line of hand-sculpted action figure playsets based on R.E.M. songs, in particular my rendering of "Disturbance at the Heron House." Man, did I used to have the spare time . . .

vaughan said...

Neil has informed that seeing the scary , scary action figure representation of himself that he now intends to buy a couple of sets and convince people he was in Star Wars.(especailly good looking young women)
Seeing this new Owen farmstead action figure set surely the manufactuers should consider the following......

Massacre of the Sand People play set.."Yes you too can now recreate everyones favourite off camera massacare when Anakin slaughtered Men, women and children!"

Massacre of the Younglings Playset
"Now you can recreate the massacre of the Younglings of the Jedi Academy ..comes with interchangeable parts for a sand people flashback diorama and six different sounds so you can recreate the Younglings dying screams and asking Master Anakin "Why?"
*Bail Organa getting his ass out of there action figure not included!

Death cmes to the surface of Alderaan ..."Yes kids renact the last moments of life on the Surface of Leias Homeworld as they realise too late they are being obliterated by the empire....

* Bail Organa failing to get his ass out of there action figure included

And Finally the Farwell on Yavin Playset.

Yes recreate that crucial scene not shown on screen when as Luke Skywalker recieved his medal , the ragged survivors of Rogue squadron said farewell to their fallen.
Recreate the moment they realised there wasn't enough of their fallen comrades left to bury. thrill as each playset comes with a complete set of empty coffins filled instead with personal items including the Squadron leaders unfinished autobiography
"Men I flew with but not fought with in the Clone Wars.." and "Leadership for dummies" and Jek Porkins favourite teddy bear "Mr Squiggles".

*Wedge Antilles "At Least it wasn't me " Action figure sold seperately!

Bruce Russell said...

Will the Younglings feature detachable limbs, a la "Backpack C-3P0" from the Empire Strikes Back line?

vaughan said...

not only detachable body parts but detatchable heads!Order today!