The super sizing of Star Wars action figures
The super sizing of Star Wars action figures. “In each image, the Star Wars figure on the left is from 1979 and the one on the right is the re-issued version from 1997.”
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Reader comments
PeterOct 15, 2004 at 5:28PM
Isn't 1997 right around the time androstenedione was in fashion? Hmm... (there's something just not right about a bluked-up 3cpo.)
Kip IngramOct 15, 2004 at 5:29PM
Now that's just ridiculous. They looked like they looked, and making them different now is downright revisionary.
Hey Jason, something's up with the comment box; I can't see the right border on my screen.
jojoOct 15, 2004 at 5:42PM
Yeah, but no one buys the action figures any more. Not when they
can get the LEGO versions.
ramananOct 15, 2004 at 7:19PM
That lucky son of a bitch. All those action figures. And people still buy action figures. Well, I do anyway. Lego is expensive.
Just another anonymous kookOct 16, 2004 at 5:35AM
Yeah, those figures really say something about American culture these days. LEGO, however, will always own.
Jeremy FlintOct 17, 2004 at 7:47AM
Has anyone noticed the new He-Man figures that are being released (started about a year ago or so). Even though He-Man always had that muscular look (it is He-Man after all), the new figures look all hopped up on steroids.
It's like the difference between Oakland A's Mark McGwire (circa 1988) and St. Louis Cardinal's McGwire, all "roided out".
All I have to say on the Star Wars figures is that the lightsaber in the arm thing still rocks.
MarkOct 19, 2004 at 6:32PM
Chewie still looks like a Werewolf in either one.
CB JONESNov 11, 2004 at 4:56PM
Definately a sign of the culture we are living in, It's suprising Leia's breasts are not double D's and that
none of the new figures have tattoos, maybe Hasbro should be let in on the secret...
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