Star Wars Follies: Return of the Jedi STICKS 

Really I did not know that

True, although the only Jabba denizen figures that actually used staffs in the film were Weequay, Barada and Skiff Klatu. I find it weird that Kenner never decided to give any other Jabba denizens the Palace Blaster, unlike many of the staffs, I can recall several times where the denizens use the Palace Blaster. Figures like Nikto, Klatu, Yak face and/or even Bib Fortuna should’ve had the Palace Blaster.

@@jacksprofessionalproductio9403 I have to wonder if there was some kind of actual "no guns" memo going around at the time. Those types of moral panics tend to surface periodically.

thankyou for mentioning the Sherwood forest, as my brother had one!

Mike Sadowski we always used the colored tooth picks.they fit right in

i favored the those colored swords that delis put in club sandwiches.

whart about yellow?

Q-tips used to have transparent blue plastic handles. Those were my favorite

@@pathevermore3683 yep, the cocktail swords!

The guards at Buckingham Palace are armed with SA-80 assault rifles.

@@white-dragon4424 They're not loaded, though.

@zombislayer876 He said "a royal guard". He didn't say anything about them having to be fictional. And they will be loaded, only their safety switches will be on, because those troops aren't just for show. They serve the same function as the Marines who protect the president of the US, who's arms will also be loaded and on safety.

hanscombe72 we know that as adults, but as kids, it was a little weak.

Goes back to the Romans, they called it a fasces lictoriae.

Adm. Ackbar also carried one. In other shows, Cmdr. Caine in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica, and Capt. Styles of the USS Excelsior in Star Trek III had their own versions of the swagger stick, ditto G. I. Joe's Sgt. Slaughter.

Currently have one coming on the way 😁

Selfie stick...

C-3PO with 1978-79 artwork is my favourite one. The most beautiful of them all. Warm, soft, red and yellow. Bspin Luke comes second but it has to be that attacking posture on it.

Greedo. My mom only got my Star Wars figures when they went on sale. Greedo was my guy.

I would say luke stormtrooper, i had the Palitoy death star and with Luke Stormtrooper the play value was awesome. Oh and R2D2 love that figure

I am Swedish and born -73. We had your experiences too and other. God damn! In the 90s I wanted to purchase VHS copies of White House Ronald Reagan. This of course was before youtube.

I too love these throwbacks :-)

or a tissue to catch all those tears 😂

Ugnaught box has a use now!

That playset was awesome in play value.

Sure, if you ignore the AT-ST driver, B-Wing pilot, Endor Rebel soldier, Han Solo in trench coat, Nien Nunb, Leia in poncho, A-Wing pilot, General Calrissian, Luke in poncho...

All the others would have had nothing if they were movie accurate. Sticks are okay.

Hahaha. HAHAHA.

They look it.

With all of the skulls on it, it looks like something he borrowed from the PREDATOR.

i can't argue with that!

my fav star wars movie

It's fantastic.

And yet Luke used a stick to escape its jaws.

Do you still have it?

Thanks!

Congratulations!

Mack Bonham Rey is bae.

@Andrew Kearney story wise, they’re objectively worse. The prequels have a great story, and if you watch them without dialogue they’re pretty darn good. The sequels story destroys the character of original trilogy heroes and is blatantly unoriginal and messy. The only thing the sequels have over the prequels is dialogue

@Andrew Kearney when Han Solo is a failure deadbeat dad who runs out on his family and somehow looses the millennium falcon. All that character progression from the original trilogy, from smuggler to captain in the rebellion to finally a general in ROTJ, completely gone. When Luke Skywalker is a failed Jedi who completely gives up, is unwilling to train Rey, and just wants to die, as opposed to that farm boy who became a rebel alliance commander and a Jedi that helped destroy the Sith and Empire in ROTJ. He thought about killing Ben after he spent all of ROTJ trying to turn Vader back to the light side, even after Ben, Yoda, and Vader all told him it was impossible. I’d understand if he failed, but he didn’t: Vader turned back to the light. If a mass murderer and horrendous Sith Lord could change, then why would Luke think of killing a teenage kid, his nephew no less? That is a glaring change in Luke’s character, and like Mark Hamill said, it is fundamentally flawed, because the whole point of being a Jedi is that you don’t give up. The sequels turned two of the three great icons of the Original trilogy into failures. Leia was the one exception, as they didn’t really do much to her. The sequels also completely destroyed the impactful ending of Return of the Jedi, as the Jedi did not return, the empire was not destroyed, Han and Leia did not live happily ever after, and basically everything the rebellion did was pointless. The whole point of the story was good vs evil and good winning, and then the sequels come and Disney basically says April Fools, the rebellion didn’t really win or destroy the empire. The story was messy since the Force Awakens when they built a third Death Star and made Kylo Ren follow Vader’s path despite the fact Vader turned from the dark side. Why the heck didn’t Anakin’s force ghost appear to him? I’m not saying the Prequels are perfect, but they don’t destroy original trilogy characters, they complete them and the story more fully. Learning about Anakin being the chosen one makes ROTJ more impactful, as you see that he does destroy the Sith when he destroys Palpatine. Knowing how Palpatine got power, how the Jedi were destroyed, and so much more were great ideas, they filled in the lore of Star Wars, and they don’t contradict anything on the level the sequels do, and I disagree that a story is good regardless if it has continuity or not. Continuity is what makes the Marvel MCU superior to the X men cinematic universe. Continuity is what makes the story believable, and the Sequels destroy it. Aside from destroying ROTJ’s ending, they say the Sith are not destroyed. Suddenly you can track people through hyperspace, use hyperspace to go through ships (why not just do that through the Death Stars), force users can literally appear wherever they want and communicate and fight in visions, force ghosts can interact with matter (Yoda destroying the tree), and the list goes on. The rules of the Force, light speed, and everything else are completely and utterly disrespected. Also, Rey’s journey as a Jedi makes zero sense. Luke is powerful. Luke also gets his butt handed to him and looses a hand. Anakin is the most powerful Jedi of all. He also looses a hand facing a Sith with the help of his master. Both of them had training before this. Rey has no training and somehow manages to beat Kylo Ren, a trained Sith, not once, but twice without a scratch. I’m not saying she had to loose a hand, but she should have at least struggled. I’m not saying the Prequels are beautifully directed or that the characters are the best, but they at least preserve continuity and present a believable story, not a rehash of the original trilogy with a poor stand in for Luke Skywalker.

@Andrew Kearney firstly, it doesn’t matter why Luke did it, he still did it, and it was extremely out of character. The point of being a Jedi is that you learn not to do things out of fear. And why would he be that afraid when Vader literally proved that no one was that far gone? It is so out of character for Luke to act in such a way. Sure, he’s acted out of fear of loosing people, like Han and Leia in ESB, but he’s never tried to harm someone out of fear. He spends the whole ROTJ avoiding Darth Vader because he doesn’t want to kill him. The idea that Luke does that to Ben out of fear is a horrendous attempt to make Ben relatable. Secondly, the Old Republic was decaying from within and the Jedi Order was decaying, that is true, but it fell because a Sith Lord orchestrated a civil war to take it over. In the sequels, the movies never explained where the first order came from, and how they became so powerful. In the original trilogy we know the Empire is the Empire, and that’s enough because it’s the first set of movies and we don’t need to know everything, and in the prequels, it explains the separatist faction and the republic, and we see how the republic became the empire. There is no explanation for the first order, and this is a problem because the empire fell in ROTJ, so where did it come from? And why is it the Resistance fighting and not the whole New Republic? Thirdly, while I understand the people in the new republic could be just as stupid as people in the old republic, would they really be stupid enough to let the first order grow unnoticed? After destroying an empire, are they literally not going to notice a new one forming under their nose? And for the record, I’m not opposed to there being a first order, they just need to explain this stuff in the movies and explain how the first order rose to power. The clone wars are well explained in the prequels. The first order and resistance are not. Fourthly, Kylo Ren was able to take Finn down quite easily in the Force Awakens, so why not Rey? Rey and Finn had equal amounts of skill with a lightsaber, at exactly 0%, and don’t say the Force, cause she hasn’t had any training at that point. She does beat Kyle in the Last Jedi, as after their duel with Snoke’s guards, she somehow manages to take half the lightsaber from him when they break it over fighting over it. Somehow Kylo is unconscious and she is not. She has more control over her Force abilities than a Sith Apprentice/Lord. I don’t count TROS because she had training by then. Fourthly, you’re right, Marvel does have plot holes, but the rules of the universe are always respected, and that’s what matters most. The sequel trilogy not only has narrative plot holes, but plot holes in it’s logic. I really don’t know how to process what you said about how the made up science isn’t what Star Wars is about, because it is. Star Wars is Jedi and Sith and the Force and light speed and all this stuff. It’s what makes Star Wars unique from other science fantasy movies. Sure, it’s about the characters as well, but the characters aren’t everything, the world they inhabit is a good portion as well. So while I agree sometimes narrative plot holes are not too distracting, plot holes in the rules and logic of the world certainly are. If you’re watching a movie that’s supposed to be realistic, or non-science fiction/fantasy, and people start floating for no reason, wii ok update you be bothered by that? I’d hope so, because those are not the rules of our universe. When I watch TLJ, and ships can blast through others with light speed, ships can be tracked through light speed, force users can project and battle through projections only, and Force ghosts can interact with the universe, then that bothers me, because that’s not how Star Wars physics and rules work. These plot holes are distracting because they do not make sense and comprise major parts of the story. Fifthly, Rey is a stand in for Luke, because this trilogy, at least the first two movies, do closely mirror the first two OT movies. You’re telling me they couldn’t come up with something better than a third Death Star? Rey is the same idea. Both lonely teens living a pretty boring life, dreaming of the stars, until they find a droid with information vital to the destruction of the Empire/First Order, both meet close mentor/father figures (Ben/Han) who try to show them the ropes,m and who sacrifice themselves to a Sith Lord to save them, and both travel to find a long lost Jedi master to rekindle the Jedi. Honestly, most of that doesn’t bother me, it’s just the fact that Luke was the last of the Jedi and the only one who could destroy the Sith, and he does, but then the sequel trilogy basically says,”yeah, actually Luke failed, he didn’t redound the Jedi, so now Rey is gonna do the same thing.” In 10 years they’ll probably make another set of movies where Rey fails at recounting the Jedi and someone else is the last of the Jedi. It’s not that they’re both Jedi that makes them the same: it’s that they both are supposedly the last Jedi that has to bring the Jedi back. The empire is in control, the rebels are rebelling, and the Jedi have to return. Same thing. Sixthly, I don’t care what the EU has to say about force projections. I shouldn’t have to read a book or play a game or something to understand the movie. If a movie doesn’t explain itself then it’s a poor movie. Seventhly, I think it’s safe to assume considering Kylo Ren seems unaware that Anakin turned good again at the end. Obi Wan didn’t appear to Vader because he thought Vader to be a lost cause. He told Luke Vader was to far gone to turn back. I find it hard to believe that this teenage boy is running away trying to emulate Darth Vader and Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda do nothing. Eithtly, Han did run out, because instead of trying to reach Ben after all this goes down, he just leaves. TFA was not his first chance, he could have gone to Ben anytime, long before Ben ever reached Snoke or the First Order. Han and Luke both just gave up, making the whole sequel trilogy their fault. I’m sorry, I just think Han and Luke both had plenty of opportunities before TFA to do something, but they didn’t, which brings us to our last point. Point nine, I agree characters need to have flaws to be interesting, hence why I don’t like Rey. However, Han and Luke were flawed. Han is a depressed, lonely guy whose life is a smuggler, who lives dangerously without much concern for stability or building a good life. He just cares about his debt, himself, and money (and Chewie/falcon). He meets an old Jedi and a young farm boy, and gradually he changes. He starts caring about more than just himself and money. He comes back to blow up the Death Star when the odds are against him living through it. He becomes a captain in the alliance and sticks around with them until he’s put in carbonite, even going so far as to protect the leader of the alliance who thinks he’s a scoundrel. Then, after he’s rescued, instead of retiring, like he could have, he becomes a general and leads the strike on the shield generator. This selfish, shell of a man goes from a smuggler to a decorated general and from a selfish idiot to a caring man. Luke starts off as a naive farm boy, always dreaming of adventure and excitement, full of fear and anger, and gets to be part of the alliance. He blows up the first Death Star. Then he becomes a rebel commander and trains with Yoda, until he faces Darth Vader: and loses. Miserably. That’s where that naive farm boy starts to understand the dark side and confront the darkness. Then he keeps training and becomes a Jedi master, culminating when he defeats Darth Vader and resists Darth Sidious. Even then he’s not perfect: he only wins cause Vader saves him. These characters were always flawed, but the story was about ten overcoming their flaws, but the sequel trilogy just takes them and acts like all that character development never happened and that Han is still just a selfish smuggler and Luke a naive idiot who is not a true Jedi. The Han and Luke at the end of ROTJ would not have given up because Luke had a nightmare about Ben killing people. The sequel trilogy didn’t give these characters flaws, it made them flawed characters by stripping away all their character growth and making them failures. Lastly, you are free to like whatever you want obviously. But what you like can be bad, and the sequels are bad. They seem like good movies, but once you know about Star Wars, you realize that they completely and utterly disrespect the rules of the Star Wars universe and the characters that inhabit it. The sequel trilogy is a poor imitation of what the original trilogy is. You can like it, and I obviously do not care, but the sequels can in no way be as good movies as the originals because of how problematic they are, and at least the prequels didn’t disrespect rules or characters.

@Hayden Peterman You must be a millennial. Those of us who actually saw Empire in the theaters in the '80s know how to properly pronounce it. We don't just pull f****** s*** out of our asses.

Julius Maloney, Wow, are you hyper sensitive or something? I read through these comments to, and everyone seems fine. Perhaps you need thicker skin??

Jamie Braswell Dude, your comment was 2 years after his, of course in that time the negative comments would be drowned in recent comments, don’t be a dick when you can’t even see the specific comments

You are referring to Ewok Battle Wagon. Nice!