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    Tom Hanks Talks Becoming A Wild Thing, Plus Toy Story 3

    Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys

    Monsters, The Rock, And Adults Trapped In Teen Bodies Flood Movie Theaters

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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/14/09

    In reply to Tom Hanks Talks Becoming A Wild Thing, Plus Toy Story 3
    i saw Toy Story 3 a few weeks ago...
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    10/15/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: ...and what did we think about it? #tomhanks
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment Chip Skylark of Space was starred Chip Skylark of Space was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/15/09

    @Chip Skylark of Space: it was good. let me say this- it builds up to the PERFECT ending for the series.

    now the cons- the bad guy is a poor man's Stinky Pete, act one is a poor imitation of act one of Toy Story 2, the final climax in act three is a again, a poor repeat of the airport chase in TS2.

    the good news- i gave all that feedback to the pixar peeps on hand. and the film i saw was, i'd say 75% animatic. so we're still a ways out, they will hopefully make some changes... we will see. #tomhanks
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment Bootknife-Jackson was starred Bootknife-Jackson was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/16/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: wicked, i'm a star man now! on my burfday no less! thanks Meredith! #tomhanks
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    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    10/14/09

    In reply to Tom Hanks Talks Becoming A Wild Thing, Plus Toy Story 3

    I hope some day that Tom has the money to pay for a trip to the moon (the Soyuz vacation special). That'd blow people's minds, but that last I saw, the Russians were saying it would cost 100 million. It'd be nice for Soyuz to finally do the thing it was built to do- go to the moon.
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    Image of dry-roasted-peanuts dry-roasted-peanuts
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    The Skywalker family are wimps, plain and simple. Piss and moan, piss and moan. Whaaa, I want Padme. Whaaa, I want Biggs. Whaa, I want Mommy. Whaaa, I wanna go some power converters.

    The only one in that family with any stones is Leia.
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    09/29/09

    @dry-roasted-peanuts: And Leia was raised by another family.
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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    IF you pre-order, they'll throw in the "Domestic Assault victim Padme" character, with realistic dying-in-childbirth action.
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    Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was starred Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was unstarred
    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    Is it just me, or does this toy sound like it should come with a pink picnic basket, so Mr. Vader can go visit the fields of Naboo where he fell in love?
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    Image of Mudron Mudron
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    How is Scabby formed?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Mudron was starred Mudron was unstarred
    Image of SulabhaDove SulabhaDove
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    All his limbs are removable. This is a repack of mostly stuff available during the ROTS toy line in one big collection. (Disclosure: I am a huge Star Wars nerd.)
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment SulabhaDove was starred SulabhaDove was unstarred
    Image of Shewski Shewski
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    The official name is "Chopper Droid"? LAME- it should be at least something like CH0-PP3R. And wasn't 21-b the droid who was nice to Luke in ESB? Did he feel badly about this and defect?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Shewski was starred Shewski was unstarred
    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    I think they have the stubby, burnt up Anakin/Vader action figure.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    battle pack? really? isn't this more of a post-battle 15th degree burn ward pack?
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    I read this waiting for the punchline, but apparently this is a real toy.

    I officially am going to have to stop complaining that toys are cooler now than when I was little.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    09/23/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: And I agree, it has to at least have a button that you push to make him say "NOOOOOOO!!!"
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    As TR pointed out, without the "NOOOOOO!" sound chip to make fun of, what's the point?
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    TemporalSword was starred TemporalSword was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    09/23/09

    @TemporalSword: I prefer the "DO NO WANT!" version.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/23/09

    @crashedpc : unrein: you would
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    tetracycloide was starred tetracycloide was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    How does Vader shower?
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/23/09

    @twophrasebark:
    He uses the force, silly. Otherwise if he doesn't then the Death Star will smell like burnt bacon and feet within a week.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    09/23/09

    @twophrasebark:

    Ewwww?
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    Image of riotnrrd riotnrrd
    09/23/09

    @twophrasebark: I actually asked bonniegrrl that very question, and her semi-official answer is that he's only partly organic, so he just wipes the meat bits down with a damp rag or something. Sponge-baths in spaaaaace!
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment riotnrrd was starred riotnrrd was unstarred
    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    09/23/09

    @twophrasebark:
    Hookup for a hose at the top, drainage ports in the soles of the boots, and hope that all the electronic bits are still sealed.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/23/09

    In reply to Now You Too Can Birth The Scabby Darth Vader, With Toys
    Looks like a pretty dull play set for a boy.

    May have more appeal as the Dress Up Darth Playset for SF nerdettes. Not included is the Padme dress up set.
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    Edited by ManchuCandidate at 09/23/09 9:26 AM ManchuCandidate was starred ManchuCandidate was unstarred
    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    01/12/09

    In reply to Monsters, The Rock, And Adults Trapped In Teen Bodies Flood Movie Theaters
    Black Disney Princesses FTW!!!
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    Image of Mav Mav
    01/12/09

    @BeccaThePromoMami: Ha! First thing I thought of. Awesome disney. You think it was about time yet?
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