Happy Star Wars Day!
To celebrate May the 4th all my Star Wars droid posters are on SALE! They’re $10.00 each, and you can get a set with R2 and 3PO for only $16.00!
At Etsy, of course!
Hey America (and also other countries), you’ve got about 6 hours before this wicked-awesome deal of $10 star wars posters goes away. Get in on this already!
Happy Star Wars Day! This R2D2 Schematic is finally done, and is available at BigCartel and Etsy. Even better - it’s on sale for the occassion for $10.00, and so are my 3PO and IG-88 posters!!!
Today only!
246 (Sorry that I Missed Star Wars Day Yesterday)
I won’t lie, it was a grave oversight to not make an occasion out of Star Wars Day on this blog. Not only was it a missed opportunity, it was also a betrayal of my ten-year-old self, who never would have made such a mistake and who would be dismayed to know that such depths are what wait for him in 13 years (he would also probably be surprised to learn how much he’s going to weigh). Well, at least I can make up for one of these things: today’s robot is The Empire Stikes Back’s IG-88, in all his action-figure glory.
Listen: if you want my opinion (and why wouldn’t you?) IG-88 is Where It’s At as far as Star Wars robots are concerned. I love R2 as much as anybody, 2-1B was a good enough physician, and EV-9D9 was scary, but IG-88 is a stone cold badass of a machine. IG-88 is as close as the Star Wars and Terminator universes ever came to colliding, and you know that is basically all anybody could ever ask for. Also, you may wonder how I could have such a strong opinion about a character who only shows up in the movies for about 8 seconds and who isn’t Boba Fett. Here is why: Back on the first day of summer vacation in 1997 I started reading This Book. The first story (which I’ve tried to link to using Amazon’s look-inside feature, your results may vary depending what they’ve left in and where you’re accessing this from) is about IG-88, and it was definitely the most brutal depiction of robot-on-human violence I’d ever read at the time, and probably remained so until Mo started writing stuff like this.
P.S. If anybody wants to get up in my face about how the pictured figure is actually of an IG Lancer Droid and not of THE IG-88 then don’t. Instead, give me a break because all my Star Wars Toys From Childhood are in a box somewhere in Ohio.
