Sunday, May 22, 2005
Plastic Pride |10:23 PM| So I was at that Bastion of conspicuous consumerism the other day, Walmart, trying to find new deer warning whistles.
I took a look at the action figure aisle, in the star wars section, and it had been ravaged by shoppers. I managed to find a figure I'd been looking for, this Clone Commander:
There were a big pile of clone pilots and a couple other characters, clearly not in as big demand as other characters. There were some lesser known characters, and variants of the main characters. The one I noticed the most of though, was poor Jimmy Smits, playing Senator Bail Organa.
While not the most main character, he certainly had more screen time than say, the Trade Federation things. I guess his figure just wasn't exciting enough.
How depressing for that actor, if he ever visits Walmart.
If I'm ever in a movie/TV series, and there's action figures made, and I'm not a main character, I'm going to put a stipulation in the contract that my figure is "short packed" or made artificially rare. That way the sad sacks of meat that desire complete collections will be desperate to find the tiny plastic avatar of me.
Plastic Pride |10:23 PM| So I was at that Bastion of conspicuous consumerism the other day, Walmart, trying to find new deer warning whistles.
I took a look at the action figure aisle, in the star wars section, and it had been ravaged by shoppers. I managed to find a figure I'd been looking for, this Clone Commander:
There were a big pile of clone pilots and a couple other characters, clearly not in as big demand as other characters. There were some lesser known characters, and variants of the main characters. The one I noticed the most of though, was poor Jimmy Smits, playing Senator Bail Organa.
While not the most main character, he certainly had more screen time than say, the Trade Federation things. I guess his figure just wasn't exciting enough.
How depressing for that actor, if he ever visits Walmart.
If I'm ever in a movie/TV series, and there's action figures made, and I'm not a main character, I'm going to put a stipulation in the contract that my figure is "short packed" or made artificially rare. That way the sad sacks of meat that desire complete collections will be desperate to find the tiny plastic avatar of me.
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