F is for Far, Far Away . . .

. . . in a shop near you! Just a quick one covering a few Star Wars bits which have come in with a couple of mixed lots recently, along with a sale item at Sainsbury's which might tickle the fancy of UK viewers.

These came in with that Gogo's Crazy Bones lot the other day (along with some Zomlings - you can look forward too!). Same size, similar shape, mini-deforms; I've seen them around in toy shops and paid no heed to them but I assumed Hasbro, however Google seems to say Flevens but it's not clear?

They look to be pencil tops, but the hole is too small and along with similar things (like the forthcoming Zomlings) it's probably something to do with the production process?

Look at the two clone-troopers and you'll see scale is not strictly adhered-too, and while the figures are all PVC rubber, the two lumps below are a styrene, Perspex or similar hard plastic.

The two lumps being in fact dice, D6 dice following the rules with 6 opposite 1, 5 opposite 2 and four across from three. However due to the nature of the sculpted head between the two plates, they are in fact weighted dice which you wouldn't want to chance-your-luck with . . . except the Darth Vader is weighted to produce sixes!

Kinder? Or something similar . . . mini, clip-together, three-part, Han Solo caricature 'big-head', decorative, Millennium Falcon, novelty hanger-thing, it will go back to charity with the next cast-off's bag!

Currently on sale (???) in Sainsbury's, are these Data-Stick/Flash-Drive/USB-Dongles; either Darth Vader was cheaper to begin with, or the sale items (red labels) aren't much of a bargain? And sixteen-quid for sixteen-Gig's is a bit steep these days, but I do like the R2D2, even though they've left his third 'foot' off . . . again!

A stop press! I remembered Brian Berke sent a Star Wars shelfie-item a while ago; this is the post for it! Disney-Hasbro 'Galactic Heroes' deform action figure of Darth Vader! He's got better 'gripping-hands' than Action Man, which is even more ironic when you remember what he did to one of his son's hands! And he's so mean; he's punched his way out of his packaging!

"Loouke - I'um yoor fathurr!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

Imagine what sales would be like if you issued a set of camp biker toys, a Clint Eastwood (looking impossibly young) and an orang-utan (called Clive)? Yet Star Wars was released 40 years ago this year and somehow the characters have been kept fresh in our minds so we instantly recognise them as up-to-date! And our grandchildren want toys of them too - clever trick!

Although . . .the 'Hoff' is talking about resurrecting Knight Rider! Bleargh!