I think this must be either an unmarked McDonald's type premium (which is
unusual; their stuff is usually clearly marked?), or some bootleg market-stall
rack toy type thing? I don't remember it being marked anyway, but as it was not
working I'd already decided to take it apart for the figure. Is that crown the Burger King logo or the new movie
graphics? Kylo Ren?
A light-sabre will cut through anything!
The funny thing was it started making Star
Wars noises and flashing as I was taking it apart - it clearly had a loose
connection somewhere - and for clues to origin I took similar equipment out of
those Tiger Electronics spaceships
and Speeders when I added them to the Galoob
fleet a decade or more ago now?
From the same Charity shop (and the same
collection?), I also got the C3PO jiggler, like a bobble-head he is articulated,
but at the waist, and he jiggles like a hula-girl at the slightest movement. He's unmarked apart
from a single figure '15' on the underside of the base, and while construction
seems simple, it is robust, even the push-on base can't then be removed due to
a sharp shoulder on the pegs.
Go Berserker! Get him while he's posing for
the camera! . . .
. . . the final item in the line-up is the
Stormtrooper toothbrush Peter Evans had chucked in the big bags at Plastic Warrior's show! I'm using it,
not on my teeth mind; to clean dirty toys!
For some reason it is called 'Firefly'
which is also another movie altogether? And is carried by Dr. Fresh in the US and Canada; Grosvenor
Consumer Products here. It came with a spinning Power Rangers Biro-topper TV thing!
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FIREFLY was a brief TV series about 2002. To quote:
Set 500 years in the future after a universal civil war, the crew of a small transport spaceship takes any job so long as it puts food on the table. The disparate men and women just want to survive and maybe have better lives, but they face constant challenges on the new frontier, such as the Reavers -- flesh-eating mongrels who live on the fringes of the universe.
The claim to fame for the series is that it's cancellation is a running gag on the 'Big Bang Theory'
Why it's mentioned on a Star Wars toothbrush is a mystery.
I know Terra, I've go it! It's not bad for the budget and a bit of crowd-funding . . . I actually read the graphic novel first!
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