Sabtu, 08 Januari 2011

Not Good, This Yoda Toy Is

(In photo: Electronic Ask Yoda It's Yoda reincarnated as a Magic 8 Ball.  Pfft.  

Frankly, I wouldn't go as far as spending $67.95 for a toy Yoda just so I'd have someone to consult about my everyday affairs.  

I don't care if Yoda packs in 900 hundred years of Jedi Wisdom.  Just don't turn him into an updated Magic 8 Ball! 


Here's one from McDonald's Happy Meal.  A Yoda turned keychain, or at least a Yoda you dangle.

Interestingly enough, Yoda's the only anatomically-proportioned character in their Star Wars collection.  The others--Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, etc looked like caricartures with their bloated heads.  Yoda, on the other hand, looked solemn and dignified, pensive and calm too--as if he'd slash you in an instant if you so much as looked the wrong way.

So despite the puny burger and Coke it came with, and despite such a steep price for a dangly toy, I still bought it. 

This Yoda, apparently, detaches in half, like a peanut shell.  I could never figure out why the Yoda detaches in half.  It's not as if it's a locket or something.

And hey, Yoda in the Lego universe!  The lightsaber looks awfully big in his claw hand, but at least it glows.  And at least too the Lego people don't make Yoda dispense Yes or No advices for the day.



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Back in 2007, a waitress in Florida got mighty pissed off when the restaurant she was working at refused to give her the right prize for winning a beer sales contest.  All along she thought she was getting a brand new Toyota car.  During the awarding ceremony, she was blindfolded, led into the parking lot, and given a toy Yoda instead.

She sued, of course.





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