 It's time to talk about Star Wars again, even though I'm always telling everybody to shut up about Star Wars. Anyway, as you can see here, there's an old R2-D2 toy, and this is one of the originals from when the toys were first released. And you can see what an awful piece of junk it is. It's hardly a step above a Fisher Price toy, although it's impossible for me to have kept the label clean over the years. I mean it would have yellowed no matter what, unless I kept it in the original package, and even then it would have yellowed I'm sure. But the year Star Wars came out and these toys started coming out, I wasn't yet keeping the boxes for everything. So yeah, the box for this is long gone, and I didn't buy any other Star Wars toys in this line because they were junk. I hated them. His head turns, and it still has a little plastic spring in there. You can hear it bouncing, and his head is held on by a screw in the bottom, or rather up to the top, you can see the screw that holds his head on, look at all the nasty detail. When the first movie originally came out, there were no toys. Nobody had anticipated how successful the movie would be so there was no toy deal. And so all the advertisements in the comic books, and once the movie was a hit the comic books were full of advertisements for Star Wars toys, but the advertisements were just drawings, just really bad sketches made by the advertising departments. I'm showing you some samples of them here. So when the toys finally hit the shelves, I think they made it onto the shelves by Christmas of 77, or maybe they were late, I don't recall, I didn't like the toys like I said. They hit the shelves and they were real disappointment. We were used to having 12 inch GI Joe dolls. The Star Trek toys were 12 inch GI Joe's. The six million dollar man were 12 inch. The Planet of the Apes dolls were 12 inch. And then Star Wars comes along and gives us these two inch tall pieces of shit that weren't articulated, badly made, but it didn't matter. They sold like crazy because Star Wars was so popular. And it was that popularity by the customers that taught all the movie and toy companies to start making two inch tall pieces of shit with no articulation. So thanks to the popularity of Star Wars, that's why we don't have proper action figures anymore.