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Sunday, 4 May 2025

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Ed says May The 4th Be With You

Happy Star Wars Day!

While I'm no longer big on watching TV, a couple of weeks ago I ended up binge watching Star Wars: Skeleton Crew on Disney+.

It's a nice little kid-centric adventure series focusing on a group of kids who find themselves on a runaway starship.

Jude Law plays a scoundrel in this one who at times helps the kids and ultimately hinders them.

Now I'm thinking of watching Andor - uh-oh, the Dark Side has grabbed hold of me! 😄

From A Galaxy Far Far Away

The Force Just Wasn't With Them!

What a hoot! Star Wars A New Hope auditions!

Over an hour of nervous readings with youthful wannabees like Kurt Russell no less and less-well known actors like William Katt, who went on to star in the cult horror movie House in 1985. Cindy Williams was already known as Shirley in the hit TV show Happy Days and Robby Benson, who I personally don't know at all.

Did George pick the right actors?

Is Star Wars like Lord of the Rings?

I have a theory, albeit a flimsy one, that Star Wars is basically Lord of the Rings in space.

The journey of Luke, under the tutelage of Obi Wan, battling with the forces of evil and ultimately finding triumph as a Jedi against The Empower is essentially the journey of Frodo, under Gandalf's wing, facing the powers of darkness until his ultimate victory against Sauron at the fires of Mount Doom.

OK, it leaks but here's my list of comparable characters. See what you think!

Luke - Frodo

Obi Wan - Gandalf

The Emperor - Sauron

Darth Vader - Sauron

Leia - Galadriel

Han Solo - Strider/ Aragorn

Chewie - Gimli

Can you think of any more?

Have you got a theory? Shall I just pack my lightsabre and leave for the Rebellion?

Is Zero-X bigger than the Millennium Falcon?

Does anyone know?

Bandai Sunday

I didn't bag any Star Wars down today's boot sale, but I did get some nice stuff.

The plastic bell jar skeleton is from 1991, the cast Romans from 2000 and the two figures are Thunderbirds are Go 2015.

I dropped on with the Bandai Terrahawks for a fiver the two. The Snorkel tender will be fun to do up with parts from the plastic Teamsterz one. Similarly Ill clean up the Goofy car and Plymouth Gran Fury.

The two other die-casts are for my cabinet, a lovely gold Superkings Merc from 1974 and a fabulous black Toyota Crown from Universal Hobbies. This car has four passengers and all are either gangsters or FBI. This is my fave buy today, just 50p!

What do you like readers?