Star Wars Weekend

The weekend before last, Susan’s mom informed me that there were would be some Star Wars items up for sale at Danny’s Friday Night Auction. Stephen and I attended the auction, and I came home with a pretty decent haul.

Here are the action figures I got. I paid on average about four bucks each — not a great deal, but they were there. The only one I really wanted was the classic figure at the bottom of the picture. The other thing I really wanted was this:

The Death Star, complete in the box! Now most of you who know me probably think that this went out in the garage into storage, but I had a change of heart. What good is a toy that never gets played with? I ended up letting Mason open all the figures AND the Death Star — and boy did he have a good time!

The only thing missing from the box were the original instructions, but based on the pictures on the box we were able to get it put together in just a few minutes. One piece seemed to be missing but Mason later discovered it hiding in the elevator shaft.

Here’s Luke in a Stormtrooper disguise, guarding a doorway.

Look out! Walrus Man took over the guns!

Here, Darth Maul looks on as Gollum tries to escape the trash compactor. Wait — what’s Gollum doing in there?

These aren’t the only Star Wars toys that showed up last week. For several weeks Mason tried collecting all the Star Wars Bobble Heads that McDonald’s was giving away. Unfortunately, we must’ve missed a few weeks because he had less than half of them when the promotion ended. Fortunately, I was able to solve this problem in about two minutes on eBay. For $40, which is much less than the 18 Happy Meals would have cost, I was able to get not only a complete set of all 18 Star Wars bobble heads, but the display case from McDonald’s, too.

The cardboard display case didn’t do so well during shipping, but that’s okay. What Mason really wanted was the bobble heads, and now he’s got ’em. It didn’t take long before the bobble heads moved into the Death Star, too.