One of the coolest things I remember from my childhood when the Star Wars films were being released was that if you collected enough tokens from the official Star Wars icy pole you could send away and the they would post you your very own Admiral Ackbar figurine.
I mean of all the Star Wars figurines Admiral Ackbar was probably the absolute lowest on the priority list for most kids especially considering none of us had actually seen him yet. But I had to have one.
Technically they were free but if I remember correctly you had to get a lot of icy poles to qualify and then you had to keep them long enough to get the required amount and then send them away. So to get the final pay off which was a shiny awesome Admiral “it’s a trap” Ackbar figurine which I loved for lots of years until his leg rotted away*
So when I finally bought a Nintendo Wii I was quite excited to see that they have what they call Club Nintendo where you can submit special codes that came with Nintendo games. I bought a few games at the same time as buying the console and so I gathered up the Club Nintendo cards and realised that they didn’t come with every game or the most confusing didn’t come with the console itself.
So I had something like 800 points and figured I had done pretty well off the bat, but then I checked out the site and discovered I had not enough points for even a stupid plastic Wii controller box. So I wrote off the idea of ever getting anything out of the Club Nintendo.
Several surprising game purchases later and I found myself with enough points to get:
Admiral Ackbar would be very proud however I doubt he would have been very good at Mario Kart.
*I refuse to explain this.
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