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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If you won't explain why his leg rotted away, I will make up my own version of events.
It will not show you in a kindly light.
Are they, like, face washer towels?
Now I feel silly, like I've made more of this than it actually is. Literally his leg started peeling away, it was like layer upon layer of plastic that slowly ate away until one leg looked like it had been gnawed on by a shark.
It was weird and has never happened to any of my other figurines.
I would however like to hear your account of the event.
They are face washer sized but they feel like they are of a material that you wouldn't bring any where near your face, or any exposed skin to be honest…
…but they're mine ALL MINE!!!
Ackbar looks like he's in a see-through body-bag.
I will gladly oblige.
A young leesargent is trolling a Star Wars forum one fine Saturday morning. Another user by the handle of ACKBARRULES insults leesargent's mother. It quickly degenerates into a full on trollfight, threats of beheading, hacking, ruining lives are thrown around willy nilly. By Saturday evening leesargent is in a red rage, pacing throughout the house with thoughts of murder in his head. Having recently returned from a trip to Haiti, he has thoughts of voodoo fresh in his head. He grabs his Admiral Ackbar figurine and retreats to his basement, where he places a curse upon the figurine, effectively turning it into a voodoo doll. He takes pins from his mother's sewing room and sticks them all through the crotch of the figurine. On the other side of the world, ACKBARRULES, a thirteen year old boy, screams as sharp points of searing pain tear through his groin and upper thighs. All the nerves in this part of his body are now dead, and over the next few weeks as he lays in a hospital bed, his leg slowly succumbs to gangrene, until eventually doctors recommend amputation.
Leesargent has forgotten about his Admiral Ackbar figurine, as after cursing it with pins he simply left it in his basement. He ventures back on to the forum one day and it strikes him to go and look for the figurine.
He finds it, lying in a dusty corner, with its leg horribly rotten.
He screams.
Fade to black.
That's really good, I should get you to write my biography
It was truly an impressive post…got to remind me of my childhood days….At that time even we use to do such foolish and stupid things to get in a silly toy or a cartoon poster….Now when my kids do such things it seems so furious.