Can’t wait for all the body-shaming fat jokes that Melissa McCarthy will bring to the Ghostbusters universe.

I was a fan of the reboot of this franchise, especially the gender swap concept, until I saw this picture. This looks bad. I mean Pluto Nash, Howard the Duck, TMNT movies bad. Hey Ghostbusters producers, the 80’s called. Even they don’t want their movie back.

Fuck, I don’t want this. Anything but this. I must pray harder to Gozer. Maybe make a sacrifice atop the one of Ivo Shandor’s buildings. Prevent this travesty from being unleashed upon us.

No no no.. wrong version! :)

Now I’m going to have to carve a Darth Vader out of the logs they sell at Home Depot.

Several months before Empire came out, my best friend, Tommy, wrote to Kenner asking for replacement guns for some of his figures that he had lost like we all did. I remember he specifically said which guns had gone missing; Luke, Han, and a couple others. They sent him a whole bag full of guns for all different…

If this video doesn’t include the cat jumping into the fire then I’m not interested.

Classic Star Wars (original trilogy) = BEST Star Wars. And yes, I realize how obvious a statement that is, but it can never be said enough.

I still play with my Spaceballs flamethrower.

McQuarrie was a Vincent Van Gogh of sci-fi concept art. No other science fiction universe has ever looked nearly as distinct and iconic as Star Wars. All hail the emperor of concept and design!

That cat looks like the result of continuous inbreeding. It looks like it is in pain and retarded. At least they won't have to pay for a wedding.

A good point... and entirely what I was getting at. For them to be worth anything, they’d have needed to be in the box, or loose and good condition. But they were instead thoroughly enjoyed by at least 2 generations of Star Wars fans, and that’s worth way more. :D

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Yep. Merchandising!

I was six when the first Star Wars movie came out in 1977, and I was instantly transfixed. From 1977 to 1983, the only things I wanted for Christmas or my birthday were Star Wars toys, and every spare dime I was able to scrounge up was promptly spent on more Star Wars stuff. In addition to armies of figurines and…

The last of my original figures. At 12 yo, waiting for that early bird package seemed like an eternity (the Bespin Guard came later). Sadly, the others perished in a freak M-80 accident several years later.

From what I’ve read it was a little bit of both. The oil crisis made smaller figures financially viable but once they went that route they realized they could make more vehicles at lower price points (than previous large vehicles) and it sort of went hand-in-hand.

The AT-AT toy was probably the greatest toy I ever owned. It probably still lurks somewhere in a dark corner of my mom’s messy basement.

I cannot fully express with words the feelings that some of these images bring back from my childhood, and how inspiring this man's work was to me before I really even understood the meaning of the word - *inspiration*. Thank you Ralph for your contribution to the worlds of our fantasies. Your influence was, and will…

His work is even now still being used in the Clone Wars cartoon. Number 16 in the gallery is an unused concept that they brought back for the series, and there's been many others. There's an entire planet based on his early designs for Hoth.