ATTENTION, EXTREMELY WEALTHY GEEKS
Have we got an auction item for you!
(Thanks to Jeff Bridges)
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April 25, 2005
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Oh Yeah I'll take two. First?
Posted by: Cynthia | April 25, 2005 at 10:07 AM
Sign me Up! I'll take Two!
Posted by: Sondra | April 25, 2005 at 10:07 AM
thanks to.. Jeff Bridges? the actor? He wasn't in Star Wars.
Posted by: Dave (not Barry) | April 25, 2005 at 10:10 AM
Brilliant minds think alike!
Posted by: Sondra | April 25, 2005 at 10:10 AM
It's funny that Americans care so much about science fiction and so little about science...
Posted by: X-Pat | April 25, 2005 at 10:10 AM
Sondra, I bow to your always funny self.*bows* Morty-who's on frits?
Posted by: Cynthia | April 25, 2005 at 10:14 AM
Hmmm... Huge Life Size X-Wing... Official Holy Pan That Made The Grilled Cheese Sandwich... Huge Life Size X-Wing... Official Holy Pan That Made The Grilled Cheese Sandwich...
Tough choice.
Posted by: D'Artagnan | April 25, 2005 at 10:14 AM
I agree...its all about the glitz and glamour.
Posted by: Jim | April 25, 2005 at 10:15 AM
such a waste of money, it is...
Posted by: yoda | April 25, 2005 at 10:18 AM
D'Art - It's actually a pretty easy choice:
Buy the Holy Pan.
Make a Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
Sell said sandwich.
Buy X-Wing.
:)
Posted by: penny | April 25, 2005 at 10:20 AM
I noticed that the Item Location of the X-Wing is Ohio, home of the anti-Darwin, creationist laws. I don't remember seeing any references to starfighters in the bible...
Posted by: X-Pat | April 25, 2005 at 10:22 AM
kudos to penny!
Posted by: MOTW | April 25, 2005 at 10:38 AM
Yay! They take Paypal!
Posted by: golfwidow | April 25, 2005 at 10:41 AM
That's just a cheap imitation. I've got a real one.
Posted by: rufus | April 25, 2005 at 10:41 AM
wake me up when a life-sized Enterprise goes up for bid.
...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: Witchiecoo | April 25, 2005 at 10:45 AM
Buy it now...$85,000.00
Hmmmmm. Plastic life size Star Wars toy or that BMW 760i....yea, right.
Posted by: dougbo | April 25, 2005 at 10:47 AM
double kudos to penny!!!!!
I want this - remember that chick we read about a while back who was taking up an online collection to help her with....school, or new clothes or something?
*puts out pledge list sign-up for help to buy X-Wing*
Posted by: Eleanor | April 25, 2005 at 10:52 AM
Jeff Bridges was also in Tron ...
and not only was Harrison Ford Han Solo in Star Wars, he was Rick Deckard in Blade Runner ... quite a collection of Sci-Fi Guys ...
(Psst! -- Morty, Cynthia -- Wahts on second.)
Posted by: U.O | April 25, 2005 at 11:13 AM
MKJ - Yup. In this case, size does matter. I wanna turn it into my own private play house.
Posted by: Witchiecoo | April 25, 2005 at 11:20 AM
MKJ - I like that it comes with a small piece of plastic to "practice" on - Wouldn't that melt???
Anyway, the model looks like she's frozen in time!
LOL!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 25, 2005 at 11:33 AM
Burt Rutan would build a real one for half the price.
Posted by: williwaw | April 25, 2005 at 12:13 PM
I wonder...if I bought this, could I finally answer the question of where Luke put the ladder he used to get into the thing on Dagobah?
Posted by: SchadeBoy | April 25, 2005 at 12:50 PM
SchadeBoy... it was Yoda's ladder. He had a spare one made up because he knew thru the force that he would need it 20 some years after fleeing Coruscant. Sheesh.
Posted by: Darth Curt | April 25, 2005 at 12:57 PM
It wasn't the actor, but lil' ol me. Sharing the name with a celebrity makes a pretty decent conversation starter.
Posted by: J Blue | April 25, 2005 at 01:09 PM
Funny how Yoda's ladder looked exactly like the very same ladders used in Episode IV in the Massassi Temple hangar...
Posted by: SchadeBoy | April 25, 2005 at 01:17 PM
it's in Ohio??? Home of Wright-Patterson AFB, where the aliens from New Mexico were taken !
This is the real deal, people!
Posted by: insomniac | April 25, 2005 at 01:18 PM
Well, he did go to Incom (the fine folks who build the X-wing) to have it made up, so of course it looked the same... or, like Lucy Lawless said on that Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl episode of Simpson's "Wizards did it".
Posted by: Darth Curt | April 25, 2005 at 01:31 PM
MJK-
Your photo of the british vader reminded me of the Rick Moranis character "Dark Vader" in Spaceballs.
A truly terrible movie.
Posted by: dougbo | April 25, 2005 at 01:32 PM
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Posted by: Extra Testical | April 25, 2005 at 01:37 PM
I, for one, welcome our extra-testicular.. I mean extra-terrestrial masters !
Posted by: insomniac | April 25, 2005 at 01:51 PM
if it starts, i'll buy it.
Posted by: Daniel Muns | April 25, 2005 at 01:55 PM
If it comes with Harrison Ford to give my 'flying lessons', I'll buy it.
Posted by: Sondra | April 25, 2005 at 02:33 PM
I WANT IT! Can someone loan me $50,000, please please please??
(who else already has their ticket for May 19?)
Posted by: Guin | April 25, 2005 at 04:16 PM
Ooooh! Kudos and double kudos! *blushes*
*schhhootch* Luke, come to the dark side. It's in a semi-detached house near Swinndon *schhhootch* [MKJ]
I don't know why, but for some reason that sounds perfectly reasonable.
Posted by: penny | April 25, 2005 at 11:02 PM
Doug-Bo - That's "Dark Helmet"
Posted by: Brainy Jello | April 26, 2005 at 07:04 AM
It was so terrible -- they're releasing a sequel! Sure will miss John Candy....
Posted by: Candy Tutt | April 26, 2005 at 11:57 AM
i really need to check up on this blog more often. i almost died of happiness when i saw it...has anyone else heard that they're gonna make a star wars tv series? ::star warsgasm::
Posted by: jamie the star wars nerdgirl | April 26, 2005 at 01:37 PM
Reminds me that my 5 year old son refers to THEM as his TENTICLES.
;o)
Posted by: Giddy | April 26, 2005 at 02:02 PM
Sondra..I tole' my son to save these dang things.
Posted by: Whaaa! | April 27, 2005 at 12:51 AM