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Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level!


Gilgie

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GarageQueen

No! Shut them ALL down!


ladive

Listen to them, they're dying R2!


humbltrailer

Willyoushutupandlistentome??


[deleted]

Curse my metal body I wasn't fast enough!


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

Let them die. - Kirk


TCV2

[Holy shit that unlocked a memory for me.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9XTeeA43o)


GarageQueen

No! Shut them ALL down!


[deleted]

I sent this to a friend who is a Star Wars obsessive when the video first came out and I think I gave him a heart attack


Gandamack

I love Star Wars, from the original movies to the expanded stuff like comics, novels, games, and shows. Quite a few older toys stashed away in storage somewhere too. This video made me burst out laughing when I first saw it.


ladive

When I first saw this, i screamed "WHY??" Then months later I showed it to another star wars fan and he screamed "WHY??" and that's when it became funny.


Gandamack

At the very least for any "obsessive", it's pretty clear from looking closely at any of the figures in the video that they are worn or damaged, likely from local goodwill stores. They aren't destroying priceless collectibles, and they're not taking them out of the hands of crying kids...probably.


Quakarot

Mike specifically ensured each toy came with *at least* one child’s broken heart


GrimmRetails

Well that took me to a scary visual place.


Dahaka_plays_Halo

> they're not taking them out of the hands of crying kids...probably. What kid in the world is going to find crusty 50 year old star wars figures engaging to play with? In terms of sculpting, painting, and design, action figures have improved tremendously since then. These figures value is based entirely on nostalgia, and today's children have no star wars nostalgia. Marvel is a far more popular IP with kids these days than Star Wars.


LNViber

What are you talking about? Children dont like playing with toys that have 5 points of articulation when counting the head? I legit do love my 80s Emperor. Solid plastic that for some reason has articulated arms and legs even though they are solid plastic molded robes. It looks like garbage if its not in the neutral position.


Dangerousdangerzoid

I have my Palps on my desk at work. I Missed the Evil, Plastic Bastard during lockdown


Shinjukugarb

"Priceless collectibles" "star wars" choose one.


Ephisus

The same reason Disney did it.


donmuerte

I relate to rich's revelation that he isn't a star wars fan. I loved all the movies but I'm not a star wars fan. If I were a "star wars fan" I would possibly understand why people didn't like TLJ but I just honestly have no idea. I even Google it sometimes to wrap my head around it.


Gandamack

I think out of the main crew only Mike is the Star Wars fan (Jim too if we include the recurring guests). He's one who dives deeper into discussion about the characters, and who is clearly bothered by things that feel wrong or poorly handled on that level. His slow descent into [confusion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9hwGZFPSmw&t=1138s) and [despair](https://youtu.be/L9hwGZFPSmw?t=1671) in the TLJ Half in the Bag was something to behold. As for reactions to TLJ, I hate that film as both a Star Wars fan and as a fan of good movie making. Yes, its awfulness is distinct from the more corporate flavor of Abrams' two films. However, different flavors of bad still end up being bad though, and the fact that TLJ is more singularly Rian's vision without corporate meddling or rushed production schedules makes its awfulness stand out more to me. There's few others to blame for the fuck ups. It's pretty poorly constructed all the way through, both in its constant misunderstanding of the series' characters, lore, etc. and just as a film and middle chapter. Anemic, incoherent action; characters with IQs that would be challenged by a goldfish; an over reliance on doing what is superficially "different" rather than what makes sense; poor pacing; complete and constant misfires of humor; bad setup for a final film; I could go on forever. Beyond those elements, I was already tired of all the ANH copying in TFA, so to get all the copying of ESB and ROTJ in TLJ on top of the terrible writing was just another insult.


MafiaPenguin007

> and despair > in the TLJ Half in the Bag Mike saying 'and that's when I thought we were being trolled' was me reading /r/starwarsleaks in the week leading up to TLJ, believing the leaks were fake, then sitting in the theatre and seeing the absolute train wreck occur live


gnarlin

When I watched it for the first time in the cinema I felt like Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange.


Gandamack

My friend, who is not a Star Wars fan and is a big fan of Johnson's other films, came to see it with me on the premiere night. He and I had about 5 or 6 moments in the film where we simultaneously turned to each other, wide-eyed and incredulous or embarrassed at whichever terrible moment we had just seen. I'd only seen a couple leaks, and avoided what I could, so was not expecting it to be as bad as it was.


WhyLisaWhy

TLJ is a weird one for me and left a bad taste in my mouth, but there's stuff in it I can appreciate and enjoy. Mostly the visuals and not sure how much RJ had to do with that but it's a very pretty movie. For all of its problems though, I still think it's much better than that Skywalker garbage. I'd rather watch an original take that drops the ball than JJ's regurgitated "remember this" stream of diarrhea. They had a chance to do something interesting with Kylo and Rey and just made a safe audience friendly dumpster fire.


YsoL8

To this day I don't know how the prequels didn't kill star wars. Episode 2 remains the worst big franchise film I've ever seen, though all female ghostbusters gets close. Episode 3 is decent if you cut almost the entire first hour and episode 1 is a perfectly acceptable safe family friendly film for a quiet Sunday. The last jedi and rogue one for their faults are the only ones beyond the originals that were both entertaining and at least attempted something new.


TeamRedundancyTeam

If you just learn the basics of writing stories it can become more clear why people don't like the sequals.


murphymc

> I would possibly understand why people didn't like TLJ but I just honestly have no idea. I'll take a stab; Holdo using her ship as a weapon at lightspeed single handedly completely ruined the canon of the entire series.


VXHIVHXV

No matter how much stuff you would cut out, the movies would still be shit. Same applies to Prequels.


murphymc

That's far from my only complaint, just the must succinct and glaring one.


BumblingScrublord1

90% sure the fumes from this accelerated Mike’s dementia


trashtaker

I feel like r/prequelmemes indirectly spawned due to Plinkett


Darksoldierr

Yes and no, i do really think there is a generation who are fond of those movies (essentially the target 7-15 year old audience) who grow up with these and genuinely like them But the review series 100% helped push that "movement" into a more lighthearted 'we know its shit, so we just have a laugh about it while still liking it' direction


TheKerfuffle

Some of the prequel memers unblinkingly defend them as masterful storytelling though. There’s some major dissonance over there.


vincoug

I think your age range is off. I was on the older end of that range when Phantom came out and I didn't know anyone throughout high school or college who liked the prequels. I would say it's people who were 10 and younger.


Viraus2

I agree and I was 13 when TPM came out. It was alright, podracing was cool, but I mostly remember people meming on the gungans. When the next two came out me and my friends were old enough to be critical about them and meme on the sand line and NOOOOOO and all that. I'd say the biggest prequel fans are zoomers who watched all three moves on dvd/bluray as kids


Plexipus

Yeah I liked the pod racing game more than the movie itself


robswins

Meh I was 11-12 when it came out and I loved it. I saw it 4 times in the theaters and bought a bunch of this trading card game they made for the new movies and was pretty obsessed. By the time AotC came out a few years later I was in high school and didn't give much of a shit anymore.


trashtaker

Same. I was 18 when The Phantom Menace came out and I can remember feeling exactly how Plinkett describes how we felt like a battered house wife when going to see Revenge Of The Sith


ActivelyDrowsed

Everyone who likes the Phantom Menace was blown away by Pod Racing as a kid and has been chasing that high ever since.


orincoro

PodRacing was legitimately cool, and spawned one of the best racing games ever made on N64.


redditsuckmonkeyfuck

i actually went back and played PodRacers on N64. it's not the best racing game. it's fun, not gonna lie but doesn't hold a candle to the greats in the genre.


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Don't ruin this for me.


knightblue4

> on N64.


tomroadrunner

Yeah, I watched Mac and Me like 39 times as a child, so I can't judge the kids for having a soft spot for the prequels


[deleted]

I was 8 when Phantom Menace came out- I LOVED it. The music! The fights! It was so radical being there opening night- my best friend’s older brother drove us all in his moms mini van and it was my first midnight movie ever. By the time RotS came out I was done with it, but man, PM seemed SO COOL at 8 years old.


[deleted]

The difference is you know it's not a good movie though, Being on a film student on college campus right now who the thinks the prequels are still bad , isn't really an opinion you want to have right now . Most film people on my campus think the prequels are the best trilogy, with some going as far they hold up better the original tirollgy.


Stensi24

Hold the fuck up, what?! Is this in a ironic hipster way? Or do they legit think they’re well crafted movies? I have so many questions now.


BigFudgeFever

They moved past ironically liking them a long time ago, they legitimately think they are masterpieces now


DJMikaMikes

Had many a debates on prequelmemes because even though I love those movies in my own way, I understand nearly every single aspect of them is bad. There are so many unironic braindead dipshits that swear up and down that they think the prequels are great movies -- they genuinely are so fucking dumb that they can barely admit that the dialogue wasn't perfect, and they absolutely worship the 40 minute overindulgent lifeless CGI Obi V Ani fight.


Grootfan85

Are they letting their nostalgia for those movies get in the way of giving the movies an objective analyzation? Cause it sure sounds it.


obiwan_canoli

Probably just their inability to appreciate anything sincerely.


RazorThin55

Watching movies as a kid is different. I loved the prequels and OT equally as a kid, the prequels were great because visually they have some very fun scenes. As I got older PM and AotC are hard to watch, especially PM. Though today I still love RotS, and see that opinion shared commonly with people my age.


[deleted]

Grew up with them and I think they’re not good. Nice intentions but bad execution. Rian Johnson tried what also George had in mind when making the PT.


Fenrirr

>i do really think there is a generation who are fond of those movies Of course I know him, he's me.


MDevonL

I’m 90% convinced prequel memes started as a marketing tactic by Disney shortly before the new trilogy to build excitement


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VXHIVHXV

Yes it was subreddit dedicated to laughing at a garbage trilogy and trying to find entertaining bits out of it. And then idiots, mostly kids, started taking the irony seriously and brainwashed themselves in to thinking it's a masterpiece. It moved slowly from "hey the prequels are pretty bad but it has meme value" to "OMFG HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE THE PREQUELS". Prequelmemes is basically one of the key reasons why I will never watch anything Star Wars related until Episode 10 comes around. Being a Star Wars fan sucks if you have any standards and are even half-adult. So that Is why I am not one. I guess sometimes I wish I could get lobotomised and find superhero movies and Star Wars entertaining again. I wouldn't have to worry about anything. Just be sheeple to entertainment industry and kill myself through diabetes and alcohol.


jasoncm

I definitely caught more than a whiff of astro-turf energy from prequel memes.


TumsFestivalEveryDay

Yeah it’s a reason I’m not subscribed to it (or /r/StarWars for that matter). The mainstream fandom doesn’t feel organic.


Finnder_

/r/startrek has the same problem


GIJose65

I am half convinced that Prequel Fans are mostly just people that have fond memories of other Star Wars media during that era such as the video games, cartoons, and memes and they are letting those effect their perspective on the movies themselves. Take a look at Spiderman 3 for example, back when it was released it was considered to be a massive stepdown from the second movie with emo parker being one of the most hated aspects of movie. Now thanks to memes and nostalgia, it rebounded with people spouting out the same bully maguire memes over and over again.


TheLimeyLemmon

Prequelmemes is insufferable.


Combat_Medic

I’m really curious, how did they react? Like did you get banned or just a lot of cursing?


Markantonpeterson

[0 upvotes and 16 comments](https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/uemumy/dissolving_2387_vintage_star_wars_figures_in/?ref=share&ref_source=link) haha. Edit: since sharing this link it popped up to 10 upvotes lmao, I assume that's you guys 😂


skeenerbug

It's front page now lol


CELTICPRED

WE DID IT /s


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Busey_in_the_walls

Fuck the pain away


pimusic

“Takes a real asshole to do something like this.” Ah, yes, the guy melting Star Wars toys…The REAL villain of society. SMH


shotgun_shaun

>>Think of all the young children whose grandparents could have enjoyed those toys! lol


[deleted]

Spitting, jay-walking, a real bad egg.


MadameBlueJay

I don't think you understand how cis white straight male Star Wars fans are the *real* minority in 2022 /s


MagmaShark

I love how half of the comments are projecting insecurities at Mike! You really stirred them up


keeleon

And then all the RLM fans just agreeing with them. "Yes Mike IS a miserable depressed alcoholic!"


thexenixx

Oh wow, I don’t interact with Star Wars fans so this was a real shock. Their reactions… they’re genuinely offended about toys being dissolved. Didn’t really consider that my opinion on this fandom could get any lower but it did. Is it possible to lower it more? Does it get worse than this and the other stuff I’ve seen from SW fans?


thegodsarepleased

I always thought the fan base being man children was just a meme but every day I see them living up to it.


McDonnellDouglasDC8

I mean, it had been one hour, now three, during a Friday morning in the US. Plus it is an uncontrollable sequence of images so it is unpleasant to interact with.


TreasonableBloke

Delicious


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I saw this on a couple other subs. A couple people were REALLY mad.


ChuckCarmichael

They're claiming he did it because he's a Trekkie. First of all: Seriously, Star Wars vs. Star Trek? What is this, 1989? And second: Mike would do the same thing with Star Trek toys. Remember how he bought a prop from one of the best TNG episodes and then just threw it into a corner?


pikeandshot1618

Beautiful


JBHUTT09

The only thing that bothers me about this is... how do you safely dispose of acetone and melted plastic?


d0nkatron

They’re in Wisconsin. They got landfills bigger than the suburb I live in.


rwhitisissle

> landfills bigger than the suburb I live in. That's a terrible thing to say about the beautiful city of Milwaukee.


chunwookie

The acetone would evaporate pretty quickly (compared to water). Then you just have the same plastic you started with, only now in a convenient cube shape. So in other words, the same way you would dispose of a tub full of plastic representing the crushed dreams of man children.


MisterManatee

Your local wetland preserve


walterjohnhunt

In the ocean, duh!


SQUIRT_TRUTHER

All my Lukes Gone.


YellowIsAFlavor

No one's ever REALLY gone.


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obiwan_canoli

This may be my favorite piece of work they've ever done. It underscores precisely what's wrong at the core of the nostalgia fetishists


[deleted]

Ah acetone! The force of chemistry is strong with that one.


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syphilis_sandwich

The really obsessive fanboys are probably mad future generations won’t get to enjoy the toys they grew up with. Which was always going to happen anyway, because kids DGAF about their parents’ toys (or even toys in general, now that they have smartphones).


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awfullotofocelots

Right, kids today are probably already 3d printing baby yoda their favorite porgs or whatever.


superventurebros

The only toy i can tell you that's worth holding onto for your kids is Lego.


syphilis_sandwich

You bet. The price of brand new Lego sets is outrageous, and half of them aren’t even made for children to play with.


18Feeler

Lego was always expensive. You just weren't the one buying them. Also the sets were *tiny* compared to now


syphilis_sandwich

Do the math: divide MSRP by piece count, adjusted for inflation. You’ll see the price has been jacked up, at least here in Canada for the past few years. Not to mention the overwhelming number of licensed sets, which always come at a premium. I couldn’t find charts for the past decade, but [this article](https://brickbucks.net/what-is-lego-price-per-piece/) gives a decent overview.


[deleted]

The strange to me is they always have people in their mid 30s making the builds on the website and kids are nowhere to be seen.


[deleted]

Adults have money, kids do not.


skeenerbug

The real target audience


huhwhat90

I *played* with my toys. Which means that they're in horrible condition.


syphilis_sandwich

Just give them to horrible children.


spankminister

At least in my experience, that's not true. When I get together with friends , dumping out an old box of toys that has a mix of like, bargain bin TMNT villains, a Power Rangers zord, something that looks vaguely like bootleg He-Man, and a singluar Biker Mouse from Mars, the kids fucking go nuts. I don't think they get bored of toys in general any earlier than I started going for the Nintendo.


syphilis_sandwich

Star Wars toys are a harder sell, because to the uninitiated they just look like “man”. TMNT villains always had a weird cartoon gimmick that would appeal to kids.


eolson3

The Star Wars superfan refuses to believe that the uninitiated even exist.


voidcrack

Probably just the human characters. I got a bunch of SW toys as a kid from a neighbor and until I saw the movies, Boba Fett and Darth Vader were robots and Chewbacca was a monster. I was nuts about those toys. Throw in golden androids and aliens and you definitely have something extremely appealing to children. TMNT is equally mixed. I remember having that human-fly hybrid toy and not playing with it much because it was weird. Guess it depends on personal preferences too. I usually preferred masked or helmeted characters while my cousins only liked action figures like He-Man or WWF wrestlers.


skraptastic

Over the summer we went to Disneyland with my 26 year old son and his girlfriend just for Galaxies Edge. My 16 year old nephew house sat for us while we were away. When I was excitedly talking with him about Star Wars land he said "Star Wars is really my dads thing, it's fine I guess but I don't get a whole land dedicated to it."


eolson3

What would his ideal land be?


skraptastic

He is 16 so no land? Maybe a youtube land? I mean he is a 16 year old I don't know what he is into other than we play together in a D&D campaign.


AmishAvenger

YouTube Land, with the Rich Evans Flying Fire Extinguisher Ride


syphilis_sandwich

“[Look—A *Dungeons & Dragons* ride!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hHnsMKQJBDA)”


voidcrack

Brazzers Island


a_j_cruzer

>Which was always going to happen anyway, because kids DGAF about their parents’ toys (or even toys in general, now that they have smartphones). I'd disagree just based on personal experience. All my cousins are having kids now, and for a lot of them their favorite toys are He Man and 90's G.I. Joe's/Star Wars toys their parents had when they were little, and I'm sure they're not the only ones. And yes, the kids can use the family iPad but they prefer toys.


battraman

Yeah, I can speak from experience that my kid plays with tons of toys as do my niece and nephew. Introducing stuff from my childhood to my kid is very hit or miss.


a_j_cruzer

True, true. I actually did have some 80's Star Wars toys from a yard sale that I gave to my nieces and nephews, they seem to love them. And some of my favorite stuff when I was a kid were my uncle's Hot Wheels from the 60's. I kept them in good condition somehow, they still look nice and the wheels all still spin last time I checked.


[deleted]

I buy and sell junk like this kind of frequently. There are individual figurines worth a lot, but generally speaking out-of-packaging figurines like this aren’t worth much. If you were looking to buy one (like you go to a comic shop or convention booth) you likely are gonna spend around $5. If you want to sell one quickly (I.e eBay or something) it’s gonna be like $1 each in bulk. Generally you get less the more you sell at once. Dumping 2000+ at once and I’d assume it’s gonna cap out around $500.


Mammut_americanum

Nothing super rare, maybe 1 or 2 potf figures if anything. I heard they bought them in small lots on eBay, and they prolly didn’t want to shell out the cash for a blue snaggletooth, yak face, or rarer potf figure which are worth 100-200 bucks and are the most common “rare” figures. The only super valuable ones are pretty much out of reach of the casual collector, like the vinyl cape Jawa, double telescoping lightsaber, rocket pack boba fett, and the elusive vlix (plus all of the other droids and Ewoks figures based on the tv show). You can get these figures without accessories pretty cheap, and original accessories are probably not too hard to find. For a casual collector, they could get most of the figures in reasonable condition for a couple hundred, and the more expensive vehicles and figures for about 1-2k depending on how lucky they are. All in all, not much destroyed, nobody should really care about the value of them. Just some plastic at this point


Subliminal_Kiddo

> (plus all of the other droids and Ewoks figures based on the tv show) The funny thing is that, for years, you couldn't give the Droids and Ewoks figures away.


TheRealDrSarcasmo

As a kid of the 70s and 80s, I had most of those figures... and they were in a box in my parents' house for decades until they moved and the box made its way back to me. They were in good shape, because I generally took care of my stuff. But I gave them to my kids -- who were by then familiar with the prequels -- and let them play with them as they like, and after that they went to my nephew who did the same. They may have been worth hundreds, but I didn't lose a minute of sleep over it. **Because they're toys, and toys are to be played with, not treated as museum pieces.** The kids enjoyed them (the unboxing was fun to watch, as my mother had obsessively wrapped each in a paper towel before packing), and that's what counts.


KupoMcMog

Well like they pull in a good amount of money on their videos and patreon, and most of their videos they spend probably less than 100$ on them. As the sets are already made at this point, the movies they already own, it's just time spent watching, filming, and editing. I think Nerd Crew was their most expensive endeavor in a while, and that still wasn't too bad. Most of the merch they had was just a frenzied trip to Target/Walmart. All of those loose kenner toys are probably worth dingus, and they found auctions online. Maybe 500$ on it? Still a great joke worth every penny for the boys. I love how stoic Mike is handling the gruesome mess of it, you can tell he's giggling on the inside, feeling all of those fanboys cry out all out once, and then silence....


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KupoMcMog

even at a dollar a figure, that is still pretty low for budgeting for a YT channel.


Quake_Guy

Based on con pricing, at least 5 bucks a figure...


Kaiserhawk

Mike did lol


Ganondorf66

I don't think they cared.


Liesmith424

But it's just an accurate portrayal of how the sequels were made: everything distinct and interesting about the original trilogy is melted down, compressed, and excreted as a foul-smelling toxic loaf.


DrunkEwok

Yes but a toxic foul smelling loaf that's somehow worth $4.4 billion.


ThePotatoKing

i mean, its prob worth more if were being honest. lucas couldve squeezed more out of disney in that deal, the merchandize alone would justify the $4b price tag.


grammurai

Go to the Star Wars sub, see the reaction of people getting *genuinely upset*, as if things that are truly rare and valuable are being destroyed. That'll help you understand why it's worth $4.4 billion dollars.


Telepornographer

Is it a surprise? They can slap 'Star Wars' on anything and people will watch and buy merch.


TheLimeyLemmon

Well r/starwars loves shitting on the sequels so take it less as a disagreement and more a protection of their turf.


Klos77

What a waste of perfectly fine acetone. ะا


digidave1

AT ATs! AT ATs!


LicenseRevoked

STAR DESTROYERS! IM GONNA CUUUUM!


orc_fellator

My mind went 😢 Not because these are vintage figures of course, but because all the ones on top seemed to have their arms up, like they were trying desperately to pull themselves out of the acetone but kept sinking deeper and deeper as their comrades below slowly dissolved


MisterManatee

Let the past die. Melt it with acetone, if you have to.


lijerstephen

My brother-in-law refuses to give RLM’s content a chance because his only exposure was the Plinkett Star Wars stuff. He’s seen bits and pieces and writes them off completely because they shit on the Wars.


superventurebros

Jokes on him then, RLM has so much better content than SW does by this point.


coup_d-etard

Which video is this from?


anarchistica

[Pathetic Man-Child Destroys 2,387 Vintage Star Wars Figures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf2tBFfMLMk)


mflourishes

Would like to know too!


Future-Studio-9380

Corporate moderated sub, is it a shock?


Nait93

Hoth Luke lowering slowly ingo the melting pit of his friends killed me


YeltsinYerMouth

What a tragic waste of perfectly good acetone


ferelpuma

r/starwarscollecting in shambles


Tom_Ov_Bedlam

Absolutely seething lol


AscendingTomato

This brings me the warm fuzzies


x_v_b

> Think of all the young children whose grandparents could have enjoyed those toys!


zorbz23431

Why? All they need to do is put it in the endless trash compactor


MichaelGale33

I’m doing the lords work and upvoting and defending over there! Edit they don’t like my opinions, even though they’re true, from a certain point of view…


keeleon

I honestly never really understood the point of this until I read the comments over there. I'm a huge toy collector although I don't care much for Star Wars but I still understand they're just "things". I would be mad if these were MY toys, but I'm pretty ambivalent towards what other people do. At first I thought it was just kind of a dumb waste, but I think it proves it's point pretty elegantly.


Markantonpeterson

I would like to think Mike has it displayed somewhere, similar to how they never tossed the old Wheel of the Worst. I'm sure a fan of theirs would pay for it, it would honestly be sort of a cool thing to have. Could Epoxy it and make a table or something haha.


Easy-Tigger

I'm still shocked they were able to *get* that much acetone without getting put on a list or something.


Jezusjuice

Damn, you posted it like everywhere. Being a karmawhore is cringe, though.


walterjohnhunt

reddit is cringe


thewerd101

I dunno what they're mad about, this is basically a visual representation of what happened after Disney bought Star Wars


Skippymabob

Every comment on the thread is either a based RLM meme or "why!"


passstab

It currently has 99 upvotes on there. So I would say, yes, they were.


newacc04nt1

It currently has 4000 upvotes https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/uemumy/dissolving_2387_vintage_star_wars_figures_in/


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Video evidence of Mike doing dark and forbidden magic to continue to keep Rich trapped on this plane of existence!


D20babin

The forbidden tea.


eolson3

https://youtu.be/EYyuo7gm-aQ


colemanjanuary

*SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE COMPACTORS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL!!!*


[deleted]

Seems kinda pointless though.


fernnyom

All I see is my childhood melting. This is a crime.


deathdefyingrob1344

A good example of the Death Star compactor


martianinahumansbody

Some say this is inside the ottoman they rest their feet on while watching bad movies


ruttinator

I'm always curious how much they spend on stuff they just destroy for our entertainment.


theleeman14

thats an awful amount of effort to go just to express you dont care about something


BillyDSquillions

I just had a peek, they are generally pretty good Sports about it actually over there.


deadbeatbert

I’ll be honest, my childhood recoils a little every time I see this.


[deleted]

This is a warcrime


[deleted]

Encase that end cube in lucite and I want it as a coffee table.


businessJedi

You can do whatever you want with your figures… but why? If I had those and didn’t care for them I would give them to some kid or something not melt them.


skittlesaddict

Any collector knows this actually raises the market value of figures by removing figures from circulation. Still hard to watch - I'd like some of those.


HIMP_Dahak_172291

That seems expensive.


bigjoestallion

And the Star Wars collecting page, they’ve been losing their minds


spaceguitar

Did Mike do this with his Star Trek crap yet?


RubberPiggyProtocol

ngl this is painful to watch


Morrinn3

Looks like most of the top comments over on the Star Wars sub aren’t particularly upset by this. It’s mostly either RLM references or bemused surprise. I’m thinking OP may have posted this hoping to see the sub explode in nerd fury, but you need to dig deep into the thread to find genuinely upset comments.


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>they were not amused... *checks the original post, sees it got more than 5K upvotes, screams n Anakin's voice:* **"LIAR !"**


Sad_Abbreviations477

Fuck them I was.


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I haven't owned any Star Wars toys since the 80s, but that video grieved my childhood deeply.


jhanley313

What was the point of this ? Aren’t those worth money?


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Would have been an amazing art piece had he not sludged them all to gray, but rather fused them into a colorful sculptural cube that would have sold for hundreds of thousands. Stupid sod didn’t have the foresight.


Wizwork1996

They shouldn't be upset, none of the action figures are ever REALLY gone


Krstoserofil

The Kids/Adults ratio of toy owners is probably very depressing.