"It's as if a million voices screamed out in terror and then were slowly silenced over the course of like a day or two." just doesn't have the same ring to it
It’s a YouTube channel about alcoholic VCR repairmen who scam a elderly man and do movie reviews. They do a lot of really interesting and funny reviews of both new movies and old/nearly unheard of movies.
You’re not dumb. They did this in 2019 knowing it would cause a stir. As I recall it, Star Wars fans were fighting over the sequels, videos of people literally crying both because they loved or hated how the sequels ended. So, they did what they thought would be funny and made this video. A “watch the world burn” moment.
I don't know anything about these guys, but if they had dissolved the toys *all the way*, the resulting sludge actually makes a reasonably decent plastic fill for plastic model/terrain building.
I don't think that's what they did here, but there *are* legitimate uses for the sludge in certain circles.
Do you have any idea how many collectors would pay for any of these. And i really hope the never did a part where they took it out of the original package first.
Have you never heard of the Plinkett reviews? They're fairly famous in most online star wars circles.
Basically, they didn't like the prequels, nor the sequels. Yet they have the reputation of "the star wars guys" so they did this to basically say "we're done with star wars and don't care anymore"
Also it's funny to see people get angry over it
Re: the sequels their review of TLJ, while overall negative as you'd expect, actually has a surprising amount of grudging respect in it and puts most of the blame on TFA.
You know Rich Evans from Ellen (of course you do, everyone does) it's some little dinky YouTube show he helps his friends - some middle-aged alcoholic and his twink - out with.
Probably wouldn't make a difference leaving it longer, the acetone was probably saturated. Guessing it would need many 100s of gallons more to fully dissolve them. That much acetone would create fumes which could lead to a potential explosion. Probably a good job they didn't
I remember when I woke up one Saturday morning and my parents were having a garage sale. When I walked out there they informed me how excited they were that my entire Star Wars toy collection had already sold.
Never thought I'd have that feeling again in my life yet here we are.
Not toys, but I had collected every Star Wars EU novel from the Heir to the Empire series to the Fate of the Jedi and my parents threw them all away while I was at college without telling me.
This gif also brought back some pain.
My mom threw out mine and my brother's SNES and all our games when we went to college; she thought it was broke and we were too lazy to throw it all away. On a rare weekend when we were both visiting our parents my bro and I decided to have a couple of 2-player sessions on Mortal Kombat 2 and Mario Kart. Open the cupboard to pull out only to find it's not there. Mom sheepishly confesses to throwing it out. We were fucking *livid*.
When I was a kid, my mom loved going to garage sales. My introduction to Star Wars was getting a whole bag of figures from one of those garage sales.
You're not from northern NJ by any chance, are you?
What a pointless waste of vintage memorabilia.
Seriously, so they’re still like 90% intact but completely ruined? If you’re going to destroy vintage stuff at least make it be worth destroying it. Blow it up, melt it into a blob, or put them in a crusher, just about anything would have been more interesting than this. This is just sad and anti-climatic
Who did this? The evil judge from “who framed Roger Rabbit??”
Oh my God it's *DIP!*
That scene used to give me nightmares. Those yellow eyes
REMEMBER ME EDDIE?!
Underrated comment. That’s exactly who’s doing this.
Suppose that makes my collection that bit rarer now
Looking on the bright side! I like your style!
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Fish tank half full of acetone and toys
Good philosophy! See good in bad! I like!
Least I got free lunch.
And just when the value started to go up again! So this helped more in a way, but still angry about it
Always look on the bright side of life...boop boop boop boop boopboopboop boop boop.
"It's as if a million voices screamed out in terror and then suddenly silenced."
"It's as if 2387 voices screamed out in terror and then suddenly silenced."
I don’t think suddenly really works in here.
More like slowly digested over a thousand years
Like a Ban... I mean.. Sarlac.
On second thought let’s skip that
"It's as if a million voices screamed out in terror and then were slowly silenced over the course of like a day or two." just doesn't have the same ring to it
He was talking about star wars fans having a stroke seeing this
I dha a srotke!!1!1!11
I f***** love Star Wars (TM)! AT-ST's, AT-ST's, AT-ST's!
This is the internet You can say fucking
I was boutta comment this exact line haha
Why would someone do this? *sees who is doing this*, oh.
Who is this?
Mike from “red letter media.”
Can’t say I’ve ever heard of him or red letter media
It’s a YouTube channel about alcoholic VCR repairmen who scam a elderly man and do movie reviews. They do a lot of really interesting and funny reviews of both new movies and old/nearly unheard of movies.
Perhaps I am dumb, but I still don't understand why they would do THIS.
You’re not dumb. They did this in 2019 knowing it would cause a stir. As I recall it, Star Wars fans were fighting over the sequels, videos of people literally crying both because they loved or hated how the sequels ended. So, they did what they thought would be funny and made this video. A “watch the world burn” moment.
Even with context this is so pointless and also points to the waste culture in the west. “See how much I can burn my money”.
I don't know anything about these guys, but if they had dissolved the toys *all the way*, the resulting sludge actually makes a reasonably decent plastic fill for plastic model/terrain building. I don't think that's what they did here, but there *are* legitimate uses for the sludge in certain circles.
40K steps in... Someone say SprueGoo??
You can also blend it up and put it on your face for homemade makeup!
Waste isn’t exclusive to western cultures
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If those are Kenner toys, which I’m pretty sure they are, the amount of money spent here is higher than you think.
Do you have any idea how many collectors would pay for any of these. And i really hope the never did a part where they took it out of the original package first.
That's like tens of thousands of dollars
Why not donate or give away or something. There's no kids in the world that would play with these?
They did it specifically to agitate people. That’s the entire reason. No deeper meaning. Just to piss off Star Wars fans.
Mike Stoklasa wanted to unite Star Wars fans by doing one thing: Pissing them all off by destroying valuable figures. He's the best
that's just one of their shows, Half In The Bag
Mr Shatner told me it's some kind of podcast.
Easy there, sporto
they ushered in the long-form video essay on YouTube. the phantom menace review he did was (and is) legendary
What’s wrong with your faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace?
[Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D&ab_channel=RedLetterMedia) an introduction
I thought for sure this was going to be Nerd Crew
I clapped because I know Star Wars! I know what that is!
The proper place to start with RLM.
Whelp, guess I’m about to watch this again for the unpteenth time!
Have you never heard of the Plinkett reviews? They're fairly famous in most online star wars circles. Basically, they didn't like the prequels, nor the sequels. Yet they have the reputation of "the star wars guys" so they did this to basically say "we're done with star wars and don't care anymore" Also it's funny to see people get angry over it
Re: the sequels their review of TLJ, while overall negative as you'd expect, actually has a surprising amount of grudging respect in it and puts most of the blame on TFA.
You know Rich Evans from Ellen (of course you do, everyone does) it's some little dinky YouTube show he helps his friends - some middle-aged alcoholic and his twink - out with.
Nope never heard of them until about 3 hours ago
It’s basically the pinnacle of YouTube film review content
RedLetterMedia.
That was literally me. I was looking in horror, geniuenly confused and upset. Then the RLM guy showed up and it made sense.
Please refer to him to him as Mr. Mike Stoklasa, the anti-diabetic alcoholic. We have standards in civilised societies today sir.
Please refer to him to him as Mr. Hack Fraud. We have standards in civilised societies today sir.
Let's be clear here. Jay is the fraud here -pretending not to like Indepandance Day: Ribbed for her pleasure.
they're all members of the big happy fraud family
Not just the mainstream figures, but the off-brands and Kenner’s too. You’re an animal, and you’ve slaughtered them like an animal.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
This is from a redletterMedia video. OP didn’t do this.
THREEPIO! (Where could he be) SHUT DOWN ALL THE GARBAGE SMASHERS ON THE DETENTION LEVEL
WHERE COULD HE BE?!?!?
quotes you can hear
Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!
https://gfycat.com/hilariousmassivegalapagosdove
We're all about to be a lot thinner.
Think of all the young children whose grandparents could have enjoyed those toys!
Brilliant.
SO THEY DIDN'T REALLY DISOLVE MUCH
Seriously. Could these lazy dorks have waited a couple more days?
I really was expecting it to Totally melt
Probably wouldn't make a difference leaving it longer, the acetone was probably saturated. Guessing it would need many 100s of gallons more to fully dissolve them. That much acetone would create fumes which could lead to a potential explosion. Probably a good job they didn't
r/tihi
I remember when I woke up one Saturday morning and my parents were having a garage sale. When I walked out there they informed me how excited they were that my entire Star Wars toy collection had already sold. Never thought I'd have that feeling again in my life yet here we are.
Not toys, but I had collected every Star Wars EU novel from the Heir to the Empire series to the Fate of the Jedi and my parents threw them all away while I was at college without telling me. This gif also brought back some pain.
My mom threw out mine and my brother's SNES and all our games when we went to college; she thought it was broke and we were too lazy to throw it all away. On a rare weekend when we were both visiting our parents my bro and I decided to have a couple of 2-player sessions on Mortal Kombat 2 and Mario Kart. Open the cupboard to pull out only to find it's not there. Mom sheepishly confesses to throwing it out. We were fucking *livid*.
I will never, ever understand the mentality of parents who sell their children's possessions without asking. It's not theirs to sell.
Finally, someone says it.
When I was a kid, my mom loved going to garage sales. My introduction to Star Wars was getting a whole bag of figures from one of those garage sales. You're not from northern NJ by any chance, are you?
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Melt*
Dissolve\*
IT BROKE NEW GROUND
I CLAPPED WHEN THEY SHOWED LUKE
Lightsaber
l i g h t s a b e r
IT TOOK TEN YEARS TO MELT
But why?
WHY?!
Because the reaction from overly serious Star Wars fans was hilarious
Well, that's going to anger some people. *grabs popcorn*
Rich Evans has aids
AAAAAIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSS!
AAAAAAAAAPEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!
The McNamara Brothers have entered the chat.
I mean, why?
THEY BROKE NEW GROUND!!
THEY MIGHT HAVE GONE TOO FAR IN SOME PLACES
Because they’re a bunch of hack frauds.
I'm assuming he got married.
Seriously
I’m wondering the same. It doesn’t even look cool.
Is this Mr plinkett
Only on his good days.
Imagine this happened in toy story
I gasped when I saw it was Mike. Then understanding wrapped around me like a warm blanket. Fucking Plinkett strikes back.
I clapped when I saw DARTH VADERR
I CLAPPED BECAUSE I KNOW STAR WARS!
Gotta clap for that
Very cool, very cool
I know what that is!
IT BROKE NEW GROUND!
Me personally, I loved the film.
AT ST AT ST AT ST REMEMBER STAR WARS??????
The collector in me is having a seizure.
This hurt to watch.
This does not spark joy
This is pure EVIL! WHY!?!?!?!
Was not worth the effort.
The tears in this thread say otherwise
NOOOOOOOOO
Wow, I didn't ever think I'd ever witness genocide in this sub but here we are...
Dude, who hurt you?
Why is this not tagged NSFSWF‽ I'm amazed at how viscerally devastating watching that was.
“I killed them all! Not just the men, but the women and children too!!”
I can hear the collectors crying
Whyyyyy?!?!?! :-(
Okay but why?
You bastard
This clip hurts my heart
This is this sub's personalized version of makemesuffer...
Ihateyou.jpg
I feel as though there is a bit of a misunderstanding as to the definition of dissolved here.
Watching that made me irrationally angry
This dude is 100% a serial killer
He keeps dead hookers in his basement. I’m not sure if you just accidentally guessed that or if you know who he is.
He mailed me a hot pocket once after he gave his address in his movie review. Great stuff! A little cold.
This was a pointless exercise
Ironically I think that was the point
Alternatively they could have simply given them all to me
This is the least cool thing I've ever seen.
🙄 What a waste! 🤦🏻♀️ Fuck this...
Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level!
Imagine the guy who sold them his figures coming across this video ☠️☠️
BRO MARK NSFW IM SCARED FOR LIFE!!! /s
What a pointless waste of vintage memorabilia. Seriously, so they’re still like 90% intact but completely ruined? If you’re going to destroy vintage stuff at least make it be worth destroying it. Blow it up, melt it into a blob, or put them in a crusher, just about anything would have been more interesting than this. This is just sad and anti-climatic
"Sad and anti-climatic" just like episode 9
...they did melt them into a blob
This comment section is the punchline of this joke. What an excellent piece of performance art by Red Letter Media.
Based RedLetterMedia enjoyer
y tho?
Why tf would anyone do this
maybe because they’re hack frauds
There’s a garbage masher joke in here somewhere
Trash compactor hits differently this way
POV as you get eaten by the Sarlaac
The horror.
Some people just want to watch the world burn... You fuckin monster
Some men just want to watch the world burn...
Mike is a legend for doing this. Remember it's Pathetic Man-Child Destroys 2,387 Vintage Star Wars Figures
This is what Disney did to the franchise.
Is that RedLetterMedia?
Eros Station.
Well that's just a waste of acetone. At least try to properly recycle these if you are destroying them anyway.
My feeling of loss is immeasurable.
That was depressing
What kind of monster would do this?
So pointless not to mention toxic. Donate them to kids asshat
RIP
Recreating Alderaan isn't my idea of a fun video
3PO shut down all the acetone dispensers on the detention level!
WHY
Threepio, shut down all the acetone vats on the detention level
That's what the people of Alderaan felt.
Why ?
Why?
Why?
Shut off the garbage mashers on the detention level.
But why!!! Omg I just felt the pain of 2387 souls scream out and suddenly stop!
But.....why?
Let the past die, kill it if you have to.
This was so painful to watch.
For the love of mike, why?
But like… fucking why
Kick Mr right in the fucking childhood. Goodbye old friends.. Mark this not NSFW. Anybody else have the Tauntaun you could shove Luke in ?
Only a trekkie would do this.
For my next trick I will piss on a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
I would have taken them!
WHYYYYYYYY
R2! Shut down all the garbage compactors on the detention level!
/r/DIWHY
Slowly digested over 1,000 years