Always a sucker for light-up eyes

[hwango]

Apparently, it took me a couple of weeks to catch the ad for the current promotion of Star Wars toys at Burger King. The tiny stuffed Wampa looked really cute in the ad, though, so I decided to do some investigating online. It's not quite as cute as I first thought, but it has a certain inherent charm for being the cutesified version of the hulking monster that tries to eat Luke in The Empire Strikes Back. However, looking over the other toys revealed that there's also an absurdly cutesified stuffed Jawa with a head larger than its whole body featuring light up eyes...and that it's part of the third week of the promotion...which is right now.

My mom always loves a good quest, so I thought I'd set her on the trail for one of these. All I asked was that if for some reason she went to Burger King to try to get me one of these, but that it wasn't worth making a big deal out of it. She offered to stop by Burger King while grocery shopping later that day, and it turns out that they did indeed still have a jawa. Spooooky light up eyes. Tee-hee.

In other news, I am so incredibly boring that my friend down the street elected to stay home sharpening his trowel rather than hang out with me. He bemoaned how awful it was to spend the entire day working with a dull trowel, and how he hasn't sharpened it even once in four years of field work. I said that I understood, and that it was important to have a trowel that's sharp enough to slice off the heads of mummies and zombies, which I assumed were the typical adversaries archaeologists encounter in the field. He said that it's actually mostly nazis, which makes the whole thing rather embarassing since most of them are in their 80's by now. Oh, well.

Comments

[krzzl.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Jawas! I stopped at a BK yesterday on my way back after running an errand at lunchtime and forgot to tell you about them. I noticed a sign with a picture of all of the toys, but it was after I ordered, so I didn't have a chance to try and get you one. The sign didn't say anything about the light up eyes, so that's very cool. I also thought the cutesy general grevious was amusingly ironic.

[hwango.livejournal.com]

Yes, Greivous flails his tiny lightsabers at you when you wind him up. All of the toys are very silly, actually.

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

They could be ZOMBI Nazis!

Having gone to a few archaeological digs as the unskilled dirt lugger, the main foe of the archaeologist seems to be the Blood Huge Rock That Looked Much Smaller Until You Started to Excavate It and Then Found Out it Was the Size of a Volkswagen, But Less Mobile.

[hwango.livejournal.com]

I asked my friend how his newly razor-sharp trowel fared against the nazis, and he informed me there weren't any nazi attacks today. I proposed the possibility of zombie nazis and he agreed that those would be a much more sinister foe. We agreed that a mummified nazi was highly unlikely, though.

[tankhangen.livejournal.com]

I must get them all, of course the B-King in Acton burned down about a month ago, so this may be hard to do. Let the hunt begin!

[hwango.livejournal.com]

It did?! Holy crap, how come I never noticed that?

[hwango.livejournal.com]

Wait, never mind - I'm confusing it with the McDonald's that I drive past every time I visit. I have no idea where BK in Acton is/was.

[magnetophyte.livejournal.com]

Yes, he just said 'nazis', not 'neo-nazis' or 'skinheads'. So, by default he must mean the original, WWII nazis. Has he visited South America anytime recently?

[hwango.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, but we discussed the fact that South America probably has the highest concentration of surviving ones at this point. Something to keep in mind if he goes on a dig there, someday.