Comments on: Guest Blog Post – Some things never change http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2009/09/21/guest-blog-post-some-things-never-change/ One man's trash is another man's pop culture. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:41:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Joelle http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2009/09/21/guest-blog-post-some-things-never-change/comment-page-1/#comment-30787 Joelle Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:21:20 +0000 http://www.hobotrashcan.com/?p=723#comment-30787 My first action figure was Darth Vadar. I have no idea which movie it was from, because I bought it at a yard sale when I was 8. I didn't get any other Star Wars action figures when I was a child. Sometimes I was jealous of the boys' toys. I remember collecting and playing with the She-Ra and He-Man action figures in the 80s and all of my female friends always wanted to make them date each other. I remember being beyond frustrated trying to explain to them the difference between those toys and Barbies, for example. And even when I got She-Ra's awesome home base, the Crystal Castle, I was a little disappointed that it was pink, and that it was nothing more than a glorified doll house. (Complete with canopy bed and pink fur rug, for crying out loud!) Not at all how it was in the cartoon. What I needed was a cool aunt or someone to buy me more action figures. My first action figure was Darth Vadar. I have no idea which movie it was from, because I bought it at a yard sale when I was 8. I didn’t get any other Star Wars action figures when I was a child. Sometimes I was jealous of the boys’ toys.

I remember collecting and playing with the She-Ra and He-Man action figures in the 80s and all of my female friends always wanted to make them date each other. I remember being beyond frustrated trying to explain to them the difference between those toys and Barbies, for example. And even when I got She-Ra’s awesome home base, the Crystal Castle, I was a little disappointed that it was pink, and that it was nothing more than a glorified doll house. (Complete with canopy bed and pink fur rug, for crying out loud!) Not at all how it was in the cartoon.

What I needed was a cool aunt or someone to buy me more action figures.

]]> By: James A Woods http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2009/09/21/guest-blog-post-some-things-never-change/comment-page-1/#comment-30786 James A Woods Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:21:07 +0000 http://www.hobotrashcan.com/?p=723#comment-30786 I can identify. I had an aunt who insisted on referring to my Star Wars figures as 'dolls'. I also had that Han Solo fig, two of them in fact. The funny thig was that their faces were different colors. I can identify. I had an aunt who insisted on referring to my Star Wars figures as ‘dolls’.

I also had that Han Solo fig, two of them in fact. The funny thig was that their faces were different colors.

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