January 2012
6 posts
Phantom Phindz, part 3
The official “street date” that Phantom Menace toys and related paraphernalia were supposed to be released was today, January 30th—but as you saw in the gripping “Phantom Phindz, part 1+2”, stuff has been leaking out here and there all month. Toys R’ Us even went crazy this past Friday, and set up a huge display in the front of all their stores packed to the...
Phantom Phindz, parts 1+2
I like the obnoxious title of this post, it sounds like a short-lived website in the summer of 1999, maintained until the 18 year-old site owner went off to college and lost interest by October of that year.
Like I’ve said, I love walking into stores and seeing the return of The Phantom Menace! Even if it hasn’t/won’t reach the ridiculously operatic heights of the 1999 marketing...
Portraits of Uncelebrated Characters of The...
As far as brilliant and bizarre background characters go, The Phantom Menace is an embarrassment of riches. In this on-going but irregularly-scheduled series, I’ll draw one of these great weirdos, and you can print it out and tape it up inside your locker or whatever. Aldar Beedo is one of the podracers in the Boonta Eve Classic, he has an elegant neck-frill of some kind, and I love his...
Chance, Cheerios, and Threepio: A Modern Tragedy
I love walking into a store a month or so before Halloween or Christmas and seeing their “seasonal” section stuffed to the gills with holiday decorations and festive junk—I’m bound to buy something, just because I can. Just like the ramp-up to those slightly more established holidays, if you pay a visit to your local stores, you may start to see Phantom Menace-related items...
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The Beginning
Hi, welcome to The Phantom Menace: The Holiday. Tired of the internet-fueled hatred aimed at The Phantom Menace over the past 13 years (with some exceptions, like these fantastic sites: http://starwarsprequelappreciationsociety.wordpress.com/ and http://acertainpointofview.net/ ), I’ve decided to try to balance the sour suck of these grousing grumps with something FUN. I know that the...
