Star Wars: The Toys That Made Us-Favorite Facts & Quotes

If you have Netflix, I highly recommend that you watch one of their originals-The Toys That Made Us. Episode one of season one is about Star Wars toys that features the history of vintage action figures and how it captivated millions of fans into toy collecting.

Here are some of my favorite facts and quotes from the episode.

The Clearance Sale Phenomenon: Star Wars The Black Series

Photo credit: Drin Carlos

It's been months since most Star Wars collectors in the Philippines are posting on facebook simultaneous price drop-offs of action figures of Star Wars The Black Series at Toy Kingdom and Toys R' Us. In the recently held clearance sale at Toy Kingdom Megamall, the 6" action figures dropped from P1500 (28.97 USD) to an affordable price of P300 (5.79 USD).

Video 2: Toy Stores in Greenhills Shopping Center

Here is another video walkthrough of toy stores you can find inside the Greenhills Shopping Center. This film was shot at around 10 a.m. and there are few stores that were still closed. I may have missed some good toy stores in the video for the reason that the battery was draining fast.

Toy Stores Inside Hong Kong International Airport

If you are planning to go to Hong Kong, your first and last stop will always be the Hong Kong International Airport (Chek Lap Kok) and when we talk about shopping, you can always find various items you can bring home especially TOYS!

The PLDT Screen of Death (PSoD)

For PC users, one of the most feared computer errors we encounter during an important project or recently installed software is the Blue Screen of Death—BSoD for short.

BSoD is an error screen displayed on a Windows computer system after a fatal system error, also known as a system crash: when the operating system reaches a condition where it can no longer operate safely. -Wikipedia

When this happens, our computer starts to be unreliable that we may lose important data and corrupt system files in the storage discs.

Same goes with our Internet Service Providers if the connection suddenly crawls in times we needed it most!

Commander Cody: 6" Star Wars Black Series

This figure review is kinda' late because the 6" Black Series Commander Cody #14 was released somewhere in 2015. I got mine on the same year, took photos but never wrote until I felt, man I should review this figure.

Introduction:

Battle of Utapau in Revenge of the Sith

Commander Cody was one of the clone armies formed from the genetic template of Jango Fett, a bounty hunter. The clones troopers were deployed across the galaxy to fight against the droid armies during the Clone Wars. Commander Cody was then under the command of Obi-Wan Kenobi but later turned his back from the Jedi master because of his indoctrinated loyalty to Chancellor Palpatine who ordered to kill all Jedis (Order 66).

Kotobukiya: Star Wars Emperor Palpatine Artfx+ Statue Review

Most of us enjoy recreating scenes from sci-fi movie through dioramas. One of the most popular mediums nowadays are using action figures, statues and various backgrounds out of each creative ideas

Some people prefer statues over action figures because it's already sculpted in predefined action with fine details and in a more acceptable poses.