He'd bring it over to our house and we'd all get together and play Star Wars... One memory that sticks out is once when my friend was running through the bedroom with the landspeeder in his hand, he slipped on the shag rug and fell on his back, the landspeeder and its occupants flying through the air!
My sister happened to be in the room at the time, and for years afterwards, any time someone brought up Star Wars, she'd say, "Hey remember that time Jas was running through the room with his Star Wars toy and slipped on the rug?"LOL
In any case, we were kids playing with the Star Wars toys and never thought to take care of them, and eventually most of them ended up where all childhood toys go: broken and tossed or given away to younger cousins. For years this was fine, but when we got to college age, my friend began lamenting the loss of his treasured Star Wars collectibles, and so it was no surprise that he eventually re-purchased ALL of the Action Figures we has as kids on ebay... and just this past week, he came over the my house to show me his LATEST re-acquisition: That good ol' reliable Land Speeder!
Aw man, gotta say, holding it in my hands, the memories all came back! The feel of it, and especially that weird reddish-brown colored molded plastic...the color of it really took me back!
I managed to save a few action figures from our childhood, and have even bought a few of the figures form the newer series (Princess Amidala, Ewan McGregor Obi Wan and Qui-gon...and even the latest of Rey!) and man, seeing this Landspeeder agian makes me want to get ahold of the X-WING we had growing up! Ah, Nostalgia...!
