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Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!

by: Halagad

date posted: Dec 16, 2005 9:38 PM | updated: Dec 22, 2006 10:36 AM

Holiday Darth Vader

I finally broke down and got this thing.

What I really wanted was the Wicket Attakus statue,* but unfortunately I don't have that kind of money to blow on myself right now. However, I could easily afford my next best choice, Holiday Vader. What the hell is this thing?

Honestly, I think the figure looks tacky. Like he's been dipped in melted candy cane or something. Of course, I'm sort of a sucker for tacky-meets-Star Wars. Forget Jaxxon. Forget Lumpy, forget Wicket in ice skates, forget Waru... the image of Vader building a snowtrooperman, with carrot in hand, on the back of this carded figure is hands down the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in Star Wars.

I love it.

This'll be only the second action figure I've bought in four years (I bought a long-desired Expanded Universe Imperial Sentinel at Celebration III), and the first that I've bought from a current Star Wars line since I quit cold turkey. (I thought I'd go out on top with Amanaman and Salacious Crumb, two of my favorites). What brought me out of retirement?

Well, if I'm a sucker for tacky, and a sucker for the Expanded Universe, I'm a jolly old fool when it comes to Christmas.

And apparently, so is Vader. Here's the first line of the text from the Holiday Vader cardback:

"It's a festive time for the Empire."

Right about here, you start having a bad feeling about this. But the tongue-in-cheek tone that follows actually acquits it...

"After a rough year of crushing Rebel uprisings, terrorizing the Outer Rim, and choking incompetent underlings, Darth Vader decides that even a Dark Lord of the Sith needs to give in to the fun side of the Force."

I think whoever wrote this deserves a medal. Is it true that Vader donned his "most celebratory red armor" to go throw a "Hoth Holiday bash" with his troops for some R&R, and personally made "the most detailed ice sculptures in the Galactic Empire"? Most likely Imperial propaganda playing up the victory on Hoth, but who really cares! That's the beauty of it. Like the Inaugural Edition of HoloNet News, the presentation of this collectible, from the figure itself, to the accompanying art and storyline, is so deftly tongue-in-cheek I couldn't convince myself I didn't need it.

You always seem to get something special when you mix Star Wars and holidays.

Happy Holidays folks! As Jabba would say, HO-HO-HO! ~ Abel G. Pe�a

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*And I was just informed of this disgusting thing. I want it too.

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	NerfHerdersAnonymous Life, the Star Wars Universe and Everything
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 12:26 AM He's building a snow trooper man? Silly me, I thought he was taking him apart. They misnamed him. He's really the Star Wars Holiday Special Vader of yesteryear. Thanks for the giggle! LM

	The Dark Moose Moose Poodoo
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 1:00 AM It sort of makes you wonder - is he putting on, or taking off the head on the SnowStormtrooper...

	Halagad Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 1:18 AM You guys are probably right.

	Halagad Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 1:22 AM They misnamed him. He's really the Star Wars Holiday Special Vader of yesteryear. Vader's red suit is actually a preview of the Holiday Special Special Edition, but you didn't hear it from me.

	NerfHerdersAnonymous Life, the Star Wars Universe and Everything
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 1:48 AM

Rainbow Droideka
Aren't you a little short for an egg?

date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 3:11 AM

Honestly, I think the figure looks tacky. Like he's been dipped in melted candy cane or something.

Hehe, yeah. When I first saw the pictures, my first thought was something like, "Should somebody tell them....?"

Is it true that Vader donned his "most celebratory red armor" to go throw a "Hoth Holiday bash" with his troops for some R&R, and personally made "the most detailed ice sculptures in the Galactic Empire"?

Sounds like continuity fodder for your next Insider article, Abel....

	mptdr666@wmconnect.com
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 6:43 AM am i missing something hear or what i am not up to speed in the star wars and i have hyperspace and i can not find all the cool stuff plaes help me out and tell me what you are talking about please is there somthing about hoth or you just joking

	Halagad Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 11:44 AM It's completely true mptdr666. Click on the first Holiday Vader link, then click on the picture of the figure cardback. You can read all about the Imperial holiday fun for yourself. Just squint a little.

	Halagad Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 11:45 AM Sounds like continuity fodder for your next Insider article, Abel.... Well, that goes without saying, doesn't it?

	Son of a Bith The Cantina Corner
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 1:55 PM I remember someone on this site called it the "Communist Vader" in one of the blogs.

	Rainbow Droideka Aren't you a little short for an egg?
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 4:17 PM I remember someone on this site called it the "Communist Vader" in one of the blogs. The perfect Christmas gift for that Communist friend or uncle! Wait....

	Rainbow Droideka Aren't you a little short for an egg?
date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 4:19 PM Sounds like continuity fodder for your next Insider article, Abel.... Well, that goes without saying, doesn't it? I'll be keeping an eye out....

Halagad
Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!

date Posted: Dec 17, 2005 7:34 PM

Commie Vader? Heh heh. I suppose there might be a slight degree of reasonability between behind Vader dressing up like a jawbreaker. But even considering the existence of Royal Guards and Imperial Coruscant Guards, it's a pretty hard sell.

One of the variations on Vader's armor color which I thought was kind of neat was in the Return of the Jedi:Infinities adaptation... stark white. Very clever.

	DarthVicomte Vicomte's Blog Extravaganza (Now Defunct)
date Posted: Dec 18, 2005 1:45 PM You always seem to get something special when you mix Star Wars and holidays Special, yes, that's the word for it........

	DJ Maul: Got Feet? DJ Maul's Dancin' Cantina Party
date Posted: Oct 25, 2006 5:06 PM LOL...you may or may NOT have seen my collection online, but I concider myself a pretty solid collector, and even I didnt buy that one! I DID however, just buy a great Star Wars Holiday Snow Globe that features something similiar to the picture you described; its Vader building a DEATH STAR out of snow!

	Halagad Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!
date Posted: Oct 26, 2006 5:15 PM Ah Vader... we all knew you were a softy. Your collection is awesome, DJ! Congrats on the interview.

	vadersgirl33 vadersgirl_reflections
date Posted: Dec 22, 2006 3:37 PM Very interesting stuff (the word very rolls off tongue). I ,too, had to ask if he was building him or taking him apart . LOL! vadersgirl33

	DJ Maul: Got Feet? DJ Maul's Dancin' Cantina Party
date Posted: Dec 24, 2006 12:56 PM Your collection is awesome, DJ! Congrats on the interview. A belated THANK YOU on that compliment...ya know, after re-rading this blog again, and yoru description of the Holiday Vader as something SO tacky you couldnt resist....almost makes me want to go get one now...ALMOST.

	Halagad Only Sith Deal In Absolutes!
date Posted: Dec 27, 2006 1:55 AM It's only been a year, brother. Better late than never.

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