Super Bowl Sunday is upon us and the spirit of friendly competition is flourishing in the -Wan house this morning. Today's mission: transform the Millenium Falcon into Han & Chewie before Padawan-Wan throws a fit.

Gentlemen: start your engines!!

In this corner we have Hubby-Wan. Highly frustrated by Transformers but tolerates them in his home because Santa dumped a buttload of them off at Christmas and he knows Santa does not like to hear about it. Seated next to him is Padawan-Wan - does not yet understand the technique involved with Transformers but fully enjoys watching his parents transform them for him.

And in this corner we have.... Luke & Leia Skywalker. Luke is in town for a vacation & instantly the Skywalker siblings love ganging up on Hubby-Wan because he is so easily riled up (especially over these darn Transformers). The Skywalkers, in their youth, were highly skilled at Transformers & GoBots, their skills rivaled only by the toy testers at Hasbro.

Our moderator today is Mara Skywalker, newly acquired bride of Luke, trying desperately not to offend her hosts by laughing too hard but of course delicately feeding the ego of her new husband.

Our mission: to tear apart the Millenium Falcon Transformer (which yours truly put together on Christmas morning - no help from Hubby-Wan) into Han & Chewie action figures in the shortest amount of time. Our tools: coffee & our bare hands.

Game on.

Hubby-Wan begins by tearing apart the Padawan's bedroom in search of the directions, Luke & Leia calmly sip their coffee while Padawan-Wan proceeds to separate Han & Chewie's halves from the ship. Hubby-Wan returns with the directions & settles down at the dining room table. Padawan-Wan gives Hubby-Wan the Han portion while the Skywalkers take on Chewie.

Working together the Skywalkers get Chewie's legs & feet into their proper positions but struggle with the brute strength that's needed to open the arms. Too much pull & we could destroy this toy forever. Hubby-Wan is still working on the 2nd leg, convinced that things should "click" into place, we hear a lot of tsking & sighing from behind us.

Chewie's arms are opened & the hands unfolded into their full extended position. Luke wonders where Chewie's head can be found, the answer to that question is simple - I pull down the "exhaust" and out pops the half-Chewie/half-robot head. In celebration, the Skywalkers growl in their best imitation of Chewie to show their victory to Hubby-Wan who, diligently following the written instructions, has just begun work on the arms.

Luke & Leia go back to sipping their coffee while Padawan-Wan runs off with his new totally whacked out looking Chewbacca Transformer. "Um, guys? You forgot a part," Hubby-Wan says, handing us the cockpit to the MF. "This goes on his shoulder like a grenade launcher." Ah-hah! He thought he could beat us by withholding parts! No such luck.

Padawan-Wan returns Chewie Transformer to us, we snap on the cockpit & we now have a 100% complete Chewie. Done. Team Skywalker is victorious in a landslide!

Hubby-Wan can be heard grumbling & growling at the "stupid Transformer" for 5 more minutes.

I'm not sure how this exactly qualifies as an "Exploding Star Wars Toy" but at this point I think it's the title that's catchy & fun, the toys provide the entertainment, and the veins in Hubby-Wan's forehead embracing the "explosion."