From: carlosn@hue.Princeton.EDU.ogi.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: SW figures
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:38:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1992Oct8.233834.3582
Organization: Princeton University
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In article <70525@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt6390a@prism.gatech.EDU (BERNSTEIN,AVRON  
P) writes:
> 
> Just who in the wild world of sports are Romba and Paploo?  Are these just  
some
> cheesy figures that came out around the time of Jedi and appeared for perhaps
> a whole, between them.  I guess this is opposed to the figures like  
Hammerhead,
> Walrusman, and Snaggletooth who appeared for a combined 3 seconds on screen.  
:)
> There was a time when I had all the figures, but around midway between Empire
> and Jedi, I fell off the pace.  By the time Jedi came out with all these  
other
> figures, I hadn't even noticed where they appeared.  I mean you can probably
> look at the cardboard back for Bossk (for example) and say "yeah, he's that  
guy
> that kind of hissed at the Imperial officer."  But who looks at the, oh I  
don't
> know, Amanaman board and says,"Oh yeah! I remember him!"  At least Nien Numb
> was identifiable, heck he even had a speaking part!  Also, which of these  
figures
> were ONLY sold as part of an action playset.  For example, the Han Solo in
> carbonite.  Wasn't that only available with Slave1?  Despite the :) in the
> 4th line of this post, I am serious about wanting to know where some of these
> guys came from.  Even on the playsets, commercials, glasses, cups, etc you  
could
> pretty much gather who Max Rebo, Sy Snootles were.  But some of these guys  
seem
> just obscure as hell, and while we're on the subject, was there a figure of
> <Greedo's brother> made?  I can't remember his name, but he is noticeable
> in the background in Jedi and in the background of some of the other boards.
> Well, I'm done.  Flame away!  :)
> -- 
> BERNSTEIN,AVRON P
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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I don't know about Romba (or Lumat or ??) but Paploo was the one who jumps on  
the speeder bike.  I believe he is called by name in the book, but not the  
movie.  In fact non of the Ewoks are called by name in the movie,as far as I   
can remember.  Well, actually the main ones were mentioned by name in the  
credits, and you kind of knew who they were...  The Han Solo carbonite _block_  
was sold with Slave 1, but the Han Solo that came out of the block was in the  
last _power of the Force_ series that Kenner put out.  I believe every single  
figure appeared at least for a second, which is not the case for the series of  
"mini-rigs" that Kenner also had.  Again, though, most were not mentioned by  
name in the movies.  Their names are real however, because when filming a movie  
you give names to as many characters as possible to keep them straight.  At  
least this is the case with theater.

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