What I wanted for Christmas #3: X-Wing fighter

This one’s pretty early….I believe it was while I was in kindergarten.

Behold the Kenner X-wing Fighter.

93% of all male children in the 70′s had at least one Kenner Star Wars toy….

…..of those, 60% had parents that said “hold on to those, they’ll be collectors items one day”.

….which lasted about 15 minutes. So from here the breakdown is:

Note that this chart is completely bogus, as I gave up on the gag once I achieved the “pac-man eating pizza” effect. That’s some fancy Excel-fu right there.

So I got this, and I was thrilled at the LED/buzzing laser action. My parents were thrilled to have to align those stickers.

I wasn’t thrilled that the R2 was fixed in the toy, as I didn’t have my own R2 yet. Also, the fact that I only had the desert version of Luke (vs. a pilot) was a bit troubling. But it didn’t matter.

We went on a trip shortly after that and I remember lovingly transporting the X-wing around. Come to think of it, that may have been a birthday gift. Oh well…I spent way too much time on this post to go back now!