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Poe Ghostal received his first toy, a Mighty Mouse figure, at age three. Thus began a lifelong interest (some might say obsession) with toys. A child of the 1980s, he grew up on Star Wars, He-Man & Transformers toys, as well as more obscure lines such as Power Lords, Robo Force, and Manglors.
Poe has written about toys for IGN.com and ToyFare magazine. He was a founder of OAFE.net and has been a guest reviewer for Michael Crawford’s popular review site.
A friend of mine emailed me photos of a mysterious toy, hoping I could identify it:
I couldn’t, but with a few well-placed inquiries to my usual sources, it was ID’ed by Greg the Bunny of the RTM forum as the Star Wars “Vehicle Maintenance Energizer” from the old 1980s Kenner line.
It’s a glorified gas pump. This was definitely one of those consolation toys your parents bought you when the store was sold out of speeder bikes and Jabba playsets.
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03.05.2008 11.41
I really liked mine.
03.05.2008 11.54
That’s okay–I can see that, Paul. It’s one of those toys that’s good for more story-based play (which is the kind I loved). It’s built for character interaction.
All I meant by my comment was I don’t think kids were begging their parents to go to the toy store so they could get the Vehicle Maintenance Energizer as soon as it hit the shelves, y’know?
03.05.2008 12.04
lol s’okay. Any toy that anyone thinks is dumb, another person LOVED it. I think mine was given as a Christmas gift in a really heavy star wars years. One of those things where it’s like, okay we got him an AT ST, a blaster, a bunch of figures… oh this thing is only five bucks lets just pick this up too, so that’s pretty much in line with your comment.
03.05.2008 16.56
God, I was huge on Star Wars as a kid, but I honestly can’t remember having any of the “non-canon” or Expanded Universe or whatever, not-in-the-movies, toys. That’s odd for me, since I loved the Marvel comics of the time, and they’re in the same boat…
That said, this one seems surprisingly functional: I thought most of those little ones were unsafe looking speeder things, or oversized guns.