When I was a young child, TOYS WERE DANGEROUS!!!
You had metal robots from Japan with plastic fists that would shoot across the room and smash stuff.
Giant Robots 2 or 3 feet tall and a Godzilla that did the same thing!!!
You had motorized toys of all sorts of monsters and robots that spit fire and sparks, afire hazard not likely to occure today.
Lead minitures, before people knew that lead could kill you.
Then one day some STUPID, IDIOT of a child fired a small missile from a Battlestar Galactica ship and all that went away.
Indeed, on some of our Star Wars toys a cool new figure was advertised. Boba Fett was coming to the line. The baddest Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy. Plus, he was going to have a missile on his back that really fired.
Now in those days, when a missile fired...IT FIRED!!!
The thing could kill a family pet and easily destroy some beloved heirloom.
But for that kid and his F#^%$^% Battlestar Galactica Missile.
When Boba Arrived in the mail, his missile was found to be stuck quite firmly in its rocket pack!?!
What was the deal
Well new laws said NO to missile firing toys.
Many Many years and Many Many Star Wars toys would pass and lo and behold in the 1990's missiles would return to toys. But, they were sad affairs at best.
Weak, small springs, and oversized and goofy looking.
The things shot like a maybe 5 inches from the toy.
The soul of the great missile firing toys just wasn't there.
Even Hasbro, whom now owned Kenner, made a sad version of the once anticipated rocket firing Boba. It just wasn't the same.
Now in 2005, a new game has risen from the ashes...
Literally springing into the foreground as a bold new kind of miniture game. Now almost every character from the Star Wars galaxy can fire a missile that can break nice things and kill pets.
Now you can challenge your friends to a game of strategy and warfare not seen in almost 3 decades.
But, most of all I love Attacktix, because by this time next year I'll finally have that Rocket Firing Boba Fett and he is going to tear into some han Solo butt.
i love them they are my children