Star Wars tin lunch box..$5 w/sandwich cutters
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Also tempted. I can't afford it right now, or I'd likely be giving in, too.
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Re: Star Wars tin lunch box..$5 w/sandwich cutters
My wife recently grabbed a similar Star Wars lunchbox for me from Old Navy, of all places. Of course, it didn't come with sandwich cutters . . . .
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I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.
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Same here. Cannot...justify...more...junk. Even ubercool junk like this.YellowKing wrote:I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.
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Justify? Easy.
Do you have at least one piece of nerdy junk? Does it sometimes get in the way because there is no proper place for it? Then you've already justified a Nerdy Junk Shelf.
Once you have that, you can use said shelf to justify more nerdy junk: "There is all that space on my Nerdy Junk Shelf just going to waste!"
Once it fills up, you can use the overflow to justify a second NJS, which you use to justify even more nerdy junk. The possibilities are endless. With a bit of creative reasoning, you can warp this into your very own Nerd Room.
Do you have at least one piece of nerdy junk? Does it sometimes get in the way because there is no proper place for it? Then you've already justified a Nerdy Junk Shelf.
Once you have that, you can use said shelf to justify more nerdy junk: "There is all that space on my Nerdy Junk Shelf just going to waste!"
Once it fills up, you can use the overflow to justify a second NJS, which you use to justify even more nerdy junk. The possibilities are endless. With a bit of creative reasoning, you can warp this into your very own Nerd Room.
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...but you could store your Wookiee inside so you don't bend it.
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If I didn't reuse a plastic bag from the grocer to pack lunch in everyday then I could use it as a lunchbox. Alas, I have 100's of plastic bags and seem to get them faster than I reuse them, so I'll probably never had a utility for nifty lunchbox unless I needed to kitschbox to store other stuff in.LawBeefaroni wrote:Same here. Cannot...justify...more...junk. Even ubercool junk like this.YellowKing wrote:I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.
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Already received that lunchbox as a gift some time ago.
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Hold on folks, I speak LordMortis.LordMortis wrote:If I didn't reuse a plastic bag from the grocer to pack lunch in everyday then I could use it as a lunchbox. Alas, I have 100's of plastic bags and seem to get them faster than I reuse them, so I'll probably never had a utility for nifty lunchbox unless I needed to kitschbox to store other stuff in.LawBeefaroni wrote:Same here. Cannot...justify...more...junk. Even ubercool junk like this.YellowKing wrote:I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.
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Re: Star Wars tin lunch box..$5 w/sandwich cutters
This is a toy. It is a children's lunchbox done in a style that we grew up with, but is out of fashion now. It is a cool thing to have out of a sense of nostalgia.
Words like 'need', 'justify', and 'utility' don't apply. It is a thing you buy because it is fun, or because it makes you smile.
Words like 'need', 'justify', and 'utility' don't apply. It is a thing you buy because it is fun, or because it makes you smile.
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I'd argue that it's not out of fashion now. But the thing is, I have far too many toys which is why I'm doing my best to talk myself out of this one.Blackhawk wrote:This is a toy. It is a children's lunchbox done in a style that we grew up with, but is out of fashion now. It is a cool thing to have out of a sense of nostalgia.
Words like 'need', 'justify', and 'utility' don't apply. It is a thing you buy because it is fun, or because it makes you smile.
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Bought one for my son for Christmas.
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I have two kids ages 6 and 8. I got it simply for the cutters. The kids don't like crust on their sandwiches and I'm tired of the ones we have (train and dinosaur). The cutters on this seem to be much nicer than the cheap plastic ones we have now, too. The lunch box is a bonus.
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Re: Star Wars tin lunch box..$5 w/sandwich cutters
I had a SW tin lunch box when I was a kid, but I don't remember it looking like that. I guess they had a lot of variations (and maybe this is more of "in the style of" rather than a replica?).
FWIW also had a Six Million Dollar Man one which kicked SERIOUS ass (had a relief picture of Skylab on it!)
This is the SW one I had I think:
FWIW also had a Six Million Dollar Man one which kicked SERIOUS ass (had a relief picture of Skylab on it!)
This is the SW one I had I think:
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I had this one:
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I had one but 've never been able to remember it. My wife had The Waltons.
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I'm impressed. I found my lunchbox after a few seconds.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SNOOPY- ... 415eb6f4da" target="_blank
I think I got it in the 2nd grade after asking again and again when I felt humiliated that I was the only kid who packed a lunch in brown paper bags. By the fourth grade I pretty just wanted most of the other kids to kiss off, so I went back to brown bags while they went on to Nikes (or was that Adidas?) and Jordache.
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I think I got it in the 2nd grade after asking again and again when I felt humiliated that I was the only kid who packed a lunch in brown paper bags. By the fourth grade I pretty just wanted most of the other kids to kiss off, so I went back to brown bags while they went on to Nikes (or was that Adidas?) and Jordache.
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Got to love ebay. The box wasn't made in the 50s-60s, Schultz's artwork is copyrighted from the 50s-60s.LordMortis wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SNOOPY- ... 415eb6f4da" target="_blank
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Ya they did not make plastic ones in the 50's and 60's. Plastic is an 80's thing I think.
I'd love to have an original domed Star Trek one.
I'd love to have an original domed Star Trek one.
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I had an orange plastic top-opening Peanuts box with a holding latch that kept my Peanuts thermos secure in the top. It took me several tries to realize why attempting to put soda in the Thermos resulted in me fishing my sandwich out of a pool of flat soda.
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Mine would have been circa 1977, maybe, and it pretty much exactly as you saw in the picture.LawBeefaroni wrote:Got to love ebay. The box wasn't made in the 50s-60s, Schultz's artwork is copyrighted from the 50s-60s.LordMortis wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SNOOPY- ... 415eb6f4da" target="_blank
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Yeah, I remember them from around that same time (give or take 3 or 4 years). I'm just constantly bummed by the lies/misleading info on eBay.LordMortis wrote:Mine would have been circa 1977, maybe, and it pretty much exactly as you saw in the picture.LawBeefaroni wrote:Got to love ebay. The box wasn't made in the 50s-60s, Schultz's artwork is copyrighted from the 50s-60s.LordMortis wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SNOOPY- ... 415eb6f4da" target="_blank
For some reason, my group of friends always had the metal boxes rather than the plastic ones. A few years later, lunchboxes were suddenly uncool and brown bags were the in-thing. That's when I started rocking the Clash of the Titans lunch box. I think I got teased for it but it didn't really bother me. I mean it's Clash of the motherfucking Titans, yo. That owl!
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It's surprisingly hard to find a picture of the structural lunchbox style I remember, yet they were pretty much all that was on the market at the time. Anyway, like this, with the flip-top:Isgrimnur wrote:I had an orange plastic top-opening Peanuts box with a holding latch that kept my Peanuts thermos secure in the top. It took me several tries to realize why attempting to put soda in the Thermos resulted in me fishing my sandwich out of a pool of flat soda.
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That link gets redirected.
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Copy and paste works.Isgrimnur wrote:That link gets redirected.
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Thanks. Similar in general style, but I can't swear to the clasps, and I believe mine was rounder on top, but same basic design, yeah.
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Maybe ours aren't online because they were a Canadian exclusive design, but that's the exact style we had up here. If the other kids had different ones, I don't remember them. It was a utility thing for me, so I didn't pay attention. Box-with-food-in-it. I remember a completely plain orange one, and one that was blue but not what licensed characters decorated it. Believe it or not, I didn't really like licensed character stuff and wanted a wildlife motif on my pencilboxes and suchlike. I don't think my mom was able to find a lunchbox that entirely met with my approval.
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Maybe, because I had several of that design. The thermos takes up one half of the box on the inside, if I remember correctly.silverjon wrote:Maybe ours aren't online because they were a Canadian exclusive design, but that's the exact style we had up here.
I don't have any recollection of outside images though. Weird.
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Well, obviously the Canadian government brainwashed all children of a certain age and replaced your fond lunchbox memories with something much more mundane...and sinister...MUAH HA HA HAAAAAA!
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FWIW, I remember owning a blue plastic "Empires Strikes Back" lunchbox in the early eighties as a wee nipper in the UK. I believe it had AT-ATs on the cover, and also included a matching blue thermos, but I have yet to find anything similar on the intarwebs, so who knows?
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The best lunch box I ever had was a Kung Fu one...it was bad ass!
At the time I was a Protestant kid going to a Catholic School and I'm pretty sure the only reason I didn't get into more fights was my Kung Fu lunch box. My Mom would send me to school dressed in orange on St. Patrick's day...WTF was she thinking!?
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Empire Strikes Back metal lunchbox - rusted out after a couple years. i'm pretty sure Yoda was on the thermos.
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I don't understand the sandwich cutters. What does one do with the excess sandwich bits? It looks as if one could be removing a good fifth if not a quarter of sandwich with those things.
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Welcome to the United States, where waste is a way of life!Sudy Nym wrote:I don't understand the sandwich cutters. What does one do with the excess sandwich bits? It looks as if one could be removing a good fifth if not a quarter of sandwich with those things.
(I was thinking the same thing...but then I remembered my mom cutting the crust off my prissy little brother's sandwiches because he hated it. That would all just get tossed into the garbage...then my mother would make the speech about starving kids in China at dinner when I would refuse to finish my broccoli due to a hastily invented religious belief that involved the CIA, midget wrestling and the cast of Hello Larry.)
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