Star Wars tin lunch box..$5 w/sandwich cutters

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:36 am

What a deal!

I even want one. Wish I'd had this as a child.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:34 am

I'm honestly tempted.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:25 am

You and me both.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:30 pm

I gave in

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:52 pm

Also tempted. I can't afford it right now, or I'd likely be giving in, too.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:43 pm

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 . . . .

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:13 pm

I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:17 pm

YellowKing wrote:I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.

Same here. Cannot...justify...more...junk. Even ubercool junk like this.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:44 pm

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.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:00 pm

...but you could store your Wookiee inside so you don't bend it.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:10 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:
YellowKing wrote:I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.
Same here. Cannot...justify...more...junk. Even ubercool junk like this.

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.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:27 pm

Already received that lunchbox as a gift some time ago.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:31 pm

LordMortis wrote:
LawBeefaroni wrote:
YellowKing wrote:I'm tempted too, though I have no earthly idea where or when I would actually use this.
Same here. Cannot...justify...more...junk. Even ubercool junk like this.
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.

Hold on folks, I speak LordMortis.

He said, "I don't need one."

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:38 pm

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.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:45 pm

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.

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.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:55 pm

Bought one for my son for Christmas.

Achievement: Begin Christmas shopping before Halloween: Unlocked!

EvilHomer3k · Post by **EvilHomer3k** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:06 am

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.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:32 am

double post

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:34 am

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:

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:03 am

I had this one:

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:11 am

I know I had a few but I remember this one:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:02 pm

I had one but 've never been able to remember it. My wife had The Waltons.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:14 pm

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.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:22 pm

LordMortis wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SNOOPY- ... 415eb6f4da" target="_blank

Got to love ebay. The box wasn't made in the 50s-60s, Schultz's artwork is copyrighted from the 50s-60s.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:36 pm

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.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:42 pm

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.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:50 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:
LordMortis wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SNOOPY- ... 415eb6f4da" target="_blank
Got to love ebay. The box wasn't made in the 50s-60s, Schultz's artwork is copyrighted from the 50s-60s.

Mine would have been circa 1977, maybe, and it pretty much exactly as you saw in the picture.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 4:55 pm

LordMortis wrote:
LawBeefaroni wrote:
LordMortis wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SNOOPY- ... 415eb6f4da" target="_blank
Got to love ebay. The box wasn't made in the 50s-60s, Schultz's artwork is copyrighted from the 50s-60s.
Mine would have been circa 1977, maybe, and it pretty much exactly as you saw in the picture.

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.

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!

silverjon · Post by **silverjon** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:12 pm

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.

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:
http://bluebuddies.com/gallery/Smurf_Lu ... rfette.jpg" target="_blank

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:34 pm

That link gets redirected.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:53 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:That link gets redirected.

Copy and paste works.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:55 pm

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.

silverjon · Post by **silverjon** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:19 pm

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.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:19 pm

silverjon wrote:Maybe ours aren't online because they were a Canadian exclusive design, but that's the exact style we had up here.

Maybe, because I had several of that design. The thermos takes up one half of the box on the inside, if I remember correctly.

I don't have any recollection of outside images though. Weird.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:36 pm

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!

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:12 am

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?

Z-Corn · Post by **Z-Corn** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:26 pm

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!?

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:39 pm

Empire Strikes Back metal lunchbox - rusted out after a couple years. i'm pretty sure Yoda was on the thermos.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:19 pm

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.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:04 am

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.

Welcome to the United States, where waste is a way of life!

(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.)