Star Wars Xcavations

Star Wars Xcavations

Uncle Milton

Celebrate the death of Star Wars by collecting the skulls of your favorite characters!  And do so under the guise of “education”. Ha!  You weren’t fooling anyone with that line back in 2006 with your traveling costume and prop show at the Museum of Science and Industry, Star Wars, and you aren’t fooling anyone now!

They’re 3-part, plastic skulls in kinetic sand.   There’s very little excavating to do:  pop the top on the box, flip over, and “plop.”  No hammer and chisel required.  Though you may need an old nail or toothbrush to help get the sand out of all the details of the skulls.










The skulls themselves are quite nice.  Highly detailed and good stand-ins with any 12-inch figure collection.  I don’t collect 12-inch Star Wars...3 3/4 inch figures forever!  Anyway, they could stand a nice black paint wash to help some of the sculpting stand out a bit more.

  

I threw the sand in the trash, but the space-techy crates they come in are keepers.  They will look nice with a variety of 3 3/4 and 6 inch figure collections...minus the embossed “Star Wars” logo on the top.  A sticker or some sand paper will fix that right up.

The first (and probably only) wave consists of Darth Maul, Jabba the Hutt, Salacious Crumb, Bossk, Greedo (Yes, I do know their species names.), and a Gammorean.  I think my favorite is Darth Maul.  Not because of his cool horns, but just the reminder that he is dead.  I guess some Gungans or Naboo workers at the Theed power plant fished this memento out of a core shaft during some routine maintance?  No, he did not survive the end of The Phantom Menace.  Accept it and move on.  He’s dead...your franchise is dead...move along...