Andy Chase

I just re-read Wil Wheaton's The Trade for the first time since he posted it, and it still takes me right back to my own ill-advised Star Wars toy trade.

It was nothing on the par of giving up a Death Star for a Land Speeder, but I always did miss the figure that I lost in the bargain: A Snow Trooper. What did I get in exchange? A measly little Jawa.

At the time, it seemed like a great deal; you couldn't get Jawas in the store anymore, whereas everybody had Snow Troopers right after The Empire Strikes Back had come out. Plus, the Jawa had a cloth robe, which was kind of cool. It didn't take me long to wish I had my Snow Trooper back; I tended to be rather sentimental about my possessions and that would have been the first time I lost custody of one, so to speak.

I never did get another Snow Trooper, and to the best of my recollection I never traded any more toys. (Although I strongly suspect the same kid I traded my Snow Trooper to of stealing two of my favorite Go-Bots from my pencil box a few years later.)

Tagged:

• toys
• nostalgia
• childhood
• starwars
• snowtrooper
• jawa
• gobots