Oh My God! Hot Wheels Killed Wicket! You Bastards!
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It’s one thing to make a car that’s vaguely shaped like Darth Vader or Stormtrooper armor as a cool tie-in. But this might be where somebody should have said, “Hey, ya know what? Skin isn’t a costume.” Yeah, this new Hot Wheels looks like somebody murdered Return of the Jedi‘s primary Ewok and stretched his pelt across the hood of a vehicle because they could. Now, if you were a Stormtrooper on Endor, driving this around might be one way to intimidate the locals into ceasing their log barrages of your Scout Walkers – or, like Achilles with the body of Hector, it could lead to your imminent vengeance-killing demise.
Also, those beady eyes and that grill make it look more like a tarantula with all its legs ripped off than an Ewok – and that may even be a less disturbing notion.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist