Stand Tall Display System

Mar. 6, 2006

Lets look at the Empire in it’s prime, and imagine what could have been….


Hi everybody, it’s me…. here with my weekly sales pitch/juvenile rant.
It’s winter here in New England so exercising outside really kind of sucks, so my wife and I invested in a treadmill to stave off the “winter-fatties” as I like to call them. I used to call it “tight pants season” but I found out that it was not in fact “shrinking pants“..it was more like “big belly-bubble butt”… anyways, while I plod along on our treadmill I watch movies.

As you may or may not have guessed some of those movies would be the entire Star Wars Saga…..and yes that includes The Phantom Menace, even though Jake Loyld is really a terrible actor! Since I’ve seen all of these movies about Fourteen-Hundred times each I don’t necessarily go in order. I pick what I’m in the mood for and watch it. I made the mistake of watching Revenge of the Sith followed by Return of the Jedi.
Before I get to far into an analysis here let me first throw in a disclaimer: As a child I loved Stormtroopers. They were the Empires “heavies”. You always new that civilians went out of their way to stay clear of these guys. They were supposed to be the “elite”. They were Killers with iron discipline that carried out the evil orders of the empire. Kind of like the Umpaa-Loompa’s from Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

I know that I don’t have to explain to anybody here that the Stormtroopers skills were lacking compared to Jango’s clones. They can’t aim at all..or maybe they don’t aim and that’s the problem…I’m really not sure which. They run like they have nuggets squishing in their pants, and I actually saw one get hit by a stick thrown by an ewok and he fell over dead. Come On!

Jango’s clones were awesome. Repelling out of gunships, hitting everything they shoot at, no fear, no hesitation. I’d be willing to bet that if the Biker Scout left alone at the Endor Bunker were a Jango clone he would never have fallen for Han’s “Tap you on the shoulder and run trick”. No Way! That guy would have spun around and shot Han in the cooley and the back of the head before he could reach safety. Now that’s a Bad-A$$!

So my childhood awe of Stormtroopers is gone. It’s been replaced by an affection for the true warrior breed….the Clonetrooper.

Now for your viewing pleasure I present my clone army. Displayed in all their glory on my build-it-yourself display shelves. Standing Tall for all to see!

Thank you for your time,
Jim (Team_Felix in the JTA forums)

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