Facebook’s Star Wars Figures
There’s an “app” (what the cool kids call applications) on Facebook that is both infinitely useless and kind of neat for toy collectors. The app is called, “Star Wars Figures” and it’s pretty much what the name implies. It has a bunch of pictures of vintage Star Wars figures that you can “give” to your Facebook friends.
The more you give out the more you get… but aside from being able to look at a bunch of vintage Star Wars figures that you could probably find elsewhere on the internet, there’s really nothing else you can do with it. So why would you want to use Star Wars figures? It’s simple, it’s fun to get an old “Star Wars” figure from a friend. I really can’t explain why, but when I get a message saying that Poe Ghostal has sent me a Star Wars figure, I can’t help but feel that it’s awesome.
If you are on Facebook and you get an invite for this, I’d say give it a shot if you like toys at all. I’m just hoping someone will do something with G.I. Joe figures now.
Note: Now I know that there’s probably a million of these things on Facebook, after all there’s no app that doesn’t have five million clones, but this is the one I’m talking about.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
There’s also an application called ’80s toys where you can give random toys from the ’80s. Funny thing is, one of the toys is a Power Ranger and the GI Joe is actually a Joe from the ’60s. But it’s still kinda neat.
Sam