GOT, THEBN ALMOST GOT RID OF BY ACCIDENT: Skiff Guard Lando

 

Herein lies a tale of Too Many Toys.I grabbed Skiff Guard Lando as part of a longstanding but mostly dormant program where I get a backfilled, cheap, Original Trilogy Black Series figure when I need free shipping at some retailer or another. So I ordered him and he arrived but before I opened him I had a nagging feeling that I already had one.

So I looked at an old spreadsheet from back when I thought I could track who was in what bin (HA HUBRIS) and sure enough, entry for Lando Calrissian Skiff Guard. So I prepared to dispose of him in a charitable fashion. 

But I wasn’t sure. Because I’d been through the GI Joe / MOTO / Black Series bin fairly often recently and had no memory of seeing him. So, since I needed to dig through there again I was thorough, and not only was there no Skiff Guard Lando in there, there was no Skiff Guard Helmet or Skiff Guard Stick in the accessories bag. So I cracked him open, and then a week or so later on a hunch I looked at the spreadsheet again and sure enough it was  a listing for the old Power of the Force Skiff Lando because I still have a gallon baggie of those dudes kicking around.

Anyway, Siff Lando, who, in a way that isn’t entirely inconsistent with Jabba’s Palace at all, reads to me like a waiter/bouncer at a theme casino. So that’s what I did. And got out the Beyonder because he’s an Asshole-Coded MVP. And the tray from Super7 Grimlock, which is too big for a Marvel Legends figure and WAY too big for a Black Series and I do trays of drinks enough that I should really find me a proper one somehow.