Fun With IG-88!
This is my best friend, IG-88! He’s great for sleep-overs, and movie nights…but incidentally he always wants to watch The Empire Strikes Back for some reason. Here IG-88 is seen with some space doodads in the background and not in a microwave oven, so don’t get that freakin’ idea in your heads.
Here are some fun facts about IG-88:
1. IG stands for Inter Galactic…kinda like that Beastie Boys song.
2. At nearly 6ft7 (or 2m to the rest of the world) IG-88 is a tall bugger!
3. IG-88 destroyed his makers as soon as he was constructed…and we thought Damien was a bad kid!
4. The IG-88 line is actually four identical bots designated IG-88A, B, C, and D.
5. They were building Assassin Droids for cripes sakes! You’d kinda have to expect them to go berserk, kill their makers and escape the facility with intent to enact a droid revolution. I mean…duh!
6. IG-88’s head was originally used as part of the distillery behind the bar in the Mos Eisley cantina.
7. This particular IG-88 is about the size of the original Kenner action figure but is made with some very advanced Lego build techniques. Yep, I’m a real piece of work!
8. In a hilarious skit on Robot Chicken, IG-88 was seen not paying attention during the bounty hunter rally. Check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0gAvPqOYE
9.I’m merely using this image as a sneak preview for something bigger and badder that I will post later.
10. Vader rallied six bounty hunters…the only other droid bounty hunter besides IG-88 was 4-LOM. (acronym: For the Love Of Money). Looking similar to Zuckass, Kenner was confused when making the action figures so originally their names were swapped in their packaging.
11. Yep, you heard me…bigger and badder.
12. Fact #10 was actually more about 4-LOM and Zuckass than IG-88. I’m just burying fact number 9 amongst a bunch of other stuff so predictably the less observant of you will see a bunch of words, decide its not worth reading, then move on to looking at pictures of boobs. But the more observant of you will be all like…Holy crap! They used IG-88’s head as a distiller?! That means I’m in for a treat!…and I’m also thirsty for beer.
13. IG-88’s incompletely formed identity makes him perfect for bounty hunting…kinda like Dog The Bounty Hunter. What’s with that guy anyway? That feathered mullet and zebra striped wrestling tights. If he ever tracked me down for my student loans I’d be totally embarrassed to be seen with him. I’d probably just turn myself in right away so he doesn’t cause a huge scene in my neighborhood. Maybe that’s what makes him a good bounty hunter.
14. You know what, I’m gonna go ahead and name some of the more unobservant of you here. Its not like you’ll read this anyway, right? Apple Pie, Dylan Denton and Raphael G. has been hit or miss with some of these but they’re getting better. Mostly I think they post their comments before the write up goes through. I could do a long, sensitive write-up about one painting or another and their comments of “that chick is hot” would seem pretty shortsighted if they didn‘t read it. But Sedanman has consistently been the King of Unobservant! Don’t get me wrong, he’s my buddy and all, but damn, he’ll ask questions that are right in the freakin’ title, genius! I mean seriously, you wait and see…like four days from now he’ll leave a comment like “who’s that guy and why is he in the microwave? I mean cripes, sedan dude. C’mon!
15. If IG-88 is 6ft7 and I’m exactly the same height as Danny Trejo, what is the height difference between me and IG-88?
16. Danny Trejo is one baaaaaad hombre! I heard he killed a guy in prison. Its totally true, like that rumor about Richard Gere and the gerbil and don’t go looking up websites to disprove it either! Sometimes ya just like to believe in the legends.
17. Speaking of legends, you can totally see the ghost of that kid who died on the set of Three Men And A Baby. Check that out on you tube.
18. We’ve made it this far…should we just go with an even twenty on these? Ok, lets go to twenty quasi-facts about IG-88. Hmmmm, let’s see.
19. Even though he only appeared in the movie for like 2 seconds and didn’t say a word, IG-88 apparently has a deep, mechanical voice similar to Vader’s. “Luke, I am your father’s hired bounty hunter that was in that one movie for like two seconds then you can totally see my dismembered body later in that scene on Bespin when Chewbacca is rummaging for C-3PO’s parts.”
20. C-3PO…there’s just something ambiguously weird about that bot. I just can’t place it. IG-88, on the other hand…there’s nothing weird about him. Sometimes an IG-88 head is just an IG-88 head and doesn’t resemble anything else, so don’t go thinking otherwise.
Fun With IG-88!
This is my best friend, IG-88! He’s great for sleep-overs, and movie nights…but incidentally he always wants to watch The Empire Strikes Back for some reason. Here IG-88 is seen with some space doodads in the background and not in a microwave oven, so don’t get that freakin’ idea in your heads.
Here are some fun facts about IG-88:
1. IG stands for Inter Galactic…kinda like that Beastie Boys song.
2. At nearly 6ft7 (or 2m to the rest of the world) IG-88 is a tall bugger!
3. IG-88 destroyed his makers as soon as he was constructed…and we thought Damien was a bad kid!
4. The IG-88 line is actually four identical bots designated IG-88A, B, C, and D.
5. They were building Assassin Droids for cripes sakes! You’d kinda have to expect them to go berserk, kill their makers and escape the facility with intent to enact a droid revolution. I mean…duh!
6. IG-88’s head was originally used as part of the distillery behind the bar in the Mos Eisley cantina.
7. This particular IG-88 is about the size of the original Kenner action figure but is made with some very advanced Lego build techniques. Yep, I’m a real piece of work!
8. In a hilarious skit on Robot Chicken, IG-88 was seen not paying attention during the bounty hunter rally. Check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0gAvPqOYE
9.I’m merely using this image as a sneak preview for something bigger and badder that I will post later.
10. Vader rallied six bounty hunters…the only other droid bounty hunter besides IG-88 was 4-LOM. (acronym: For the Love Of Money). Looking similar to Zuckass, Kenner was confused when making the action figures so originally their names were swapped in their packaging.
11. Yep, you heard me…bigger and badder.
12. Fact #10 was actually more about 4-LOM and Zuckass than IG-88. I’m just burying fact number 9 amongst a bunch of other stuff so predictably the less observant of you will see a bunch of words, decide its not worth reading, then move on to looking at pictures of boobs. But the more observant of you will be all like…Holy crap! They used IG-88’s head as a distiller?! That means I’m in for a treat!…and I’m also thirsty for beer.
13. IG-88’s incompletely formed identity makes him perfect for bounty hunting…kinda like Dog The Bounty Hunter. What’s with that guy anyway? That feathered mullet and zebra striped wrestling tights. If he ever tracked me down for my student loans I’d be totally embarrassed to be seen with him. I’d probably just turn myself in right away so he doesn’t cause a huge scene in my neighborhood. Maybe that’s what makes him a good bounty hunter.
14. You know what, I’m gonna go ahead and name some of the more unobservant of you here. Its not like you’ll read this anyway, right? Apple Pie, Dylan Denton and Raphael G. has been hit or miss with some of these but they’re getting better. Mostly I think they post their comments before the write up goes through. I could do a long, sensitive write-up about one painting or another and their comments of “that chick is hot” would seem pretty shortsighted if they didn‘t read it. But Sedanman has consistently been the King of Unobservant! Don’t get me wrong, he’s my buddy and all, but damn, he’ll ask questions that are right in the freakin’ title, genius! I mean seriously, you wait and see…like four days from now he’ll leave a comment like “who’s that guy and why is he in the microwave? I mean cripes, sedan dude. C’mon!
15. If IG-88 is 6ft7 and I’m exactly the same height as Danny Trejo, what is the height difference between me and IG-88?
16. Danny Trejo is one baaaaaad hombre! I heard he killed a guy in prison. Its totally true, like that rumor about Richard Gere and the gerbil and don’t go looking up websites to disprove it either! Sometimes ya just like to believe in the legends.
17. Speaking of legends, you can totally see the ghost of that kid who died on the set of Three Men And A Baby. Check that out on you tube.
18. We’ve made it this far…should we just go with an even twenty on these? Ok, lets go to twenty quasi-facts about IG-88. Hmmmm, let’s see.
19. Even though he only appeared in the movie for like 2 seconds and didn’t say a word, IG-88 apparently has a deep, mechanical voice similar to Vader’s. “Luke, I am your father’s hired bounty hunter that was in that one movie for like two seconds then you can totally see my dismembered body later in that scene on Bespin when Chewbacca is rummaging for C-3PO’s parts.”
20. C-3PO…there’s just something ambiguously weird about that bot. I just can’t place it. IG-88, on the other hand…there’s nothing weird about him. Sometimes an IG-88 head is just an IG-88 head and doesn’t resemble anything else, so don’t go thinking otherwise.