A Most Unusual Thing

This is a picture of the most recent Star Wars Jawa action figure, in it’s packaging:

jawa.jpg < Jawa

The other day, in Target, I found a most unusual example of this same figure on the shelves:

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At first I thought it was a very, very unusual manufacturing error, but after some inspection it was obvious that someone had done this intentionally. It seems they had removed some tape on the back just enough to squeeze out the figure and replace his head and weapon (with the head from a GI Joe figure I believe), and then packaged it back up with such skill it wouldn’t be obvious to most people it had ever been opened.

My guess is this was done as a gag, and then returned to the store in the hope it would be restocked.

Discuss.

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2 Responses to “A Most Unusual Thing”

  1. mycroft says:
    June 22, 2009 at 12:27 am

    Maybe YOU did it 🙂

  2. Robert says:
    June 22, 2009 at 6:36 am

    If I had, I wouldn’t not have.