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Ted Plays Grey Star

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You may know me as "Bronze Age Star Wars" on Twitter. Now join me on Bluesky for some nostalgic fun as I play through the Lone Wolf gamebook series and the World of Lone Wolf spinoff!

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 3h

Not to be confused with mechsplaining (explaining how Robotech and Battletech wound up using the same mech designs)

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 3h

Also comes in other yummy flavor combinations like blood sausage & treacle

Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 3h

this was in the British food section of the grocer. is England okay

a pack of Shrimps and Bananas candy. looks to be heavy on the shrimp, light on the bananas. caveat emptor

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 3h

Treksplaining

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 9h

Died of ennui

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 9h

Wow, poor Colossal Boy

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. I was not aware Chaykin did any SW work apart from his run on the original Marvel series. Was always under the impression he hated the whole franchise.

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 1d

Does this imply that Shakespeare wrote before the ancient Klingon warriors had killed their gods for being more trouble than they were worth?

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite NTT storyline was when Starfire went back to Tamaran and joined the elite Tamaranian strike force code named C'rry Powd'r

Steve Bannister aka ComicGraveDigger now reading Teen Titans @stevesensible.bsky.social · 1d

Really? Koriand'r's sister is called Commander Komand'r? Why not Kum'n? Or Parsl'y? 🤔

A panel from New Teen Titans #23 showing Starfire's sister, the evil Princess Komand'r, who's rank is, conveniently, Commander.

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 2d

Guess it's mostly dedicated to The Radioland Murders then

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 2d

My condolences

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 2d

Gladiator Voltron mystified me as a kid. Of course I knew Lion Force and Vehicle Force, as the same station aired both shows in my area. But I never saw any evidence of Gladiator Voltron apart from the toy

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 2d

Can't wait to see him on the cover of my mom's AARP magazine

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 2d

The first issue of Checkmate is one of the most memorable single-issue stories I've ever read.

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! Which episode is this from?

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 3d

E.T. remembers seeing old holovids of Senator Grebleips meeting Yoda

a group of aliens are sitting in a futuristic spaceship

Alt: The Senate delegation of Brodo Asogi, as they appeared in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 3d

More and more of my fellow Gen X Facebook friends are posting what appears to me to be easily detectable AI slop.

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 3d

Ace Frehley has passed at the age of 74, the first of the original lineup of KISS to leave us.
variety.com/2025/music/n...

Ace Frehley, Kiss Lead Guitarist and Solo Artist, Dies at 74

Paul 'Ace' Frehley, lead guitarist and cofounder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Kiss, has died. He was 74.

variety.com

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 3d

A good band is a good band.

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 4d

The sole redeeming feature of the episode

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 4d

Sure, you lose Captain America's nose, but you get an extra cover in return!

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 4d

I watched the documentary "Drew: The Man Behind the Poster" tonight and learned that the dying man on the front (evil) and back (good) cover is Drew Struzan himself.

The back cover of the 1973 Black Sabbath album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," depicting a man on his deathbed surrounded by mourners. The dying man's likeness is a self-portrait by the album cover's artist, Drew Struzan.

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 5d

21st-century reboot of Family Ties where Alex P. Keaton is an unrepentant neo-Nazi

Politico @politico.com · 5d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 5d

I think I actually got two Centurions for Christmas one year -- a good guy and a bad guy -- because the Sears catalog sold them in sets. Centurions was a line where you absolutely had to have multiple figures to get any real play value.

Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 5d

Even Art Adams couldn't make '90s Cyborg look cool.

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Ted Plays Grey Star @swbronze.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, these toys were great, but my parents only ever bought me one figure (the yellow guy who squirted water) because they were too damn expensive.

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