# Angry fiance destroys her man's most prized Star Wars collectible - With video! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872 "2008-07-09T18:36:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/1 "2008-07-09T18:36:36Z")
[Angry Ladies!](http://www.geekologie.com/2008/07/devil_women_destroy_collectibl.php) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/2 "2008-07-09T18:41:33Z")
AlltheSimpsonsfansonthree! “I bent my Wookie!” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/3 "2008-07-09T18:51:46Z")
All the ugliness of a divorce but without the inconvienant wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/4 "2008-07-09T18:54:26Z")
Araaaraaaagaghahaghahg KRUNK SMASH WOMEN ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/5 "2008-07-09T18:57:53Z")
Women. Can’t live with 'em, can’t shoot 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/6 "2008-07-09T19:01:07Z")
Wow. I can’t even watch it. Those Star Wars things are way cool. I hope he dumped her ass! ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/7 "2008-07-09T19:01:32Z")
_boggles_ Clearly, they weren’t meant for one another if she has so little understanding/respect for his hobbies (they’re not “cheap plastic toys” to him, lady) and if he has so little respect for the fact that him looking at hookers and poker doesn’t fill her with joy. (Though the prattling about the ring is materialistic horsepuckey.) ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/8 "2008-07-09T19:04:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Women. Can’t live with 'em, [del]can’t shoot 'em[/del] pass the beer nuts. Fixed that for you. -Norm ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/9 "2008-07-09T19:13:09Z")
Hopefully, those collectibles were worth enough that that’s _felony_ destruction of property, all conveniently videotaped. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/10 "2008-07-09T19:13:51Z")
Moved to the dark side, they have. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/11 "2008-07-09T19:14:23Z")
I vote for “staged”. … For one, a guy who collects Star Wars figurines - engaged? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/12 "2008-07-09T19:23:11Z")
[QUOTE=Malthus] I vote for “staged”. … For one, a guy who collects Star Wars figurines - engaged? 😛 [/QUOTE] No, but in a serious relationship. We’re not all the 40 year old virgin. Some of us just took good care of our toys. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/13 "2008-07-09T22:37:53Z")
She seems the type that would totally understand if future hubby throws her Gucci purse and matching pair of heels into a bonfire because she’s out shopping with her friends. I noticed it took some liquid courage and a few hours of goading from her friends to do the deed. Hope it was worth it. :rolleyes: “Snowtrooper!” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/14 "2008-07-09T23:07:08Z")
Totally staged. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/15 "2008-07-09T23:16:17Z")
These aren’t 1970s highly-collectible never-been-opened action figures though, are they? I think These are contemporary Franklin Mint-type ‘limited edition’ collectors sculptures. Expensive, for sure, but not valuable. Or am I just wrong about that? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/16 "2008-07-09T23:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] These aren’t 1970s highly-collectible never-been-opened action figures though, are they? I think These are contemporary Franklin Mint-type ‘limited edition’ collectors sculptures. Expensive, for sure, but not valuable. Or am I just wrong about that? [/QUOTE] IIRC, the particular figure destroyed retailed for ~$800. There’s one on [eBay](http://cgi.ebay.com/Sideshow-Speeder-Bike-and-Scout-Trooper-Premium-Format_W0QQitemZ220254773205QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220254773205&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318) for about that. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/17 "2008-07-09T23:40:03Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] IIRC, the particular figure destroyed retailed for ~$800. [/QUOTE] That costs a good deal less than a divorce. Dude got off easy. Hopefully he gets the news while he is still in Vegas and can _really_ live it up. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/18 "2008-07-10T00:06:47Z")
[Eric] They’re _ACTION FIGURES_, not dolls![/Eric] ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/19 "2008-07-10T00:16:38Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Totally staged. [/QUOTE] Apparently the company making these scale models requests that in the case of a defective/flawed/cosmetically imperfect piece, they ask that the defective/damaged/flawed piece be _destroyed_, and you send them photographic proof of the destruction, before they replace the piece it’s entirely possible, plausible in fact, that this video is nothing more than a staged, fake video, made to prove to the manufacturer that said figure has indeed been destroyed, they just went about it in a more creative way than is typical however, if it _IS_ real, well, what more can I say that hasn’t already been said, the women in the video are nothing more than shallow, materialistic, scruffy-looking Nerf-Herders, and deserve any legal hardships and loss of relationship that result from this little video ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872/20 "2008-07-10T17:36:49Z")
I can’t wait for the 2nd installment video where dude comes home, finds his “action figure” in pieces, and then proceeds to tell the fiance that he had another collector lined up to buy it so he in turn, can make the final payment for her engagement ring. Naw…I’d rather watch him flip out and kick her to the curb. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angry-fiance-destroys-her-mans-most-prized-star-wars-collectible-with-video/455872.md?page=2)