Behold the awesome power of this fully operational Star Wars marketing machine: an action figure of the obscure admiral whom Darth Vader chokes in the first film. Intentionally ironic? You be the judge.
Dude even had it autographed. Hard core.
How can you not like Admiral Motti? No, I didn't know he was either before the advent of Google, but this guy ranks right up there with that anonymous Imperial soldier who seizes the moment to talk smack: "You rebel scum." This got me thinking, and because the Internet is chock full of goodness, I located this actor too: Barrie Holland. As often happens,
after the movie, things quickly got out of hand, and Mr. Holland soon found
himself at conventions. No action figure yet, but apparently, Lucas Film eventually trademarked
the phrase, "You rebel scum."
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