Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/01/there-was-a-prototype-toy-line.html
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I’m assuming we all know this is an April Fools joke, but in case the SNL dialogue didn’t give it away that’s a 2017 Black Series Tusken Raider they decapitate.
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Well yeah, but Lucas didn’t have to pay Anthony Daniels to finger Peter Mayhew on camera.
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I love that movie.
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I think I saw the film some time ago and laughing at the decapitation machine. Maybe I’d have made a good Roman Emperor after all?
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Many movie theaters (remember those?), including the one where I worked, showed director Tinto Brass’s R-rated version, not Guccione’s clumsily edited X-rated version; the latter was simply a way to get explicit sex scenes featuring his favorite Penthouse Pets on the screen.
Either version is frankly unwatchable.
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Wait, this isn’t a ReAction line already?
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Although there were weird toy lines for movies that kids shouldn’t have been watching. For example,
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Cinco Toys (and other Cinco products) was the brand on Tim & Eric Awesome Show.
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The 80s had this weird thing about making toy lines from R rated movies. There were loads of Robocop toys on the shelves for example.
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You think your GI Joe’s kung fu grip is impressive? Hold my goblet and watch this!
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I decided to go ahead and spoil the joke in the headline and post.
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I’ve never seen the movie, probably because I’ve had friends describe some of the more horrifying scenes to me.
But I was curious to see some stills from the movie, so I google image searched “Caligula” and saw a nice little surprise.
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Still there from when I just checked! 
Isn’t he more like Nero, tho?
I looked, and I found one, but only when you add Trump to it…
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On the note of comparing emperors and Trump:
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I have suggested this guy before now
He succeeded a reasonably competent emperor (Severus Alexander), and by the time he was executed he had left the Roman Empire in a crisis that lasted a century.
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We maybe have a winner!
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It was the foley on the lickeroo machine that broke me.
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