This year, I have the privilege of curating four boxes for Quarterly. Because my interests are so diverse, and because I’ve been on this planet for four decades, I thought it would be fun to use each box to pull together some things that reflect the different influences I had in each decade of my life.
This is a video of me unboxing my first box for this year, which is inspired by the 1970s (not the 1980s, which I say at the beginning of the video and didn’t realize until we were editing and it was too late to change it).
If you’d like to subscribe to the remaining boxes I’m curating this year, or just pick up one of them, you can do that at Quarterly.co/wil My next box will be filled with things that were a big part of my life in the 1980s, like video games and RPGs and stuff.
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OMG OMG u got Chewbaca .. omg .. You raised my spirits thank u so much .. I love these vids u do .. lol dig the tats .. 🙂 tell the Mrs. Wheaton love and light to her .. <3 u make me smile ..
I did an unboxing over at GeekDad : http://geekdad.com/2015/03/quarterly-co/
I plan to do the entire year. Keep up the great job on delivering a quality box!
So, I was sitting here watching and just thinking I liked the Ravenclaw banner behind you, because I’m so happy you have discovered the lovely of Harry Potter and because, well, Ravenclaw here, too, but then…
But then… there was Chewbacca, and I couldn’t believe it.
See, Chewie, in action figure form, is a bit of a trigger for me.
Picture if you will a five-year-old wabbit in the middle seat of the Suburban. She’s tied two Star Wars figures together with an orange bit of yarn and she’s trying to pull them apart like a muscle man because that made sense to her five-year-old brain.
Suddenly, the yarn snaps. Out fly her hands, which open of their own accord. Away fly the figures, one of whom unknown to history, and the other, Chewbacca.
Now, hear her scream of “CHEWIE!” as that figure magically manages to find and fly out the two inch gap in the back window of the truck.
Now come the tears and the begging to stop the car in the middle of the interstate and the refusal by the father for safety reasons (and after he’s just been scared out of his mind by the utter scream of terror). And then the sniffling and the longing looks backward in the very back seat for the rest of the trip and the alarming lack of a Chewie for years thereafter (my mother, bless her, did finally find another, but it wasn’t prompt).
Yeah, true story, and one that is part of our family history. It’s retold any time anyone sees a wookiee. It’s one of the chapters in my actual memoirs that maybe one day will see the light of day.
It’s a fun memory now, but it wasn’t then. Childhood trauma reminder, there, with that particular figure.
Of all figures, it had to be Chewie.
Damn you, Wil. Damn you.
Yeah interesting. So I found this game I wanted to show you, the Stanley parable, and I wanted to add that it’s all about flow charts (rail road) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbex71BucRI Thoughts?
Wabbit,(cute nick name btw),Aaww. Sorry about Chewie. My brother and I had Star Wars toys. Of course he was busily blowing up Jabba the Hut with fire crackers.: -/
Wil thank You sharing that. It wicked cool.: ) I like how you light up looking At this stuff.:) As for RPGs, did you ever toss some dice in between takes while on Next Generation?
No worries. I’m just teasing Wil/I just find it funny that of all figures, it had to be Chewie, given my history with that wookiee. And thanks. wabbit has been my name for a long time. 😉
Your screen name makes me wonder – are you Vulcan?
I don’t quite get these box opening events. Are they some kind of new-fangled advertisement?
So. Fun. These boxes seem like a great idea for gift-giving! Also, I am now wandering off to look up Little Bits. Seems like a great thing to introduce to the kiddos.