@justbuyit Yup. Anything that's $2 bucks with free shipping is pretty damn hard to turn down, even though I've got 48oz and 32oz Nalgenes that'll probably see the end of time... in for two stormtroopers
@justbuyit VMP bait indeed...wait limit 3?! NOOOOO!! Well looks like no one else is getting one but me (and the one that my wife will inevitably claim as her own).
See other thread (poll thread) for links to the somewhat rare and increasingly expensive theatrical dvd versions, thrown in as a side dish to the re-edited bloat-versions in a gold-banded Limited Edition release. The links are to show the cover pix and info. Cheaper on ebay.
@f00l nice! I have three versions of the trilogy. The THX theatrical edition on VHS, the regular DVD set with bonus disc, which I believe is the "Special Edition" version, and a laserdisc theatrical version which was ported to DVD ;)
@jsh139 I have read in some forum that in these Limited Edition dvd releases, which contain the theatrical releases as a side attraction to the "new, improved" versions, the theatrical releases in the case are sourced from the laserdisc versions and are the same qual.
I so wish Disney would hear our cries, and sell the theatricals, cleaned up, 5.1 sound, re-mastered blu-rays. These were sjot on film, do thry could do a 4k. I wonder if they are prohibited by contract.
@f00l I wish they would, too! Now that Disney owns them, there is always hope. I believe George Lucas was quoted as saying something to the effect of the past is the past, and the Blu-Ray editions are how he originally envisioned the films, so he would never go back to the theatrical versions. In my mind, the theatrical versions are the best, because that is how I first saw them. Nothing will ever come close, I don't care how many "improvements" are made.
I wish we could buy 4. Grabbed 2 for my boyfriend, and would grab two for a start wars obsessed friend, but just grabbing him the group one instead. (I'll good for the extra $2 if you want to toss the extra storm trooper in my teeny-taxing-dove
It's a trap! You can only order 3 and the first three will suck. Hard. So use a second account people, for the love of Jabba, and make sure you get that second set of three.
It is a dark time for meh. Although the old site has been destroyed, Amazon troops have driven the meh forces from their hidden site and pursued them across the Internet.
@sammydog01 as a matter of fact, yes they did come out of the show. Was more of a drive-by by @dgo, one of our illustrious Buyer peeps here, aka Mr. Banana Boat. Walked by the booth, noticed some cool stuff, shook a few hands and voila, 6,104 water bottles (so far) will be landing in our thirsty customers mitts soon!
So being as I have a Samsung galaxy zoom, my phone has a big lens that extends out when the camera is activated. Point being, why did my camera activate when I clicked the"buy it" button? That's a little unnerving and I hope it was my phone being a glitchy dinosaur and not some freaky privacy invading hack going on.
Fastest meh I've meh'd. Not worth the five dollars for shipping. Also, seen way too much Star Wars for the time being. Yes, the new movie is amazing. Still don't need to see it everywhere.
@Dizavid the idea is you turn on VMP for this great deal and then buy stuff every other day since the shipping is already paid for. Amortized over all that stuff the shipping cost approaches zero. (Woe. Calculus nightmares.)
I've pretty much got enough water bottles to last a lifetime because of previous meh deals, but how do I say no to a $2 deal? In for 1. Maybe I can use it as a urinal for road trips.
Welp, I was all set to post images of my choice, because the Malevolent Order Name Generator has been acting up again. However, it gave me 'textured-emotional-buckeye', and I get emotional about this:
so.....I'm considering this as my very first meh. BUT i'm moving to Texas in 10 days. So would my shipping address be my current one or my Texas one? is there a way to order decelerated shipping??
@ebam get it sent to new address, this is a 7000 + item order so fulfillment will take at least a couple meh days(its like business days just slower) im guessing it wont even leave meh hq until mid-late next week and arrive 2 weeks from now.
worse case senario, post office tries delivering and then you pick it up at the new local post office
@f00l Fort Worth area. I missed the boat on these, but if they come up again I can get them without the hassle of figuring out where to go. the apartment option is a no-go. I'm renting a duplex from an absentee landlord. And as I'll be the one with the baby and dog, I figure the other duplex half will hate me enough without starting the relationship by asking for favors!
Are these the FEMA water bottles people are selling? I won't support the re-sale of free water bottles paid for with taxpayer dollars. These are supposed to be for disaster victims.
That giant flip-top lid is guaranteed to smack you right between the eyes just as you're trying to get a swig of your favorite beverage. No wonder Zak unloaded them to Meh.com for pennies each! The idiotic lid design makes these a pure waste of Tritan plastic.
A short time from now in a Great Pacific garbage patch far, far away alarmingly large flotillas of abandoned water bottles began arriving…
@mwarren Nope- the lids lock open. I have one of these I've been using for a few years now. (Iron Man instead of Star Wars, but exactly the same bottle design) :)
@conandlibrarian They do look really nice, but I'm worried that the quality of the lids is a little low. I think they'll hold up to adult usage, but I'm not so sure how they'll fair with my kids taking them to school every day.
I rediscovered mine a few days ago, and it really is nice. I thought this was a 2 fer one deal, and I gave the other to my niece for Christmas, but I guess not. I was just a selfish so-and-so.
I’m using it and looking at it and wondering why these things became so insanely popular, when it occurred to me all these water bottle type things are actually sippy cups for adults. I think the idea is to make a sippy cup that doesn’t look like a sippy cup,(you can take sippy cup back to, um well Sigmund Freud proposed that if the nursing child’s appetite were thwarted, the anxiety would persist into adulthood as a neurosis. Think of that next time you are lovingly gazing at the stormtrooper. Freud was a brilliant storyteller! I,myself prefer James Masterson. I really think he was on to something. I have to read his stuff four or five times to get a grip on it, but to me it’s wonderful reading and his approach works. I walked away from the field years ago, but Masterson, I think was the real deal.)
Anyway, in the specs for this water bottle, it mentioned Tritan plastic, which is relatively hormone free. I always figured my man boobs were the result of heavy marijuana use in the 80’s but perhaps I can blame it on Chinese water bottles from the dollar store.
How BPA-free is it? Well, they’re not sure. Two scientists’ are fighting over it now. This article was a real eye opener, because I didn’t know scientists fought. Bespectacled and in white lab coats, I thought they hesitated to even shake hands.This article is from 2015, but as of 2016, they’re still fighting.http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/02/16/385747786/beyond-bpa-court-battle-reveals-a-shift-in-debate-over-plastic-safety
If you can do it, go with glass, I guess.
Thanks for letting me post in a year old thread, on this gloomy 32.5 F Sunday afternoon.
@wew - Yikes! Your post sent me on a research blitz - I have been schooled! This article in particular talks about many sources of BPAs and the negative effects. There are many, including receipts. How many times do we handle those daily?
Thermal paper is used in receipts,event and cinema tickets, labels airline tickets etc. About 1 microgram of BPA gets transferred to the forefinger and the middle finger during dry contact with a thermal paper. On wet or greasy fingers the amount is 10 times more. The presence of BPA on fingers remains for about 2 hours after exposure.
So many extreme claims - does anyone know if the HubPages site is a reliable source? Because, if so, I’m ready to lock myself in a glass room.
@KDemo After reading that, I wasn’t too concerned about myself. I was thinking of those poor Walmart cashiers that are handing out receipts every minute 8 hours a day.
And concerning Hubpages, or any article that gets “deep” like that-I really like some references and footnotes to go along with it! As Truzzi said, “Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof”.
My aunt would have loved Hubpages if a lot of it is stuff like that. She died last month at age 94, but she really believed she was dying since she was around 50
Specs
Condition: New
Warranty: 1 year Zak Designs
Estimated Delivery: 4/4 - 4/6
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x 25oz Water Bottle
Pictures
Options
Star Wars bottle
Star Wars bottle open
Star Wars bottle carrying loop
Star Wars bottle hand for scale
Star Wars bottle other side
Stormtrooper bottle hand for scale
Stormtrooper bottle
Stormtrooper bottle open
Stormtrooper bottle carrying loop
Stormtrooper bottle other side
No life forms detected…
Price Comparison
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Estimated Delivery
Monday, January 28th - Monday, February 4th
first
two days in a row.
Somebody should write an autobiography.
Star Fail
The force is meh with this one.
VMP bait
@justbuyit yea I bought one. $2.19 after tax.
@justbuyit Yup. Anything that's $2 bucks with free shipping is pretty damn hard to turn down, even though I've got 48oz and 32oz Nalgenes that'll probably see the end of time... in for two stormtroopers
@justbuyit Yep. Worked well for me. Worst case it's a great gift.
Nice try. This fish isn't a sucker this time. Gotta do better than that.
@justbuyit this got me to become a VMP
@justbuyit IT'S A TRAP!
@justbuyit I cancelled my VMP a few days ago. No SW water bottle for me!
@justbuyit VMP bait indeed...wait limit 3?! NOOOOO!! Well looks like no one else is getting one but me (and the one that my wife will inevitably claim as her own).
@justbuyit
I just got reeled in...
the force is strong with this one...
horrific-organized-verse
$2, I can't say meh to that.
@dynamiklol well, you kinda did...
These are not the bottles you are looking for.
Totally easy and quick buy for me. Perfect gift for little kid's (i.e. my son's classmates birthdays).
I find your lack of deal disturbing.
These will sell out fast, I took the VMP bait with one of each :P
The most meh product imaginable. You've done it again, my friends.
These aren't the water bottles you're looking for.
What have I done?
I love these bottles with the flip lids/handles. I grabbed three like the gripping-extreme-insect I am.
I really wish I could buy more than three. These are so great for me- I can carry them when I'm using my crutches because of the awesome handle.
I've bought too many things lately, now to buy these.
cowardly-spontaneous-catfish
@baqui63 Way too cute
Deal out of this Workd
@AttyVette suppose to say world -- Freudian slip this is
@AttyVette I suppose you mean "supposed" to say.. I can see the Freudian slip there
@AttyVette. Freud's wife never wore a slip -- she always went 'commando'. (At least that's what Carl Jung always said.)
@gsrivast maybe a wookie involved was she not Freudian slip
Can I have these cabinet-clutterers delivered directly to Goodwill?
stupid-edgy-elbow
Meh. I don't need one, but I bet they'll sell out within 30 minutes on account of how cheap they are.
@lljk you bet too low
@mehdaf Way too low it seems.
Doesn't include my favorite character... Jar Jar DRRRRRIIIIIINKS!
-Plinkett
Get it before they are re-released with new CGI effects
I'm going to microwave it anyhow
In for two. My kids need new water bottles for school anyway.
Do I need Star Wars water bottles? No. Am I buying Star Wars water bottles? HELL YES!
ignorant-proficient-haircut
Deal tonight would say if it could talk...."Luke, I am your bottle "!
@jsh139 solo shots
@jsh139 let me re-release that for you
@thismyusername this angers me. I refuse to watch any version of ANH where greedo shoots.
@nadroj We dont serve their kind here.
@jsh139 I refuse to call it ANH, I prefer "Star Wars"
Catchy right?
@jsh139
@thisismyusername
@mehdaf
See other thread (poll thread) for links to the somewhat rare and increasingly expensive theatrical dvd versions, thrown in as a side dish to the re-edited bloat-versions in a gold-banded Limited Edition release. The links are to show the cover pix and info. Cheaper on ebay.
@f00l nice! I have three versions of the trilogy. The THX theatrical edition on VHS, the regular DVD set with bonus disc, which I believe is the "Special Edition" version, and a laserdisc theatrical version which was ported to DVD ;)
@jsh139
I have read in some forum that in these Limited Edition dvd releases, which contain the theatrical releases as a side attraction to the "new, improved" versions, the theatrical releases in the case are sourced from the laserdisc versions and are the same qual.
I so wish Disney would hear our cries, and sell the theatricals, cleaned up, 5.1 sound, re-mastered blu-rays. These were sjot on film, do thry could do a 4k. I wonder if they are prohibited by contract.
@f00l I wish they would, too! Now that Disney owns them, there is always hope. I believe George Lucas was quoted as saying something to the effect of the past is the past, and the Blu-Ray editions are how he originally envisioned the films, so he would never go back to the theatrical versions. In my mind, the theatrical versions are the best, because that is how I first saw them. Nothing will ever come close, I don't care how many "improvements" are made.
@jsh139
there's a whole rights issue, notably that Fox has the rights to ANH indefinitely. there are some glimmers of hope, here's one of the more comprehensive articles I've seen on the subject: http://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminmoore/2015/09/22/is-the-original-unaltered-star-wars-trilogy-finally-coming-to-blu-ray/#6c7ea2242f2f
In for one of each!
I wish we could buy 4. Grabbed 2 for my boyfriend, and would grab two for a start wars obsessed friend, but just grabbing him the group one instead. (I'll good for the extra $2 if you want to toss the extra storm trooper in my teeny-taxing-dove
@Jamileigh17 give your friend the first three. The fourth one will be the best one and you know it.
@Jamileigh17 please don't start wars with your friends.
@Jamileigh17 Must be a theme. I had dry-gnarly-dove
It's a trap! You can only order 3 and the first three will suck. Hard. So use a second account people, for the love of Jabba, and make sure you get that second set of three.
@mike808 when you finally get 1-3 they will be disappointing compared to 4-6
A long long meh ago, on a website far far away...
It is a dark time for meh. Although the old site has been destroyed, Amazon troops have driven the meh forces from their hidden site and pursued them across the Internet.
eligible-garrulous-nut
attentive-tight-panda
In for one of each. Don't make regret it, meh.
racy callous minister
Quench my thirst with 2 of these I will.
Dreary moaning bun
Wife loves the star wars and I'm drunk
@beergut that's terrifying
"I love you, Star Wars bottle."
"I know"
intense-shake-weight
That's some commitment, your hand model is rocking the Martian Notifier Watch.
@Jdub- Did these come from the housewares show? Because if they did, awesome job!
@sammydog01 as a matter of fact, yes they did come out of the show. Was more of a drive-by by @dgo, one of our illustrious Buyer peeps here, aka Mr. Banana Boat. Walked by the booth, noticed some cool stuff, shook a few hands and voila, 6,104 water bottles (so far) will be landing in our thirsty customers mitts soon!
@Jdub No way! I have three of those Banana Boat speakers, and soon will have three of these.
Hey, @matthew, I think we saw @Jdub in Mad Ape Den, but how about a "Meet @dgo" video?
because you demanded it, sure
@matthew @sammydog01 and I know exactly what I'm going to wear!
@dgo This?
barred-tactile-comfort
So being as I have a Samsung galaxy zoom, my phone has a big lens that extends out when the camera is activated.
Point being, why did my camera activate when I clicked the"buy it" button?
That's a little unnerving and I hope it was my phone being a glitchy dinosaur and not some freaky privacy invading hack going on.
@lenea9011 it was R2D2
@lenea9011 It's an android glitch, I assume. Next time you're in the market, consider upgrading to a smartphone!
Fastest meh I've meh'd. Not worth the five dollars for shipping. Also, seen way too much Star Wars for the time being. Yes, the new movie is amazing. Still don't need to see it everywhere.
@Dizavid the idea is you turn on VMP for this great deal and then buy stuff every other day since the shipping is already paid for. Amortized over all that stuff the shipping cost approaches zero. (Woe. Calculus nightmares.)
Muy Yum.
withered-surging-mouth
I've pretty much got enough water bottles to last a lifetime because of previous meh deals, but how do I say no to a $2 deal? In for 1. Maybe I can use it as a urinal for road trips.
@warpedrotors don't get the Stormtrooper unless you want to miss.
limit 3? MEH limits.
My first water bottle. Got VMP yesterday, the water bottle today, what could possibly go wrong!
@wew It already has.
@cinoclav
^ :)
Dang, they have a lot of these
Wanted more than 3, Meh scumbags.
Don't thwart me when i wanna spend $ here, or you will feel my displeasure from across the galaxy.
royal-berserk-bamboo
in for 3 Storm Troopers -- cause they look cooler
@ceagee I was wondering what Boy George was up to these days...
anyone having issues with billing address not being validated?
@bwoithe I just used paypal.
I just lost my meh virginity.
@gcdelp But will you still respect yourself in the morning?
@Pavlov only time will tell
@gcdelp So you're ahead of most Star Wars fans...
I've got a bad feeling about this...
Hot-Jerky-Anaconda
Really meh? I don't wanna google that for a funny picture.
risky-precious-leopard
Gotta justify my VMP somehow.
handsomely-witty-grape
@blaineg I don't even know how to process what's going on in that picture...
@blaineg Ewww!! He has pink-eye!
@blaineg not worth it.
9 hours later and no one yet? Shameful. Fine, I'll do it:
Meh the force be with you.
"Darth Vader: Please, my master, just one choke."
Best line from the write up
In for two! My son will LOVE this, and it's perfect for the summertime, "Go outside and play" gear!
Welp, I was all set to post images of my choice, because the Malevolent Order Name Generator has been acting up again. However, it gave me 'textured-emotional-buckeye', and I get emotional about this:
Someone, don't forget to post the link about how bpa free plastic may still be dangerous!
@miko1 Here we go: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-free-plastic-containers-may-be-just-as-hazardous/
@narfcake Meh is writing a scholarly article, "Brain Damage and Impulsivity".
Will there now be 29 days of really,really bad crap?
(I like the good crap.)
@wew "crap" is in the ass of the beholder.
@RedOak
A beholder can behold his/her own ass and what's in it? I might imagine that, but don't wanna see it performed live.
so.....I'm considering this as my very first meh. BUT i'm moving to Texas in 10 days. So would my shipping address be my current one or my Texas one? is there a way to order decelerated shipping??
@ebam based upon the shipping date above in the specs, you might be OK.
But you could ask Customer Service to hold your order until you move and then pick them up in person at Meh HQ.
@ebam get it sent to new address, this is a 7000 + item order so fulfillment will take at least a couple meh days(its like business days just slower) im guessing it wont even leave meh hq until mid-late next week and arrive 2 weeks from now.
worse case senario, post office tries delivering and then you pick it up at the new local post office
@communist and if all else fails, go with option one and storm MEHQ (about an hour from my new location)?
@ebam if you're moving into an apartment, most are happy to hold a resident's package for a few days if it comes before you.
@ALLCAPSORNOTHIN
Yeah this works, a friend did this earlier in March.
@ebam
If it's ok to ask, what part of the Metromess is your destination?
@f00l Fort Worth area. I missed the boat on these, but if they come up again I can get them without the hassle of figuring out where to go. the apartment option is a no-go. I'm renting a duplex from an absentee landlord. And as I'll be the one with the baby and dog, I figure the other duplex half will hate me enough without starting the relationship by asking for favors!
@ebam
Cool. Will find some eateries to tempt your $.
(1) 2pm Eastern - approaching 7,000 plastic bottles. Impressive.
(2) And just about ambivalent as to which style. Odd.
@RedOak I'd wager a lot of people just bought one of each.
@cinoclav makes sense - so both styles equally meh.
Are these the FEMA water bottles people are selling? I won't support the re-sale of free water bottles paid for with taxpayer dollars. These are supposed to be for disaster victims.
That giant flip-top lid is guaranteed to smack you right between the eyes just as you're trying to get a swig of your favorite beverage. No wonder Zak unloaded them to Meh.com for pennies each! The idiotic lid design makes these a pure waste of Tritan plastic.
@mwarren
Turn the bottle sideways??
@mwarren
@mwarren Nope- the lids lock open. I have one of these I've been using for a few years now. (Iron Man instead of Star Wars, but exactly the same bottle design) :)
instrumental-highfalutin-carrot
First meh purchased since micro-drone pre Christmas!
My 1st order after months of meh......in for 2.....at 3.50 each with shipping + STAR WARS......can't say meh to that!
So I'd really like to order 4 of these; but the Bot will allow only 3. Anyone in here a sorcerer and can like, make Meh sell me 4?
@budahkb you could start another account, but then you have to pay shipping again
@communist
Fucking fell for this.
These are perfect for the young'uns when we're camping in for 3!
@mehbee spolier: Anakin kills the younglings.
@ALLCAPSORNOTHIN Dang it I HATE spoilers!
BPA free chemical causes you to get fat.
you want us to be fat dont you?
@sarahtarah
Being alive seems to be causing me and mine to get fatter. Therefore we disclaim all personal responsibility.
@sarahtarah Everything these days makes you fat.
and the better options tend to break the bank
Any chance you can send me the leftovers? I can easily giveaway at least a dozen of these.
I got mine today, and these are way better looking than I expected. I only wish I had a dozen more.
@conandlibrarian They do look really nice, but I'm worried that the quality of the lids is a little low. I think they'll hold up to adult usage, but I'm not so sure how they'll fair with my kids taking them to school every day.
I rediscovered mine a few days ago, and it really is nice. I thought this was a 2 fer one deal, and I gave the other to my niece for Christmas, but I guess not. I was just a selfish so-and-so.
I’m using it and looking at it and wondering why these things became so insanely popular, when it occurred to me all these water bottle type things are actually sippy cups for adults. I think the idea is to make a sippy cup that doesn’t look like a sippy cup,(you can take sippy cup back to, um well Sigmund Freud proposed that if the nursing child’s appetite were thwarted, the anxiety would persist into adulthood as a neurosis. Think of that next time you are lovingly gazing at the stormtrooper. Freud was a brilliant storyteller! I,myself prefer James Masterson. I really think he was on to something. I have to read his stuff four or five times to get a grip on it, but to me it’s wonderful reading and his approach works. I walked away from the field years ago, but Masterson, I think was the real deal.)
Anyway, in the specs for this water bottle, it mentioned Tritan plastic, which is relatively hormone free. I always figured my man boobs were the result of heavy marijuana use in the 80’s but perhaps I can blame it on Chinese water bottles from the dollar store.
How BPA-free is it? Well, they’re not sure. Two scientists’ are fighting over it now. This article was a real eye opener, because I didn’t know scientists fought. Bespectacled and in white lab coats, I thought they hesitated to even shake hands.This article is from 2015, but as of 2016, they’re still fighting.http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/02/16/385747786/beyond-bpa-court-battle-reveals-a-shift-in-debate-over-plastic-safety
If you can do it, go with glass, I guess.
Thanks for letting me post in a year old thread, on this gloomy 32.5 F Sunday afternoon.
@wew - Yikes! Your post sent me on a research blitz - I have been schooled! This article in particular talks about many sources of BPAs and the negative effects. There are many, including receipts. How many times do we handle those daily?
So many extreme claims - does anyone know if the HubPages site is a reliable source? Because, if so, I’m ready to lock myself in a glass room.
https://hubpages.com/health/Plastic-products-trigger-estrogen-effect
Oh, and thanks for opening my eyes.
@KDemo After reading that, I wasn’t too concerned about myself. I was thinking of those poor Walmart cashiers that are handing out receipts every minute 8 hours a day.
And concerning Hubpages, or any article that gets “deep” like that-I really like some references and footnotes to go along with it! As Truzzi said, “Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof”.
My aunt would have loved Hubpages if a lot of it is stuff like that. She died last month at age 94, but she really believed she was dying since she was around 50