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“A New Force at Breakfast.”

Philip Reed March 30, 2017

April 18, 1984. I was searching for toy ads that appeared in newspapers in the weeks before Easter (1984) when I ran across this coupon for C-3PO’s cereal. Not sharing this Star Wars advertisement would have made me a very bad person, right?

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