While on a recent flea market and antique mall road trip, my wife and I checked out a shop in Washington, Indiana. I was drooling over the vast selection of boarded Star Wars figures when she found me and said there were a lot of soda cans near the back of the store. So I made my way there and found this:
It was a selection of cans from the 1999 Pepsi Star Wars Episode One 24-can set. Since I already have the set, most of the cans didn't interest me. Except for two. Buried among the bright blue and white cans was a gold can. I picked it up and realized I was holding the rare 25th can... the Gold Yoda! I've seen these go for $20 and more on eBay and just wasn't willing to spend that much. I knew I would eventually come across it in my travels. The next question was "how much?" I turned the unopened can over and saw a tag for $5. It was mine!!!
Also in the pile was a Jar Jar Binks can I had never seen. It was a Pepsi Storm can! What the what? So I bought it for $1. I researched it when we got home and found out Storm was Pepsi's 1998-1999 attempt at a lightly carbonated, caffeinated lemon-lime drink. Since this was being tested during their Star Wars campaign, they released a Storm and Light Storm Star Wars can (those two cans were not numbered since they weren't part of the main 24-can set). Storm never made it out of the test market. It was dropped in favor of Pepsi's caffeine-free Slice, which was reformulated and renamed Sierra Mist in 2000.
Yoda is famous for saying, "Do or do not, there is not try." Well I didn't just "try" to get the gold Yoda, I went out and "did"!!!
Congratulations on your gold Yoda can. Please know there are 6 different gold Yoda cans. 1 for each flavor and a replacement can.
ReplyDeleteYou're right! I'm happy to have "a" gold Yoda, but now I am casually looking for the other five. That's the fun in collecting, right? It never ends!
ReplyDeleteWhat would a gold yoda mountain dew can be worth to you?
DeleteI know where one is!!
ReplyDeleteI have the pepsi golden yoda
ReplyDeleteI have an unopened gold yoda can ,, contest winner of 20.00 479-849-5998
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