Questions for Hasbro? - Week 14 Answers
On September 29th, we sent our fourteenth batch of questions to Hasbro for their weekly Star Wars Question and Answer feature. Today, we've got the answers to those questions!
1. Have you considered incorporating Remote Control features into ground vehicles for the Star Wars line? It's a vintage Kenner tradition that we haven't seen brought back yet and a few other toy companies working in the 3.75" scale have done this with tanks and things. It produces a pretty cool result and added play value - any chance of a new RC Sandcrawler or landspeeder or something?
** We assume you meant radio control, rather than the tethered (by wire) remote control. We have thought about radio control, but Hasbro looks to higher-profile performance-based RC vehicles, rather than simply using RC as a feature like you mention since it has a large price impact. We will continue to look at it - it would be cool to see an RC Sandcrawler or Landspeeder someday.
2. Zev Senseca from the Target Rogue Two Snowspeeder is creating a lot of buzz because he's a pretty nice pack-in figure in his own right. Since people seem to really love the X-Wing and other Rebel Pilots in the line, do you intend to make a definitive "generic" sculpt of the X-Wing Pilot or Snowspeeder Pilot gear? Then you can just swap new heads/helmets and paintjobs to give us a few new pilots every year! It seems like an easy way to put out different pilot figures for a fair price. The 3.75" line fans would get in line to buy them if the sculpts were poseable and just right at an average scale.
** That is a good idea, and we'll see. We like the pilots too. We think there can be room for several "definitives" at some point, for variety. SA Porkins, anyone? (OK, just kidding….it's unlikey we'll ever do an SA Porkins).
3. Are there any INCREDIBLY rare figures that only you Hasbro "insiders" have in your personal collections? We don't necessarily mean prototypes or unproduced mock-ups so much as something that was made as a gift/promo for people working on the Star Wars brand internally.
** Sure - there are a couple things. There is last year's Toy Fair Anakin/Vader press kit, which is more of a special package since the figures were not different. Everyone on the team received one of those…it is still one of the coolest, very limited things we've done. There was also a special gold "Team Star Wars" R2-D2 produced last year and given as thanks to everyone on the team. It was not factory-produced but created in our shop. About 100 were made and distributed. Other than that, we wouldn't abuse our system by making short-run figures. We prefer to use our force powers for good.
If you've got a question you've always wanted to ask the Hasbro Star Wars Team, then head into our forums to find out how to submit your question! 
Friday, October 6, 2006 | Jeff Smentek
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