Questions for Hasbro? - Week 17 Answers
On October 27th, we sent our seventeenth batch of questions to Hasbro for their weekly Star Wars Question and Answer feature. Today, we've got the answers to those questions!
1. With the upcoming 10-pack Cinema Scenes in both the Galactic Heroes and Unleashed lines, you must know that you run the risk of driving completists away from this line (since they won't want to spend that much money for 8 or 9 figures that they already have just to get the one or two new exclusive ones). You must also know that you (and the retail stores) also run the risk of having numerous sets tampered with as frustrated collectors (for the aforementioned reason) pull the old "figure swap" by removing the exclusive figure(s), replacing them with some older figure(s), and then (fraudulently) returning them back to the stores. So my question is, will the few exclusive figures to these sets be made available seperately at some point to avoid these potential problems? If not, why stick it to the fans of these lines like this?
**We have no plans right now to bring these figures forward as part of the 2-packs. One thing we've learned is that there seems to be quite a few families playing and collecting Galactic Heroes together. We thought that this is a great pack to share, so adult collectors could get figures with some variations they wouldn't see otherwise and we might never do, and kids could get some figures they might not have. So that's why we went with adding new when we could, and it turned out that some packs have quite a bit of fresh figures. One thing to mention, too....is that fans can entirely remove the blister packaging from the inner package and use it as a cool cardboard playset. For the Unleashed, this is more of a troop building play pattern and the new troops, we felt, were important to include. There are also no plans to bring those out in 4-packs.
2. Speaking of the Unleashed minis, will you ever be correcting the SIDEWAYS Rebel Insignias on Snowpeeder Luke's helmet? They should be right-side up like the picture on the box (and on every Rebel Pilot figure ever released in any line). Is there any hope we'll get a corrected version sometime soon?
**Unfortunately, we are done with the production run on this wave and won't go back and correct. If we re-release next year we'll correct.
3. Cloud City. It's the site of one of the huge turning points of the Star Wars saga, yet it hasn't been granted a wave of action figures since 2004 (and even then the wave was only 3 figures, although that Cloud Car Pilot was pretty sweet). Yeah, there was that one lonely Bespin Vader squeezed into the Tatooine Wave this year, but when can this Captain Solo fanboy expect to see that new SA Bespin Han he so desperately wants? Oh right, no specific figure questions... uh, how about a simple "will we see a Bespin themed wave in 2007" question then?
**Not in 2007. We will definitely be going back to Bespin, but patience. It'll be worth the wait!
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, November 3, 2006 | Jeff Smentek
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