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The Bullpen / Re: Thor: The Toys!
« on: September 21, 2011, 06:53 PM »
So on this topic of new Thor figures showing up....has anyone found the Loki with helmet, or King Laufey?
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Shadows of the Dark Side / Re: Toys R Us "Death Star Trench Run" UBP
« on: September 21, 2011, 12:18 PM »
So I saw this in the store yesterday. Honestly?
-The paint and deco on R2-D2 looks pretty good. He's got some of the manipulator arms and the figure looks pretty awesome. I'm not certain if this is an all new R2-D2 based on the cursory look at the figure in the package.
-The paint and deco on the X-Wing looks bland. Some of the previous X-Wings have a much better weathered look about them. This one looked pretty vanilla. The new cockpit details look nice, but it doesn't put this version over the top for me.
I am still leaning much more towards NOT picking this set up. The packaging is nice, but I get the sneaking suspicion that this X-Wing tool with the improved cockpit will be offered again in 2 years, and a newly tooled Vader TIE Fighter will probably happen within that time frame, too.
-The paint and deco on R2-D2 looks pretty good. He's got some of the manipulator arms and the figure looks pretty awesome. I'm not certain if this is an all new R2-D2 based on the cursory look at the figure in the package.
-The paint and deco on the X-Wing looks bland. Some of the previous X-Wings have a much better weathered look about them. This one looked pretty vanilla. The new cockpit details look nice, but it doesn't put this version over the top for me.
I am still leaning much more towards NOT picking this set up. The packaging is nice, but I get the sneaking suspicion that this X-Wing tool with the improved cockpit will be offered again in 2 years, and a newly tooled Vader TIE Fighter will probably happen within that time frame, too.
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The Bullpen / Re: Thor: The Toys!
« on: September 20, 2011, 10:56 PM »If ya find a Sif Nab one for me!
The first Sif I find is mine. But if I can score an extra I'll offer it up here. The fact that the wave with Sif is showing up is encouraging though.
I'm more concerned with whether or not Heimdall will ever show anywhere.
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The Bullpen / Re: Thor: The Toys!
« on: September 20, 2011, 04:25 PM »
I've seen a couple of the new Thors that ship in the same case as Sif. They're kind of silly, truth be told. "Cosmic armor"? I also found some of the other newer figures like Hogun, Fandral and the light up Destroyer.
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Discover the Force / Movie Heroes / Re: Vintage Walmart Wave
« on: September 20, 2011, 12:53 PM »The should have given the generic pilot a goatee to help further separate him from Ric "Widow's Peak" Olie.
Does John Knoll really need a figure?
These shots look pretty good. It's a tremendous move forward from the original Ric Olie sculpt.
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Star Wars Universe / Re: Star Wars on Blu-Ray
« on: September 17, 2011, 11:08 AM »
I haven't bought the complete saga yet. Simply because I don't have a flatscreen or a Blu Ray player at this time. So there's really no hurry. Thanks to The You Tube I've been able to check out most, if not all, of the deleted scenes. There's some pretty good stuff, too. I haven't gotten a chance to see "The Lost Rebels" scenes yet, but no doubt that's going to pop up soon enough. I also want to see the Droid Control Ship sequence from AOTC to see if there's anything that's changed from the AOTC DVD, but I haven't seen that yet either.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: New York Comic Con 2011
« on: September 17, 2011, 10:35 AM »Has there been any official word on what those exclusives mentioned in their press release will be? I'm guessing they just made more of the SDCC stuff and are hesitant to say until the last possible moment.
Nothing I've seen. And we're less than a month out from the show, so I think the chances of a Star Wars Hasbro exclusive might be on the slim side. But it will be cool to see what's new from Hasbro while we're there. I'm going on the weekend.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: SDCC "Revenge of the Jedi" Death Star Mega-Box Set
« on: September 17, 2011, 12:18 AM »
Major league good karma to Paul for putting the Death Star boxed set up for grabs. It's an amazing way of giving back to the collecting community.
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Star Wars Universe / Re: Star Wars on Blu-Ray
« on: September 16, 2011, 02:39 PM »Color me idiotic - I guess I wasn't much paying attention to all of this, as I went and picked up just the OT BDs today at Target, expecting them to have the OT extra features, deleted scenes, etc. But it's just the movies. Which I assume everyone else in the world knew besides me. And of course I didn't figure this out until I popped it in the player and saw no options for extras other than commentaries.
Not sure if I want to shell out for everything PT related, as I frankly don't care about those movies much at all, but we'll see. I would like the deleted stuff for sure, despite the fact that I've seen a lot of it over the years online.
So yeah. Here's hoping Target takes back opened discs.
Dude, that SUCKS! I think you may be SOL, because once any kind of media gets opened a majority of retailers will rarely take it as a return.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2011 "Vintage" Collection Wave 9
« on: September 16, 2011, 11:30 AM »
In that case we'll be waiting for months given the murky status of Wave 8. Although we should find out something useful at NYCC.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: The 2011 Mail-In Prototype Armor Boba Fett
« on: September 16, 2011, 10:58 AM »
Or the people who thought that hanging onto all of those Jedi Master points would lead to something worthwhile? 
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2011 "Vintage" Collection Wave 9
« on: September 16, 2011, 10:27 AM »
Only 3 REVENGE carded figures? That's strange, especially since the whole REVENGE theme seemed to be a big deal with Hasbro at Comic Con. Plus, I've been wondering if Hasbro was going to include that running change Endor Rebel from the Death Star pack in REVENGE case assortments at some point.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2011 "Vintage" Collection Wave 9
« on: September 16, 2011, 10:17 AM »
Was the Endor Rebel in your case?
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Official Darth Big Boy, Bearer of Bad Celebrity News RIP Thread
« on: September 13, 2011, 12:23 PM »
True dat. Starz tried to keep the Spartacus show going by doing a prequel season, hoping that Andy Whitfield would be able to recover in time for the third season. But because his condition didn't improve the role of Spartacus was recast for the third season.
All that being said, 39 is far too young for anyone to pass on. And Andy Whitfield was great on that show.
All that being said, 39 is far too young for anyone to pass on. And Andy Whitfield was great on that show.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: K-Mart Vintage Collection B-Wing
« on: September 12, 2011, 10:35 PM »
Glad to hear you found one within the city limits. Collecting in Manhattan is rough.