Hard to discuss a hobby that's kind of dead at the moment, but I've heard good things about realistic Clone Wars figures.  With Scum's rumor of Cody, does anyone have a list of wishes for realistic style Clone Wars figures?

Or are you a "mains and done" kinda collector?

For me I was thinking mains and done, but at this point I'd take quite a few CW characters done realistically even at 5POA each...  Lil Ahsoka, CW Rex of course...  I'm thinking a new Baby Boba and some Death Watch could look pretty damn cool too.  Pre Vizla in particular.

A realistic Oppress would be interesting, as would Kenobi in his bounty hunter disguise, and even Dengar would get my attention since he's so significantly different to his OT character's look.

Trench would be a must since he was a big want for me animated as well.

Since CW is kaput as an animated line it's all there is to hope for 5 POA realistic sculpts.  At the proposed price, my curiosity is at least there.  They won't be up to my personal standards but at least they weren't $10 as well...  and they may be pretty damn great like Ellors Madak still looks on my shelf.

Anyone have particular wants?  Anyone into an extensive realistic CW line even?

If they have removable headgear, I'm far more interested than before too.  Little features may have my attention more if they're included.

This was brought up to me...  I honestly cannot imagine Hasbro trying ANY vehicles save something tiny like a Speederbike.  Speederbikes are really not much more than a 2nd figure when you think about it.

Beyond that i'm not sure I could even see something like a Dewback or Taun-Taun...  I think this line would really need to take off before any vehicles were considered, and as it stands, I think this line's going to struggle to capture the numbers of people it'll need to sustain itself.

These 2-packs, at these prices, are more in line with what I think the line should be at, price-wise...  Would people be into more rounds of these?  I can't imagine there's going to be many no's to that query but you never know.

I was thinking, especially with the AT-ST Pilot sets, how cool future sets could be... 

My immediate want is Fleet Trooper/Stormtrooper sets.  Either 2 RFT's and 2 ST's or 1 of each in a set, maybe two sets with maybe slightly different decoes.  I love the packaging and would enjoy something like that, done relatively inexpensive with minimal new toolings and maybe different decoes or accessories.  Too bad these didn't happen till the end of the line.  This format has potentional I think.

My 2nd want would be "Death Star Trooper/Naval Officer" 2-pack...  Take the new DST, repaint the head with a new deco to the hair, voila... new trooper.  Take another of the new DST's, put a new head on it, put an imperial officer hat on it...  voila, make one of the random black tuniced officers (if you wanna be picky, add a rank badge, but I could live without it).

I'd dig a Sandtrooper/Sandperson too...  maybe make the Sandtrooper a unique deco/rank, new long storm/sandtrooper rifle (the one Chewie uses on the Death Star) and put in the Vintage Sandperson with a new deco, maybe some "war trophy" type accessories and stuff?

Simple sets like that would really be interesting to me.

Up for pre-order and the exclusive has an "angry" hulk smash kind of headsculpt as an extra!  Nice!

Go.  Buy.  Now.

Or you'll miss out on the extra noggin'!

Carded/Boxed Sets:

-Wal-Mart Exc. AT-RT (Red Deco)
-WM (AKA TJ Maxx?) Exc. Brain Invaders 2-Pack (Ahsoka & Scythe)

Loose Figures (Completeness Noted):

-Defend Kamino Echo (2 Rifles, Helmet)
-Defend Kamino Fives (2 Rifles, Helmet)
-Geonosian Warrior (Red Chest Dot, Rifle, Wings/back part)
-Geonosian Warrior (Blue Chest Dot, Rifle, Wings/Back Part)
-Deluxe Cad Bane (hat, sachel, rifle, pistols)
-Deluxe Scuba Clone (Rebreather/pack, 2 fins)
-WM (AKA TJ Maxx?) Exc. Brain Invaders Clonetrooper Scythe (Rifle, helmet)
-WM Exc. AT-RT Driver (Red camo ARF Trooper), (Rifles) x2
-Deluxe Rep. Scout Speeder ARF Trooper, Red Republic Markings (Rifles) x4
-Deluxe Brown Camo AT-RT ARF Trooper (Brown Camo) (Rifle)
-Attack On The Coronet Clone Troopers (No Droids!!!!) (Rifles) x1 of each paintjob

That is 16 loose figures + 1 packaged DVD 2-pack + 1 packaged WM AT-RT set...  I'd like $60 total, shipped, for the entire lot!   Just want the cost on the packaged stuff and less than $3 a figure on the loose guys.

Tons of army builders and other goodies.  Also I'll include some extra blaster rifles and there's a mix of stands, dice, and game cards too.  Some figures will have their card and some won't.

Send me a PM if you're interested, otherwise it's off to the local scalper store with them I think.

Hasbro and HunterPR were kind enough to pass along one of these sets for us to review.


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Feel free to check it out and see what interesting things I discovered with the set.  Namely, I have to say, I was surprised how much I liked certain figures.  I'm also a bit surprised how much I liked the complete set itself.  It's a great overall Saga piece that looks like it'd display really nice.

People hoping for mint carded figures though, beware.  You're probably going to have to order a set or find them at retail for truly mint cards.

And the Jar Jar in Carbonite...  A blueprint for things to come?

Check it out.  I haven't been able to devote a lot of time to a long review in a while, and whew was that a longer one.

Apologies for pictures...  My 10MP camera isn't up to snuff with what other folks have but it did ok.  Finding a place to shoot pictures of an item this big was maybe a bigger pain to figure out!

Share your thoughts when you're done reading!

Found these at Wal-Mart recently, and decided they'd make a nice story for someone looking for something cheap, fairly efficient and customizable right out of the box, and which had the potential for expanded customizability without a lot of effort (IE: A quick spraypaint job to make it more Star Warsy).


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I've bought a couple...  I've already got some simple customizing ideas for this particular spice rack, but I was thinking you could customize each one to any specific environment with minimal effort...  I have a pretty elaborate plan for one that I really hope to get done, but I'm not quite sure how I'm going to go about it just yet. 

Incase you haven't noticed, it seems a 1/6 Commander Fox figure from The Clone Wars is being teased for SDCC...  Not wild about the "piece at a time" teasing since it makes reporting him a bit of a pain, but yeah...

Check him out!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150925940094145&set=a.102911084144.82256.19004299144&type=3&theater

And like them and they reveal a new piece with each 1000 new fans.