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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Dagobah wave
« on: May 19, 2004, 10:11 AM »
Egad!

I guess you have evidence that would seem to confirm that there are currently TWO packaging variants...

Back in February, the big H said in a Q&A that we'd get the heads and arms together, but it doesn't surprise me there are packaging variants.

I think you should go front page with the photo news saying that it seems there are TWO packaging variants of Dagobah Luke: Handstand from Lee's and Backpack from GH.com

Then, we can watch the crazies go crazy over at Scum complaining about variants and Hasbro and such... :)

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Dagobah wave
« on: May 19, 2004, 09:48 AM »
Hmmm...

It says on the back of Luke's card:

"Use backpacking head and arms and combine with Yoda OTC #02 figure (sold separately) to recreate the Dagobah scenes!"

That leads me to still believe that both heads/arms come with the one figure.  

I wouldn't put it past Hasbro to do two different packaging variations like they did for the SA Clone though....

Jeff

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: It's Outta Here! The JD Official 2004 Baseball Thread
« on: May 19, 2004, 08:59 AM »
I think that who ever has "The Big Unit" on their roster should get bonus points in the JD.com Fantasy Baseball league for his perfect game... ;)

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Carded OTC - Dagobah Wave
« on: May 19, 2004, 08:51 AM »
Hi All,

GH.com has pictures up here.

DANG.

The OTC  may have recards up the wazoo, but they sure are pretty cards.

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: You've got to be kidding me...
« on: May 17, 2004, 06:05 PM »
The original Saga 03 re-releases sold through very quickly, but the Hall of Fame versions are starting to peg warm here in MN Target stores.

Vader/Stormtrooper/R2 sell very quickly...

3PO/Han/Chewie/Luke sell eventually...

Leia/Maul/Anakin/Yoda/Obi-Wan are sitting now....


Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Best Site from Which to (Pre)Order Cases?
« on: May 17, 2004, 04:36 PM »
On the NewForce front, they shipped the Star Destroyer wave last week to most pre-orders, but not all.

No sign of the Endor Generals wave from them yet :(


Once I get that one, my pre-order days might be over for a bit...

Jeff

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: The Future of Star Wars Collecting
« on: May 14, 2004, 04:09 PM »
I would agree.

Would anyone have guessed that the juggernaut MotU/He-Man line would die off so quick?

Simpsons WoS figures sold like hotcakes, then nothing - blah.

Even the Marvel Legends line that was so hot seems to have died off.

With the current economy, more and more toys are feeling the hurt.  Collectors don't have the money to throw around so willy-nilly anymore and are more careful about what they buy.

I'd have to opt for pessimism too.  I think we are on the downward slope of the Action Figure collecting world.  The big companies overwhelm the fan base with a TON of crap and the fan base dies off.  It happens to everything (baseball cards, comics etc.).  

Remember the hype of a few years back when it seemed like every dang Independent comics character was getting an action figure?  Now they are all piled up in a giant $2 bin at my comic store, including the HTF or "rare" crystal/glow-in-the-dark/nudie chase variants that came along.

I think that Action figure days are dying.  Every movie that comes along spews AFs into the aisles and then the figures just sit.  It's just taking a year or two longer to kill off SW because the Fan Base is that much larger.

It's sad, but I am starting to see the writing on the wall.  I'll take September 2006 in the JD.com SW Death Pool.  I don't expect ther to be ANY new Star Wars figures in the back-to-school Toy aisle resets that indicate we are heading into the start of the Christmas 2006 shopping season.

I wonder though what the next big thing will be?  Cards to Comics to Action Figures to ?  


Jeff



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Saga '02-'04 / Re: Endor Wave
« on: May 14, 2004, 02:54 PM »
Quote from: OCB on May 14, 2004, 10:31 AM

Haven't opened them yet, anyone else found them???

Not me...  :'(

Jeff

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: May 14, 2004, 01:50 PM »
Egad!

93.9 cents/Litre (Canadian)
=
67.6 cents/Litre (US)
=
$2.56 per Gallon

Did I do my math correctly? (3.79 L to 1 Gallon)

That sucks... $35 to fill a standard 14gal tank. :(

Jeff

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Saga '02-'04 / Re: RUMORS FOR 2004!!!!!!
« on: May 14, 2004, 11:34 AM »
I just read over at RS that one of the Asian Market posters who sometimes gets info early is saying these will be marketed as an ep3 sneak previeew wave?

http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=828590&Main=828524#Post828590

Huh?

Like you said Scott, I guess if all three are in Episode 3 then it would make sense... strange though.

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Recarded rehashes up the ying yang!
« on: May 14, 2004, 10:25 AM »
I agree...

Summer 06 we'll see shelves with piles of unsold 05 Ep3 figures, which will lead to the brain trust for the retails to say, well, that's that.  SW is done, no more ordering.

I can't see it going much past Fall 06, when we will all be here huddled at the board trying desperately to track down those last few waves that only the e-tailers ordered and Hasbro dumped in Europe ( a la vintage Yakface).

As far as OTC, I'm starting to think that if they had just jumped on the OTC bandwagon earlier this year, mixing in the re-packs then, the situation might have been better.  At least that way, the 28 new figures and 31 re-packs will be spread out over 12 months,

Instead, we get spoiled with 21 new figures in the first 5 months, only to get 7 the rest of the year. :(

Not to mention those seven will be mixed in with 31 re-packs that will clog the shelves. :(

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Recarded rehashes up the ying yang!
« on: May 13, 2004, 08:14 PM »
Quote from: OCB on May 13, 2004, 10:08 AM
Gammorean Guard should be on the checklist...its listed on the same info that the original IG-88 and friends were listed on.  I would guess that he will be in place of the second Scout Trooper


/bow to OCB's powers

/cheer

Good call!  Another point for JD.com!

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Recarded rehashes up the ying yang!
« on: May 13, 2004, 03:53 PM »
JDCTTRAA...

Hmmm...

Jedi Defender Can't Tell True Rebelscummers Anything Anyway?

Jedi Defender Crazies Tell Truth, Rebelscum's Australian Angry?

Jedi Defender.Com - Totally Tired of Rebelscum's Australian Ass?

I like the third one best :P

/shrug

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Recarded rehashes up the ying yang!
« on: May 13, 2004, 10:03 AM »
Quote from: mosnab on May 13, 2004, 09:31 AM
So is everyone passing on these (at least the re-hashes), or do the spiffy cardbacks tempt you in the slightest?

As I said earlier, when it was just 21 figures I was going to pick them up to keep carded.  I find the cardbacks very cool.  However, now that we are at 38 confirmed figures and another 6 rumored, that's 23 more than I orginally thought we'd see (and they're all repacks) for OTC, and that's probably too many figures for me to justify buying more figures just to leave carded.

Oh, and rounding up a few straggling rumors, the following figures are not on the list:

Confirmed (via Hasbro and SW.com):
OTC-xx Imperial Scanning Crewman (A New Hope)

Rumored to be part of OTC:
OTC-xx Gamorrean Guard (Return of the Jedi) - [from GH.com]
OTC-xx General Veers (The Empire Strikes Back) - [from GH.com]
OTC-xx 4-LOM (The Empire Strikes Back) - [from thejawa.com]
OTC-xx AT-AT Driver (The Empire Strikes Back) - [from thejawa.com]
OTC-xx Death Star Gunner (A New Hope) - [from thejawa.com]
OTC-xx Zuckuss (The Empire Strikes Back) - [from thejawa.com]

So, the "Official" Total for OTC is 38 figure (7 new, 31 re-packs) with Fan Sites reporting another 6 repacks.

07/44 = 16% new
37/44 = 84% repacks

Of those 44:
4x Luke (Probably will add Hoth Luke too before too long)
3x Vader (at least Luke has different outfits)
3x Leia (wow, that's a lot of Leia for 6-month span)
2x Han (Where's Bespin Han?  Or Hoth Han?))

But why two Biker Scout?  As CorranHorn pointed out, he's on the list twice (#11 and #30).  Clean and Dirty?  Or PotJ and PotF2?  Or typo?  Hmmm...

Not a heck of a way to finish up a "collector" (aka non-movie) year.  We sure got a heck of a lot more new figures from the OT during the PotJ run in 2001 (pre Ep2).

Jeff

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Recarded rehashes up the ying yang!
« on: May 12, 2004, 09:22 PM »
Whew.

Now that it's been reported by an OFFICIAL site, I can believe it.

To think, I almost believed it when I read it here  ;)

I still don't see Imp Scanning Trooper on that list though.

And, if Hoth Vader is #29 and Throne Vader is #10, which Vader is #34?

And isn't THREE vaders out of 37 figures kind of excessive?!?

I was SO excited back in February, but lately OTC is really starting to let me down... :(



Jeff

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