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The Vintage Collection / Re: Hasbro Weekly Q and A
« on: July 6, 2007, 05:31 PM »
The latest Hasbro QnA has been posted...

- IG Lancer Droids?
- Just how screwed up are the Saga Legends Battle Droid & Pit Droid Variations?
- Indy IV toy line sneak preview at SDCC!

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Indiana Jones 4
« on: July 6, 2007, 05:27 PM »
Quote from: Morgbug on July  6, 2007, 05:11 PM
Since this has been drifting towards a toy-ish thread...

Yeah, technically all this talk should be in the "Other Toys" thread, but I'll let one of the other nerds mods clean that up....


On the toy note, Hasbro dropped some Indy hints in our latest Q&A session:

3. OK, last time we asked, you couldn't say. But, now that the cat is out of the bag thanks to the LFL press release, what can you tell us about your upcoming Indiana Jones IV toy line? Scale? Vehicles? Playsets? New and old movies? Will we see a preview at Comic Con? Will we have to wait until Toy Fair '08 for our first glance? (as you can tell, we're all pretty stoked about Indy toys  ;))

**We are glad to hear it, because we are stoked too! While we will be sneak-previewing some figures at Comic Con International in San Diego, we have to keep the details under wraps for now. We can divulge that there are some very familiar scales, as well as a few surprises in the line. Suffice to say that we have top men working on it. The same top men that have been bringing you the Star Wars line, so there should be a lot of consistency in approach.

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Rogue One / The Playset Thread
« on: July 6, 2007, 03:19 PM »
Quote from: CHEWIE on July  6, 2007, 03:12 PM
the customs that I commission from Owen D. are exactly what I have in mind.  Most of you are probably familiar with his dioramas.

I can't say I am familiar with Owan D as I don't think I've seen those before.  Are those pics of a large playset or are each of those items separate playset?

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Hall of Justice / Re: DC Universe Classics Wave 1
« on: July 6, 2007, 03:04 PM »
Quote from: Brian on July  6, 2007, 02:54 PM
The article also includes a silhouette as a teaser to one of the first "new" figures they will be releasing.

Hmmm... giant cape collar =

- Red Tornado?  He's had a big role in the new JLA comic so far...
- Mister Miracle?  Seems to be going to play a role in Countdown based on the teaser images... 

Eh.  I'm still undecided on this line.  I don't really have a lot of extra cash/space for these, but if I can get a really nice, really affordable Silver Age JLA, I'll most likely get sucked in...  you just know that a new Hal will be in wave 1 to tempt me.   :P

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Indiana Jones 4
« on: July 6, 2007, 09:58 AM »
Quote from: Matt on July  5, 2007, 11:55 PM
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Still the Raiders line was up against G.I. Joe, the bain of Star Wars toys at the time. . .

All three were Kenner lines, right? 

Technically, GI Joe was Hasbro in the 80s and they hadn't mergered with Kenner yet at that point.  In 1984, Hasbro bought Milton Bradley and Playskool to become the largest Toy Company in the USA.  They didn't buy Kenner until 1991 when they acquired Tonka who was holding the Kenner brand.


Quote from: Matt on July  5, 2007, 11:55 PM
But if yesterday's kids weren't into Indy, why would today's adults be?

I think the biggest reason that the Indy toys did not sell well was Kenner's usual production delay.  Similar to when they got a late start on SW stuff, the Indy toys did not hit stores until '82-83, even though Raiders came out in '81. 

You can find a lot of history of the original Indy line at the Official Indy site.  It was an interesting article then and it still holds well today.  Lots of history and reasons why the first Indy line tanked with kids compared to the SW Stuff.  And, just to add some fuel for the debate, it's interesting to see what LFL had to say about indy toys just over a year ago...

"Roffman suggests that should another Indy film be released, a new toy line would definitely be considered. "I'm not sure it would necessarily be 3.75" action figures, but something that's more in line with what we've done with [Star Wars] Unleashed -- a larger scale, more detailed action figure."

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Other Collectibles / Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« on: July 6, 2007, 09:36 AM »
Quote from: ruiner on July  6, 2007, 09:23 AM
I don't understand the rationale behind LFL allowing two licensees to pretty much do the same product.  Now what is the difference between this Han Solo statue and the one that Sideshow did a few years back?

Actually, including the Attakus statues, that makes at least three "statue" lines out there to collect.

The Sideshow Han was a premium "figure".  Even though the articulation isn't there, the Sideshow premium format "figures" have real cloth clothing parts and accessories, where the GG statues do not.  Not a big difference, but that is why LFL allows it.

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Modern Classifieds / Re: Wanted: Order 66 Cloth cloak and saber/saber hands in mass quantities!
« on: July 5, 2007, 10:11 PM »
PM sent.  :)

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« on: July 5, 2007, 05:27 PM »
Quote from: Tracy on July  5, 2007, 04:37 PM
2.  Did you say the boys got it for their birthday?  I can't believe they are a year old already!?!  Please post 1st b-day pics in the appropriate thread :)

Done.


Quote from: Deanpaul on July  5, 2007, 04:53 PM
I heard about this on NPR when it launched in the UK and loved the excerpts.  It wasn't launched in the US yet when they did the story, and the release date was months later.  I forgot about it until I saw your post - I definitely want to pick up a copy!

I had heard about it as well, but had forgotten about it too until my brother gave it to us.  It's a great read and filled full of many many cool things - war, animals, sports, and of course - danger.  :)

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: My New Empire
« on: July 5, 2007, 05:21 PM »
Well, this past weekend was the Dudes' First Birthday Spectacular. 

On Saturday, we hosted the obligitory family birthday party for the extended family to celebrate.  Here are a few pics...

The Birthday Boys with some of their birthday loot:




The Birthday Cakes:




The Cake Aftermath:

Logan -


Liam -



Then on Monday (the Dudes' actual birthday), me, the wife, and the boys went to the Zoo to celebrate.  :)


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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« on: July 5, 2007, 04:21 PM »
The boys got this one for their birthday and I haven't been able to put it down.   :D



250+ pages of all the stuff we used to do as kids before the world got "safe-crazy".  This book has got it all -
- how to build a go-cart
- how to build a trip-wire
- how to skin a rabbit
- how to play chess, poker, coin sports, etc

and much, much more.  I can't wait until the guys get a little older and we start trying some of these things out.   :D

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Harry Potter
« on: July 3, 2007, 11:58 AM »
I knew it!   :-X

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Comic Book Thread
« on: July 2, 2007, 09:16 PM »
Quote from: Brian on July  2, 2007, 10:35 AM
I heard that the Sinestro Corps special released last week was pretty amazing (I thought of you Jeff), and it sounds like Green Lantern stuff might be getting pretty interesting. 

Between the GL "Sinestro War" stuff, the JLA "Lightning Saga" (including the return of a certain someone to the DCU) , and the stuff going on in Flash, I have been in full DC mania mode.

My list looks like this:
- Countdown
- Batman
- Detective Comics
- Nightwing
- Robin
- Flash
- Green Lantern 
- Green Lantern Corps
- JLA

upcoming:
- All New Booster Gold
- JLA GreenArrow/Black Canary Wedding Special Stuff


I'm loving Johns work on GL -

SPOILERS

The Sinestro book was fantastic.  I can't wait for this thing to kick into high gear - the worst five villians in GL/DC history uniting to do battle with the entire 7200 member GLC?  *drool*  It was crazy to see the Anti-Monitor again...

And Flash?  Don't even get me started on Flash #13, poor Bart Allen, and the return of the Wests!   ;D

I'm also digging Countdown, though it seems to be a bit slower paced than 52 was...

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NHL 2006-07
« on: July 1, 2007, 09:38 PM »
Interesting start to FA things today...

- The Wild kept Skoula and Koivu, which are decent deals I guess, and we dumped Manny's contract for a prospect and a draft pick.  Not really excited about that, but if they use the $$ they would have paid Manny to get us a decent FA, then I'll care.

- It must royally suck to be a Sabres fan tonight.  It sounds like they lost both Drury (NYR) and Briere (Phi). 

- Man Philly is shaping up nicely - decent Goalie in Biron, then adding Briere, Jason Smith, Joffrey Lupul, all along with the Preds they scooped up earlier. 

- Man, sounds like the NYR are re-loading as well.  Drury and Jagr should pair well together, and Gomez is a nice steal from a division rival.

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Feedback / Re: Hes No Good to Me Dead's feedback
« on: June 30, 2007, 10:12 PM »
More positive feedback for Simon! Great communication, fast shipping, always a pleasure. 

Thanks again for the help, mate!   :)

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Kubricks / Re: Series 9
« on: June 30, 2007, 09:53 PM »
Quote from: Dan on June 30, 2007, 07:40 PM
Was there any info on release dates for 8-9?

I saw instinctoy was saying October on his blog for S8 and then next spring for S9. (Feb?)  No confirmation on that though...

Quote from: Dan on June 30, 2007, 07:40 PM
And now that I think about it, where is Mace?

Chase figure perhaps?  Or maybe they are saving him for a possible Series 10 - RotS?  :D

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