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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Will your collecting habits change?
« on: September 5, 2012, 09:33 PM »
Looks like I pinched a nerve.  Relax Mikey, relax.  Don't let my opinion bother you so much.  Just continue to be Hasbro's ideal customer and gulp everything down like a nice little boy. 

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Will your collecting habits change?
« on: September 5, 2012, 03:15 PM »
Quote from: speedermike on September  5, 2012, 10:28 AM
Force Guy, why do you hate The Clone Wars?  Have you seen it recently?  While there are some bummer episodes (like all TV) I think that when it's on its "A" game, it comes closer to the spirit of the OT than the prequels ever did.  It can be exciting, funny, and thoughtful.

Personally, I hate when non-canonical material rewrites the established Star Wars history.  As it is, the PT already does that.  With Clone Wars, it does this on a much larger scale, IMO.  I just don't care for the series at all. 

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Will your collecting habits change?
« on: September 5, 2012, 03:13 PM »
Quote from: Pete_Fett on September  5, 2012, 01:48 PM
So because he is a completist and has made the choice to collect in that fashion, he is an automaton?

Pretty much, yes.  When someone is a completist, they buy everything.  There is no discretion exercised, no deliberation, no judgement.  It's simply the purchase of anything stamped with a Star Wars logo.  That sounds very robotic to me.  Remember Mikey from the Life cereal commercials?  Like that....like Mikey....he'll eat anything. 

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I'm sorry, I don't agree with the logic you're using to make that connection.

Well, we can agree to disagree then. 

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Getting one of every figure made is just as much a collecting choice as it is to say you collect OT-based figures only or only Dark Side characters.

It's a "choice" that completists are fueled by their obligation and compulsion of buying everything, including garbage, gimmicks, rehash after rehash, resculpt after resculpt, etc.?  Sure.  When Hasbro releases an exclusive figure of George Lucas molded by a collection of belly-button lint, regardless of how absurd the idea would be, I'm sure completists will exercise their "choice" too, by feeling the need to add it to their collection immediately.       

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Will your collecting habits change?
« on: September 5, 2012, 12:26 PM »
Quote from: SpIrIt Of MaCe on September  5, 2012, 03:51 AM
Well, to be honest, unless the figures are EU, CW, Cliegg Lars, Tonnika Sisters, Torryn Farr, Sim Aloo, Sgt. Doallyn, or a miniscule handful of other characters, everything from here on out is going to be a resculpt, right?

There's still a wealth of characters, from the OT, PT, and heck, even EU that Hasbro could make before pumping out yet another Obi-Wan figure, another frickin Clone Trooper, etc.  Oh, but wait, this Obi-Wan is different because his face has a smirk.  Or that Clone Trooper is different because his groin is articulated.  It's ridiculous.   

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Even so, I'll probably be buying them all, just to stay complete.  No point stopping now, when I'm (hopefully) more than 2/3rds of the way through the line!

So let me get this straight: your criteria for buying figures is that it simply has to have a Star Wars logo stamped on it, yes?  I guess having the buying habits of an automaton makes life more simple in the sense that you don't really need to expend any thought whatsoever in your purchases.

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Will your collecting habits change?
« on: September 5, 2012, 01:38 AM »
Quote from: speedermike on September  5, 2012, 12:48 AM
I just can't get behind the Droid Factory character choices, as they seem to all be resculpts. 

Redundancy is the theme for 2013 and yeah, I feel the same way.  Vintage was fun while it lasted, and had a good run, IMO.  I collected 39 TVC figures in all.  And as far as Clone Wars is concerned (a series I absolutely hate, btw), to date, I've only collected 1 figure.  That's it.  And with Movie Heroes, 1 as well.  Will my collecting habits change?  Well, I've scaled back for some time now, and will continue to do so given the choices for figures in 2013 revealed thus far.  There's only so many frickin Obi-Wans, Anakins, Vaders, Clone Troopers, Battle Droids, etc. I can take.  In fact, I'm completely baffled as to why there are still collectors out there that continue to buy everything.  I mean, do people really need 30 Obi-Wan figures in their collection?  To each their own, I guess.  I love being picky and selective about what I buy though, and my wallet loves it too.       

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Movie Heroes / Saga Legends '12-? / Re: Disney Exclusive Build-A-Droid Factory
« on: September 3, 2012, 12:25 PM »
Personally, I don't care at all for the R7's.  I wouldn't mind adding a blue R4 and black/white R8 to my collection.  A friend of mine hooked me up with a red R3 and a blue R8.  I guess we've already gotten some type or variation of most of those droids already so maybe that's why most of them don't really appeal to me. 

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Walking Dead
« on: September 3, 2012, 10:28 AM »
I ended up buying Season 2 on Blu-Ray at Best Buy for $29.99.  They had a couple of Zombie Heads for $69.99.  I'm glad they included the Webisodes on this set.  The deleted scenes are cool, and I feel they should have left in the scene that takes place right after they leave the CDC and head towards the lair of the Vatos. 

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Recent Vintage Collection Purchases
« on: August 31, 2012, 05:00 PM »
Quote from: P-Siddy on August 31, 2012, 03:47 PM
People complain about the prices, but it comes out to $8.50 a figure, which is better than what we've (or at least I've) been paying for figures lately.

Exactly. 

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Movie Heroes / Saga Legends '12-? / Re: Ewok and Rebel Pilot Multipacks
« on: August 31, 2012, 04:44 PM »
Well, I finally scored the Ewok set.  Whew.  Nice to have it crossed off my list.  I really, really like the set, with the gems being Kneesaa & Teebo.  The only one I don't care much for is Tippet.  With the Buy One, Get One 50% off, it only came out to $30 (having purchased the Pilot set for a collector friend).  I'm think I'm all set with furballs now so I might pass on the Kmart set when it comes out.  Still need Chief Chirpa though.         

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Recent Vintage Collection Purchases
« on: August 29, 2012, 02:42 PM »
Ha!  Well what do you know....I guess it makes sense after all.

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Recent Vintage Collection Purchases
« on: August 29, 2012, 11:35 AM »
I finally spotted the Lost Line wave at Kmart.  In my area, this wave had only shown up at Walmart.  Interestingly enough, the only figs missing were Jar Jar & Bespin Leia on their respective vintage cards.  Why a collector would pick those two out of the bunch is beyond me....

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Movie Heroes / Saga Legends '12-? / Re: Ewok and Rebel Pilot Multipacks
« on: August 29, 2012, 12:11 AM »
Are the Gorax and the Lorax related?

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Vintage Collection Rumors
« on: August 27, 2012, 10:28 PM »
I'm with JJ...I liked the OTC version of Lobot quite a bit, but I guess an ultra-articulated Lobot is great, I guess, for displaying a Lobot figure breakdancing.

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The Vintage Collection '10-'13 / Re: Vintage Collection Wave 17 (2012 Wave 7)
« on: August 27, 2012, 10:25 PM »
Quote from: Jesse James on August 27, 2012, 09:52 PM
Quote from: Force Guy on August 27, 2012, 04:25 PM
I wonder if that's a prerequisite of being a Royal Guard, growing a beard.....

there's a big ceremony where they're sworn into the guard, and Vader or Palpatine make their beards grow with the force really quick.

That's exactly what I suspected.  I've heard rumors about the swearing-in ceremony for Biker Scouts, but it doesn't involve facial hair....

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Movie Heroes / Saga Legends '12-? / Re: Ewok and Rebel Pilot Multipacks
« on: August 27, 2012, 10:22 PM »
The TRU employees in my area snagged ALL these sets up and so they never even made it on the shelf.  It didn't help that both stores only received one case each.   

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