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The Clone Wars / Re: CW Mandalorian Troop Shuttle
« on: October 26, 2012, 05:48 PM »
So are these showing up at TRU Express only or the regular stores too?

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TV-9D9 / Re: The Clone Wars - Season Four Discussion Thread
« on: October 25, 2012, 02:58 PM »
Target and WalMart in my area both have the Season 4 set marked down to match the BestBuy price.

The shelf tag at Target says $49.99 but there's a "this week's sale" sticker in front of it and while WalMart had $39.96 on their shelf tag, it rang up for $34.96 when I went to check out.

So I think they are all about the same this week.

(for what it's worth).

But to echo what McMetal said - the Season 1 and 2 BluRay sets were MUCH NICER than the Season 3 or 4 ones. When people question where people get the idea that the Clone Wars is on its way out, it's things like that and time-slot moving that, to me at least, stink of the show winding down....


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My four cases - two from EE and two from BBTS are both processing now :-)

Expensive month, but glad to have the Vintage line "done with"...

Well - I gotta get the TRU Endor AT-AT, but that's it. Still on the fence about whether or not I'm gonna bite on the Falcon...

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They're kidding right?

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The missing Scanning Crew guy is coming in the Droid Factory line in 2013

Oh okay - thanks. Hadn't heard that sorry...

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What about using them as a vehicle to give us a re-release of the Imperial Scanning Crew tech AND the variant figure and accessory they had planned but had to cancel?


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Movie Heroes '12-? / Re: 2012 Movie Heroes Class II Vehicles
« on: October 12, 2012, 11:17 AM »
Since Padme starts EP2 flying one into Coruscant with R2 as her droid, I have no doubt that even if it's an exclusive somewhere, we could see a set that consists of the N1 Fighter, a new Pilot Padme and R2-D2.

I know I'd love a set like that....

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The Clone Wars / Re: Recent Clone Wars Finds/Purchases
« on: October 9, 2012, 02:20 PM »
Courtesy of the TRU BOGO sale they're running - I picked up two more Commander Fox figures for $5 each which means I am now done with single-carded Clone Wars for the rest of the year.

Now I just need to receive my pre-order of the Wolf Pack gift set and somehow find AT LEAST two of the Dropship Class I vehicle.  :-\

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Other Collectibles / Re: Angry Birds Star Wars - The Toys
« on: October 8, 2012, 06:57 PM »
I think this has "Epic Fail" written all over it.

Was anyone looking for a tie-in between Angry Birds and Star Wars?

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The Clone Wars / Re: Recent Clone Wars Finds/Purchases
« on: September 24, 2012, 04:23 PM »
Was lucky enough to score a lone CW18 Commander Fox this morning at my local WalMart.

So, while I would definitely like to find two more to open, if I never find this figure again, I will be okay with it since the carded Clone Wars collection for 2012 is now complete.


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Movie Heroes '12-? / Re: Disney Exclusive Build-A-Droid Factory
« on: September 20, 2012, 07:30 PM »
Yeah - I don't think that's ever been in question Jesse - Disney licensed the molds for the parts that Hasbro already had tooled - things like the Torso, left/right/middle legs, R2/R3/R4/R5/R7 domes...

But then Disney added the R6/R8/R9 domes and their "novelty hats" to the mix.

This is also the reason why DDP says that if Hasbro were to ever release a R6/R8/R9 droid, it would be a new sculpt, now whether that is because they want a version of the dome that doesn't have the socket for the novelty hat OR if Disney paid for the tooling and doesn't want to license it back to Hasbro, remains to be seen.

To be they are definitely in the same category as the Starspeeder Ship/Playset - and since they are all scaled to the regular Hasbro line - that's good enough for me.

I kind of look at it from the same point of view as if some other company started making playsets/environments for the 3.75" line - while they aren't Hasbro products - because they are designed to work/integrate with my 3.75" Hasbro Star Wars figures, they would definitely be something I would want to buy...

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Movie Heroes '12-? / Re: Disney Exclusive Build-A-Droid Factory
« on: September 12, 2012, 08:39 PM »
Ultimately, I wanted as a minimum:

2x each dome
3x of every other part

That was about it - obviously I have more than 3x of several parts, but when it came to the white w/yellow R2 trunk, there were only really two uses since the white/yellow R7 & R8 domes get the white w/yellow R7 trunk.

So when I was looking for a third possible use, I thought pairing it with a blue dome would look neat. That was really the extent to my thinking.


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The Clone Wars / Re: Target "Darth Maul Returns" Battle Pack
« on: September 11, 2012, 12:25 PM »
Maul only has 11 POA

You're right - my bad - I thought he had articulated wrists.

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The Clone Wars / Re: Target "Darth Maul Returns" Battle Pack
« on: September 11, 2012, 11:37 AM »
Picked up this set this morning. Really amazed with the job they did on the Nightsister and Maul.

Maul has 13 pts of articulation and the Nightsister has 14.

I have ZERO insight, but here is what I think happened:

1) Hasbro announced 19 Clone Wars figures for this year - the Maul was supposed to be in that mix
2) Originally the Savage figure in the line was going to be the armored version - there was no need to ship the shirtless version since it got so much coverage in the SotDS line
3) Hasbro had a "Sith Witch" figure in the works, was very far along in her development and was planning on putting her in the Vintage line with the "Expanded Universe" logo.

For whatever reason, the Sith Witch figure was bounced from Vintage - maybe in favor of another female action figure - like Shae Vizla and the Witch was left without a home.

So instead of just not releasing her and losing the investment put into her development, they swapped out the Savage in the main Clone Wars line, dropped the number of figures down to 18 and put all three figures together as a Battle Pack which they then shopped around as an exclusive.

Again, that's just my own personal speculation, but whatever the reason, I'm glad they did it - the Nightsister/Sith Witch figure being TVC quality makes this set a real hit.

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Gentle Giant / Re: And The Mystery Ent. Earth Exclusive Is....
« on: September 10, 2012, 01:10 AM »
I'm guessing Pawlus brilliantly convinced Hasbro & Disney to pass along a complete 63 piece set of the Disney astromech exclusives (sans hats).  $119/per.  **Pete cringes**

Haha! This made me laugh!  ;D

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