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The Clone Wars '08-'13 / Re: V-19 Fighter
« on: July 23, 2008, 11:01 PM »
It's a $20 vehicle.

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The Clone Wars '08-'13 / Re: Target Commander Fox
« on: July 23, 2008, 09:52 PM »
Scored a couple of these yesterday. Nice figure, interesting design. I guess this figure is almost like a pre-release of Cody in some form or another.

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Collect All 92! / Re: ICMG, Yarna...now what?
« on: July 7, 2008, 07:08 PM »
I think that completing the vintage figure line is a cause worth getting behind.  We're pretty close to that mark now, and it seems like a realistic goal.  As long as people can agree about what's really done and what isn't done.

That's the sticky part. Going in order of original release, here's what I view as having still left to do:

Death Squad Commander - just repaint the DST we got in the TAC line and call it a day.

Death Star Droid - we got versions in Gold, Black Chrome and Purple, just give us a vac-metal Silver one and again call it a day

Rebel Soldier (Hoth Battle Gear) - a nice SA Hoth Rebel Soldier in Echo Base colors

Imperial Commander - any Imperial Officer in the Black Uniform will do - heck give us a Commander Praji to match the SSC 12" figure and you're done!

Rebel Commander - this is one of those "debateable" figures. The original Hoth Trooper was close, but it would be great to see them update the Hoth Trenches version of the Rebel Trooper w/a SA body and perhaps rotating in some head variants or just packing the figure with some extra heads, one of them being a white man with bushy moustache.

Bespin Security Guard (both versions) - a nice new SA Bespin Guard w/a running variation of head and ethnicity could easily get these two figures scratched off the list.

Klaatu (Jabba's Palace Guard) - this seems like a no-brainer - we already got the Skiff Guard Version, now just give us the palace guard.

Lumat - this little guy keeps popping up in rumor lists yet we still have yet to get him. I'd say just release him in a two pack with an updated Warok and be done with it. I don't really care if they just update one of the two sculpts from the TAC Ewok 2-pack with his correct fur color.

Imperial Dignitary - I know this figure won't exactly sell in great numbers, but it's always puzzled me that they skipped over this guy and gave us the other two dignitaries instead.

Warok - as stated above, just package Lumat with this guy.

So how many figures is that? Eleven.

Eleven figures is something Hasbro could easily do by spreading them out over three waves, with each wave dedicated to one of the three OT movies.

Some of these eleven even have a chance this year. There is a rumored "Death Star Droid" build-a-droid coming. The Death Squad Commander was in a ANH figure rumor list over on RS back near the end of June.

There is a Rebel Hoth Soldier in the ESB figure rumor list that RS posted back in mid-June.

So if those three are coming, that takes the list already down to eight.



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The Legacy Collection / Re: ICMG, Yarna...now what?
« on: July 6, 2008, 05:55 PM »
The thread is about who the collectors are going to get behind next, my point is that there have been 10+ characters already named in this thread and each person has their own idea who that should be.  I don't see any massive groundswell for any single character.

Agreed. There really aren't any one or two characters left that a large number of people can get behind.

Yarna had a following I think more for the fact that she was a figure we "almost" got in the vintage line. Hasbro quelled requests for Yak Face early, as well as for characters that had never been made before, i.e. Tarkin & Slave Leia. It took some time, but as someone pointed out we even got Ephant Mon for the first time and an updated Amanaman. We've also gotten Uncle Owen (granted he needs to be re-done at this point) and Aunt Beru figures, something we never had before.

If I were to pick one thing that they collector community could easily get behind, it would probably be the completion of remaking the vintage figures.

Heck, once they're done with those, we could then start to petition them for figures from the two live-action Ewok movies and updates of the Ewok and Droids figure lines. I think lowest on the list should be figures from the Holiday Special - specifically Chewie's family and Ackema.


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Another dreaded Walmart exclusive  ::)

I couldn't agree more. Now it almost seems that the stores are trying to one-up each other in terms of exclusives.

I know I'm probably forgetting some, but here's a list of the exclusives we're getting:

WalMart:
501st Legion Clone Trooper
A-Wing
Clone Wars Gunship (v1)

TRU:
Dagger Squadron B-Wing
Holo Grevious
Clone Wars Gunship (v2)
Clone Wars ARC-170

Target:
Commander Fox


And I'm sure Target's getting more then that, and if not now, then we know there's going to be three Ultra Battle Packs this year instead of just two.

I don't mind the idea of an exclusive figure here or there, or even an exclusive vehicle or battle pack, but is it just me or does it seem like the number of exclusives goes up-and-up each year?

I can't possibly imagine there being more product and/or exclusives in 2009, it just doesn't seem possible. Unless Hasbro wants to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the collapse of the line in addition to celebrating the 10th anniversary of Episode 1.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 6, 2008, 10:05 AM »
What about a Dagobah playset? That seems like something that they could do by resurrecting the vintage Dagobah playset with some new pieces and an updated paint job.

Could even make an Ultra Battle Pack out of it.

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The Clone Wars '08-'13 / Re: Commander Fox
« on: July 5, 2008, 10:11 AM »
Wow - nice to see that Target is adhering to the release dates. Congrats solrac.


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The Legacy Collection / Re: Legacy Collection Comic Packs
« on: July 3, 2008, 09:46 PM »
Jedi Insider has pics of these now too, and they also have pics of the Anakin/Assassin droid which is getting repacked into Legacy Collection packaging colors.

Here's the kicker - this repack is set #3 in the Legacy Collection.

This is a dick move by Hasbro - they do **** like this just so packaging completist collectors will feel compelled to make a purchase.

If they're going to repackage sets, why not leave the numbers off the ones thats are repacks? That way, people who already have the set in the TAC packaging can just skip those and still maintain a complete numbered collection of the Legacy Collection sets.


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Well, if it was indeed shut down because they were tampered with or folks were using them for non-toy purchases, then those people are a-holes. Sorry if that's some of you here, but I NEVER had a problem using these coupons - but then again, I never tried to use them on a purchase for anything other than toys.

The timing of this change certainly sucks, couldn't it have lasted just one more month? Of course not! Star Wars collectors are coming in droves on July 26th, heaven forbid they let us use a couple of these coupons to offset the price $1 price increase in the figures.  ::)

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The Clone Wars '08-'13 / Re: Clone Wars Battle Packs
« on: June 29, 2008, 08:32 PM »
I'd be all over a Grievous/MagnaGuards set like this. 

Another great idea for a battle pack.

As far as I'm concerned since I am not army building any of the individually carded animated figures, having sets like these to buy two of each (one to open, one to keep MIB) allows me to build mini-squads/armies by default and even if I was squad building with the animated figures, I wouldn't be buying more than four of each type, so having the battlepack include four of each clone type is damn near perfect IMHO.

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Well of the Souls / Re: Hasbro 3.75" Vehicles
« on: June 29, 2008, 08:27 PM »
But then we'd need Hangar 51 Indy and Hangar 51 Dovchenko. :(

Since the Indy w/Rocket Launcher doesn't have a Jacket and has a removeable fedora, isn't that close enough to being a Hanger 51 Indy figure?

In the scene where Indy emerges from the back of the truck and says "I'd cover your ears right now..." he has his jacket on, so the rocket launcher really belongs with the other Indy figure.

Granted I only saw KotCS one time so far, but I think with the exception of Indy in his suit from the scenes around the college, Indy is pretty well covered for this movie. There are far more Indy variations from other movies that I would rather see first (Tuxedo from ToD opening sequence for example).

I wouldn't mind seeing Dovchenko in his US Army soldier uniform, as well as a couple Russians disguised as US Army soldiers from the sequence at the beginning of the film at Hangar 51.

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Well of the Souls / Re: Hasbro 3.75" Deluxe Figures
« on: June 29, 2008, 08:22 PM »
Does anyone know when the Mutt w/Motorcycle and Cairo Henchmen 2-pack deluxe figures are supposed to ship? Are they soon or they coming out more towards the release of the ToD wave in the fall?

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The Clone Wars '08-'13 / Re: Clone Wars Battle Packs
« on: June 29, 2008, 02:38 PM »
Now those are battle packs, four clones and a Jedi.

Now if they would just release the Separatist side of the equation, that would be awesome.

County Dooku w/four SBDs
Ventress w/four Battle Droids or IG assassin droids



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Well of the Souls / Re: Hasbro 3.75" Vehicles
« on: June 29, 2008, 09:51 AM »
I too am curious as to why they just didn't release this version first. Oh well. I wish they were focusing on other vehicles from KotCS instead of this, but I can't blame them for wanting to get a second release out of the mold. It's not like they don't do that with Star Wars vehicles.  ::)

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Well of the Souls / Re: Hasbro 3.75" - 2008 Wave 4 (ToD)
« on: June 29, 2008, 09:44 AM »
I am VERY excited about these figures. This is my favorite movie so I'm very pleased to see a nice collection of figures to start things off.

About the only thing I would have preferred is for Willie to be in the black pants/white shirt like she wore through a good portion of the movie and then had on again at the end of the movie.

Hopefully that will be the next version of her that they make, but they will probably make her in the red dress from the Anything Goes number instead.

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