Grabbed Volstagg the Fire Blast Destroyer from Five Below for $4 each today.

They had multiple Ice King Laufey, Asgaard Glow Odin, Hogun and King Loki figures as well. Ironic considering how expensive these figures were on the secondary market last year.

Just placed my order for the 2013 Movie Heroes and Clone Wars cases from Toy Palace. I hope I don't come to regret that situation considering that I still have no answer regarding my 2012 Movie Heroes Wave 3 (what would have been our Wave 4) case....

I would totally order a case of each from Toy Palace if it weren't for the fact that my 2012 MH order is totally MIA.... 

So have we been able to get a firm "Yes" or "No" regarding this wave ever making it to the US?

I'm willing to order from Toy Palace, but I'm waiting to see how my 2012 Movie Heroes come before I pull the trigger on another $200 figure case....

I'm gonna hold out hope that they are still on their way...

If we confirmation that they're not, well - then I'll probably get a case of both the CW and MH 2013 waves just to have MOC sets.

Hasbro keeps saying these two lines are not for me. If that's the case, I don't know how to explain why I would have gladly scooped up multiples of the Exploding Battledroid (both tan and red versions) and the Jet Pack Clonetrooper had they been available at retail....

Darn - I was hoping we'd get our first look at the other TOR set that's supposedly coming at the end of this year.

I hope it hasn't been cancelled due to the lackluster performance of the game like the 3.75" figures were... 

Even after seeing the pics, I'm still out.

I started collecting this line when it started in 1995 out of a sense of nostalgia for the line I had as a kid.

I will be incredibly disappointed if there comes a day when 3.75" Black Series/Vintage quality figures end, especially if that means I don't get figures for all of the new movies to go with the collection I've been building since I was a kid.

The hope I have is that this is an example of, once again a toy manufacturer failing to look at failures in the past - both their own and of other companies. While this isn't exactly the same, I'm reminded of the Playmates Star Trek movie line for "Star Trek: First Contact" - Playmates deviated from their 4.5" scale and that line was a huge failure, and they could not right their own ship quickly enough to keep the line going. Sure, Art Asylum took over, changed the scale and produced great sculpts, but that line never sustained the level of success that Playmates saw in the 90s, and even with a popular new movie and Playmates return to the Star Trek toy game, Star Trek toys continued to flounder at retail.

Hasbro tried this scale before - sure, it was with three EP1 characters, and with no where near the level of detail as we're seeing in this new 6" line. But will enough people come on board? And when I say enough, I mean enough to sustain the line. The Hasbro execs say this line is for the "Dad collector" but did it ever occur to them at Dad collectors are collecting because they did as kids themselves or because they've brought their own kids into the 3.75" line and it's something they collect together.

I'm going to bet that this line will not take off like Hasbro is hoping it will. It may not be right away, it may even be after the 3.75" line goes on hiatus for a couple of years. I just don't think that a collector base that does get excited by cantina alien #15, is ever going to get excited or be "all in" on a line that until movies hit will be nothing but 6" versions of characters that have already been done. Based on a lot of the comments in this thread, I think I'm right, very few of you have said they're "all in". Most folks are saying they'll be selective, and if I worked at Hasbro and was hearing that, it would make me nervous - collectors being selective means there's a chance for one figure being DOA at retail which could mean a log jam at distribution.

Maybe I'm wrong, but if I'm right, I just hope the experiment ends quickly before even more damage happens to the 3.75" line.

Quote from: Pete_Fett on February 10, 2013, 10:39 AM

From Jedi Temple Archives....

Question: Regarding reduced articulation for Star Wars TCW 2012 line, will this trend continue into 2013 if TCW line continues? And will it continue into 2013.

ANSWER: If TCW characters are brought into the collector-focused line, they will be realistic and come super-articulated. Animated TCW figures are no longer being made. There will be no more The Clone Wars figures as you've known it the last 5 years.

The question and answer don't exactly match up. My guess is that the Hasbro rep answering the question had this answer planned as how to respond to any questions about future TCW figures. Maybe it's just because Rex and Mace are on the horizon in the Black 3.75" Series, who knows really? Next year there could be zero TCW characters in the line at all.

That response sounds perfectly clear to me.

Animated Clone Wars figures are done.  Any future Clone Wars characters will be made in a realistic style (ala VC92 - Anakin Skywalker (Clone Wars), VC103 - Obi-Wan Kenobi (Clone Wars), etc).

Actually it's not clear. There's nothing to say that Clone Wars characters won't be in the Legends line with 5 POA.

Either way, animated sculpting is definitely done.