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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #765 on: June 17, 2006, 10:33 PM »
Oh goody, we get to see Scott's math again for the permutations as a repeat of the stormtrooper poses. 

I wonder if other retailers will sell them as well.  Or will SWS.com get these with a chase figure as well, similar to the ROTS clones and stormtrooper boxes.  I want a set, so I don't have to try and chase a bunch of stuff from the next series in quasi-blind boxes, but I'll be patient to see who else puts these up.
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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #766 on: June 18, 2006, 02:57 AM »
Since I have 4 of the ROTS 4-packs, I'd love to do the same for these.  Jeez, you'd think I was turning into an army-builder or something.  ;)

My guess is they will have to throw in a chase again, just like you said Brent.  Since Hasbro had a green coloured one in their "army" sets, perhaps GG will use that as the chase?

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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #767 on: June 18, 2006, 07:29 AM »
Took them long enough to do this.  They've been showing these Clone Troopers since they debuted the line at Toy Fair back in 2003 or 2004.
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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #768 on: June 18, 2006, 09:27 AM »
Sweet! Finaly! Yeah...they have been teasing us with these for a while now....


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« Reply #770 on: June 19, 2006, 04:23 PM »
A slightly different picture i just recieved of the clone bust ups.
Date on these in U.K  is December 06.
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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #771 on: June 19, 2006, 09:47 PM »
A slightly different picture i just recieved of the clone bust ups.
Date on these in U.K  is December 06.


Looks like the Green Clone Sergeant will be the chase variant this time.

http://www.rebelscum.com/TF2006/tf06-GGSbustups/image5.asp

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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #772 on: June 25, 2006, 07:47 PM »
Both the Blue Snaggletooth and Holo Obi Wan variants from series 6 are on Ebay.co.uk
The same seller has a few other variants.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STAR-WARS-BUST-UPS-BLUE-SNAGGLETOOTH-VARIANT-SERIES-6_W0QQitemZ6066919308QQcategoryZ90915QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STAR-WARS-BUST-UPS-OBI-WAN-HOLOGRAM-VARIANT-SERIES-6_W0QQitemZ6066918733QQcategoryZ90915QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Not sure if anyone else bothered to follow these or not, but I was watching the snaggletooth auction and it left me a wee bit more than dismayed. 

I picked up my holo Obi easily enough.  The store I buy them at has continued to bring them in since I buy an entire set at a time.  I let the owner pull the boxes for me and if I get a variant, I also pick up another box of the same.  I was fortunate enough to do so this time with the Obi variant but not so lucky with the Snaggletooth. 

It seems the Obi is one per box, but Snaggletooth is not.  I bought the other snag bust up but it too was red :'(

If anyone out there stumbles across a blue and can help me out, please let me know.  The new boxes are really cool, but I can't see anyone letting someone open the item now. :-\
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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #773 on: June 25, 2006, 08:56 PM »
I lucked out on these yesterday.  I found a case at a Hot Topic store that appeared to be untouched.  I bought one each of Solo, Ponda Baba, Greedo and the Cantina Band member.  Then I bought both of the Snaggletooth's and all three of the Obi-Wan Kenobi's.  What did I wind up with?  Got both versions of Snaggletooth, 2 regular Obi-Wan's and 1 variant Obi-Wan.  Not bad.  Only one extra in the bunch.
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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #774 on: June 25, 2006, 09:24 PM »
 >:( :'(

Ok, now go to another store and find me the blue snags. ;)
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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #775 on: June 25, 2006, 09:55 PM »
Preordered CW Animated Obi Wan (Clone Armor) and CW Animated Padme (Ilum) off SciFiGenre.

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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #776 on: July 6, 2006, 02:30 AM »

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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #777 on: July 14, 2006, 02:38 AM »
So SWS.com is getting exclusive battle damaged versions, similar to the 4-packs of the ROTS style Clones.  Only this time, each Clone can be posed in 5 different ways, not just 2.  Uh oh, that's a lot of Clones to order.


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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #778 on: July 21, 2006, 03:29 PM »
Caught up on Series 6 of these guys now too.  No luck for me locally with the blue Snaggletooth, I bought three, all were red :'(  Had to resort to ebay and got one for $25 delivered.  Certainly a lot more than most of them, but most auctions are still running upwards of $40 for this guy thanks to the vintage association and drawing power.  Pleased to be done this series and now I have to get my act together for the various box sets and wait on the next regular series.
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Re: Gentle Giant Bust Ups!
« Reply #779 on: July 21, 2006, 11:18 PM »
100th Bust Up is Boba Fett: