30AC Wave 2 - The Battle of Yavin

[Mister Skeezler]

Remind me of this gem from our childhood (most of us anyway) days:

He Man is ****** if someone gets behind him...hell, they could take him out with a well-timed spork attack!

[jedipurge]

Am I the only one a little annoyed that this is the best Rebel Soldier we have in the modern line (not that he's out yet of course)?  No Fleet Trooper, no Hoth Rebel, and no Endor Rebel figure compares to the quality of this guy, and yet this is just a
guy seen briefly once chilling in a background sequence (though I make the argument again that the uniform is common...  He's just missing a hat).


AMEN !!!!!! Where is our rebel army?  I've got clones and Imperial troops coming out my  , the corners and the sharp edges on the armor hurt a little, but where's our rebels none of what we have can be considered really worthy of army building because most of them lack real articulation.  I really liked Capt. Antilles and would have army built him a bit more if he'd had better articulation.  

I want my goddamn Fleet Troopers, Hoth Rebels, and Endor Rebels that are THIS good or better.   

[Darth_Anton]

I have a feeling that the Honor Guard will pave the way for a new/better Fleet trooper sculpt. It's just too bad that we're getting two new head sculpts on that sup-par body next year.

[IshiTib]

wave 2 is made very well, but i won't buy a figure, i think, they are all characters i dont need or im not interested in, and i hate lukes face :O

[evenflow]

I wish we were getting the floating platform for the guard 

[CHEWIE]

The Yavin guard, to me looks like the most exciting figure from the group.  So many possibilities for him... head swaps, and you can have all kinds of random citizens that could fit into a lot of dioramas.  Also perhaps he could also be used for early Rebel troopers.

 

[Matt]

New loose and carded pics at SSG

Luke looks so much better now.  I knew it was just the paint.

[David]

i dont think hasbro could have done ANY better on that luke! it looked fantastic loose, looks even better carded!  looks like he has a lightsaber hilt that can go on the belt. i also like carded biggs. for some reason i dont like the carded concept boba, will probably just open it and put TSC luke #36's poncho on it.

[Scott]

Luke's hair and face still look like **** to me, but that's just me

[ruiner]

Man, say what you will about Hasbro, but they've put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into next years line.  From the character specific blister card artwork , to the individually tooled coins, the line is looking to be one of the best ever.

Good stuff.

[Dressel Rebel]

Luke's hair and face still look like **** to me, but that's just me

Yup, total agreement.  Worst figure of the bunch due to poor likeness.  That does not look like Mark Hamill at all.

[Darth Broem]

Well I am excited about seeing those figures carded.  One thing has me bummed though.  It looks like the packaged coins are actually random.  I thought it would be a Luke coin with a Luke figure.  But it looks like you just get whatever coin it is.  That kind of stinks.

[Brian]

I saw the pics over at GH as well, and they do mention that the coins they are packaged with in the pictures are not correct.  It sounds like they will indeed come with character specific coins (aside from the 'Saga Legends' assortment of course).  I have to say I really like the character specific packaging.  Sure, all the angles and edges is a little different, but something just seems cool about seeing those big pics of Han, Luke, Biggs, etc. on the card like that.  Not a "movie photo" exactly, but it does remind me of the vintage days a little bit.

The Luke head/sculpt still looks a little wonky to me too, but that figure looks top notch otherwise.  I have to agree with what ruiner said earlier, so far this line looks pretty amazing for next year.  We haven't had any straight repacks in the first two waves, the figures so far seem to be pretty well articulated, the cards/coins are character specific, etc.  Things are looking pretty good for next year, I hope it continues.

[Daigo-Bah]

Behold the wonderful world of sculpting progress!

[Oboewan]

New loose and carded pics at SSG

Luke looks so much better now.  I knew it was just the paint.

I'm still confused how they can have the picture on the card show Luke as irrevocably blond yet the figure cleary has BROWN hair.....   The face also looks more "Han-ish" than "Luke-ish" -  I like the head sculpt from the POTF figure better.

Oboewan