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Re: Willrow Hood
« Reply #795 on: November 23, 2011, 03:46 PM »
The Hard Copy came from Galaxy Collectibles...early XMas present to myself

The vintage custom I bought off some guy in the UK

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Re: Willrow Hood
« Reply #796 on: March 29, 2013, 08:31 PM »

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Re: Willrow Hood
« Reply #797 on: March 29, 2013, 09:22 PM »
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He did do better than Leesub Sirln,...

Meaning where he lives. Where I lived TRU had a row of Wilrows for years after Leesubs were a memory. Not even sure where the Wilrows went.

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...who I am pretty sure nobody asked for,


 ::) Right sure...

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It adds a slightly more menacing element to the figure, which I feel sort of misses the entire point of it in the first place. 

For some one who claims he's all for Star Wars figures being toys, he misses the point of including a blaster with a  non-combatant.

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The fact that this figure exists is pretty amazing, but there's one last figure to discuss whose right to exist I call more into question.

"Right to exist"?

I used to find his "figure of the day" entries amusing.

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Re: Willrow Hood
« Reply #798 on: April 1, 2013, 10:48 PM »
Not a glowing review, kind of missed the positives IMO, but eh, I didn't expect it to be as nice as it was.  Adam's made it clear he's not a fan of ICMG getting a figure...

I think citing him as an example of how thinly stretched ideas for figures in the line are, wasn't good though.  He mentioned specifically Bespin, which is pretty tough to get figures out of...  Most you want are resculpts.  The rest, mostly are just humans, and that's ICMG basically.

Besides the human hunchback hanging out with the Ugnaughts, a mustached guard, and little else, Bespin just isn't a figure treasure trove like Jabba's Palace/Skiff's, Cantina, Rebels and Imperials, and that's not even touching the PT's yet...  Bespin's fairly tapped out, but I'd still buy resculpts of figures from there if they're significantly better.
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Re: Willrow Hood
« Reply #799 on: April 2, 2013, 01:14 PM »
There's still a Wilrow at my local TRU. I'd thought they'd all gone. Some Bespin wing guards popped up at a Wal-Mart near me, too. I scanned them, "see associate". No thanks.

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Re: Willrow Hood
« Reply #800 on: April 3, 2013, 02:17 AM »
Wilrow came and went here, never sat at any store.  I didn't even get one on sale...  had to get a full price one for my fodder fig.
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Re: Willrow Hood
« Reply #801 on: April 5, 2013, 12:10 PM »
I paid full price for one, then got a free signed one from Patient Zero.  Cool character/figure, especially given the history and backstory.
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