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Star Wars "Command" - Lil Plastic Army Men Line
Jesse James:
Basically Hasbro's trying the "little plastic army men" idea in the line...
Didn't Hasbro already try these? Between mini-Unleashed, and the original Clone Wars 3-packs? ???
Jesse James:
2" Scale?
Again, wasn't this tried in the old mini-Unleashed line? :-\
Tied to Rebels... striking while the iron is hot I guess, and they're cheap to make things like this so little risk for possible reward. I don't see them taking off though.
If it were a playable game ala miniatures battles, and one that focused on "army building", I'd actually be more interested in the concept myself.
Jeff:
It is not tied to Rebels, the figures come from all the sources.
I think my favorite was a tusken with gaffi stick that mimicked the classic "guy with bayonette raised over his head" army guy. There is a Star Destroyer remote control thing too... definitely not just Rebels.
And they are different from mini-unleashed since they are single-color, dirt cheap army men (only Star War characters). If you've ever played with army men, you'll seee they replicated so many of the "classic" poses - sniper, medic, officer with pistol drawn, etc.
Jesse James:
I didn't realize they weren't painted too... Interesting. I've noticed little bags of army guys making a comeback in toy aisles. Those had gone away for a while... Can't argue that "dirt cheap" angle... If it works great, if not, probably didn't impact their overall budget enough to matter. Like Angry Birds/Pods the stuff is probably just so cheap to manufacture that you can't go wrong trying.
Jeff:
And here's the Toy Fair 2014 Gallery.
I think these are kind of fun from a simple toy perspective. Like you said Jesse, this is sort of the new, dirt cheap Angry Birds / Fighter Pods / whatever. Not sure kids play with army guys anymore, but like you said Jesse they are making a comeback of sorts.
Here's that Tusken I was talking about...
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