30AC Wave 1 - Revenge of the Sith

[Darth_Anton]

i dont like the holes in the SBD, very distracting, but otherwise, eh, still pretty cool.

True, but they are needed to attach the flame accessories. Clip-ons like the Veers armor would have been better though.

[David]

veers... veers was the BEST!    so functional, so neat!

[JangoTat]

On RS it says this wave is starting to hit in the UK and Canada. Is this true? cause i still haven't seen anything star wars figures from the 30th anniversary besides the Catina tin.

[Rune Haako]

Yep, someone's posted pics at Rebelscum's forums of the SBD, R2, and the Galactic Marine.

[JangoTat]

  is anyone here aware of what parts of Canada this set is starting to hit ??
(sorry for all the questions)

[David]

some guy in Dublin, Ireland has every Wave 1 fig except galactic marine available in hand on ebay. this is a link to mace.

hope this means theyre oin the way in the U.S.     

[212th Battalion]

some guy in Dublin, Ireland has every Wave 1 fig except galactic marine available in hand on ebay. this is a link to mace.

hope this means theyre oin the way in the U.S.     

   Hopefully 

[Darth Slothus]

Anyone care to speculate on when they think these will get here? Are we due for a full month of final 22 reshipments-or were they a one and done(shipped once to the store and that's that)? Anybody think they'll hit before March?

DS

[AndyG]

On RS it says this wave is starting to hit in the UK and Canada. Is this true?

Definetly true for the UK.

I picked up Obi Wan, R2 and SBD (all that was left) from the Wal Mart owned ASDA supermarket in the UK this morning.

The cardboard display was about big enough for 16ish figures - so not many being put out.

[Jesse James]

Andy, you want to snap some detailed photos for us?  I'm sure we'd all dig seeing the figures up close and personal!

I've heard nothing of these hitting in Canada yet, and since they're just now showing in Hong Kong it seems, I could see a month before we see them on shelves here in the states.  I sort of hope that's the case because right now I'm completely missing Wave 9 and wouldn't mind second and third cracks at some of the clones of Wave 8.

[AndyG]

I've heard nothing of these hitting in Canada yet, and since they're just now showing in Hong Kong it seems, I could see a month before we see them on shelves here in the states.  I sort of hope that's the case because right now I'm completely missing Wave 9.

Wave 9 hasn't shown up in the UK yet, so I'm also hoping that wave 9 make an appearance at retail sometime and that it hasn't been bypassed by the TAC.

I'm uploading some pictures now so I'll post some in a couple of minutes.

[AndyG]

Obi Wan front and back





If you save the cardback and zoom in you can see the how the card will differ from the US version as there is a large sticker lower centre with all sorts of extra languages mostly distributor info and symbols as required by the European Union / UK  and to the right of the red triangle are 4 printed language warnings top - bottom English, French, German and Italian. The barcode is on the base of the bubble - which on this one is a sticker over the printed barcode on the insert.

Close up of the Super Battle Droid



Note the sticker on the left bubble explaining that it combines with R2.

Close up of R2 on packaged on top of his flames. Also has a sticker on the bubble explaining that it combines with the SBD.



The rest of the photos didn't work too well and it is dark now here in the UK for taking half decent photos.

[Jesse James]

Thanks Andy, I appreciate that...  Pretty slick looking figures too.  I like the SBD a lot, and the fact it interacts with the R2 figure is enough reason to buy yet another R2.  Obi even looks quite nice.  I wished that was the only Obi-Wan sculpt (the body that is) we saw released over and over...  It's simply the ideal.

Andy, did you nab these at regular retail over your way?  Whoops, nevermind I see you got them at a retailer owned by WM over your way.  Pretty cool...  You just never know who's gonna get what first.

Wave 9's still very new over here too so hopefully you guys get those as well.

[77Skywalker]

The new Obi-Wan Kenobi figure is missing one thing.

[Darth_Anton]

Thanks Andy!

You know, I still haven't gotten used to the new packaging design. Usually, stuff grows on me, but this hasn't