30AC "Vintage" Wave

[Dressel Rebel]

I really hope my super WM gets piled with VTAC like they did VTSC. I passedon about 80 scouts, not going to be that stupid this time.

I'm pretty sure Hasbro officially said that these are going to be produced more along the numbers of the VOTC, than the latest VTSC.

It would follow then that the availability of the snowtrooper would be more along the lines of the VOTC stormie (not so plentiful), than the VTSC scout (plentiful).

Damn.

[Artoo]

Pttt...

Looks like I'm going to have to pre-order.

[Darth_Anton]

36 - 37 for me.

Don't you mean 36 or 37?

What's in between 36 and 37?

Thirtysix and three quarters.

[Jesse James]

I don't necessarilly buy into everything Hasbro says though...  I think they feed a line of BS sometimes about their availability of items to help hype them and nothing more.  It's one wave of figures whereas the VOTC were plagued by the first two waves pegwarming and screwing the third wave.  I think these are gonna be fairly easy to find.

That's my opinion anyway...  VOTC wasn't exactly "rare", they just hit roadblocks like Lando and Wave 1 on the pegs.  Depending where you were, Wave 3 was abundant (not my area, but others). 

[David]

My opinion has changed completely. Now I no longer want one or two, I want sixteen.     

The skirt looks SOOOOOO much better and the Jango Fett head under the helmet actually looks really good. I'm amazed with how different this figure looks, it's great. 

Still not as good as Leia or IG-88, but it's way improved.   

[Artoo]

I don't know what  I'm more excited about Hoth Han, IG-88, Holiday Fett, SA Jango, Mara Jade or this. Hasbro's been pretty good this year, though we haven't seen the rest of the year's line-up. If it continues this great-ness  it'll make up for POTF2 - Saga 1 in my book.

[Rob]

Oh and Rob..I see this being just like the Arms Race for VOTC Stormtroopers..the D/FW area is going to have the largest single concentration of these figures in the GALAXY.

Hopefully the distribution is similar to the last time around.  Stormtroopers were no problem at all to find around here.

[Daigo-Bah]

I'm thinking the color of the pic is just the camera/lighting, not the figure...  So I wouldn't worry about it Dago-Bah. 

I really hope so, JJ... I'm not at all disappointed, just hoping they get the colors right so that this is THE definitive Snowtrooper.  If he ships with that color, I'm going to say that the VTSC Scout and the VOTC Stormie are for me the #1 and #2 best Hasbro produced figures.  The reason I'm worried that it's not the lighting is because the body suit should be about the color of the belt pouches (as seen in that film pic) or just slightly lighter.  But the pouches are clearly a greyish compared to the bluish of the body suit.  Come to think of it, every Snowtrooper released so far has varied in colors quite a bit.

Edit: as horrid a sculpt the OTC version is, I think the body suit color is spot on:



And check out this pic!



If worse comes to worst, I'll just repaint the visible portions.  I also plan on cutting the skirt up to belt height rather than leaving it across the crotch like that   

[AmanaMatt]

As the above pic really shows, this new Snowtrooper is an amazing improvement, 'slight' color issues or not! To me, the new 'Vintage' figure is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

[Jesse James]

just hoping they get the colors right so that this is THE definitive Snowtrooper.

But then they can't release it again in the PROPER color, or something too grey-ish, to profit more.

[Brian]

This figure certainly does look nice, and its amazing what those little changes have done.  I was looking forward to it already, and now even more so.  I hope it isn't too difficult to find - it was kind of both ways around here.  I saw a single VOTC Stormtrooper throughout the entire VOTC run (and bought another online), but I saw the Scouts fairly frequently (although they did sell through pretty well).  I'm hoping I can pick up 4-5 of these Snowtroopers, I'd be happy with that.  It would be nice to build even bigger armies, but I can't afford that.  This looks like another great vintage lineup overall though.

[Dressel Rebel]

just hoping they get the colors right so that this is THE definitive Snowtrooper.

But then they can't release it again in the PROPER color, or something too grey-ish, to profit more.

And green, and blue, and purple, and red, yellow, orange and black as well, in the true spirit of the clone trooper repaint marathon.

[JesseVader08]

just hoping they get the colors right so that this is THE definitive Snowtrooper.

But then they can't release it again in the PROPER color, or something too grey-ish, to profit more.

And green, and blue, and purple, and red, yellow, orange and black as well, in the true spirit of the clone trooper repaint marathon.

Don't say that!  They can repaint Clones all they want, but don't touch my OT Imperials. 

[Rob]

As the above pic really shows, this new Snowtrooper is an amazing improvement, 'slight' color issues or not! To me, the new 'Vintage' figure is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

Our arms race just took an interesting turn...

I cover Dallas, Paul covers Grapevine/Fort Worth, and Matt gets everything in Lewisville.

Mutually Assured Destruction.   

[JangoTat]

just hoping they get the colors right so that this is THE definitive Snowtrooper.

But then they can't release it again in the PROPER color, or something too grey-ish, to profit more.

And green, and blue, and purple, and red, yellow, orange and black as well, in the true spirit of the clone trooper repaint marathon.

Don't say that!  They can repaint Clones all they want, but don't touch my OT Imperials. 

that forced unleashed game may actually cause hasbro to repaint stormies with colour ranking. oh you will see.