Author Topic: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion  (Read 49830 times)

Offline Pete_Fett

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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #180 on: November 30, 2007, 08:06 PM »
I totally blame the forums on some other sites for the outcomes of this poll.

I recall a friend pointing out to me that on one board, when people would post the figure they voted for and it WASN'T a clone of some kind they were blasted for "wasting their vote"

I had really hoped that this line would have been a collection of figures that had never been individually carded before - i.e. figures that they only way you could get them previously was as a pack-in to a vehicle or playset. Zev, Graxol, Blue Snag, the Fambaa Set Gungan, and Wulf were all great candidates IMHO.

As I just posted over in the Force Unleashed thread - clones aren't selling as well as they did in 2005. I think Hasbro should have tried to step back from doing so many members of the skittles brigade and focused on providing a better variety of characters in the Saga Legends line.
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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #181 on: December 1, 2007, 08:37 AM »

I had really hoped that this line would have been a collection of figures that had never been individually carded before - i.e. figures that they only way you could get them previously was as a pack-in to a vehicle or playset. Zev, Graxol, Blue Snag, the Fambaa Set Gungan, and Wulf were all great candidates IMHO.


That was my hope for the Legends line as well. I know i have always hated exclusive pack-in figures from vehicles because i dont always buy them but want the figures. I guess there are less people like that than i thought.
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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #182 on: December 4, 2007, 04:20 PM »
I am one of those people I wish they would release the pack-ins as figures and part of the vehicle for those who collect the vehicles, I collect the Titaniums so I dont collect the 3 3/4 vehicles plus I would not have anywhere to put them.

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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #183 on: January 9, 2008, 10:00 AM »
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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #184 on: January 9, 2008, 10:12 AM »
Crazy.  And even crazier that these are coming out in 2008...with coins.


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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #185 on: January 9, 2008, 10:25 AM »
What next, shadow card bubbles?

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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #186 on: January 9, 2008, 10:52 AM »
Can I laugh?? Serious, Hasbro, shadow coins? That's like jumping the shark!

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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #187 on: January 9, 2008, 10:53 AM »
What next, shadow card bubbles?

Can I laugh?? Serious, Hasbro, shadow coins? That's like jumping the shark!

That's it! Shadow Sharks with ******* laser beams attached to their heads!
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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #188 on: January 9, 2008, 10:58 AM »
Maybe the coins are scraped from the scum off Hasbro HQ's toilets and minted into "shadow" coins (with aromatic odor).

Seriously? Shadow coins? I can't stop laughing this is so silly. I'm glad that my NYR is not to give into Hasbro's gimmicks. Thanks, Jay, this really made my day.  ;D

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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #189 on: January 9, 2008, 11:10 AM »
Now you coin collectors who said you wouldn't touch these figures will have to cave.  Ha!  I win again! 

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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #190 on: January 9, 2008, 11:39 AM »
I think the entire "shadow" concept is ridiculous.  Paint something black, and presto, it becomes a "shadow" something-or-other.  It won't be long before we get a Shadow Wampa.  An expanded universe comic will be included telling the story of how a branch of top-ranking Hoth Rebels started a secret program of hunting/capturing Wampas, taming them and training them to be part of a covert operation of destroying the Empire.  Their fur was dyed black to differentiate these Wampas from others.   
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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #191 on: January 9, 2008, 12:36 PM »
I already had plans on buying these figs, so no worries for me. In fact I'll have extra coins...so anyone wanting to trade or deal, PM me.
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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #192 on: January 9, 2008, 01:21 PM »
Wow, this move makes me feel like a fool for paying $18 a piece for three of these guys a few years ago...enough is enough - Hasbro doesn't want to know my New Year's Resolution.

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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #193 on: January 9, 2008, 01:25 PM »
Well I'll pick one up to add to the coin book. I wanted just a regular silver EU coin though.
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Re: Saga Legends "2008 Fan's Choice" Discussion
« Reply #194 on: January 9, 2008, 01:38 PM »
Yeah, I thought Hasbro said in a Q&A answer that we'd be getting a regular silver EU coin in this wave?  :(

I guess they changed their minds and decided to do the "shadow" thing and re-use the gold for the Covert Ops instead.   ::)
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