Legacy Wave 5 - A New Hope

[evenflow]

Per the Yakface QnA this week:

In what will undoubtedly be well-received news for fans, we can confirm that the tables for both Obi-Wan and Pons Limbic are indeed shipping with these characters after all. 

Sweeeeet.  Hooray for slow over-seas communication!   

I think its great but I wonder what we lost in a later assortment. I have to think they cut something out somewhere else because of it.

[Darth_Anton]

Awesome! Great to hear about the tables.

[AndyG]

There is a set of this wave on ebay at the moment.

You can see something which I assume is the tables, in the Obi Wan and Pons Limbic (TAFKA Brainiac) packaging but the view of the items is restricted by the packaging.

[obi-dad]

Check out this link http://jediinsider.com/index.php?catid=8&itemid=11408
Its shows carded shots of Obi-Wan and Braniac with the tables in the package. Could it be Hasbro decided to include the tables and not remove them as previously mentioned? The pics look like production quality. We shall see......

  You can easily see the tables in the carded pictures from this site.

[JangoTat]

Check out this link http://jediinsider.com/index.php?catid=8&itemid=11408
Its shows carded shots of Obi-Wan and Braniac with the tables in the package. Could it be Hasbro decided to include the tables and not remove them as previously mentioned? The pics look like production quality. We shall see......

  You can easily see the tables in the carded pictures from this site.

or just listen to Hasbro as they confirmed it in a recent QnA

[Darth_Anton]

Ebay - one step closer to hitting retail. I'm expecting sightings any day now.

[Daigo-Bah]

I never noticed this until just now, but it looks like Ben's right hand is sculpted in a "you don't need to see his identification" pose!  Or maybe in a beard-stroking pose like when he talks about the clone wars...

[jedipurge]

I never noticed this until just now, but it looks like Ben's right hand is sculpted in a "you don't need to see his identification" pose!  Or maybe in a beard-stroking pose like when he talks about the clone wars...

 

I think you're right there Daigo.  Make a good pose with the saber as well.

[Brian]

POTF2 has some loose pics up of the Obi-Wan Kenobi from this wave.  Looks like he's new, and complete with ball jointed elbows, knees, ankles, etc.  Glad to see it isn't just a VOTC repackage or anything like that.

[Daigo-Bah]

How long I've waited for a great Ben Kenobi...  the only thing I'm worried about is getting the cloak to sit properly on the figure, but I'm getting more of this one than any army builder in recent memory.  Here's what I need them for:
1) Tusken Raider attack diorama (replace the POTF2 CT version I have here)
2) Ben's house (replace the VOTC version)
3) Death Star corridors (don't have a Ben in this dio yet)
4) Millennium Falcon hold (have a POTJ version watching over Luke's training)
5) Docking Bay 94 (no Ben here yet, just a Luke and 3pO)
6) Cantina (I have a hybrid POTF2 CT with a POTJ head)
7) Streets of Mos Eisley (need one to go with the Wioslea from this wave)

The only one I'm keeping is the 25th anniversary saber duel version, which I like for the static fighting stance.  Wow, I'm going to have a lot of extra droid pieces!

[Darth_Anton]

Yeah, that Kenobi looks perfect. And Daigo-bah, I consider buying multiples of the same figure all the time for the same reason.

[Rob]

What's going on with Saga shipments lately?  I still haven't seen an FX-6 on store shelves, everywhere I go is almost exclusively CW crap, and this wave should be here by now shouldn't it?

[Ryan]

What's going on with Saga shipments lately?  I still haven't seen an FX-6 on store shelves, everywhere I go is almost exclusively CW crap, and this wave should be here by now shouldn't it?

I'm glad it's not just me then. I'd been expecting this wave to show up sometime int the last few week. I don't thin that any of my local stores have stocked a case of anything SAGA related since well before Christmas. All the pegs around here are bare, save from a few Yarnas, Ak-Revs and a few Bails and Breas.

Hopefully we will se signs of this wave soon. 

[Jesse James]

We've got a number of pegwarmers from that wave around here, namely the Organas...  I see the Clones and FX6 and others fairly frequent, so if you guys really need it just let me know and I will start looking.  We got that wave almost immediately after its release, which was great as it's left me with a couple months now anyway of being 100% caught up and not needing to look for ****.  It's a good feeling...

ANH wave is looming though, and man they look great.  I just hope the pegs are not littered with Legends and CW to the point they won't order much ANH.

[Diddly]

At least you guys are getting something in... my stores haven't gotten in ANY basic figures, TLC or CW. Only Comic Packs. I can't even find ANY CW figures, all I ever see are the Organas and Yarna, and even those are sparse.

I'm hoping the stores just restock with an assload of Wave 5 and Wave 4. I too still need FX-6 but could live without ever seeing Waves 1-3 again.