The Medicom Toy Exhibition 2017 was 22-27 July and while the only Star Wars stuff presented were be@rbricks and the usual other things I have been keeping an eye on Instagram every few days to see if a carded Kubrick giveaway pops up. It doesn't matter how lacklustre last years was.

I was about to make a post asking is this the first year Medicom doesn't give away an exclusive to invitees, at the last second I though I'd have one more look, and I saw this:




https://www.instagram.com/p/BXQr5Ndj8Ry/

So it's a Boba Fett be@rbrick on a card.....

An end of an era guys.
 

*Accidentally clicks on wrong bookmark, fatefully coincidently there's an update*

OMG TFA.....bea@rbricks.

Still, a nice surprise. I can also now extinguish any mild hope I had for any TFA Kubs.

I also see Medicom is doing various BvS and Suicide Squad be@rs. Long live be@rbricks I guess.
 

I have nothing to add about the above, but Medicom periodically do Star Wars be@rbricks like the recent Boba 1000% etc. But I'm curious to see if the go in to TFA territory with be@rbricks and Mafex, nothing announced yet, but can they pass up that sort of cash in?

Things I learnt today: Medicom are now doing xenomorph be@rbricks from Alien and Aliens. I think I may get the 100% be@r from Alien. I think the last be@rbrick I bought was the (edit: first) Wicket re-release two-pack (the exclusive one with Paploo).   

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Yeah I thought as much regarding Vader's cape. I imagine spirit Yoda and holo Maul's robes are of similar durability/thickness.

This in depth discussion about transparent robe durability, a phrase that has never been uttered in the history of the universe, got me distracted I was going to ask another question:

Is the helmet on the George Lucas Pilot (Jorg Sacul) carded kubrick stuck on or removable? I couldn't find a previous topic for this guy.

Wow there hasn't been this much activity in here in ages.

Thanks I Am Sith and JediJman for the advice. I only want to remove the arms so I'll probably just go with the hairdryer method first,  in fact I might practice first on a cheap kubrick that can be easily replaced if damaged.

JediJman - I'm glad you where able to fix the problem.  I gave them a wash and dry a couple of times as mentioned and while they're not 100% better they're significantly better so I'm happy enough,  I'm not going to go to the extra hassle of removing the robes to clean underneath but it's good to know it's achievable.

I wonder how the ghost Yoda is fairing. I don't own one and I imagine most have remained on the card. I have no idea if it's made of the same material.

Edit: I just remembered they made a holo Leia and while I don't own it I remember the outer robe being a different material than the Anakin and Obi Wan. I also don't own the holo Vader from the exclusive 5-pack but I wonder what condition his cape is in?

Does anyone have any advice as to how to remove arms from Star Wars kubricks, particularly protocol droids? Please don't say get a Wookiee to do it  They are fictional characters and not very helpful in real world scenarios 

I thought it would be easy to give it a bit of force (seriously these puns are not intended) but I don't want to destroy it and the shoulder cover gets in the way. Even playing around with the removable limbs shiny C-3PO which is supposed to come apart I had to remove the whole chest section and head.

Very minor the Force Awakens spoilers to follow.





I've wanted to make an episode 7 C-3PO for a little while now (since someone posted blurry pictures of some crappy merch with an image of C-3PO and R2 on it) but now after Comic Con I'm more comfortable mentioning it and wanted to try and put a R-3po arm on C-3po. I've even got a spare R-3po and half a dozen different C-3po's to do the job.

I completely forgot this was happening, totally asleep at the wheel on this, thanks Jeff.

So this wasn't available to the public but a limited give away, right?

I'd be interested to know if anyone here is eager to track this down, not very original  but I'm sort of excited to see something new 

Thanks for that.

I had a 50/50 chance at Veers and Tarkin and of course got it wrong.