No iFett, it's a completely different sculpt...

Wow that's good news - I figured there were at least some parts re-used in there. The arms I know are different. The head looked a bit better too, so that should have been my #1 clue that this was an all new sculpt.

Kudos to Hasbro for not just re-painting the old POTF2 one for this exclusive.

Quote from: Pete_Fett on February 18, 2008, 02:09 PM

There was an R-3PO released before? What line was that part of?

SAGA 2004.

Thanks - I completely forgot about that figure. I really need to get my carded collection out and displayed instead of in boxes.

There was an R-3PO released before? What line was that part of?

Here's what I think you can add:

Star Wars Legends
Commander Neyo
Covert Ops Clone Trooper
Shadow Stormtrooper
Utapau Shadow Trooper
Zev Senesca
Pit Droids (white, sitting, accessory 2)
Pit Droids (red, sitting, accesory 2)
Pit Droids (orange, sitting, accessory 2)
Sandtrooper v3 (clean, black pauldron, TSC body)
Sandtrooper v6 (dirty, white pauldron, Evolutions body)
501st Clone Trooper (SA mold)

Evolutions
Darth Vader Secret Apprentice

The Force Unleashed (game release day promotional items, exclusive to WalMart)
Darth Vader w/2 Inferno Troopers
Darth Sidious w/2 Shadow Troopers

Battle Packs
Attack on Kashyyyk from TFU (Target exclusive, 3/23)
Hoth Patrol w/Luke, Wampa & Taun-taun (TRU exclusive, May)
STAP Patrol w/2 STAPs and 1 Silver SBD (TRU exclsive, May)

Comic 2-Packs (the second WalMart Wave, set to come out 7/1)
Lando/Stormtrooper
Wookie/BARC Trooper
Anakin/Dooku

Droid Factory 2-packs (exclusive to WalMart are set to hit in the beginning of July)
Darth Vader/K-3PX
Luke Skywalker/R2-D2 w/Blast Damage
Hoth Han Solo/R-3PO
Plo Koon/R4-F5
Kit Fisto/R4-H5
Watto/R2-T0

For a lot of these, I'm basically assuming that anything that comes in packaging that is white Star Wars lettering/logo on a black background OR comes out before 7/26 is still part of TAC. The Droid Factory 2-packs are hexagonal in shape instead of a tube, but the artwork inside is still more akin to TAC than the Legacy Collection. Same thing is true for the two 3-packs WalMart will have for The Force Unleashed on the day that game hits stores. I'm assuming that the second WalMart wave of comic 2-packs will be in the current packaging style only because they are coming out before 7/26. If they are moved to coming out at the same time as the other stuff, I could see the packaging for those changing over to being more in keeping with the Legacy Collection.

Lando does have that Matador swashbuckling vibe going on with the red cape.....he may be worth picking up after all.

I will get the Wookie just to have more in the army but I really will pass on the other 2. Wal-Mart exclusives disappear so quick and you usually do not get a second stab at them in store but I have no doubt I do not want them.

The Droid Factory series is going to be a bitch to track down......

Well, for me if it wasn't for Walmart.com, I wouldn't have been able to score all of the first wave of WM exclusive comic 2packs. I'm not going to do site-to-store with them again 'cause they put a big sticker on the back of them, so if I have to for both this wave of Comic 2-packs and the Droid Factory sets, I'll order them online and have them shipped directly to my house.

However, something tells me that with all of these exclusives that WM is getting, Hasbro has convinced them to set up a pretty big Clone Wars section this summer. I'm sure the theatrical release of the cartoon really helped with things in that regard.

I wouldn't say those comic figures look like their art too much...  I thought Karrde was outstanding and realistic...  Xixor I thought looked less like the art and more realistic actually...  I was pleased in general.

I agree, if anything they look closer to the photographs from the CCG than they do to the artwork.

I think we're fine with regards to the regular line staying in the style it's in.

I'm also not overly concerned with the Clone Wars style spilling over into the regular line because all it will take is for the realistic line to sell well and the animated line to sell poorly for Hasbro to realize that changing the style is a big "no no" and this will be the last time they do it.

Perhaps Zizzle will show Hasbro the error of their ways before we even get too far along - I was in Target the other day and saw multiple pegs CLOGGED with this new animated style Pirates of the Caribbean figure line. Why they think a Pirates line is still even viable is beyond me, but this style change will be the final nail in the coffin of that line as well.

I am really surprised that they didn't paint this one up differently for this release - it looks almost identical to the POTF2 version. Which isn't a bad thing really, the paint op even back then was pretty good.

I'm stoked for C-3PX and K-3PX though.

Yeah - the K-3PX that comes with Vader looks really cool. I guess the Shadow Protocol Droid is going to kinda come to pass with the release of this figure, but I'm okay with it since it looks like it has a unique head and torso sculpt with slightly modified arms and legs from 4-LOM and for me that's enough "new" about him to warrant a new figure.