Palpatine Figure Set Preview

- Yes, it's two separate figures
- It comes with a pile of accessories - two sabers, Senate Cam Droid with Base, Sith Holocron, and more
- the Sideshow Exclusive is a statue from Palpy's Office

I think I read something about how the Yularen supporters were hoping that Hasbro would fix the pants to the correct color if he was re-released. 

Something about he should have Black pants or something like that...


As for me, I think I've settled on the following for my top five:

- Bespin Guard (black ethnicity)
- Chewbacca (Early Bird kit)
- Gungan Warrior (Fambaa set exclusive)
- Stormtrooper (Vintage OTC)
- Zutton (Blue Snaggletooth)

Man, you're fast!

Anyway, yeah - the new Q&A session has been posted.

And yeah, they totally biffed the answer to that coin question since there are only 80 spaces in the album.   

Straight from the Big H:

- 20 sites sent in top 10 lists
- 67 individual figures were named in the polls
- only 3 figures were dropped because some version was already planned for 2008: Durge, the EU Spacetrooper, and Amanin (Amanaman)


Here are the "fan choice" top 20 (in alphabetical order):

1. ARC Trooper (Clone Wars) red & gray #43 (Saga)
2. Bespin Guard (black ethnicity)
3. Chewbacca (Early Bird kit)
4. Clone Trooper (Treachery on Saleucami 2007 exclusive)
5. Clone Trooper Pilot w/ball turret (Saga '02 #49)
6. Coleman Trebor (Saga)
7. Colonel Wulf Yalaren (Death Star Briefing Room 2006 exclusive)
8. Commander Neyo (Treachery on Saleucami 2007 exclusive)
9. Covert Ops Clone Trooper (2005 exclusive)
10. Ephant Mon (Saga)
11. Graxol Kelvyyn (Watto's Box)
12. Gungan Warrior (Fambaa set exclusive)
13. Han Solo (Vintage OTC)
14. Pablo-Jill (EpIII/OTC bridge line)
15. Shadow Stormtrooper (2006 exclusive)
16. Sio Bibble (Episode I)
17. Stormtrooper (Vintage OTC)
18. Utapau Shadow Trooper (2007 exclusive)
19. Zev Senesca (Snowspeeder Pilot)
20. Zutton (Blue Snaggletooth)

Hasbro is currently revamping their polling software to handle the poll, look for the next phase to start next week!

Wave 5 Shipping 

From the NewForceComics.com front page:

SW wave 5
August 30, 2007 | 4:39 PM | newforce1

We have received a very small quantity of wave 5 cases that will all ship out Friday.

Holy crap.  Most places haven't even seen the Wave 4 or UGHs yet and now Wave 5 is en route?   

So tell me again why Hasbro bought this license? 

Because they wanted to get thier hands on the Marvel Movie Money lines - Spidey3, Spidey 4, Iron Man, New Hulk, FF2, FF3, etc etc etc.  I don't think they really wanted the Legends line.  I simply think it was a way for them to get some stuff out in between movies and a cheaper way to ramp up the lines/team/sculptors for the movie stuff.  No coincedence that they started putting movie figures right into this line, eh?

I can't wait for Wompus.   



Someday little buddy, someday...

Well, I had something really strange happen to me tonight...

I was re-arranging my display shelves and while I was moving some stuff around, I noticed that my Droids R2-D2 bubble had completely detached from the card.  Since it was in an Oscar case, it wasn't noticable until I grabbed the case to move it and the bubble tipped right over in the case.

I tried in vain to re-attach it, but failed miserably.  As a precaution, I went back through the other 9 carded figures I have and they all seem to have nice firmly attached bubbles.  I have no idea what could have caused R2's bubble to pop off - just a weak glue job I guess.   

The thing that was so strange about it was that I had been going back and forth about dropping the cash for another one to open to go with my Droids 3PO, so in a way, I guess fate made the decision for me.