Keep seeing stuff get cut at Wally World... Saw the larger ships down some today, but not enough for me to bite.
I'm working on one of the A-Wings I got for $7. I think I can make a pretty slick believable version of the pre-AWing with it. It actually is oddly scaled depending how you view scale... Being animated and all I figure that has some leeway to it, but the ship is pretty tiny. The A-Wings in ROTJ though, there's 2 distinctly different scales. One tiny, one fairly sizable by comparison, so I figure this could be a much weaker cousin of the ROTJ era A-Wing ultimately. The Alliance maybe just decided the idea was sound, the ship just needed more umph and size to bump survivability. This though, it looks like TIE bait and I kinda like that since Rebels makes it out that these things are getting lit up like firecrackers by basic TIEs of the era (the "small wing" model TIE Fighter that's common in the show, for whatever reason).
The ship in Rebels appears at different sizes/scales too for some reason. Go figure.
The ultimately devious Hasbro design for this ship though, for those wanting to make it better, is they glued the nose together at the tip. Just completely made it a chore to "fix"... not that it wasn't a project anyway, but yeah, that inability to take it completely apart is a big hurdle now. Easily broken by my eye.
But I'm cutting the NERF out anyway, and creating a cover there, so it's already a chunk of work.
