This was without a doubt the highlight of Hasbro's showing at Comic Con for me. Despite the up-skirt shots that hinted that this might be a possibility, I thought there was not a shot in hell it'd actually come to fruition. I figured it'd just be an IO Battle Pack, and that was it... But no!
Despite the fact that the Tarkin is the same ****** one from ROTS (why?!), we're still getting FOUR new Imperial Officers in this scene, and that's absolutely mindboggling to me. I always figured we'd eventually get Yularen, but that was about it. So three more in addition to him was icing on the cake! I'm sure we'll get a better Tarkin at some point too, so I'm not too worried about that, and I'm certainly not worried about the inclusion of their guns, inaccurate or not.
The face sculpts on the new IO's was absolutely spot-on down there in the display booth. Granted, the hard copy one-off paint samples usually look significantly better than the finished product, at least these guys are definitely headed in the right direction...
I of course plugged the table/conference room diorama (playset) idea, but they shot it down as quickly as all the other "playset" talk. But they agreed that they could potentially make the cardboard backdrop in the package look like the conference room, so hopefully they follow their own lead from the upcoming 10-pack Galactic Heroes Cinema Scenes, and make it removable, and functional as a base and diorama to display this scene on. But yeah, no articulated knees, as expected (much like most of the Cantina aliens), so chairs would be a moot point to all of us who are too untalented to customize them into seated positions....
But one helluve beautiful set though, no doubt. Made my weekend down there, and bought Hasbro a (small) level of forgiveness for all the re-released rehashed crap that they're going to be chucking at us for the year to come...