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The Vintage Collection / Re: The Future of Star Wars Collecting?
« on: March 20, 2013, 11:22 AM »
Quote from: P-Siddy on March 19, 2013, 08:51 AM
Yeah, sounds like a Con exclusive figure.

Only if the likeness of the figure is that of Bob Iger, and not some extra who was in the actual scene.  ;)

The new paradigm shift we're experiencing in Hasbro's Star Wars line makes a figure like this seem almost like an impossibility.  Sure, Rebel figures seem to be experiencing some sort of a resurgence with collectors.  But THIS GUY?  It seems like so much of a stretch that it's incredibly unlikely.

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Other Toy Lines / Re: Star Trek
« on: March 19, 2013, 01:41 PM »
I was very surprised when the news came out that Hasbro was picking up the Star Trek license.  Especially considering how the toy line for the first JJ Abrams movie performed.

And now to see almost nothing (aside from Kreo) when the new movie is less than 2 months away?  It says to me that Hasbro must be hurting financially.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: A thread about concerts.
« on: March 19, 2013, 01:36 PM »
Quote from: Diddly on March 18, 2013, 02:42 AM
Quote from: Diddly on November 30, 2012, 11:10 AM
Just bought tickets to see Eric Clapton in March. Not sure what to expect but I'm looking forward to it.

How about expecting a FREAKING AWESOME SHOW! The Wallflowers opened and they sucked (played 6 songs and were out for 45 minutes) but Clapton tore the house down... played for around 2.5 hours and played all of his big hits, plus a few of the blues songs I'm not familiar with. Brought Jimmy Vaughn on stage for a Stevie Ray tribute song at one point.

Money WELL spent.

I've seen Clapton a couple of times over the past few years.  First with Cream at one of their MSG reunion shows, and in 2010 at the Crossroads festival in Chicago.  And he did not disappoint!  I'd love to see him this time out, but concert tickets are a bit pricey.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: The Future of Star Wars Collecting?
« on: March 18, 2013, 06:33 PM »
Quote from: Scockery on March 10, 2013, 04:53 PM
Obscure ANH Rebel character in 2014?
http://www.jeditemplearchives.com/content/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11462

Who's wishlist was Hasbro looking at?

LOL!

This is beyond bizarre as far as character selections go.  It comes across as REALLY fringe, and much more like wishlist fodder than something that might have a chance of actually selling well.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: A Game of Thrones (HBO)
« on: March 17, 2013, 01:48 PM »
Hope I can make it there.  I saw some of the pics from the exhibition in Toronto, and it looked pretty cool.  Plus, the actress who plays Ygritte was there, too!!!!

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: A Game of Thrones (HBO)
« on: March 17, 2013, 11:11 AM »
As we get ready to roll into Season 3, which will cover about half of the events of A Storm Of Swords, we get a glimpse into the possibility of what may happen with Game of Thrones if the series catches up to or passes the books. 

It's definitely something that I think a lot of fans of both the books and the television series might be sensitive to.  The series is coming up on the events of Book 3, and George R.R. Martin only published book 5 in the Spring of 2011.  Given the span of time between the release of the previous books, it seems entirely plausible that the HBO series could actually catch up to Martin's A Song of Ice & Fire novels before he's able to publish The Winds of Winter (book 6) and the seventh volume in the series.

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The Bullpen / Re: Thor: The Toys!
« on: March 16, 2013, 09:34 AM »
Quote from: shmashwitdaclub on March 16, 2013, 07:58 AM
about a month ago I did read someone on another board say that they did find Heimdall.

My store got a case of the first deluxe wave.

wouldn't it be crazy if that claw frost giant showed up somewhere?  that is the only figure from the line that never turned up

Good luck on that!  The only place I ever saw that was in the Hasbro display case at NY Comic Con.  I had no idea that figure was even in the works until I saw it there.

The bargain hunter in me is bummed that I wasn't able to get Heimdall for $9.99 or however much Thor deluxe figures go for.  But in the grand scheme of things it was worth it to wait a little while for the secondary market prices to subside, and pay about $25 for Heimdall.  All while NOT having to search far and wide for it at retail, and probably saving a comparable ammount of gas money in the process.

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The Black Series 3.75" / Re: Defender Wishlists 2013 Discussion
« on: March 15, 2013, 06:17 PM »
Any chance that we might be able to revise our TPM lists if R5-X2 winds up getting confirmed in some sort of multipack/exclusive, Scott?

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The Bullpen / Re: Thor: The Toys!
« on: March 15, 2013, 06:10 PM »
Looks like some old Thor stock has been making it's way onto TRU pegs.  I've noticed the Deluxe Lightning Clash Thor turning up recently.  But not the rather HTF deluxe Heimdall.  And frankly, it's bizarre.  This line originally hit stores back in 2011, right?

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TV-9D9 / Re: The Clone Wars - Season Six?
« on: March 12, 2013, 01:14 PM »
Quote from: shmashwitdaclub on March 12, 2013, 09:27 AM
Filoni looked like he was about to cry imo

It's totally understandable.  He's devoted much of the last decade of his life to the Clone Wars series, and knowing that it's coming to a close has to be pretty bittersweet.  But he should also be proud of a good deal of that work, because the show has been pretty groundbreaking.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: A Game of Thrones (HBO)
« on: March 11, 2013, 08:54 AM »
Nothing related to season 3, but certainly a bit of fun for fans of both Game of Thrones AND Star Wars...

.Jaime Lannister vs. Eddard Stark Lightsaber Duel +John Williams Score .

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars Episode VII
« on: March 9, 2013, 01:20 PM »
I'm not sure it's a case of people thinking that Hammill, Fisher & Ford are all too old for their parts.  We've seen plenty of action / fantasy / sci-fi films over the past decade where some older characters are involved in some intense sequences.  Perhaps modern filmmaking and special effects have made it that much easier to pull that off with an older actor?

I actually think there's a greater potential concern regarding Hammill & Fisher being central parts of the cast when they haven't done a tremendous ammount of feature film work over the past decade plus.  Sure, both have done some television and voice acting.  But I get the sense that both of them may be a little rusty in the on screen acting chops.  I think that concerns about the two of them in that capacity might be a little more well founded.  On that front I suspect that the big three might not be the focus of the sequel trilogy, and a new generation of Skywalkers & Solos may do the heavy lifting in the new trilogy.

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The Sequel Trilogy / Re: Star Wars Episode VII
« on: March 8, 2013, 02:11 PM »
Quote from: Darby on March  8, 2013, 09:15 AM
The whole article is very fascinating. So this seems to have started a couple years ago, and Lucas went fairly far down the garden path before selling to Disney. I wonder if he started this and then thought - wow. I don't want to do this, or he did do it to make the company more attractive to Disney. I'm more curious than ever of the story.

I took EXACTLY that from the article.  There's a quote where he said he was having a conversation with Kathleen Kennedy about making the company more attractive to a potential buyer.

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Lucas asked if she was interested in taking over Lucasfilm. Kennedy may have been blindsided by the news, but she happily accepted the position. “When Kathy came on, we started talking about starting up the whole franchise again,” he says. “I was pulling away, and I said, ‘Well, I’ve got to build this company up so it functions without me, and we need to do something to make it attractive.’ So I said, ‘Well, let’s just do these movies.’ ”

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The Bullpen / Re: Iron Man 3 Toys
« on: March 6, 2013, 09:03 PM »
Quote from: Brian on March  5, 2013, 09:03 PM
Man, after seeing that most recent IM3 trailer, I really wish we were getting a more proper line of figures for this year.  So many armor possiblities, they wouldn't even have to make things up like they have with past lines.  On a side note, I still haven't seen the Assemblers at retail around here.  All the stores have reset with IM3 stuff, but those just haven't been stocked yet for some reason.  I sort of doubt I'd buy any (maybe just the primary Mark 42 armor or something), but I haven't seen them.  I am glad that they've brought out a Legends line specifically for Iron Man (and later, Wolverine) and sort of hope we continue to see that with other movie lines (especially with a mix of comic/movie characters).

Just looking at some of the various armors in the final sequence of this new trailer, I get the sense that some of the concept armor designs that yielded figures for the Iron Man 2 line might be represented.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: The Future of Star Wars Collecting?
« on: March 6, 2013, 08:51 PM »
Well, there's also the promotional budget to consider for Battleship as well.  A general rule of thumb in the movie business is that the promotional budget for a movie is another 50 % on top of that production budget.  A budget of $209 million is going to garner a marketing budget of at least $100 million.  With that in mind, it looks like the movie barely even broke even by your estimations.  And it still leaves me wondering why Hasbro thinks they belong in the movie business.

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