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Title: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on July 1, 2023, 10:02 AM
What are your 10 most wanted Playlists you'd like to see in The Vintage Collection?

The rules are simple: post your wishlist for the 10 3-3/4" scale playsets or send them to me.  At the end of the month, I’ll tally up the votes and we’ll move on to the next theme.

Have fun!

JUST A REMINDER THAT WE'RE COUNTING ONLY THE TOP TEN THIS ROUND!
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Mister Skeezler on July 2, 2023, 03:31 PM
For the most part, what I'm looking for are modular sets like the Carbon Freeze Chamber and Tantive IV, so in those cases, I opted for the included figure to be an army builder. There are a couple of instances where the playset item is more unique (like Vader's meditation chamber or the Bespin gantry), so those would have a unique figure that's necessary for those scenes.

1. Echo Base (with Hoth Trooper)
2. Cloud City (with Bespin Guards)
3. Death Star (with Death Star Trooper)
4. Emperor's Throne Room - two sets building on the Emperor set from a couple years ago (one with Sim Aloo and one with the pointy hat guy who's name I can't remember)
5. Home One - modular sets to complete the semicircle (with Mon Calamari crewman)
6. Ewok Village (with generic-ish Ewok)
7. Mustafar duel - two different sets (one with Anakin "Darth Vader" and one with Obi-Wan)
8. Star Destroyer bridge (with Admiral Ozzel)
9. Star Destroyer - Darth Vader's meditation chamber (with removable helmet Darth Vader)
10. Cloud City gantry - "I am your father" scene (with a beaten-up Bespin Luke)
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Nicklab on July 5, 2023, 01:38 PM
This could be one of the more challenging wishlists to do since so there are so many directions in which you could go with the concept.

TPM - Trade Federation Droid Control Ship - Corridors / Command deck with blast doors (with Security Battle Droid)

AOTC - Geonosis Droid Factory - the assembly line for the droids in greater detail than the SAGA releases with droid parts and machinery (with Geonosian warrior)

CLONE WARS - Venator Star Destroyer - Operations / communications center, holographic table, blast door & corridor (with Clone Naval Officer)

ROTS - EmPal medical center -  the whole medical center setting with table, lowering mask, Imperial sigil floor (with newly armored Darth Vader)

OBI-WAN KENOBI - Fortress Inquisitorius - Corridor, blast door & Jedi tomb (with Seeker Droid)

SOLO - Dryden Vos's chambers with treasures - crystal skull, holocrons, Mandalorian armor, etc (with Hylobon Enforcer) ***side note - I want Dryden Vos in TVC, but as a mainline carded release

ROGUE ONE - Profundity Bridge (with Admiral Raddus) ***could double as a Home One bridge***

ANH - Death Star gun station - Battle of Yavin AA gunners (with Death Star Gunner)

ROTJ - Ewok village (with generic Ewok)

TM - New Republic prison barge corridor w/ cells, blast door (with New Republic Security Droid)
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Jeff on July 12, 2023, 02:55 PM
I'd probably buy any playset they make if it is OT related, but here is where I'd like Hasbro to focus -

SOLO - Vandor Sabaac Table Room
RO - Vader's Mustafar Castle/Bacta Tank
ANH - Mos Eisley Cantina
ANH - Death Star
ESB - Echo Base
ESB - Yoda's Hut
ESB - Bespin Cloud City
ROTJ - Ewok Village
ROTJ - Home One
TM - The Armorer's Forge
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on July 18, 2023, 04:05 PM
01 Emperor's Throne Room with Imperial Dignitary (Return of the Jedi)
02. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's Office with Palpatine (Revenge of the Sith)
03 Executor Bridge with Ozzel or Capt. Piett (The Empire Strikes Back)
04 Mos Eisley Cantina with Wuher (A New Hope)
05 Bespin Gantry with Battle-Damaged Luke Skywalker (The Empire Strikes Back)
06 Imperial Medical Center with Battle-Damaged Darth Vader and Med Capsule (Revenge of the Sith)
07 Darth Vader's Bacta Tank (Mustafar) with limbless Darth Vader & Vanee (Rogue One, Obi-Wan Kenobi)
08 Ewok Village with Ewok and Ewok Village Leia (Return of the Jedi)
09 Yoda's Hut with Yoda & open-fatigues Luke Skywalker (The Empire Strikes Back)
10 Death Star Hallway with Mouse Droid and a named Imp Officer we don't have (want so many different modular pieces so will put it in generically) 
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Ryan on July 18, 2023, 04:29 PM
I am still working on my list, and now I may need to update it after the Jabba announcement. This is a tough one. There are so many sets I'd love. I keep going back and forth between set pieces from key story moments in the film & bigger set pieces that can be used with a ton of other figures. Then there's the whole OT, PT, ST, & D+ era debate... I don't think I'd be unhappy with anything anyone has suggested so far.
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on July 18, 2023, 06:50 PM
Quote from: Ryan on July 18, 2023, 04:29 PM
I don't think I'd be unhappy with anything anyone has suggested so far.

There are a lot of good ideas here. 

I really am not sure how I'm going to tally up this round.  For instance, we have Bespin Gantry and Bespin Dining Room, I'm considering just putting them together in one "world", like Bespin (Gantry, Dining Room, Incinerator Room, etc.) or Death Star (Detention Block, Trash Compactor, Hallways, Tractor beam, Conference Room, Throne Room, etc) since they are similar themes.  What do you all think?
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Jeff on July 18, 2023, 11:27 PM
Quote from: P-Siddy on July 18, 2023, 06:50 PM
I really am not sure how I'm going to tally up this round.  ...What do you all think?

I am fine with "themes" (Death Star, Echo Base, Bespin, Death Star II, etc) if that is how you want to do it. 

But, if that is how we're thinking about counting, I want to go back and redo my list and combine the DS, Bespin, and Home One sets so I can get three more picks in there then...
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on July 19, 2023, 09:11 AM
It'd be nice to get some more participation on this one, but maybe the interest isn't there for playsets?
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Nicklab on July 19, 2023, 12:15 PM
I think the interest is definitely there.  Hasbro has been releasing at least one per year since they offered the Jabba's Palace Adventure Set.  But it seems like Hasbro has a formula that they're sticking to, and maybe that's leading to a failure of imagination.
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Dave on July 19, 2023, 12:41 PM
Quote from: Nicklab on July 19, 2023, 12:15 PM
I think the interest is definitely there.  Hasbro has been releasing at least one per year since they offered the Jabba's Palace Adventure Set.  But it seems like Hasbro has a formula that they're sticking to, and maybe that's leading to a failure of imagination.

It seems like we have some very, very small hope of new figures being released, but with playsets I feel a little defeated by their recent attempts - scale of 1-10 with 10 being interesting and great value:
- Tantive IV hallway with Rebel Fleet Trooper - 8
- Jabba's Palace Adventure set - 5
- Navarro cantina - 4
- Endor bunker playset - 2
- Boba Fett / Jabba's throne room - TBD, but probably 4

Hasbro seems more interested in creating lots of little bottles, pillows, and other random doo-dads than actually making a cool playset at a reasonable price.  I'm not sure if they put all those things in there just to justify the price or if people (other than photo scene specialists) really dig those things.

In the Darryl DePreist days they used to execute these consistently well.  It doesn't need to be complicated, but it might take a commitment to actually making something new.  The ideas listed in this thread are solid, and will likely never get done.

My top no-brainers would be:
- Death Star
- Ewok village
- Rebel briefing room - any would be great but Rogue One or TFA would be my preference - maybe they'll have the Rogue One style room in Andor season 2

I'd also love to see a Rix Road playset from Andor done too, but they'll actually need to make figures to put in it.  Same goes for the Solo Sabacc table.  Now I'm really dreaming.
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Matt_Fury on July 19, 2023, 01:37 PM
Quote from: Dave on July 19, 2023, 12:41 PM

Hasbro seems more interested in creating lots of little bottles, pillows, and other random doo-dads than actually making a cool playset at a reasonable price.  I'm not sure if they put all those things in there just to justify the price or if people (other than photo scene specialists) really dig those things.


It's called "World Building."
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Muftak on July 19, 2023, 03:52 PM
Quote from: Matt_Fury on July 19, 2023, 01:37 PM

It's called "World Building."

Agreed 100%

There are so many iconic set pieces / furniture pieces that are still waiting to get into the line, these little "wall with greeblie" playset designs would be the perfect place for Hasbro to slot in stuff like Echo Base computers, Death Star duty stations or conference room furniture, Cloud City dining room furniture, etc etc.

There is so much more that they can do once they've gotten their fill of alcohol bottles and pillows.

If the moisture vaporator accessory hadn't come out in 2007, I would still be advocating for that thing, it is one of my favorite "figures" they ever made!
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on July 31, 2023, 01:00 PM
Last day to get your lists in. 

I'll tally as listed, so no need to change anything.
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on July 31, 2023, 04:59 PM
Quote from: Dave on July 19, 2023, 12:41 PM
My top no-brainers would be:
- Death Star
- Ewok village
- Rebel briefing room - any would be great but Rogue One or TFA would be my preference - maybe they'll have the Rogue One style room in Andor season 2

I'd also love to see a Rix Road playset from Andor done too, but they'll actually need to make figures to put in it.  Same goes for the Solo Sabacc table.  Now I'm really dreaming.

Do you consider this your list, Dave?  You've got about 6 here...
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Dave on July 31, 2023, 05:21 PM
Yes.  That looks good.  I'd like to put more clever thought in to it but it'll just get me grumpy because Hasbro has really struggled in this area.
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Ryan on July 31, 2023, 06:21 PM

Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: Jedi Idej on August 1, 2023, 02:59 AM
Hope i'm not too late.

Is it me, or is there a lot of violence in Star Wars?

In no particular order except number 1).

1) Mos Eisley cantina. <-- Modular would be perfect for those who only want to buy the pieces, for example, to recreate a specific scene and that'll fit on a narrow shelf. But i don't mind a larger piece.

2) Jedi Temple corridor. <--would be nice to have scene wirh Anakin leading the clones on his murderous spree during Order 66.

3) Felucia. A very pretty setting...to kill a jedi.

4) Kashyyyk hut. Where Yoda did some decapitating...

5) Ewok village. I don't mind if Hasbro fudges. A nice place for the Ewok celebration; a whole bunch of kindling to barbecue humans; or the funeral pyre we saw but never got.

6) Queen Amidala's death procession. Not so much a playet -- we don't have the citizen's -- as it is a way to get the horses, wagon, and dead Amidala.

7) Star destroyer part where we first see all those bounty hunters together.

Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on August 1, 2023, 11:45 AM
Quote from: Jedi Idej on August  1, 2023, 02:59 AM
Hope i'm not too late.

No worries: you are accounted for.
Title: Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Playset with figure
Post by: P-Siddy on August 1, 2023, 11:55 AM
Results are in:

01. Ewok Village (suggested pack-in figures: Ewok and Princess Leia (Ewok Celebration))
02. Death Star (suggested pack-in figures: Death Star Trooper, Imperial Officer, and MSE droid)
03. Mos Eisley Cantina (suggested pack-in figure: Wuher)
=.  Star Destroyer/Executor Bridge (suggested pack-in figures: Admiral Ozzel, Imperial Technician)
05. Bespin Cloud City (suggested pack-in figures: Bespin Guards)
=.  Darth Vader's Mustafar Castle/Bacta Tank (suggested pack-in figures: limbless Darth Vader and Vaneé)
=.  Echo Base (suggested pack-in figure: Hoth Trooper)
=.  Home One (suggested pack-in figure: Mon Calamari crewman)
=.  Yoda's Hut (suggested pack-in figures: Yoda, Luke Skywalker (Open-Fatigues), and Obi-Wan (Spirit))
10. Bespin Cloud City Gantry (suggested pack-in figure: Battle-Damaged Luke Skywalker)

The rest:
10. EmPal Medical Center (suggested pack-in figures: Post-Mustafar Duel Darth Vader and Med Capsule, Darth Vader)
=.  Emperor's Throne Room (suggested pack-in figures: Sim Aloo, Sate Pestage, and Imperial Dignitary)
=.  Rix Road
=.  Vandor-1 Sabacc Table Room
15. Darth Vader's Meditation Chamber (Executor) (suggested pack-in figure: Darth Vader (removable helmet))
=.  Death Star Gun Station (suggested pack-in figure: Death Star Gunner)
=.  Dryden Vos' Chambers (suggested pack-in figure: Hylobon Enforcer)
=.  Felucia
=.  Fortress Inquisitorious (suggested pack-in figure: Seeker Droid)
=.  Geonosis Droid Factory (suggested pack-in figure: Geonosian Warrior)
=.  Jedi Temple Corridor
=.  Kashyyyk Hut
=.  Mustafar duel (suggested pack-in figures: Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi)
=.  New Republic Prison Barge Corridor (suggested pack-in figure: New Republic Security Droid)
=.  Profunidty Bridge (suggested pack-in figure: Admiral Raddus)
=.  Queen Amidala's Death Procession
=.  Rebel Briefing Room (Rogue One)
=.  Rebel Briefing Room (The Force Awakens)
=.  Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's Ofice (suggested pack-in figure: Palpatine)
=.  The Armorer's Forge
=.  Trade Federation Droid Control Ship (suggested pack-in figure: Security Battle Droid)
=.  Venator Star Destroyer (suggested pack-in figure: Clone Naval Officer)