I want to know who Curto has been blowing!  I can't believe Topps gave him another run at the sketch cards and of course his illustrations still suck as hard as ever.  I remember his defense was that he was rushed with a very short time line to produce them  oh yeah...

Nice Bertha picks btw, what a termite!

Pre-Ordained Destiny

Very happy about the vintage collection, but 92 figures and not one Chewbacca? He did appear in 4 out of the 6 films.

Of course there as was a Chewie in the Vintage line.  Chewbacca was one of the original 4 that came in "empty box".

http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=20448.0

Hopefully more shots of this will be released.  The C-3PO RAH is pretty cool, but the neck on this guy is not near accurate.

After 11 years I'm almost through The Mandalorian Armor Book One of the Bounty Hunter Wars.

It took many tries to get into it because it jumps around quite a bit.  A good author can do this, a hack writer getting paid by the page to complete a specified criteria not so much.

Published in 1998 it has not a tinge of prequel tainting it which is about the best thing about it.

While it has many fan favorite characters, Bossk, Boba Fett, Dengar, Zuckuss, IG-88, Darth Vader, the Emperor, the characterizations it creates for them are for the most part awful.

Major Characters:

Boba Fett - as one of the main characters fairs pretty well.  Very efficient, dangerous, cold, calculated, universally acknowledged as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy.  No mention of Jango, clones or any of the prequel crap, possibly why this series of books was never expanded on any further.

Bossk- young, hot headed, excessively violent, dimwit, impatient.

Zuckuss- Inexperienced, somewhat cowardly, a willing pawn.  No mention of his Gand Findsman meditation.  He just casually fell into being a bounty hunter in this book.  No mention at all of 4-LOM- they must be saving that for the next book.


Dengar- Semi successful bounty hunter,  smart enough to get by,  trained killer, scavenger and love lorn for his beloved Manaroo.

Minor Characters:

Darth Vader- Dangerous, Palpatine's servant

Emperor Palpatine- rules his empire with fear, allows free thinking agents to further his cause knowing that at any time he can use his immense power to destroy anything

IG-88- efficient, precise, cautious, agreeable


New characters invented and only appearing in this story (easy to see why these were abandoned)

Kuat of Kuat, the Shell Hutts, D'Harhan the Laser cannon headed cyborg,  Ku'dar Ma'bat a space spider, Craddosk-Bossk's dad

$300 bucks for an in scale based statue.  Zero articulation, aww c'mon Sideshow.  Looks nice, but pass.

The image revealed today is pretty slick...  Almost a still from the original trilogy it seems.  Really detailed...  Hasbro's isn't as nice, I just wonder who is going to shell out for this?  It's gotta cost an arm and a leg.

or the space that thing is going to be freakin humongous