i don't know about those screen scenes... there are tons of them sitting at my toys r us right now. i think the $21.99 price point was what pushed people away... why couldn't they make them $19.99 like the old cinema scenes? i think the fact that they are over the $20 mark makes people turn away, as silly as it sounds. i know that $19.99 is basically $20, but it's all mental. if people see $19.99 they are more prone to buy something.

Well at Target stores they are $19.99 and always have been on the Screen Scenes, I think TRU decided to try and gouge a couple more bucks out of people.  I would not be surprised to see these reduced to $11.99 or something by mid summer.

Let's hope you are right Stan on your predictions, and that's a great list you came up with OCB.

And speedermike, I couldn't agree with you more.  Why in the world would Hasbro not want to produce more army-builder 3-pks?  Those things are gold!

 

I got to thinking today and I am a little surprised that Hasbro doesn't take a little more advantage of this Classic Trilogy revival with some all new items.  The inclusion of old sculpts of the X-Wing and TIE Fighter is a huge letdown for me, but even more of a letdown is the lack of all-around creativity.  

I love the idea of the modern-vintage figures (especially the looks of Han and Leia), but I think they could have done more in the way of variety.  Who knows, there could be a lot more in store for us than what we have seen so far.  But here are some ideas, feel free to comment and add your own ideas too!

DELUXE/ULTRA ASSORTMENT

- new Owen Lars w/ moisture vaporator

- new Death Star Trooper w/ circular Death Star console

- Rebel Technician w/ Yavin circular Death Star attack display

- Rebel Honor Guard w/ extendable watch tower

- new Bespin Han (no jacket) w/ torture device

- new Vader w/ mediation chamber

- new C3PO w/ throne and generic Ewok

- new Palpatine w/ throne and giant Death Star window

- Stormtrooper 3-pk (similar to Clonetrooper 3-pk but none lying down)

- Rebel pilot 3-pk (X-Wing, Snowspeeder, A-Wing)

- Imperial Forces 3-pk (Death Star Gunner, Imperial Technician,  grey tunic Imperial Officer)

- Jawa Droids 3-pk (Sandcrawler Droid, LIN Mining Droid, 8-armed Spider Droid)

- Cantina Patrons (Kitik Keedkak, Gotal, Elis Herot)

OK, that's probably too many Deluxes for such a short period of time, but I think most of them would sell well.  Other ideas guys?

 

I'm a little confused as to whether future topics will be moved back and forth now, but okay!

 

These figures are outstanding; I hope this trend of great quality continues into the EPIII line.

Lobot - looks very vanilla, exactly the way he should be.  I could have gone for some knee articulation, but I am not complaining

Leia - a lovely figure, very simple and well done; I will try to get a couple extra to make into custom Coruscant women citizens

CC Pilot - probably my favorite of the bunch since it's a first issue since the vintage days, and I plan on getting a squad of 8-10 of these guys.  They will look cool in dioramas for Bespin, Tatooine, Coruscant, etc.  You're right Jesse, I hope his helmet comes off; it looks like it might, and I think his arm articulation is at the standard shoulder points and probably at the ends of his gloves.

You know what makes this wave so awesome?  The pure simplicity of the figures in their poses, but the nice added articulation.  No gimmicks, just well scultped figures with useful articulation.  I do hope they include a 4th figure in the wave at least, I could go for the Jeromy Bulloch as an Imperial Officer or a head variation to the Bespin Guard.

 

Yep, it's all about the dioramas.  My armies have grown through leaps and bounds over the past few years.  I like to line them up in movie-esque dioramas similar to niubniub does at his site (I started the diorama kick in late 1995).

Anyway, here's a rundown as close to as accurate as possible on my army-builders:

IMPERIALS

POTF2 Commtech Stormtrooper - 150
SAGA Stormtrooper Concept - 4
POTJ Sandtrooper (dirty)- 10
POTJ Sandtrooper (clean) - 8
POTJ Scout Trooper (dirty) - 12
POTJ Scout Trooper (clean) - 6
SAGA Snowtrooper - 10
POTF2 Snowtrooper - 10
POTF2 Deluxe Snowtrooper - 4
SAGA Imperial Officer - 20
POTJ Imperial Officer - 10
POTF2 Imperial Gunner - 10
POTF2 Death Star Trooper - 10
POTF2 TIE Pilot - 10
SAGA Royal Guard - 12
SAGA Dignitary #1 - 6
SAGA Dignitary #2 - 6
POTF2 AT-ST Driver - 10
POTJ R2Q5 - 4
POTF2 Death Star Droid - 2
POTF2 Captain Piett - 6
Custom Imperial Technician - 2
SAGA Imperial 4pk - 4  

That's just a start, my darn Seperatist Army has over 75 red Battle Droids, 20 Super Droids, 20 Destroyers, etc.

Yikes I spend a lot of dough on this stuff...

 

Unfortunately, this seems to be an ongoing problem with a lot of Star Wars product these days...

 

Agreed.  I thought there was talk a while back about Hasbro rehashing these with new figures, but I haven't heard anything recently.  I wonder why they didn't just have them come out with figures in the first place?

I don't have too much of a need for a Zam in the speeder since you can't really see her in there anyway, but I really wish they would make a Kenobi and Anakin that would look cool in the yellow speeder.

 

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My name is Matt and I love screen scenes.  My only concern is that it's a store exclusive.  I hate store exclusives, it's so easy for the scalper types to pick up whole cases and clear the shelves for other collectors.  

My thoughts EXACTLY.  It's not wise to argue with a Dresselian.