Defender Wishlists 2023: Troop Builder 4-Packs

[P-Siddy]

What are your 10 most wanted Troop Builder 4-Packs you'd like to see in The Vintage Collection?

The rules are simple: post your wishlist for the 10 3-3/4" figures 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!

[P-Siddy]

If you're lacking some inspiration, here are some ideas:

A New Hope
•   Jawas
•   Astromechs
•   GNK Droids
•   Protocol Droids
•   Tuskens
•   Sandtroopers
•   Imperial Gunners
•   Imperial Navy Troopers
•   Imperial Scanning Crew
•   Imperial Spacetroopers
•   Imperial T.I.E Fighter Pilots
•   Imperial Officers (Gray)
•   Imperial Officers (Black)
•   Imperial Security Bureau Officers
•   Rebel Technician (Yavin IV)
•   Rebel Honor Guard (Yavin IV)
•   Rebel Officers (Yavin IV)
•   Rebel Pilots

The Empire Strikes Back
•   Female Rebel Officer (Hoth)
•   Male Rebel Officer (Hoth)
•   Rebel Officers (Hoth) (mix of men and women)
•   Rebel Technician (Hoth)
•   Rebel Soldier (Hoth)
•   Snowspeeder Pilots
•   Imperial Stormtrooper (Snowtrooper) (1x Commander, 3x Reg)
•   AT-AT crew (2x AT-AT Drivers, 1x General Veers, 1x Snowtrooper Commander or 1x Hoth Scout Trooper)
•   Bespin Wing Guard
•   Ugnaughts


Return of the Jedi
•   Gamorreans
•   Mon Calamari Fleet Officers
•   B-Wing Pilots
•   A-Wing Pilots
•   Y-Wing Pilots
•   Rebel Technicians
•   Rebel Commandos (Endor)
•   Rebel Soldiers (Endor)
•   Emperor’s Royal Guard
•   Ewoks
•   AT-ST Pilots
•   Imperial Scout Trooper

The Phantom Menace
•   PK Droids
•   B1 Battle Droids
•   B1 Battle Droids Officers
•   P-Series Droidekas
•   Theed Security Guards
•   Queen’s Handmadiens
•   Gungans
•   DUM Pit Droids
•   Otogo 222 Maintenance Droid
•   P-100 Salvage Droid
•   DRK-1 Dark Eye Probe Droid
•   Brave Flight Pilots
•   Naboo Technicians
•   Republic Senate Guard

Attack of the Clones
•   Chancellor Personal Guard
•   Bear Clan Padawans
•   Clone Children
•   Clone Adults
•   Tusken (2x male, 1x female, & 1x child or 1x male, 1x female, 1x child & 1x Massif
•   Generic Human Jedi
•   Clone Trooper (Infantry)
•   Clone Trooper (Officer)
•   Clone Trooper (Pilot)
•   Geonosian Drone
•   Geonosian Warrior
•   B1 Battle Droid (Geonosis) (1x OOM & 3 Reg)
•   B2 Super Battle Droid
•   W-Series Droideka

Revenge of the Sith
•   Republic Senate Guard, v.2
•   Coruscant Rescue Operators
•   B-3000 Luxury Droid
•   Wookiee Warriors
•   Utai dignitary
•   Pau’an Warrior
•   Neimodian Security Guard (Mustafar)
•   IG-100 MagnaGuard (Gray)
•   IG-100 MagnaGuard (White)
•   Q-Series Droideka
•   21st Nova Corps Galactic Marine (Mygeeto)
•   41st Elite Corps Clone Trooper (Coruscant)
•   41st Elite Corps Clone Trooper (Kashyyyk)
•   41st Elite Corps AT-RT Driver (Kashyyyk)
•   91st Reconnaissance Corps Clone Trooper (Saleucami)
•   212th Attack Battalion Clone Trooper (Utapau)
•   212th Attack Battalion Paratrooper (Utapau)
•   327th Star Corps Clone Trooper (Felucia)
•   501st Legion Clone Trooper (Coruscant)
•   Clone Pilot
•   Shocktrooper (Coruscant)
•   Polis Massan
•   Handmaiden

The Force Awakens
•   First Order Fleet Engineer
•   First Order Stormtrooper
•   First Order Stormtrooper Officers
•   First Order Stormtrooper Riot Gear
•   First Order Heavy Assault Stormtrooper
•   First Order Heavy Assault Stormtrooper Officers
•   First Order Flametrooper
•   First Order Snowtrooper
•   First Order Snowtrooper Officer
•   First Order TIE Fighter Pilot
•   First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter Pilot
•   First Order Officers
•   First Order Technicians
•   Guavian Enforcers
•   Resistance Officers
•   Resistance Personnel
•   Resistance Ground Crew
•   Resistance Soldier
•   Resistance Pilots

The Last Jedi
•   Resistance Mon Calamari Officers
•   First Order Stormtrooper (Executioner)
•   First Order ISB Officer
•   Elite Praetorian Guard
•   Canto Bight Police Officers
•   First Order Shuttle Pilots

The Rise of Skywalker
•   First Order Jet Trooper
•   First Order Snowtrooper Officer (Kijimi)
•   First Order Treadspeeder Driver (Pasaana)
•   Sith Eternal Officers
•   Sith Eternal Crew
•   Sith Eternal Fleet Technician
•   Sith Eternal Trooper
•   Sith Eternal Jet Trooper
•   Sith Eternal Sovereign Protector

Rogue One
•   KX-Series Security Droid
•   Imperial AT-ACT Driver
•   Imperial Coastal Defense Stormtrooper
•   Imperial Coastal Defense Stormtrooper Officer
•   Imperial Death Trooper
•   Imperial Death Trooper Specialist
•   Imperial Stormtrooper (Crystal Patrol)
•   Imperial Tank Driver + Crew (maybe the 4th slot could be a Remnant Stormtrooper)
•   Kyber Crystal Research Team
•   Rebel Pathfinders
•   Rebel Pathfinders, v2
•   Rebel Pilots (Blue Squadron)
•   Rebel Pilots (Green Squadron)
•   Rebel Pilots (Red Squadron)
•   Profundity Mon Calamari Crew

Solo
•   Imperial Mudtrooper (Mimban)
•   Imperial Mudtrooper Medic (Mimban)
•   Imperial Patrol Trooper (Corellia)
•   Imperial Range Trooper (Vandor-1)

The Mandalorian
•   Imperial Remnant Stormtrooper
•   Imperial Scout Trooper
•   Darktrooper
•   Death Watch Mandalorians
•   Pyke Syndicate
•   Incinerator Trooper
•   Artillery Trooper
•   Juggernaut Pilot
•   Mandalorians

The Book of Boba Fett

Obi-Wan Kenobi
•   Purge Trooper

Andor
•   Pre-Mor Security Inspection team
•   Narkina 5 Prisoners
•   Imperial Army Trooper
•   

[Rob]

I mostly want 4-packs of figures without full helmets… figures where you can see their faces… with multiple head sculpts… 

ANH Yavin Sled Techs
ANH Imperial Officers (mix black and grey?)
ANH Death Star Troopers
ESB Bespin Guards
ROTJ Endor Rebel Soldiers
ROTJ Rebel Pilots Y-wing
ROTJ Rebel Pilots B-Wing
ROTJ Rebel Pilots A-Wing
ROTJ Mon Cal Officers
ROTJ Ewoks (as long as they’re new ewoks)

[Nicklab]

UPDATING THIS.  And including the existing figure that the set would be based on.

This is what I've got.  I am also operating on the basis of what Hasbro has mostly done with this line - existing figure sculpts, but with the possibility of a slightly new or altered officer / squad leader.

CLONE WARS ERA
-KAMINO SECURITY CLONE TROOPERS (CLONE WARS, THE BAD BATCH) - Based on the upcoming Clone Trooper (phase II armor) with the grey Kamino Security markings
-SHOCK TROOPERS (CLONE WARS, ROTS, TBB) - Based on the upcoming Clone Trooper (phase II armor) with Shock Trooper markings & Commander Fox as the officer
-DEATH WATCH MANDALORIANS - Based on the VC219 Death Watch Mandalorian - 4 x DW Mandos with different rank markings as seen in the flashback scene from The Mandalorian season 1

ORIGINAL TRILOGY ERA
-BLUE SQUADRON PILOTS (ROGUE ONE) - Based on the VC204 Antoc Merrick sculpt - 4 x Blue Squadron pilots including a new female Rebel pilot buck
-RED SQUADRON PILOTS (ROGUE ONE & ANH) - Based on the VC158 Luke Skywalker sculpt - 4 x Red Squadron pilots
-IMPERIAL GUNNERS (ANH, ROGUE ONE, REBELS) - Based on the VC147 Death Star Gunner sculpt - 4 x Gunners including one officer with gold sigils on helmet (as seen in REBELS)
-IMPERIAL OFFICERS (2 x Black uniforms, 2 x Olive uniforms) - Based on the upcoming Admiral Piett sculpt
-BESPIN GUARDS (TESB) - Based on the VC233/239 sculpt - likenesses of Bialar Selis, Bislav Merril, Jerrol Blendin & Corman Jeihn (put Pedar Solado on a card like the Kenner release)
-EWOKS (ROTJ) - Based on VC104 (Lumat) and VC207 (Teebo) in deco of Brethupp (Dalmatian ewok), Tokkat, Wijunkee & Fufuneek
-IMPERIAL ENFORCER DROIDS (TBOBF - Night of a Thousand Tears) - Based on VC170 K-2SO with the Imperial E-22 blaster rifles

[Mister Skeezler]

1. Bespin guards
2. Mon Cal crewmen (Ackbar's crew)
3. Death Star Troopers
4. Endor rebel troopers (but these have to have better hip articulation, since the current TVC ones can't squat without looking like they're holding in a piss)
5. Sandtroopers (on the new ANH Stormtrooper body)
6. Mon Cal crewmen (Raddus' crew, and man...we need a Raddus)
7. Stormtroopers (new ANH body)
8. Imperial Army Trooper (from Solo, Andor)
9. Purge trooper (on the new Clone body)
10. Clones (on the new clone body, white or 501st, but no unique officers)

[P-Siddy]

01. Imperial Spacetroopers
02. Imperial Security Bureau Officers
03. Rebel Officers (Yavin IV)
04. Rebel Pilots (Yavin IV)
05. Bespin Wing Guard
06. Imperial Officers (Black, Gray, at least 1 with trench coat)
07. Mon Calamari Fleet Officers (Return of the Jedi)
08. Imperial Mudtroopers (3 Troopers, 1 Medic)
09. Rebel Pathfinders (Rogue One)
10. Ewoks (Brethupp, Taras, Pipe-smoking, Zephee)

[Ryan]

Ooohhh. This will be a fun one. Overall I've really enjoyed these sets. I'll have to think about my list a bit. Props for the great inspiration list Steve!

[Jeff]

SOLO Imperial Mudtroopers (Mimban)
OWK Purge Troopers
ANDOR Imperial Security Bureau Officers
RO Rebel Pathfinders (Scarif)
RO/ANH Alliance Command/Officers (Yavin IV)
ANH Sandtroopers (Tatooine)
ESB Snowtroopers (Hoth)
ESB Security Guards (Bespin)
ROTJ Rebel Strike Team (Endor)
TM Mandalorian Warriors (Season 3)

[P-Siddy]

Ooohhh. This will be a fun one. Overall I've really enjoyed these sets. I'll have to think about my list a bit. Props for the great inspiration list Steve!

Thanks!  There are a lot of things Hasbro can do with these 4-packs.  I know it's a bit overkill with some of those small droids (and I assume they'd be very low on people's lists), but you never know.

I skipped the animated series as I'm not as familiar with them (clone teams, etc)... and with each new series, there are new things to add (some I'm sure I forgot).  All are welcome, of course.

RO Rebel Pathfinders (Scarif)

Yeah, definitely those.  I need to review my list.

[Nicklab]

There are a number of squads that I would have liked to include on my list.  The Rebel Pathfinders from ROGUE ONE, the Endor Rebel Troopers from ROTJ, Snowtroopers, etc.  But I know that pattern has been established by Hasbro - they just HAVE to get a basic figure sculpt out in the mainline before they'll consider making one of these 4-packs.  It's such an annoying sticking point.

[P-Siddy]

Still a couple days to get those lists in.

[Ryan]

Here's my list, in no particular order of preference. It was hard to get down to 10. Overall I have really liked these sets. I'll happily take a single-carded version of any of these new tools before the army pack if that's what it takes Hasbro to make them.

• Pyke Syndicate - (TBOBF)
• Imperial Army Troopers -- (Andor)
• Rebel Pathfinders -- (Rogue One)
• Rebel Pilots (Red Squadron) -- (Rogue One)
• Rebel Commandos (Endor) -- (ROTJ)
• Rebel Soldiers (Endor) -- (ROTJ)
• Rebel Pilots (Blue Squadron) - [Mix of 2 X-Wing & 2 U-Wing Pilots] -- (Rogue One)
• Imperial Hovert Tank Drivers + Crew -- (Rogue One)
• Imperial Beskar Jet Troopers -- (The Mandalorian Season 3)
• Imperial Navy Troopers -- (ANH)

[P-Siddy]

Results:

01. Bespin Guards (The Empire Strikes Back)
02. Endor Rebel Soldiers (Return of the Jedi)
=. Ewoks (Return of the Jedi)
=. Imperial Navy Troopers aka Death Star Troopers (A New Hope)
=. Imperial Officers (A New Hope)
=. Mon Calamari Crew/Officers (Return of the Jedi)
=. Rebel Pathfinders (Rogue One)
08. Imperial Army Trooper (Andor)
=. Imperial Sandtroopers (A New Hope)
=. Rebel Pilots (Red Squadron, Rogue One)

Didn't make the cut

08. Imperial Mudtroopers (Rogue One)
Imperial Purge Trooper
Imperial Security Bureau Officers
Rebel Alliance Command/Officers (Yavin IV)
Rebel Pilots (Blue Squadron, Rogue One)

16. Death Watch Mandalorians (The Mandalorians)
Imperial Beskar Jet Troopers (The Mandalorian)
Imperial Enforcer Droids (The Book of Boba Fett)
Imperial Gunners (A New Hope, Rogue One, Rebels)
Imperial Hover Tank Driver and Crew (Rogue One)
Imperial Snowtroopers (The Empire Strikes Back)
Imperial Spacetrooper
Imperial Stormtroopers
Kamino Security Clone Troopers (Clone Wars, The Bad Batch)
Mandalorian Warriors (The Mandalorian, Season 3)
Mon Calamari Officers (Rogue One)
Phase II Clone Trooper
Pyke Syndicate (The Book of Boba Fett)
Rebel Commandos (Endor) (Return of the Jedi)
Rebel Pilots A-Wing (Return of the Jedi)
Rebel Pilots B-Wing (Return of the Jedi)
Rebel Pilots Y-Wing (Return of the Jedi)
Rebel Strike Team (Endor)
Shock Troopers (Revenge of the Sith)
Yavin Sled Technicians (A New Hope)

[Ryan]

I really don’t think we could go wrong here, but that top 10 looks great. Not sure how I left Sandtroopers out of my top 10, we really need them updated to the new Stormtrooper sculpt.