I really don't know either besides what was said at the time of the merger...and its not really right to speculate on said matter of what might have happened behind the scenes because we don't know  

Agreed.  Only Mike and Phillip will ever really know the facts, the rest of us are just left to speculate, and you know what happens then, you just make a "spec" out of u and late... wait?  Is that right?

Jeff

Hi,

I'm in (if you'll have me).

Just signed up my team...

Jeff

Wow.  I really thought they'd be two figures.

Kudos, Hasbro!  Of course, I still think it's weird to get a free head and arms as "accessories...

I'll probably still buy two so I can have one of each pose set up on the shelves.  I'm such a dork.

Jeff

Other than that, I'd rather not have another rehashed Jedi Duel against Maul collaboration.

I feel pretty confident that this 4-pack will at the very least contain a Maul figure...  After all, the only Maul scheduled for 2004 so far has been in the Hall of Fame assortment version.  

Considering the fact that without a MAJOR re-write of the OT, there's no way they can re-pack Mauly for OTC; nor can they stick him in the TRU Jedi Council scenes.

Ergo, they're gonna stick a Maul in the 4-pack.  After all, you can't expect us to go a whole year with only ONE Darth Maul, right?  


Jeff

Figures I don't mind seeing re-carded and shipped again on new card style:

PotJ Sandtrooper
PotJ Scout Trooper
Clone Wars Clone Trooper (Super Articulated)
Saga Snowtrooper
CommTech Stormtrooper

In my opinion, these guys should be released every so often.  They are the true army builders and I wouldn't mind having more opportunity to buy them over and over.

That's just me though.

Jeff

Wow.

What a thread!

I, too, dislike GNT.  

His style, his attitude, his "stay on topic every 5 posts" posts, his blatant re-posting news from other sites where he basically starts a thread on every news item then locks all other threads on the subject.

The thing that bugs me most though is when he pulls something out of his @$$ (Ewok Mom w/Woklings, etc), passes it off as fact/truth (usually going so far as to claim another non-scum site said it first when usually site B never said it) then ignores any critisism when he is wrong.

There are countless examples of times he states something as true when he has NO factual basis for it.  Then, when he is proven wrong (OTC) or told he has things backwards, often his tactic is to delete the post that proved him wrong and edit his original post so it looks like he was right all along, thus ignoring the whole thing as JesseJames stated earlier.

ADMIT IT WHEN YOU ARE WRONG, MAN!

If you pull things out of your @$$, you are gonna get it wrong.  At least be a man and say "Geez, I guess I was wrong: OTC and vOTC are different lines".  Unfortunately, all we ever get are "Whatever, it's all still Saga anyway" answers at best.

Between him and Curto's "Look at this new Figure!  Oops!  It's a custom. Gotcha!" crap, I barely look at 'scum anymore, only to compare big things like ToyFair or the Convention coverages, then I check out all the big sites.

Jeff

Sadly, I think I'll need 3 sets:

1) To Keep Carded, to display on my wall next to the very few other Carded Vintage I own.

2) To Open, to play with display in my loose collection

3) For Work.

Man, I'd love to have a Super-Han and Super-Chewie both at HOME and at WORK to play with er display.

It's a sickness I know.  

Jeff

The Luke and R2 he has up are also new

Um...

Upon closer review, is that just the Ep1 "Booster Rockets" R2-D2 figure?

Jeff