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Kubricks / Series 5
« on: July 1, 2005, 03:50 PM »
You would think that Luke would be done first to follow the vinty line unless he's going to be another carded figure ala Stormtrooper. Still can't figure out why the Froot Loops Han Trooper.



Hi.  New here.  (This is an awesomem thread, by the way.)  :)

I think the reason Medicom did Froot Loops Han as a chase is because he was so rare in the 90s.  You know how much they love to pay hommage to Kenner/Hasbro.  All of their chase figures (and most of the other figures as well) have some reference to the old line.  (Must be BIG Kenner fans designing these little guys.)  Remember, series 3 had vinyl Jawa as a rare chase.  And that is, I hear, the most expensive Kenner figure to find carded.  Medicom is so cool.  I love trying to figure out how they think.  The Max Rebo set and old-style packaging.  The 400% Boba Fett and THAT packaging.  Think of the last three chase figures (in series 3).  Han in Carbonite got 'squinty-eyes' Han.  Put those side-by-side and you got what looks exactly like the 90s Carbonite Han figure.  Even the way you keep one inside the other.  Then, of course, the Jawa.  And then Wicket got his 2-pack buddy from the 90s, Logray, as his chase.  This is why I'm so pumped about the (hopefully 3) chase figures from this new series.  So far, Darth Vader is totally a Kubrick version of the talking 14" Hasbro one (and he's not even the chase, apparently).  The chase is the Luke/Vader figure Hasbro eventually put out a few years back.  Broken helmet and everything.  (The fact that theirs has a helmet you can completely take apart is probably to link it with the regular figure.  And probably their way of saying 'this would be even cooler - hee hee'.)

ANYWAY!  All this to say I love this thread.  I love that there's a bunch of Star Wars Kubrick fanatics like me out here.  Gonna be stopping by here a lot, I think.  :)

So, any predictions as to what might hopefully be the third chase?
:)

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