Willrow Hood

[poddie]

I just can't comprehend how people think ICMG is a good idea.

The market for this figure is so small that it can't possibly do anything but fail.  It seems like people want this guy just to prove a point, that Hasbro should do the fan's bidding.

Who in their right mind would pick this figure up other than completests and people who are doing it just for the kick of "hey, Hasbro made a stupid figure because we demanded it"?

I just don't get it... and you guys take it so seriously.  I really don't intend to offend, but it just seems like the crusade for this figure has been a big joke from day 1.  I'm sure that's what Hasbro was thinking...

Yarma (or whatever her name is) is at least a little more interesting, but still very bottom of the barrel.  She was at least a lot more memorable and someone people might recognize.  But a nameless, normal looking human running down a hallway never to be seen again?  Why SHOULD Hasbro make this guy???

As I said, sorry to offend, but I have been lurking quite a while and have always been madly curious about how anyone thinks this figure could work...

[Morgbug]

Mon Mothma
Jan Dodonna


Those names ring a bell?  What of any "army builder" that's just a technician or the like?  Imperial Scanning Tech?  Lemme see, they got whacked inside the Falcon and had 5.9 seconds of screen time and one line.  Of course that puts them ahead of 56% of the Star Wars figures made, so it's acceptable.  The rest are merely background aliens.  So what's wrong with a background human?  Were Tarkin or Antilles anything more than that in ROTS?  Did we really need a pregnant Padme figure? 

We're all idiots.  We'll buy anything, so why not at least try to have some influence beyond something with Darth in the title?

[Jediknight760071]

I just can't comprehend how people think ICMG is a good idea.

The market for this figure is so small that it can't possibly do anything but fail.  It seems like people want this guy just to prove a point, that Hasbro should do the fan's bidding.

I'd buy every ICMG I could find and wear them on my belt.

[Reid]

I thought this was pretty funny:

[Gatillo]

I just can't comprehend how people think ICMG is a good idea.

I would make sure that every kid would get one for xmas.  Because nothing says "Happy Holidays" like an ice cream maker guy in an orange jogging suit.

[MetalJedi]

I just can't comprehend how people think ICMG is a good idea.

I would make sure that every kid would get one for xmas.  Because nothing says "Happy Holidays" like an ice cream maker guy in an orange jogging suit.

Now that's funny. 

[speedermike]

During the latest Q & A they say that "They will make Hood", just not in 2007!

[Smartypants1635]

Yeah eventually, who knows how long that will be in the next 12 years they have the Starwars license.

[Artoo]

To make up for that joke they should have him in '08. Yarna should be on thye to-do list as well as the rest of Jabba's guys. but who knows.

[evenflow]

I hope Yarna is coming out sooner than we think. I am hoping to see her at toyfair  ..... (i hope)

[JACKOFTRADZE]

Yarna made the top 10! She wa number 3! And wilrow was number 8!
Maybe she will be part of 07'

Maybe they will make it afterall.

[Scott]

So, Hasbro basically confirmed that someday, somehow Willrow will be made.  So now my thoughts turn to how/when this will occur

I really hope that they make a Bespin Wave in 2008 that consists of:

Luke Skywalker (Medical Frigate)
Princess Leia (Medical Frigate)
Lando Calrissian (Smuggler's Gear)
Willrow Hood
C-3PO Blown Apart Resculpt
Bespin Guard Running Change

To me, Bespin is by far the greatest environment in the Saga and it is also the one most lacking in good figures.  I sure hope Bespin Han and Luke are coming in the VTSC/VOTC next year.  With Lando, Lobot, a good Han Carbon Freeze, Leia Bespin they have made some progress in the past few years.  But we need more!

Thanks to everyone over the years that has made this eventually happen.  I know there are many people out there that don't get it at all...but those are the same people that haven't been posting around the boards since 1995 either.  Long time posters around the board get the Willrow Hood thing, it reckons to a simpler time when people wanted Porkins.  They made Porkins...and they are now making Willrow

The other way I could see it happening is in some sort of Multi-Pack.  Again I'd be OK with that, especially with reusing some of the POTJ Imperial Officer jump suit pieces.  Just as long as I get a 3-3/4" Ice Cream Maker, I can die with a smile on my face

[speedermike]

In my opinion, any charcater that appears on screen, no matter how short their moment of fame, is game for a figure.

In fact, I'll enjoy an accurate ICMG more than the repainted Scout/BARC crap any day.

[Jesse James]

Congratulations Scott, I almost shed a tear for you on this...

ICMG's as good a candidate as anyone and for customizing the fodder will most likely be pretty useable so there is some redeemable quality to the character being made as a figure...  I'm happy he's been promised by Hasbro but mostly for you Scott since this was your pet project.

I'd dig it if they tried to spice up the package by tossing in a junk droid pile, or a repaint single-piece droid thing (ala Treadwell).  Just something to spiff up the selling point of the figure...  I could easily see it being a multi-pack special though too.  It getting made at all is what is important though.

The fact he cracked the top 10 speaks volumes I think...  Of ALL those figures from ALL those fan's voices, and Wilrow made #8...  That says a TON about the support to get it ultimately despite what anyone else may have felt.

[Darth Slothus]

He(Scott) should get a 'I got Willrow Hood made' Tshirt made and wear it to conventions so all of us backers could sign it!