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Collectibles => Past Hasbro 3.75" Lines => Saga Collection '06 => Topic started by: jedistyle on December 28, 2005, 08:34 PM
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the saga at-at driver is available at toyrocket.com, here is the link but i'm not sure if i did it right. either way they have them, but they are pretty exspensive!
toyrocket.com (http://www.toyrocket.com)
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Uh, dude, if you read the description it says:
"NOTE: This item is not available for shipment from Hasbro until January of 2006."
You'd be better of preordering a case from EE.
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yes, but it dosn't say pre-order anywhere, january is in a couple of days and it also says "in stock now" underneath the description, that could also be why they are so exspensive, because they are putting them out early. but i could be wrong, thought it was worth mentioning.......
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No harm mentioning Jedi Style... If it lists it in-stock, that's interesting, and they could very well just have them in because they worked a little OT to get them in early, thus the cost boost.
I know I won't be buying but maybe someone wants to... $20's too much for any figure in my book though.
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Uh, dude, if you read the description it says:
"NOTE: This item is not available for shipment from Hasbro until January of 2006."
Just an FYI, that blurb about "not available for shipment from Hasbro" is something that Hasbro asked (forced?) them to add because they are selling product early (product obtained via overseas contacts).
They (ToyRocket) caught a lot of flak from Hasbro for selling the Carkoon wave figures early, so Hasbro told ToyRocket they needed to put that disclaimer in there... I know it sounds lame, but that is what happened and that is why that disclaimer is on all the Hoth Wave figures.
Anyway, back tot he original point - Yes, the whole Hoth wave is in-stock over there, not just the AT-AT Driver figure. ;)
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i'm surprised that hasbro let that happen at all! but that does explain it. i didn't know the entire wave was over there, that is cool that they are offering it early, but $20 a figure is way to much!
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That's one thing I don't think even winning a lottery will help me understand. Paying $$$ to have a figure a few days to a few weeks before everyone else just doesn't make since to me considering once they are released everywhere, then everyone has the same figures, some just have them at 4x the price.
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i agree. i just hope these new troopers/army builders are in better supply. people are still paying upwards of $12.00 online for the tactical-ops trooper, which to this day i still have never seen in stores and the shock trooper went the same way for a while.
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Uh, dude, if you read the description it says:
"NOTE: This item is not available for shipment from Hasbro until January of 2006."
You'd be better of preordering a case from EE.
Kill_Solo - I don't think that was a very appropriate way of explaining your thoughts. In fact it's downright rude.
Jedistyle, I agree it sucks finding many of these army builders, especially in decent quantities. Hopefully since this is an early wave of SAGA, there will be enough to go around for everybody.
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Uh, dude, if you read the description it says:
"NOTE: This item is not available for shipment from Hasbro until January of 2006."
You'd be better of preordering a case from EE.
Kill_Solo - I don't think that was a very appropriate way of explaining your thoughts. In fact it's downright rude.
Really? Hmmm.... interesting.
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Uh, dude, if you read the description it says:
"NOTE: This item is not available for shipment from Hasbro until January of 2006."
You'd be better of preordering a case from EE.
Kill_Solo - I don't think that was a very appropriate way of explaining your thoughts. In fact it's downright rude.
Really? Hmmm.... interesting.
I'm sure you didn't mean for it to come across that way, It was probably just me over analyzing your comment.
:P
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Uh, dude, if you read the description it says:
"NOTE: This item is not available for shipment from Hasbro until January of 2006."
You'd be better of preordering a case from EE.
Kill_Solo - I don't think that was a very appropriate way of explaining your thoughts. In fact it's downright rude.
Really? Hmmm.... interesting.
I'm sure you didn't mean for it to come across that way, It was probably just me over analyzing your comment.
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This bickering is pointless.... ;D
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Just pointing out a comment that didn't see right, that's all. ;)
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Quick quesiton on the AT AT drivers. I know there are two per AT AT, but would they ever operate out of the AT AT as a squad? If so, how many? I seem to always see 4 AT AT's work together so are 8 drivers a squad with a commander? Or is the commander one of the eight? Thoughts or insights would be appreciated!
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blackdog I always kind of wondered the same thing. i could see them operating something beside the AT-AT maybe even as a spacepilot, although that would kind of take away from name AT-AT driver. but then again as we've seen in ROTS the snowtrooper isn't neccisarily bound as just a "snow suit" but more as a hostile enviro suit, that being said shouldn't his classification be changed maybe Imperial Marine. Should the AT-AT driver be classified in a broader term ground vehicle pilot or some such? i guess it's just the way they I.D. them back then.
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well I look at it like a Tank Crew...if you use WWII as a model and lucas did in some cases (when they actually used a military advisor)
The commander of each vehicle would be a separate member altogether, so you'd have 8 drivers and 4 commanders.
I also consider the AT AT driver as an AT AT Crewman..so he could drive, be a gunner, loader etc.
And not all Tanks had officers as commanders, so who knows, there could be a commander that was not a General like Veers but was just a Grunt/NCO. Now what they would wear I have NO idea. But if Hasbro made one and gave him Super Articulation, I'd buy a few.
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I view AT-AT's as a team myself like tank crews similar to Paul's analogy.
EU says there is 2 crewmen, a commander (Officer?), and then the troop complements in the back either have their field officers or there's AT-AT crewmen on each deck to "motivate" the troops into getting out. :)
They could the troops own officers or part of the walker's crew though. I think it's more the prior than the latter.
As for the Commander, I envision an Officer-ish looking guy. Maybe the rank's lower, but the outfit's the same, so the Veers figure is the basic look but the rank just changes.
Veers' armor/helmet is supposedly the Imperial Army Regular standard... Some EU shows them wearing a Y-Harness get-up too over the AT-ST Driver's uniform, and then the Veers armor/helmet is their just additional armor over the gear. I envision officers being just like Veers though, but with differences in the badge.
So to me, AT-AT's are manned by a team or crew, one officer (generally low rank) with 2 crewmen, as I see it. They'd then be grouped into armor columns/squads I guess.
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jesse/pmundheim all good ideas, it has always bugged me a little and one of the reasons I don't really like the EU as much anymore is that there is so much potential there that they should elaborate that they just don't. they seem so compacted into trying to connect everything and everyone to each other that they don't eleborate enough on what's already there, instead the fans are left to wing it on there own and guess at what some of these basically background nobodies are. I like the battlefront games because you can have all sorts of troops basically in any and every enviro. sorry about the rant, it's just that the AT-AT driver was my very first intro to the star wars universe and now that we've seen even more diversity and what the clones are capable of it kind of makes you think what the imperial era troops are capable of. also upfront apology while i go on just a little bit more. could the AT-AT driver be more of a pilot for the galactic/imperial marines flying/driving the vehicles within that military group? while the T.I.E. fighter pilot is the naval pilot. we see in ESB they send in the snowtroops/galactic marine in. isn't that the US marine forces right there first one in last ones out? once again sorry about the rant.
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i wouldn't think that the at-at driver is strictly a galactic marine attatchment. in rotj, there is an at-at on endor by the landing platform. if the at-at driver wheres driving that one, then they aren't specific to hostile enviroment troops/galactic marines.
i always thought of an at-at in the same premise as a helicopter, specificly and shinook. you have 2 drivers/pilots and 2 or 3 crew chiefs/gunners one of which would tell the troops how close they are to objective and control the doors to let the troops dismount and all the other duties in the troop hold, the other 2 would be gunners or somthing to that effect.
so for me every at-at would have 5 at-at troops in it.
as for a commander/officer, i'd say 1 for every 3 at-at's depending on the mission. sort of a convoy commander.
that's just my take on it! :D
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Quick quesiton on the AT AT drivers. I know there are two per AT AT, but would they ever operate out of the AT AT as a squad? If so, how many? I seem to always see 4 AT AT's work together so are 8 drivers a squad with a commander? Or is the commander one of the eight? Thoughts or insights would be appreciated!
You could always, take a base and make the ATAT driver training school?
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this is one of the first SAGA figures i bought... along with veers. i skipped the CARKOON wave on purpose... didnt seem that good to me, im waiting for clones, grievous, imperials and battle droids.
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Battle Droids... yes, we need more Battle Droids! I'd love to see the POTJ version re-released, with a ROTS paint scheme, and easy to get.
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allright hasbro, weve had SA clones, now we ned SA battle droids, droidikas ( can roll up into a ball ) and super battle droids.