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Collectibles => The Vintage Collection => Topic started by: Nicklab on March 4, 2018, 08:15 PM
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Here is The Vintage Conversation (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf6mm3HBg8A/?taken-by=hasbropulse) question for March 3rd:
"What are your top 3 3.75" Star Wars environments / playsets you would like to be released in The Vintage Collection? Link in our bio."
My choices?
-Mos Eisley Cantina
-Star Destroyer
-Cloud City
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I went with
--Death Star
--Cloud City
--Scariff Citadel
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I said Cloud City, Death Star, and an Ewok Village, but I’d also love a Cantina.
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I went Death Star, Hoth OR Yavin Rebel Base, Cantina.
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Emperor's throne room
Carbon Freeze Chamber
Cantina
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I went Death Star, Hoth OR Yavin Rebel Base, Cantina.
Exactly what I want:
- Death Star
- Mos Eisley cantina
- Yavin rebel base
- Ewok Villiage / Imperial Bunker playset
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Great one!
- Death Star - Modular
- Hoth set - the one that was cancelled.
- Unproduced Imperial Outpost from the 80's
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Any pics of that cancelled Hoth playset?
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Lots of great choices here, I'd be happy with any of those listed. I think I would stick with the classics that I always wished I had as a kid:
Death Star
Ewok Village
Dagobah
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Any pics of that cancelled Hoth playset?
If this is the one from the 90's, no pics have ever surfaced, but the anecdotal evidence has always been it was a Pop-Up Diorama (like the Cantina and Jabba's Palace from the end of POTF2) of the Echo Base Hangar. It was cancelled because the whole line was cancelled at the time (and these dioramas didn't sell well when they did make it out on clearance after the fact), but the description of the set was basically an 18" wide backdrop with room in the middle to park a Snowspeeder.
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Any pics of that cancelled Hoth playset?
Are you referring to the image of the Probe droid that surfaced? Check out Gorkoracing's Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf6Fu1Jlzc-/?taken-by=gorkoracing). He's got images of the Probe droid, a couple of figures and an echo base console. But that was it. Still, the info surrounding that seemed to indicate that it might have been in the works as recently as 5 years ago.
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Wow! I hadn't seen those pictures yet. Thanks, Nick!
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My choices -
- Bespin Freezing Chamber
- Mos Eisley Cantina
- ANH Death Star (modeled after the Kenner micro stuff is a great idea)
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Modular Death Star and Jabba's Palace would be no brainers for me. Bought my #1 would be the Jawa Sandcrawler if you can call that a playset vs. a ship
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Disney has the sandcrawler coming out soon so I think it’s off Hasbro’s menu at the moment.
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I'd love a Jabba's Palace... the only reason I didn't pick that one was because if the Barge gets made, I won't have nearly as much to populate a palace playset with.
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I'd love a Jabba's Palace... the only reason I didn't pick that one was because if the Barge gets made, I won't have nearly as much to populate a palace playset with.
Sadly, I think I'd have enough figures to populate both. #toomanyfigures :-[
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Any pics of that cancelled Hoth playset?
Are you referring to the image of the Probe droid that surfaced? Check out Gorkoracing's Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf6Fu1Jlzc-/?taken-by=gorkoracing). He's got images of the Probe droid, a couple of figures and an echo base console. But that was it. Still, the info surrounding that seemed to indicate that it might have been in the works as recently as 5 years ago.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the engineer has ball jointed elbows, yes? Personally, I thought the Gunner swivel joins worked perfectly, but still would have been nice to see the upgrade.
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Yeah, I can see the ball joints in the engineer. Although including that figure in an echo base playset seems odd, unless he's supposed to tend to the probe droid and its pod. More images are supposed to get posted showing the probe droid in the pod.
From the additional images it looks like the Echo Base Trooper was going to be included with at least two different likenesses (probably two different troopers). I'm kind of disappointed that this set got cancelled. It could have been pretty cool.
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I noticed a couple more things.
The DSGunner/Engineer has the new arms, but the helmet may be new too, which I found odd.
The computer console and the computer "block" piece from the command center are awesome. I also noticed a chair lying kind of out of the way there too.
The real gem is that Probot though. The droid has more articulation (apparently the legs were dumbed down for the current version). This makes me all the more wish we had gotten this set and that droid. I love the new one but the added extra joints on the droid really put it over the top, and all the armor for the space pod is just awesome and I really wish we had all this. The probots floated around in space in those pods in games and stuff, doing their proby things in asteroid fields and such. I really wish we had that and all those computer bits and stuff. You can buy custom resin stuff of those consoles and stuff but they're not as nice as those Hasbro ones I noticed (they're neat though, but not quite as detailed as Hasbro's work). The chair is accurate too which is extra cool.
And obviously we'd all love the echo base troopers. I'm shocked a Torryn Far wasn't part of this or an updated Riekean, but I'd take the set as-is just fine. Hell, ditch the engineer. He's meh.
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I don't even care as much about playsets as I do larger accessories. I still love the echo base map screens from the Riekkan set. If we could get more items like that, I'd be happy.
Though I'd really like a proper meditation chamber for Vader.