I saw several interesting things at Target yesterday.

First off, they appear to have gotten the new 6” Ahsoka wave sometime recently. All that was left was a Morgan and Chopper, which is weird because they are both single packed, iirc. I left Chopper since he looked like just a straight re-issue of the Rebels figure, but I did grab Morgan since I did not have that wave on preorder.

Here’s what it gets interesting, the item would not scan at self check out. So I went back and grabbed the tag off the peg and that wouldn’t scan either. Then I noticed the price was now showing as $26.49! I finally got someone to manually enter it for me at the $24.99 price but yikes, that is unwelcome news.

Felt bizarre to see new stuff on the pegs that hasn’t even shipped online yet. I checked a few other stores but nada.

Quote from: McMetal on September 21, 2023, 02:21 PM

I’m wondering if they will flash back to explain that as well. I mean, the Purrgil had literally broken through all the windows on the bridge, and I’m no physics major but I’m pretty sure you can’t go through hyperspace Al Fresco 

I just figured there were emergency shields that keep the atmosphere from venting.

This works for me 👍

Hard to predict which way this might go, but curious if they add any kind of sweetener.

So this is not going to be the Chopper they promised us on the Mural Card? Boo.

Yeah, that was kinda the big payoff episode for sure and they did a good job with it. Agree with Jeff that there was tons of awesome toy potential there. I think of 10-12 figures they could do easily just off the top of my head.

I’ll hold off on going into details for now too, but one thing I really liked is how they explained why it was not possible for Ezra to return using the Purgill again. Well written stuff.

Should people in another galaxy even know what a Jedi is? 

No complaints here, I’ll lap up some Clone Wars fan service all day long. Captain Rex and Maul Mandos? Please and thank you.

Wonder why Hera didn’t go too? Plenty of room in that mouth, lol.

Quote from: P-Siddy on September  7, 2023, 10:06 AM

I think it goes back to what the Nicks said.  Sabine lost everything in the Night of Thousand Tears and now that Ezra is the only family she has left, she isn't willing to sacrifice him.  I hope they expand on her loss a bit more than what they did in later episodes, because I felt it was a little glossed over.

I totally agree.  The writers have not done a great job of portraying this attachment to Ezra.  A casual fan would have a hard time picking this up, and even a hardcore fan like myself having watched every episode of Rebels multiple times didn't carry forward enough of a feeling of attachment between Ezra and Sabine.  Ezra seemed to have more of an attachment than Sabine did.

Maybe they needed some flashbacks or some other storytelling trick to tie this all together better.  There was a lot more time spent on the Sabine/Ahsoka dynamic and very little on the Sabine/Ezra dynamic.

1000% YES. The sudden proliferation of Sabezra shippers online points to a fundamental lack of understanding of that relationship. She was never particularly attached to him on the show, no more than Zeb so why would she suddenly be in love with him now?

I do think it has more to do with having lost her own brother like you guys were saying, but I also think they could have done a much better job establishing that through flashbacks or some kind of incidental narrative. It’s probably a lot less confusing if you never watched Rebels at least in that regard.