Here are some that I think might be cool.


The Bounty Hunters: Kenix Kil
Kir Kanos as Kenix Kil & Tav Kennede




REPUBLIC #37 - The Stark Hyperspace War Pt 2
Jedi Master Tyvokka & Iaco Stark




Jango Fett - Open Seasons #3
Jango Fett & Dooku - Jedi Master




That's just for starters.

It looks like a decent wave.  I'm not totally crazy about Luke and Leia being in the wave to begin with, but they seem decently done.  Even though they gave Luke his lightsaber. 

Needa - Finally a good Imperial Officer.  And Captain Needa finally gets his due.

Hoth Rebel - Very nice.  The sculpt looks far better than the Saga version.  And well articulated.  But it looks like the lower portion of the coat was cut off.  I wonder if there's  supposed to be a softgoods extension to the coat.

Ugnaughts - Very cool to see both of them.  They look good, even though the image has them out of scale with the other figures.  But I'm still confused about Hasbro's response, saying that we'd only get one.  Are they going to do this as a running change, or will there be a 2-pack?

Emporer - Monkey faced emporer it is!  And damn, is it ugly.

Luke - The head sculpt is actually pretty good.  The open wrist is cool.  Him getting the hand tweaked by 2-1B was the coolest part of that scene, IMO.  But the lightsaber?  LOL!

Leia - I honestly would have rather seen a Hoth Leia resculpt.  But it makes sense to release this Leia as a companion to Luke in this wave.

That is indeed Darklon.  Check out this Yo Joe entry for pics.  And he is part of the Iron Grenadiers.

Saw a couple of the new comic 2-packs today.  Wild Bill vs Scrap Iron was okay, but I was really impressed to see the Hard Master w/ Ninja Snake Eyes.

That same article makes mention of an assistant by the name of Natasha.  A potential tie-in for the Black Widow, perhaps?

And truth be told...shortpacking Willrow Hood might give him a little more buzz amongst collectors.  It's a collector targetted figure to begin with.  So why not try to stir the pot with collectors a bit by intentionally shortpacking him?

Quote from: Nicklab on January  6, 2009, 09:36 PM

Figures like this were made to be shortpacked.

The only problem with that is due to the build-a-droid, you can't short pack any one figure over the other figures in that same wave that contain the rest of the parts to the same droid.

Not really.  They found a way around that by packing the same part that a new figure has with a reissue as well.  And in most cases that was an army builder.

And this is what I was worried about when Hasbro said they were going to do Yarna.  I knew she would be a pegwarmer before too long.  But fanboys on boards kept saying that she would sell, that they'd buy multiples, yadda yadda yadda. 

Figures like this were made to be shortpacked.

No offense to ICMG, but he should be shortpacked, too.  It's way too inside for the casual buyer.