I consider the color blue on the ship its squad markings or just pilot preference...  Nothing to do with the eyes/teeth.  The famous P-40 squadron with shark's teeth/eyes in WW2 had colors that didn't match a shark on the plane...  It was the eyes/teeth's impression that they left on the enemy that made the plane...  The other colors for whatever reason (camo-ing, mission designation, etc.), are inconsequential really to the teeth/eyes then.

And yes it is pretty comical that the Clones know of Rancors, though EU does have a planet of them...  I dunno, maybe it's a popular planet?

Hey Bob, welcome aboard here at JediDefender.com.

I've seen your nic around, so it's good to see you stop by...  Activity level here is pretty high.  We're definitely one of the more active sites around and we have a good bit of "older" collectors here.  We have a lot of people who migrated from other sites some time ago, and our membership keeps growing so hopefully lots of good conversation you can jump into...

Just join right in anywhere you want...  If you have any questions or anything just ask one of the staff, we're pretty active around the forums so we're easy to find.

Enjoy yourself!

I've found you can't get much I personally think is "nice" in Star Wars for $60 or less... 

I kid some there...  But there's a tinge of truth to it too.  The $40 gunship is an ok toy but not my cup of tea since I'm interested in accuracy in all forms, so while it's cool for a kid as a toy, I think it displays somewhat poorly...  Same with other overpriced vehicles I think.

My comment about getting more complex stuff for $60 was more aimed at other toy lines that I know there's a lot I want that I can put that $60 into...  If I want a stand like that I think I'd try making it at those prices.  But at $30 or less I think I'd consider nabbing two actually for one large display.  All about finding the best value for your dollar I figure.

I want to have an Imperial Officer costume but god damned if I can find a pattern to make it.  Everyone says, "get this CW costume and modify it", and while I respect that opinion I'm not a seamstress and am not good at altering anything...  Much less a pattern.

I was wanting it for C3 actually just because I thought it'd be a remotely comfortable costume to wear at the show just for ***** and giggles, but alas I didn't get one done.  Doubt I will any time soon either.   Tough getting help making one I've found.  You'd think somewhere online there'd be a full pattern for it, but you'd be wrong...  as far as I know anyway.

Dunno Jediraven82...  Long time no see by the way.

I've never seen one of those tools to know.  Basically though, anything like a box cutter can score plastic just fine.  When it's thin enough you score it, then just bend and it snaps right off cleanly.

If it's REALLY thin plastic you'll go right through it with too much pressure when scoring so be weary of that.

As far as painting goes Brent, styrene is what the old SW figure torsoes were made out of (the 2-parters).  That's a rigid ABS plastic.  It takes any kind of paint...  If you're fearful of the black showing through, prime it and you'll avoid the issue.  Generally vehicles don't have TOO much PVC style plastics on them.  For instance on the Naboo Fighter from Hasbro the ship's 90% a styrene-like plastic.  The engine tips and tail though, are a pliable plastic as you know most likely, and they aren't going to react to all paints well.  The rigid ABS paints with most anything I've found though.

New week, new review... 



This week around we're taking a look at yet another figure in the Vintage Saga Collection line.  Click the image button for the full review, and share your thoughts here...

Me, this is what pilots (and army builders in general, which I semi-classify Luke in) are all about...  Super articulation, removable helmets, lots of weapons...  Well, maybe that last part isn't the norm, but on Luke it was a nice surprise that Hasbro gave you three weapon accessories to go with him.  And a hilt to clip to the belt is never a bad thing for a Jedi even if it's not even something you see in the film (in this pilot outfit anyway).

Hasbro knocked a figure out of the park with this one...  THere's flaws, don't get me wrong.  The paint on mine is piss poor really, and who doesn't want some grime on that helmet?  But overall Hasbro has another winner...  But for $10+?

Well, I'm not TOO upset with the price but I really wish this is what we got in the basic line ALL the time, not just sporatically when they know they can sell an army to us.    Would it really hurt?  I mean it's not like you can't re-use this Luke's parts almost entirely to make MORE figures and save cash...

Anycrap, if you don't own Luke get him because he's pretty perfect.  That group shot Jared supplied at the end of my review is PERFECT representation of this figure.  Luke now doesn't look like a swizzle with his flightmates, but he doesn't look like a buff roided out freak either...  He looks PERFECT, and that's what we want.  Perfect... 

BBI made 1:18 SWAT/Police a while back Fritz.  The line was their first, and ran alongside the original SEAL and Army Spec. Forces guys...  Mostly at specialty shops.  I have a complete set of the cops, they've all got unique heads save for two who re-use fairly generic heads from the TRU Seals/Spec. Ops.

Might find them on Ebay cheap.  I got my cop figures for less than their cost at EB Games stores if that helps.

Power Team Elite also made a limited SWAT line before they've fallen into some problems.  PTE still makes stuff as far as I know but it's harder to find than it used to be.  I got some of the SWAT guys and they're not bad...  NOt BBI level, but not bad.

Check BBI's site for the SWAT Guys, I think they're pictured.  One is a regular uniformed cop I believe.

Someone needs some knee pads or he'll wear out his pants.