JediDefender Wishlists 2023/24: The Eras Tour: Animation

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What are your 20 most wanted figures you'd like to see in The Vintage Collection from The Eras Tour: Animation?

The rules are simple: post your wishlist for the 20 3-3/4" figures or send them to me.  At the end of the month, I’ll tally up the votes and we’ll move on to the next theme.

Link to last year's poll -> JediDefender Wishlists 2023: Animation


Have fun!

[Nicklab]

This one's going to be interesting since a number of the characters from my 2023 list have been announced since last year's poll.


CLONE WARS
-Asajj Ventress
-Plo Koon
-Savage Opress
-Commander Fox (phase 2 armor)
-Mother Talzin
-Pong Krell
-Admiral Yularen
-Jedi Temple Guard


TALES OF THE JEDI
-Jedi Master Dooku
-Yaddle


THE BAD BATCH
-Wrecker  (season 1)
-Echo (season 1)
-Crosshair (Clone Force 99)
-Tech (season 1)
-Omega (season 1)


REBELS
-Ezra Bridger (season 1)
-Agent Kallus (ISB)
-Captain Rex
-Ahsoka Tano
-Fenn Rau

[P-Siddy]

There's a week to go to get your list in!

[P-Siddy]

My 20:

THE BAD BATCH
1. Wrecker
2. Echo
3. Crosshair (Imperial)
4. Tech
5. Omega
6. TK Stormtrooper

TALES OF THE JEDI
7. Dooku (Jedi Master)

CLONE WARS
8. Jedi Temple Guard
9. Umbaran Trooper
10. Mother Talzin
11. Rako Hardeen
12. Asajj Ventress
13. Darth Maul (Spider)
14. Savage Opress (Armored)
15. Embo
16. Seripas
17. AT-DP Driver
18. Asajj Ventress (Bounty Hunter)

REBELS
19. Sabine Wren (Season 1)
20. Agent Kallus (ISB)

[Jeff]

This one's going to be interesting since a number of the characters from my 2023 list have been announced since last year's poll.

Agreed.  Last year, I asked for "any" version of the main Rebels crew.  Now we're getting all of the Season 3/4 looks as well as a couple figures with Season 1/2 looks too (Kanan, Zeb).  So nice to actually have some new slots to fill, getting items from a wish list seems to be too rare these days.

Also, for this year, I've decided to abandon my wishlist slots dedicated to modern TVC Droids figures.  I still want to see Hasbro try that (and Ewoks), but now that we're getting The Ghost I'm a bit more interested in filling out more of the Rebels world in TVC.  Here's my votes for this year - all in 'realistic' TVC style, please.

The "Filling out the Rebels shelf/The Ghost table" Category:
- Ezra Bridger (Rebels - Season 1)
- Hera Syndulla (Rebels - Season 1)
- Sabine Wren (Rebels - Season 1)
- Darth Maul (Rebels - Old Master)
- Seventh Sister (Rebels)
- Eighth Brother (Rebels)
- ISB Agent Kallus (Rebels - Season 1)
- Reformed Alexsandr Kallus (Rebels - Season 4)
- Captain Rex (Rebels)
- Cikatro Vizago (Rebels)
- IG-RM Thug Droid (Rebels)
- Terba (Rebels)

The "It's Season THREE now Hasbro, WTF are you even doing" Category:
- Echo (The Bad Batch - Season 1)
- Tech (The Bad Batch - Season 1)
- Wrecker (The Bad Batch - Season 1)
- Omega (The Bad Batch - Season 1)
- Crosshairs (The Bad Batch - Season 1)

The "What Else Do I Want to Get My List to 20" Category:
- Dutchess Satine Kryze (TCW)
- Sha'a Gi (CW)
- Tarr Seirr (CW)

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The "It's Season THREE now Hasbro, WTF are you even doing" Category:

It's not just Season THREE (in which we should have gotten more than a few figures by now, one being one of the title characters), it's the FINAL Season.

Where's the strike while the iron's hot mentality?

[P-Siddy]

After watching the third episode of Bad Batch, I was reminded of some others I'd prefer... so made a couple adjustments.

[Nicklab]

I had to edit one entry so I could include the Jedi Temple Guard.  So see you Commander Wolffe in bridge officer uniform!

[Jeff]

It's not just Season THREE (in which we should have gotten more than a few figures by now, one being one of the title characters), it's the FINAL Season.

Where's the strike while the iron's hot mentality?

It drives me crazy that BS6" has all the main characters in both the Season 1 and Season 2 looks meanwhile TVC only has S1 Hunter.  Add in the fact that we're getting a SECOND try at Bad Batch Rex before any of the rest of the bad batch crew is just stupid.   

[Dave]

It's not just Season THREE (in which we should have gotten more than a few figures by now, one being one of the title characters), it's the FINAL Season.

Where's the strike while the iron's hot mentality?

It drives me crazy that BS6" has all the main characters in both the Season 1 and Season 2 looks meanwhile TVC only has S1 Hunter.  Add in the fact that we're getting a SECOND try at Bad Batch Rex before any of the rest of the bad batch crew is just stupid.   

You would think sculpting armored characters would be pretty easy compared to characters with soft goods or a lot of plastic texture/hair, etc.   Maybe the difference isn't all that great, but it sure would be nice to see all of these characters made.  They can even double/triple dip with the mostly reused sculpts with different coloring for the season changes - e.g. normal Crosshairs and black armor Crosshairs.

[Rune Haako]

CLONE WARS
1. Riff Tamson
2. General Lok Durd
3. Admiral Trench (Non-Cyborg)
4. General Pong Krell
5. Infiltrator Demolition Droid
6. Commando Droid
7. Sniper Droideka
8. Super Tactical Droid
9. Tactical Droid
10. Captain Mar Tuuk
11. General Whorm Loathsom
12. Sib Canay
13. Osi Sobeck
14. Admiral Trench (Cyborg)
15. Super Battle Droid Rocket Trooper
16. Super Battle Droid Commander

TALES OF THE JEDI
17. Jedi Master Dooku
18. Padawan Qui-Gon Jinn
19. Yaddle
20. Unnamed Inquisitor that Ahsoka kills.

[Ryan]

It's fun to finally get to cross off some figures from a wishlist. I almost forgot what that felt like. It still was hard not to end up mostly with the main characters on this list, there's just so much we don't have yet... really looking at Bad Batch here.

REBELS:

1 - Agent Kallus (Imperial) - {Realistic TVC style}
2 - Agent Kallus (S4 Rebel) - {Realistic TVC style}

TALES OF THE JEDI:

3 - Jedi Master Dooku - {Realistic TVC style}
4 - Yaddle - {Realistic TVC style}
5 - Padawan Qui-Gon Jinn - {Realistic TVC style}
6 - 6th Brother Inquisitor - (Final 'Ahsoka' episode) - {Realistic TVC style}

THE BAD BATCH:

7 - Omega (Season 1) - {Realistic TVC style}
8 - Crosshair (Imperial Armor) - {Realistic TVC style}
9 - Crosshair (Clone Force 99) - {Realistic TVC style}
10 - Echo (Season 1 Armor) - {Realistic TVC style}
11 - Tech (Season 1 Armor) - {Realistic TVC style}
12 - Wrecker (Season 1 Armor) - {Realistic TVC style}
13 - Imperial Clone Commando - {Realistic TVC style}
14 - Stormtrooper (Phase I - McQuarrie Trooper) - {Realistic TVC style}

THE CLONE WARS:

15 - Jedi Temple Guard - {Realistic TVC style}
16 - Asajj Ventress (Any of her appearances)- {Realistic TVC style}
17 - Savage Opress (Season 4 Finale) - {Realistic TVC style}
18 - Mother Talzin - {Realistic TVC style}
19 - Admiral Trench - (Cyborg or Non-Cyborg) - {Realistic TVC style}
20 - Young Saw Gererra - {Realistic TVC style}

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Results

1   Agent Kallus (Rebels)
1   Dooku (Jedi Master) (Tales of the Jedi)
1   Echo (Season 1) (The Bad Batch)
1   Omega (Season 1) (The Bad Batch)
1   Tech (Season 1) (The Bad Batch)
1   Wrecker (Season 1) (The Bad Batch)
7   Asajj Ventress (Clone Wars)
7   Jedi Temple Guard (Clone Wars)
7   Mother Talzin (Clone Wars)
7   Yaddle (Tales of the Jedi)
11   Alexsandr Kallus (Reformed) (Rebels)
11   Captain Rex (Rebels)
11   Crosshair (Clone Force 99) (The Bad Batch)
11   Crosshair (Imperial) (The Bad Batch)
11   Ezra Bridger (Season 1) (Rebels)
11   Pong Krell (Clone Wars)
11   Qui-Gon Jinn (Padawan) (Tales of the Jedi)
11   Sabine Wren (Season 1) (Rebels)
11   Savage Opress (Clone Wars)
11   Sixth Brother Inquisitor (Tales of the Jedi)

The Rest
11   TK Stormtrooper (The Bad Batch)
22   Admiral Trench (Clone Wars)
22   Admiral Trench (Cyborg) (Clone Wars)
22   Admiral Trench (Non-Cyborg) (Clone Wars)
22   Admiral Yularen (Clone Wars)
22   Ahsoka Tano (Rebels)
22   Asajj Ventress (Bounty Hunter) (Clone Wars)
22   AT-DP Driver (Clone Wars)
22   Captain Mar Tuuk (Clone Wars)
22   Cikatro Vizago (Rebels)
22   Commander Fox (Phase 2 armor) (Clone Wars)
22   Commando Droid (Clone Wars)
22   Crosshairs (Season 1) (The Bad Batch)
22   Darth Maul (Old Master) (Rebels)
22   Darth Maul (Spider) (Clone Wars)
22   Dutchess Satine Kryze (Clone Wars)
22   Eighth Brother (Rebels)
22   Embo (Clone Wars)
22   Fenn Rau (Rebels)
22   General Lok Durd (Clone Wars)
22   General Whorm Loathsom (Clone Wars)
22   Hera Syndulla (Season 1) (Rebels)
22   IG-RM Thug Droid (Rebels)
22   Imperial Clone Commando (The Bad Batch)
22   Infiltrator Demolition Droid (Clone Wars)
22   Osi Sobeck (Clone Wars)
22   Plo Koon (Clone Wars)
22   Rako Hardeen (Clone Wars)
22   Riff Tamson (Clone Wars)
22   Savage Opress (Season 4 Finale) (Clone Wars)
22   Saw Gererra (Young) (Clone Wars)
22   Seripas (Clone Wars)
22   Seventh Sister (Rebels)
22   Sha'a Gi (Clone Wars)
22   Sib Canay (Clone Wars)
22   Sniper Droideka (Clone Wars)
22   Super Battle Droid Commander (Clone Wars)
22   Super Battle Droid Rocket Trooper (Clone Wars)
22   Super Tactical Droid (Clone Wars)
22   Tactical Droid (Clone Wars)
22   Tarr Seirr (Clone Wars)
22   Terba (Rebels)
22   Umbaran Trooper (Clone Wars)

[Jeff]

Was hoping that Rebels would get a bit more love with the Ghost coming (only 5/20), but oh well.  The top 20 seems pretty evenly split across the four big shows (TCW, TBB, Rebels, TOTJ).

[Nicklab]

That's a pretty even spread across those 4 series.  Interesting that there was zero representation from VISIONS, and I won't even bother joking about RESISTANCE.  Clone Wars remains pretty fertile ground for new figures, but the sense I get is that people want more from that era in figure form - just not necessarily the Clone Troopers themselves since they've been covered so exhaustively.

But I still think it's crazy that The Bad Batch - notably the team members themselves - has so little representation in The Vintage Collection.  Especially since the series is the natural coda to the epic that was The Clone Wars.