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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: A New Addition to the Family!
« on: May 12, 2006, 11:11 PM »
Congrats to you Ruiner. :)

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Other Toy Lines / Re: Chap Mei
« on: May 12, 2006, 11:06 PM »
Bald pirate looks interesting for fodder if he's available as a single pack... 

Man that company knows how to get mileage out of molds.

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****.  *******.

See, we cann'  swear here (just turn off your swear filter).  No need to type "****" or "*******" (a pet peeve of mine by the way)
Starbee;  I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it was inappropriate to use vulgar language, rude boy.  Anyway why does it bother you so much?  Isn't the whole point of this forum to speak your mind the way you want. What now your trying to put a limitation on me, like I'm a child.  That's annoying!

For the record Starbee, we have a swear filter in place here at JediDefender if people want to use it...  If not, that's their perogative to filter out the bad language as well, so the ****'s replacing words isn't necessary if you're intending a swear word, is what people are saying I believe...  Swear or don't is the point, but typing ****'s isn't gonna fly too well I think with people here...  Free to choose to swear or not though, and people are free to view it or not...  Our only restriction on swearing is that we reserve the right to clamp down on it when we feel people use it gratuitously, with no real rhyme or reason...  That's up to us to change if we want to though.

So please, by all means type out words as you intend them, not symbols.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Jeff For Fan Club President!
« on: May 12, 2006, 06:07 PM »
I'd love for it to be Greenday.  He's my number one hope, but he was too well spoken any time he has spoken to possibly be that guy.

GNT I doubt.  Financial backing is a must for this guy and GNT's only good at mad science projects, which are hardly lucrative.

Philip...  Entirely possible.  I'd laugh, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out to be the case, and this was all a big scam on their part.

If he wins I want the FC store to offer official white nuthuggers with a SWS.com logo on the one pantleg.

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Toy Reviews / Re: New JD Review: VTSC Luke X-Wing Pilot
« on: May 12, 2006, 05:49 PM »
Thanks Jack and Paul...  I appreciate it.

The thing about the leg stance for me that makes it completely acceptable is that it can be boiled/froze in place if you REALLY wanted to, and on top of that the knee's poseability lets you basically give him a non-wide stance just fine.  NOthing major then to me.

The boil/freeze is a customizing thing for those of you who don't know...  You boil the figure in boiling water, but have a bowl of ice water nearby (like a large cereal bowl).  You pull the figure out of the boiling water, dry it quickly, then hold the legs in the "straight" position by basically pressing the thighs and dunk him in the ice water.  HOLD the figure under ice water for a while.  It's hard on the arthritis, but plastic can take shape when heated and cooled quickly, including the PVC material used on Hasbro figure limbs/heads (and sometimes other parts, as it's a cheaper plastic to work with).

This technique doesn't always work 100% but it's pretty reliable.  I'm 99% sure it'd work on Luke for those wanting to give it a go.  Just watch you don't get burned by the water...  Always care you must use.

About the Hoth duds...

Anton's right in that it's not applicable because LUke's X-Wing uniform for the vintage figure was just that, his XW uni...  He's classically pictured in Yavin Hangar mode not Hoth...

While I'm all over a new SA Hoth "Snowspeeder" Luke Pilot figure, it's not gonna fly for this line of Vintage copies I don't think.  Still though I'll gladly take that Snowspeeder Luke figure if he's SA, has a working holster and stuff.  Be cool if he had the grappling hook accessory too, done to-scale and hookable to his belt with his saber hilt. 

Hoth Pilots are sorely overlooked...  No good sculpt exists for them yet and Luke, Dak, Zev, Wedge, Hobbie, and Janson are all great candidates for figures if you ask me.  Hobbie could even include damaged head variant with blood and stuff.

There's big differences in the Hoth flight suit and ANH/ROTJ Suits.  Namely, the Hoth pilots had a heavy weight jacket on that looked exactly like POnda Baba's over their orange jumpsuits.  It had a big thick collar on it and was a little shorter length though.  And of course they had cold weather boots on instead of the little black boots seen in use by Rebel Troopers and Pilots on Yavin.

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Oh ****...

So I blew these images up.  I am praying these are 4" figures.  They must be...  And they come in, from what I read there, 1:6 scale (12" figure) Alien egg packages?  Are you f'n kidding me?  Now THERE is marketing people...  THAT is how you get people interested in EVERY aspect of collecting.  Imagine if 3.75" SW figures came in some kind of packaging you used for collecting?  Incredible.

The articulation looks better on the marines anyway.  Looks like there's sturdier joints to plug in.  More gear too by far.  I'm hoping removable helmets, not glued on stuff with half-heads.  I want Hicks and Apone for custom SW heads as well as my aliens figures.  Ripley is a great generic female head, and Drake looks really rocking.  Good arms for customs it seems...  Bare-armed figures and ****.  Sleeves up are hard to find good in this scale too.

Not to mention the pulse rifles and stuff look great...  I must have the other Marines now though and the android...

Oh and not to mention the KICK ASS aliens in this set too.  3 types, all unique, and all more true to the Aliens film as opposed to Alien or AvP...  They have the "human" physique, very cool, and not only do you get 3 types but you get THREE battle damaged types in the series too with bullet holes and crap.

The only thing I want now is face huggers that can latch to faces, and I'd like to see figures from the Nostramus's crew in Alien...  Maybe some Alien Resurrection figures too since there were interesting characters there and LOTS of good stuff to build on.  A playset would be so awesome but not in this company's style.  Who wouldn't want a hallway set though, or a Resurrection Alien holding pen or something...  Oh!  I know now, I want a colonist victim figure with chestburster.  We need chestbursters from this company too, forgot those.

Oh and I want the wormy guy from My Two Dads too...  I don't recall his character's name off-hand but I want that figure.

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New Snap Kits posted at Hot Toyz...  Oh mama.












This is the new wave due out in June.  I still gotta get Wave 2, ugh...   ::)

Product description...  I hope these are 1:18 like the other lines, not some bull**** scale.
Quote
Product description

~Each Snap Kit stands 4 inches high

Designs include:

~ RIPLEY
~ HICKS
~ APONE
~ DRAKE
~ ALIEN Type A
~ ALIEN Type B
~ ALIEN Type C
~ ALIEN Type A ( Battle Damaged)
~ ALIEN Type B ( Battle Damaged)
~ ALIEN Type C ( Battle Damaged)

##total 10 designs

Product Highlights:

* 1/6 scale ALIEN eggs package design
* Each SNAP KITS come with figure base
* Simple assembly required
* Fully articulated after assembly

Aliens TM & (C) 1985, 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.


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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Ultimate Lucas Collection
« on: May 12, 2006, 02:35 AM »
The cane is cool, and it's the kind of thing that lets you know there are some fans working, at least in the sculpt area, on these figures...  :)  That's neat.

The price didn't bother me as much because of these being new figures...  I can certainly choke down $30+ on 3 new figures and a repack, all kind of obscure and uninteresting ones too but ones collectors like having, as opposed to $15 repainted Clones or Grievous with snap-on crap.

Those are the exclusives you feel jipped on.  I even like the item, just hate the pricing there.

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Feedback / Re: jokabofe's feedback
« on: May 12, 2006, 01:35 AM »
My man Dave hooked me up with some extras in a trade recently, and everything went smoove as butta!  Thanks Dave, I appreciate it man.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Jeff For Fan Club President!
« on: May 11, 2006, 09:33 PM »
I thought Jeff was even behind that DC guy...  Man Jeff you didn't try very hard.  You fun hating bastard.

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Customizing Tips and Tricks / Re: Magnetic Articulation
« on: May 11, 2006, 09:25 PM »
The problem, as I'm sure everyone can experiment with, will be that tiny magnets usually = tiny strength...  One can take a gander at 2002/2003's Saga line's attempts at the use of magnets to see what I mean.

The magnets in hands to hold sabers barely even made any impact.  Anakin's magnet to hold his arm was ultimately replaced with a plastic post due to the lack of strength causing him to suffer amputation upon a stiff breeze...  The TUsken's head fares a LITTLE better, not so much because of strength but how the head just rests on the neck...  It helps too that the collar of the neck extends up over the neck itself and sort of lets it rest.  It's still incredibly weak though and it falls off pretty readily if you bump it or move it much.

I think magnets have a cool place, but holding limbs in place isn't it to me.  I don't think it'll result in much sturdiness.

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Toy Reviews / JD Review-A-Thon: VOTC Empire Strikes Back Wave
« on: May 11, 2006, 09:21 PM »
Hey guys, sorry for the late forum post on it, it completely slipped my mind last night when I did the newspost on our front page...  It's traveled pretty far to the bottom by now too thanks to our smokin' newsteam here...  THanks guys.  >:(  ;)

Anywho, this week there's a mini-Review-A-Thon for your reading pleasure...  Four figures from the VOTC line.  We're looking in particular at the Empire Strikes Back wave of VOTC actually.

Clicky the button, ready the review:



C-3PO represented everything Hasbro could do wrong with even the cheapest of figures, and yet they managed to do it wrong with their overpriced VOTC "Premium" figure line...  Yes, we're basically blowing our rant load early by showing the worst of the entire Vintage assortment first (well, first for this wave anyway, but still I'll say right now he's the worst figure of the VOTC and easily the worst C-3PO ever...  Even compared to the POTF2 figure IMO).

Lacking articulation is only the beginning of this turd's problems.  The irony though?  He's probably still the hardest figure of the VOTC to find...  Priceless.



Darth Vader took fans really close to perfection on a character that had been long overdue for an "ultimate" version.  The iconic villain of the classic trilogy had never looked better than in 2004.  While he has his flaws, at the time he was really great and still is a figure worthy of recarding.  The Evolutions Vader has replaced him as my favorite, but my VOTC still holds a spot on my shelf kneeling before his master, Palpatine.



Lando is the true intergalactic Pimp, and VOTC's Lando put all previous attempts to shame.  It's probably the single best figure in the ESB Wave of these premium figures, but again he's not flawless.  Hasbro saw fit to cut a couple articulation corners and how hard is it to make a removable cape on a figure who was seen with and without his stylin' space fashion?  Lando could've used some tweaking but he's still one of my 2004 favorites and one everyone should have.

Good thing he's still widely available at many TRU stores.  ::)



Everyone's "little green friend" gets two incarnations in 2004, making him probably the biggest paradox for fans...  Do you buy one, or the other?  They're both good figures, and one's half the price, but the Vintage OTC Yoda sported tons of accessories and poseability unmatched in any Yoda figure (even the prequals where he goes ape**** and needs articulation the most).

Like plastic robes, you have the basic figure, like a vintage-esque poseable Yoda with cloth gear and you have the VOTC figure?  He may not be everyone's cup of tea but I'm a cloth fan so VOTC Yoda gets some praise (and a couple complaints) from me.

Check out all the reviews...  Share your thoughts with us too, by all means.  It's nice to take a look back while I'm in the middle of reviewing the 2006 Vintage Saga COllection of figures, and in detail look at how the VOTC line of 2004 stacked up by comparison...  It's also interesting to see that Hasbro made a number of changes in overall quality in 2006, making sure not to cut TOO many corners.  Could it be they heard the cries of the fans during VOTC's run?  I wouldn't doubt it myself.

Enjoy!

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Battle of Endor Wave
« on: May 11, 2006, 06:20 PM »
Exactly about Veers...  He has a chest armor piece, helmet, blaster...  He looks like 2 unique figures so I'm sure that's helping him move too.  Jerjerrod has a generic imperial look going for him, that's about it.  Ozzel didn't move well so I'm thinking if Jerjerrod is distributed similarly that he'll basically sit there like a bump too...  Hell, Derlin's the first really good Hoth sculpt in a while (not counting Saga Luke's nice sculpt), and one with fan demand behind it...  He sits.  I'm thinking Jerjerrod will suffer a similar fate.

For $7, if they'd have articulated the knees on him and Derlin I'd be content with both despite their apparent lack of anything interesting going on with them.  Jerjerrod would've been a perfect chance to include a Death Star console.  Even if it's small and not accurate to the film, something like Lushros' console would've been REALLY cool and made the figure at least slightly more appealing.  As it stands he's definitely the butt sucker of the wave (repacks aside).

BTW

THat's not the vintage throne, it's a completely different design.  The Vinty throne's hand poles are an open circle with handles on the ends, and the throne seat is different...  Not the same though.

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Ryan's Customs - Updated 5/07/06
« on: May 11, 2006, 05:16 AM »
Hey Ryan,

Nice updates man, way to go...  The two alien rebel pilots are nice parts reworking, and I especially liked the way you mixed up the Keldor's mask so it's not identical to Plo's...  That seems changed up anyway in some way to me.  The little things like that are the best way to make characters like that fit in better without being too obviously Plo's head...  The Twi'Lek has good painting on it too, very smooth and it really showed the head of Bib isn't as bad as Hasbro made it out to be, they just paint like ****.

Cody's just a great update man...  Nice paint detailing...  It seems you got all the little details Hasbro missed.  I'm sorta planning on an ankle transplant more than legs overall being replaced.  I don't really feel like repainting kneepads and things is my bitch on it...  I'm probably going to stick with ankle articulating my extra when he gets here.  I'm still looking at my current Cody waiting for a review...  Ugh.   ::)

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Star Wars Action Figures / Re: Outrider's Customs
« on: May 11, 2006, 05:09 AM »
Hey Outrider, nice work man and welcome aboard to JediDefender.com...  it's nice to see you post over here.

I like your Rise of the Empire series...  While I don't necesarilly agree with the "style" being true to my impressions of the films, I think they're still outstanding customs.  Good parts mixing, great painting, excellent accessory improvising...  You really excel at a variety of aspects of customizing, not just one or two...  That's some serious talent going.  Even the ability to hollow out hats/helmets and things seems to be a skill you've mastered.

One of the ones I find most interesting is the Detention Officer you made using Capt. Antilles' head.  That is a great paintjob, very realistic, and it completely obscured the head for me...  I had absolutely no clue and thought it was a GI Joe head actually.

What's your method for making web gear and Y-harnesses and such for your troops?  What's the material?  Is it removable on all of them like the belt/holster on a few figures, or are some of them glued down?  I like that a lot and it's something I always consider improvising into my figures...  It's very "in-scale" and realistic too, not bulky or oversized, so you really have a unique look with those accessories there.

The painting to de-age characters like Ozzel is really nicely done.  Simple, but effective...  Also the camo's are really detailed.  I see modern camo patterns mixed in with WW2 German Pea-dot and things...  I see a sort of base in military history on your customs.  Is that what you go for?  Like Ozzel's mustard pants, black top, and of course the striking armband...  Definitely Nazi undertones in that uniform's paint design.

Very nice work man...  Looks really cool, and I'm glad you're here at JD.  Feel free to branch out into the rest of the forums and look around man, join in.

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