"In a movie year, Evolutions was a way for us to include figures with premium articulation in our line. This year, we're doing more of this style figure in the basic assortment, so we did not see the need for a separate line"
Huh? The basic ROTS figure had more articulation than a basic TSC figure. Just goes to show that either they don't know what they're talking about, or they just don't get it...
Holy hell thank you Steve for that...
Ever since I read that answer, it's stuck in my head that it's either completely uninformed or it's completely full of BS. I couldn't believe I was reading what I was with that one...
There hasn't been ONE figure in 2006's basic line that matched many of the 2005 basic figures. Well there was one... The Utapau Trooper, who is a 2005 figure painted differently. I found their answer on the Evolutions sets comical then.
Evolutions figures were bordering on perfection, and easily rivaled the Vintage Collections of figures in terms of quality... Nothing in 2006 has come close. Even what Hasbro has done "well" hasn't come close to that (AT-AT Driver, Firespeeder Pilot)... I honestly don't see what they meant with this because it's not true at all, so I'm a bit disappointed with that.
Put me on the list of people who loathes animated figures too... Well that's maybe harsh to say, but for me I prefer realistic sculpts for figures that mix well with the basic line. To me the animated line was just another example of Hasbro putting out too many lines... The Cartoon was cool to me but not cool enough that I wanted its own toy line based on it ine very detail... If they do CW figures, I want realistic ones that fit seamlessly with the basic line. That's me though, I'm sure people liked the animated figures, I'm just glad they lean towards realistic sculpts now.
And last, put me down as hugely disappointed in no VOTC Stormie re-release however I agree that putting him onto basic cards somehow is fine... Their reply could've just meant he isn't coming out on the VOTC cardback again and all that, as he is obviously being used for the Sandie... I just hope that's their basic Stormie they offer us sometime in the figure in the BASIC line. That's just even better of course. That was a sort of foggy question and answer really.