Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!  That is such good news to see that he actually fits on the bike.   

Wow, I had to dig a while to find this thread...

The local K-Mart was having a 50% and up clearance on old toys, so I decided to stop in and check it out.  They had nothing for basic figures, but they did have a couple of the Jedi Force figures - Han Solo and RotS Chewbacca, who were priced at just $2 each.   

I grabbed them for the nephew since he really loves this line.  I think with these two he'll be up to 7 figures total:

- C3PO & R2-D2
- Darth Vader
- X-Wing Luke
- Yoda
- Anakin Skywalker
- Han Solo
- Chewbacca

Man, the T-Wolves are terrible.

13 games under .500?  Getting beat by Golden State?  7 losses in a row? 

I'm ready for baseball... 

I think that if it were made, the appeal of it would die down very quickly after it was made... 

I think that this statement applies to about, oh 17 of the figures on the "fan choice" list.

Let's be honest. 

- There are two figures that will sell no matter what:  Maul and Luke
- There are two figures that will be smash hits with Collectors:  Galactic Marine and Neyo
- There are two long-requested OT figures: Yarna and Hermi
- There are two long requested EU figures - Snowbunny Padme and Quinlon Vos

Other than those 8, everything else has some kind of strike against it - it's EU or it's a female character or it's a background character, etc etc etc.  


Does that mean Hasbro should never make those other 17 choices?  Of course not.  They just need to be careful about how they make them so they don't peg-warm.  There is always a reason why something peg-warms.  Over production, lack of desire for the figure, price.

People mention Ellors Madak as a peg-warmer?  The problem = he shipped at 3x per case.
People mention Amanaman as a peg-warmer?  The problem = he cost $10 bucks!

There is always a solution to prevent something from peg-warming.  In this case, all Hasbro has to do is keep the winner at a basic figure cost, pack them 1x per case in an assortment where they make sense and there should be no peg-warming problem for any of the figures.


I think that if Willrow Hood wins, there are plenty of ways to keep him from peg-warming and plenty of ways to keep him intersting.  For example, I'd love a Bespin Wave that looked like this:

2x Bespin Han Solo - NEW
2x Bespin Luke - NEW
2x Bespin Guard (Black) - NEW
1x Willrow Hood (Ice Cream Maker Guy) - NEW
2x vOTC Stormtrooper - repack
1x Lando Calrissian - repack
1x Cloud Car Pilot - repack
1x Princess Leia (Bespin) - repack

That fits the 6-8 figures in a wave; half new, half repack idea.  I don't see any problems with that and I don't think ICMG would pegwarm any more than Barada or Rieekan did.  He fits nicely into this wave/theme.


That is my #1 problem with all the EU figures on the list.  How can you construct a nice assortment for them to fit in?  I just gave an example of the perfect fit for ICMG so that he doesn't peg-warm.  Can the same be said for some of the other 17 figures? 

Where would you stick an HK-47?  Where would you stick a Bastilla Shan?  It's much easier and makes much more sense in my opinion to do a whole wave of KOTOR figures for that reason instead of just picking one out of the list and sticking it in an assortment. 

Same goes for the NJO figures on the list.  It's got to be much easier for Hasbro to just do a whole wave of NJO figures and include all of them - Anakin, Jaina, Jacen, Non, Mara, etc.

The Winner is...

NoMercyJoe

Congratulations NoMercyJoe!

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Tatooine poncho maybe?

Good Guess!

Just a friendly reminder for folks those waiting for a final clearance on these sets...

Remeber that the final deadline for mailing the certificates is March 31, 2006.

So, if you haven't grabbed one yet (or you are a HUGE procrastinator), your window of opportunity is closing quickly - just 2 weeks left!

Well, first because Scott's as good as staff and can do what he wants for the most part, but second because the petition for Wilrow Hood the ICMG has been on the front page of JediDefender.com as long as I can remember and have been coming here routinely too so it's part of our site's affiliation to.

Exactly.  Well said, JJ.

The "Ice Cream Maker Guy" petition has been on the front page of JD as long as I can remember too.  It's a part of the history of JD.  I think a lot of the newer folks around here don't realize that one of JD's premiere staff members started the ICMG petition nearly four years ago.  It's not some flash-in-the-pan goof-ball desire (it's grown way beyond that  ). 

Now that ICMG is actually on a fan-choice poll and we have a chance to actually get this figure made it'd be ridiculous for us to not fully support him in any way we can!