It's that time of year again!   Time for imaptient goofs like myself to start daydreaming about Toy Fair.  At this point, I know to expect less than we were once used to, because Hasbro holds stuff for SDCC. While I don't understand this, since Toy Fair is for retail buyers, and SDCC for Fans, I have come to accept it.

I hope to see a few new waves of TVC and TCW figs.  I'm really hoping to see Dr. Ezavan painted up.  He's been my most wanted fig for years.

I am curious to see if there will be any special products for the Blu-Ray release.  While I'm not into packaging gimmicks, the Target Exclusive 9 pack format would be great.  Maybe one for each trilogy?

We have heard rumors of another big vehicle, but nothing concrete.  My guess is the Attack Shuttle from TCW. Maybe there will be some small vehicles we aren't expecting.  Who knows...

Feel free to jump in any time.

Yeah.  Maybe a chain, and without the sitting legs, just so us people who found her last year can be bettter than the rest of you.

I mostly agree, however, I do think that Hasbro could cater to collectors more.  For instance.  We have TVC and Legacy right now.  All of the Vaders, Anikins, Obi-Wans and Yodas and Chewies should all be in Legacy.  These are characters that are popular with kids, and Hasbro has excellent sculpts of each to work from.

TVC should only be collector oriented.  Did we really need another Vader?  Obi-Wan? Another Obi-Wan? Jango? I mean, come on.  They already had a sculpt of the little Utapau guy that was not used, and they didn't put him in the ROTS wave.

The new figures we've gotten in TVC have been great.  But imagine if there had been new figures in every slot that was a re-release.
Also, they have stated that they are not making "non-agressive" characters such as Jocasta Nu.  That stinks, and it shows that collectors are secondary.

Now, I understand their business model, and the scope they are working on, but they essentially don't have to do anymore work to satisfy the casual collector, and they could give the serious collector some more attention.

Here's my take...TRU breaks the street date in Aug with TVC.  They sell really well becasue we all want new figs, despite price.  TRU orders more of the TVC.  However, it's still so early in the game that when the orders are filled, they are still all the ESB wave.  While they may have many more waves on order, and that includes ROTJ, they can't get them to the stores because the computers see the pegs as full.

Maybe. I don't know.

No.  There's a lot of cases in the pipeline, and too many new tools in that assortment to make a small run.  EE might have sold out becaus eit was such an awesome case/wave that people didn't want to miss it.

Forget Ahsoka, I just want to see these two get killed, since they do not "exist" as of ROTS:

1) Asajj Ventress

2) Cad Bane

Huh?  Why don't they exist in ROTS?  Because they weren't mentioned?  That's a really literal way to look at fiction. Endor wasn't mentioned, but it exists...Hoth wasn't mentioned, but it exists...Sandcrawlers weren't mentioned, but they exist...Han Solo wasn't mentioned, but he exists...We didn't see Dodonna in ESB, but he existed...we didn't see the Kubaz spy in ROTJ, but he existed...and so on...

If you saw a movie about the U.S. Civil War, and they never mentioned Japan once, would you assume that Japan doesn't exist?

Anyway, about Ashoka...I don't think they will kill her.  She's become too popular and a symbol of girl power in the geek community.
I think she will be sent away, or run away at one point.  In fact, I think that Ashoka could return as a focus of more SW entertainment.

Who knows?  Maybe she's on that Outward Bound ship in the Thrawn Series...

Maybe the spoiler does happen, but it's the work of someone else...like a Sith Witch or something.

"As I posted many times before I cringe when I see Padme in the preview because I know the episode will suck. Now it crossed the line with their subliminal messaging." Jackoftradz

What subliminal message?  That war is bad? That peace is good? I don't think that's subliminal, I think it's been a huge part of Lucas's work since the beginning.  "Wars not make one great."

Also, I don't think the people in the Republic will pick up arms and fight.  I get the idea that many of them are too comfortable and too uninvolved to fight.