Let the non-answers begin!

Is this truly 14 figs for $69 and change or is it two sets of 7 figures for $69+?

Two packs of 7.   When the item goes up for preorders on Tuesday at Noon (I AM THE PLUG KING) it will only be as a the full set at the special price of $66.99.   We will not be selling them individually or by the case on Tuesday at Noon, only as the "14 pack."

Will there be a female Mandos? (I understand if you can't answer this or any of the others, but I hope so. Some of those conept female Mandos look awesome.)

Will Boba and Jango be two of the figures in the sets?

If yes on Jango, will he be one fo the 14 point figures?

Are any of the following in the sets:
Montross
Jodo Kast
Jaster Mereel

If so which ones?

The rest of the characters will be revealed at Comic-Con, but I'll go ahead and throw you a bone-- no Jodo.  Llats Ward looks a lot like Jodo, but he ain't Jodo, and Jodo won't be in this set.  The characters in this set, by and large, look quite different from one another-- with a couple of exceptions.  There isn't another greenish Mandalorian in the set, take that as you will.


I'd keep going but well, it is being marketed as a bit of a mystery set.  (And don't forget EE lets you cancel any pre-order with no penalty if you order it on Tuesday and decide after the announcement that you don't much care for it.  Risk-free, yay.)  That's good enough for now, I think, so there ya go!

14?  14!?  How did they arrive at that number?  This sound interesting, but 14 figures from essentially the same mold seems to be alot.

What makes you think they're all going to use the same molds?      Or for that matter, all Mandalorians?   While we love sets that work on a theme, sometimes variety is good too.

A question for Adam in case he stops by again - will there be "bulk-purchase" options for this one too?  Like the "by-the-case" options that EE had for the Clones and Droids? (always looking to save some bucks )

Always in motion is the future, but we priced these to be the best possible deal we could-- especially compared to other exclusives on the market over the past few years.   But for the sake of customizers/troop builders/compulsive hoarders/collector groups, anything is possible.  Just keep writing in and asking, you never know what might happen.   I'm always watching boards for fan requests like this-- if there's something Entertainment Earth can do for you, hey, ask.   The more people that clamor for it, the better.

This looks like a very interesting set, here's my big question though for you Adam hopefully you can answer this. Being that you've been known to push for the more old-school toon/comic characters of the 80's, is it possible that Fenn Shysa is part of this set? That would be beyond cool!

At this time, additional details surrounding the set are being kept under wraps for Comic-Con 2007.  But hints unrelated to your question, I can do-- the stories behind these action figures are set against the backdrop of the Clone Wars.    There are figures in this package which some fans will recognize.  There are also figures in this set fans will not recognize.

I think/hope customizers will dig it-- there should be plenty of parts to inspire new creations.

Neat exclusive, didn't see this one coming. Hopefully there'll be some KOTOR era Mandos included, maybe Canderous.

KOTOR?  *spit*  No.


As corporate law requires it, I'll be doing a special episode of the Entertainment Earth Podcast on Tuesday about just this item.   So for all 37 listeners of the show, you're in for a treat.

If this turns out to be true, I'm all over it.   

"If"? 

*looks at description*

"Adam"?  Hey, that's *my* name!

It probably retailers cleaning out their storerooms.

Actually, it's new mixes of old figures-- Hasbro has several new revisions which are just STARTING to ship this month, with quasi-new figures like Jango Fett with a red holo figure.   These will probably be available through at least the summer, and since Saga Legends and TSC share the same basic SKU, I wouldn't hold your breath for clearances either-- it's just going to transition from one to the other.

My experiences in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ were pretty much identical.  Actually, stuff was easier to get there than it was in LA, and when I lived in Phoenix, people in LA always told me stuff was harder to get here.   I've also had people that live in tiny towns like Cottonwood who have had no problems finding anything reasonably expected to be found there (open stock stuff) and complained that some "rare" items (MODS 2-pack) were pegwarming.   

When I go back to Phoenix, I go to about 8 Wal-Marts-- because that's what I do when I have time to kill.   The stuff is usually out there if you hit enough stores regularly.  If you only have 2 stores in your area, well, that's a different story, but Tucson was a smaller (but not tiny) town and I had no problem tracking down Skiffs there as well as Simpsons figures and everything else when my radius was limited to where my feet could pedal my bike.

One town's pegwarmers are another town's gold.   YMMV.  It's like the whole Unleashed thing-- Hasbro claims a lot of stores were choking on them.  The stores I visited indicated otherwise.   And as stated above, I've had many people in rural areas go on about how whatever exclusive is clogging their pegs when the rest of the country is hunting them like madmen.   Still, the stuff often filters in eventually assuming you didn't miss your two- or three-day window of opportunity to snag it.  (Sure it sucks, but them's the breaks.   I'm not here to discuss some sort of utopian collector project.)

If you live in a town with two stores, well, yeah, it's unrealistic to expect to be able to find everything without a little extra help from outside the community.   But that wasn't the argument I came to make, I just came to post and say "yes, I am enjoying the new figures."    Except the freaking Cantina Band tin I can't find and am convinced hasn't hit LA yet as I've been hitting 1-2 of the 3 "reasonable" Wal-Marts in my area every day or two.

Like I said, YMMV.   My Wal-Marts are absolutely stuffed with H*V figures, and yet they get new Saga cases.  About half a dozen of Wave 8 was there on Wednesday and gone this morning.  It's not just "five minutes" but a day or two at times, and crap or no crap, it seems all the dozen plus stores I frequent keep getting new stuff in.

Except Kmart, they suck.

And I didn't mean to imply that anyone implied any... implications.   We would want to sell a different product (like a green Starfighter) as a different item, so  if/when a green one comes to light and we can sell it, you can rest assured it'll have a green image.  (Or no image.  One of those.)

It's really important in the toy business to make toys look new.  Key words: "look new."   Placing a figure or ship in a new box makes it look fresh at retail and is one of the reasons they keep changing up the packaging on a toy line every few months.  In Transformers, they usually switch up the look of the box with a totally new color scheme about  halfway through each major line, but not always.  By making the toy look different at retail in a new box, they can extend the lifespan of a toy by months or years-- like Anakin's starfighter, which came out, when, like in March 2005?  It's having a really good run and collectors aside, it's still a spectacular seller.   (We're currently out of stock on it again, and it really is nice to see people still wanting it.  It's a great little toy.)   The packaging changes aren't typically made with collectors in mind, it's to get the attention of kids who missed it before-- usually.   You'd be astonished how much time and effort goes in to making new, attractive-at-retail packaging for even older products just to dress 'em up to the same people.

The thinking being that a kid/parent would see a ship in ROTS packaging and go "oh, that's the really old one."  Obviously, collectors are a bit more savvy when it comes to this stuff, but hey, packaging is one of the most important ways to market a product at retail since it basically has to sell someone on an item in a snap.   

I'd be a little surprised to NOT see a new box for Anakin's Starfighter next year if it ships past that first assortment, but hey, you never know with these things.   Maybe they'll just do another sticker-- the "Sneak Preview" packaging is pretty much identical to the regular one except the "Firing Blaster Cannons!" burst was covered by the "Sneak Preview" label.  Vehicles are expensive, if they can keep selling the same thing just by changing graphics in a box, it's really in their best interests.

While not confirmed yet, it's a pretty safe bet they're going to rotate in older ships again in 2007-- there are new case remixes up on Entertainment Earth that are 3 ships per and they tend to mix up new and old.   Also fun trivia: the vehicle assortment number has been the same since the ROTS ship line started.

As to your questions...

1. We post everything we can post and share everything we can share.  Which, right now, is the Saesee Tiin Starfighter and the TIE Fighter.   Like the figures, there's probably going to be a lot of items spread across the whole year, and Hasbro doesn't like to show their whole hand at once.

2. Nope.  Same assortment, but different item numbers.

Right now, it seems there's really nothing to indicate a green starfighter redeco outside what appears in Hasbro's Q&A and speculation-- for all we know, they might crank out an exclusive, and not a new "regular assortment" item.   There are going to be lots of assortments with new product next year, and Hasbro really likes to spread out all the announcements-- so if there's going to be one, we might not hear about it officially for a few more months still.   (Or next week.  You never know with Hasbro.)

That's the one they have images for.  But seeing how the yellow version was reissued this year in TSC packaging, it's a fair bet that the version in the 30AC line is going to be the green one.

As for the image on EE's site, I'm thinking that it might just be a case of them trying to offer up an image even though it's inaccurate.  After all they did show a photoshopped version of a black Jedi Starfighter and offer that up as the Darth Vader Sith starfighter well before Hasbro offered up an image of the real thing.  This could be a similar case.

The Black Sith Starfighter was indeed photoshopped by our graphics team at Entertainment Earth because Hasbro did not yet have an image to release.  This was clearly labeled in big bold red letters so there was no confusion that it was, in fact, a fake.

As to the future of Starfighters, the Anakin Skywalker's Jedi Starfighter in future assortments has the same product number as previous releases.  We have received no indication that the item would change in any way shape or form.   As such, there is no reason to expect a change.  It's a very popular vehicle at retail (despite collectors being sick of it), and since the kid market for the schoolbus yellow starfighter is still strong, there's really no reason to stop shipping it just yet.

If there is to be a green one, I'd expect it to be either an exclusive, or sold as a separate, new product with a new number and possibly even a new/different name.

As of yet, cases shipping from Hasbro with 30AC and TSC vehicles in it have a mix of packaging-- so there haven't been any updates yet of older vehicles, yet.   Who knows what a future shipment might bring?