JDers are tripping over themselves to put that one in the Out of Context thread.

You know what cars are most notorious for their only problem being the body, Honda Civics and Accords.  Every car from about 1995-2000 you see on the road (with like 250k miles on them) has that little spot of rust behind the rear wheels.  I think Honda realized that if the engine and transmission go forever people won't buy another.  So they have the body rust out instead...

....I've thought about picking it up since it seems to be hanging around a bit.

Funny, the first time I saw this wave at all was over this past weekend.

Very cool figure though.  I'm being pretty selective with the Clone Wars figures I do get, so I don't think I'm picking her up.

Probably just me, but the TAC Galactic Marine was pretty sweet.  I'd like to see that again.  That might be a bit too specific for most people's tastes though, I think they'd prefer best versions of main characters or plain army builders.

I could see Hasbro adding more variety into their Saga legends.  How about R2, R3, R4, R5 units in various paint schemes.  Kind of like they've done with the AOTC clone officers...  Or the often requested Rebel Pilots in a couple of different headsculpts...

Quote from: Keonobi on December  2, 2008, 04:23 PM

the move to a mini-van would be a lateral move on the cool-tinuum of cars. 

Sienna = Odyssey

Sienna > Focus

Yeah, probably...

Not to mention you look like a total douche driving one.   Then again so do guys in VW Bugs.

So do men in their late 20's ( ), 30's, 40's buying Star Wars toys at Target, but that hasn't stopped anyone here...

My point is that at some point you have to realize there are more important things than looking cool.

Not so much a vehicle, and I know Hasbro has said they aren't going to do playsets, per se.  But how about some kind of battlement set?  You know something with a generic wall and maybe a turret or something.  Maybe even have connectors at the end to snap two (or more) pieces together like the Cantina bar sections.  I'm sure lots of little kids would like to do something like that scene from Starship Troopers where they fight from that field assembled base...

It could be pretty simple and Hasbro could incorporate it within a Ultimate Battlepack or something.  Basically have a base, a wall, a turret and maybe a gate.  Then they can either fill out the pack with OT, PT or EU figures.  Heck, they could even paint it different schemes (Snowy, sandy, dirty, etc.).  Then to spread the cost they could repack it in their other lines, (GI Joe, etc.).

My thinking is that most of the buyers of the BMF and AT-TE probably don't do a ton of flying/walking them around.  They don't utilize their vehicle function so muc as they primarily use them as a basis to play with the figures.  And since there aren't a huge number of ships that are iconic/saga spanning like the BMF or as heavily used in the PT/Clone Wars as the AT-TE, I think Hasbro should look at something somewhat generic that they can apply treatment to, in order to sell multiple times (think repainted ROTS clones...).

So does anyone think a set where you can have a line of Troopers (and maybe a PT version of an E-Web) firing down on SBDs and Tri-Droids, or some Rebels bravely holding off an onslaught of 50 Stormies) seem like a good idea?

Would have snagged FX-6 to be done with the wave but the guy stocking the toys ran me off. Yeah, excuse me for buying toys you aren't putting on the shelf.

I've noticed that at the 24 hr Walmart I frequent, the only time there are any employees in the toy section is early in the morning when they are stocking the shelves, coincidently this is also the only time that employees offer to help me find something, when there happen to be cases of toys sitting on pallets (I'm reading the names on the boxes to see if there is anything I might want to buy).  I'd expect they have people working during the day to straighten the shelves, etc. but those people never ask if I need help, odd.

I got in the mail the last of the Droid Factory sets (Darth Vader) and I found TFU set with Palpatine and the Grey Stormies.