I really like this ship, and the new pics of the deco and figures seals the deal for me. The $30 price seems very fair, and if the R5 unit in the ship was removable, I'd be planning to buy two of these nice ships.

I hear you about the droid slot.  It's definitely a curious situation about that, but explainable.

I have a vintage Y-Wing.  The droid slot works, but only with the vintage R2-D2 and R5-D4.  But I got clever and decided to try to make a modern R2 unit fit.  I had custom painted some R2's from POTF2, and decided I wanted to get one of them into this Y-Wing.  But the legs/feet are just a little too wide to fit in the vintage droid slot.  So I shaved them down along the sides until finally it would squeeze into the Y-Wing.  Let me tell you, it's a tight fit!

So what are the practical solutions?  Hasbro would have to do one of two things to make a functional Y-Wing droid slot happen:

1)  Retool the vintage vehicle molds.  It's just not designed for a modern era astro droid figure.  This would be the ideal solution but also the most expensive.

2)  Come up with an R2 unit that is designed specifically to mate with the vintage size droid slot.  It's doable but would require a new basic figure tool.

I've done a fair ammount of damage for both the OT and the PT. 

OT:  My Stormtrooper armies are considerable, even factoring in the old, lame POTF2 Stormies.  I know that when there were some clearance sales on POTF2 I went NUTS.  In one shot I bought about 2 dozen CommTech Stormtroopers for $1.97 each.  And when some great Imperial army builders have come out I've been there buying.  Imperial Officers?  Yep.  Death Star Troopers?  Yeah.  Death Star Gunners?  Those too.  Biker Scouts?  Sure.  Snowtroopers?  Of course!

I think the Rebels have gotten the short end of the stick from an army building standpoint.  The offering for the Rebel army builders haven't been that great.  That's something that I hope Hasbro takes into consideration in the next few year.  The Endor Troopers have been cool, but the Tantive IV troopers and Hoth troopers need to be brought into the modern era.  The Rebel Honor Guard is a step in the right direction.  But I guess we have to wait and see.

There are some other, smaller army contingents that I've focused on.  Those being Sandpeople and Jawas.  They're pretty anonymous and travel in numbers.  So I've bought multiples of them, too.


PT:  I've done better than my fair share of army building.  I have a Gungan army that's considerable, with at least 40 Gungan Warriors, some Ammo Wagons and 4 x Fambaa's!  My Naboo troops are no slouches either.  And they've got just as many if not more Battle Droids to face off against.

My next big PT army building quest was with the AOTC troopers.  Again there were more Battle Droids.  As for Clones, I went into that in a big way.  At my last count I had at least 40 of the sneak preview Clones, and I was picking up every other AOTC Clone that I could lay my hands on - Captains, Pilots, Deluxe, etc.  I did that all the way through Clone Wars, and I'm still buying AOTC Clones from Saga Legends to build that army.

My ROTS era troops are considerable, too.  I've got decent numbers on just about every Clone Trooper that was released, including the exclusives.  Of course there are more droids in there, plus a fair contingent of Utapauans and Wookiees.


I think the reason why PT army builders have been dominating the scene is because those movies and their respective lines were getting much more attention from both Hasbro and the buying public.  That's where the marketing push has been.  We're only now starting to see more numerous and respectable offerings from the OT in the line now, whereas a couple of years ago we were only getting Stormtroopers in Hall of Fame waves and battle packs.  And the vintage line offerings have been fantastic, but they saw more limited release and were priced higher.  Basically I think we're seeing a sea-change, and things are going to shift to the OT for a bit.  At least until the Clone Wars series comes out.

Did some army building today.  2 x Super Battle Droids, 3 x AOTC Clone Troopers, 2 x ROTS Clone Troopers.

Done deal.  It would've been nice to know when they were going up, but at least this one is done.

Jeez, this is going to bring me up to about 6 Y-Wings.  Glad to have the new pilot and astromech though.

I thought that the whole Neville contingency had been discussed and disregarded?  It was the fact that Voldemort chose to attack Harry that branded Harry as the chosen one.

That's disappointing.  I was hoping that maybe we would get a better version of Anakin or Padme at the very least.  The Obi-Wan looks good, but might as well be a statue.