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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Possible VTSC Wave 2?
« on: April 22, 2006, 12:59 AM »
Quote from: Pete_Fett on April 22, 2006, 12:34 AM
Quote from: Rob on April 22, 2006, 12:28 AM
IMO that would open up a big can of worms.  That wasn't a figure that came out in the 70's/80's so then it's not really a new-school 'vintage' item.  I'd prefer that they leave the things that didn't come out back in the original days to the NEW lines and save this (so far perfect) line for the high-quality resculpts of the figures that were originally on these cardbacks.

So because the vintage Vader was never released with a removeable helmet a VOTC/VTSC version can't be?

Please don't think I'm trying to start an argument, but for example - no versions of Han Solo in the vintage line EVER came with a working holster - yet both the ANH VOTC Han and the ROTJ VTSC Han have a working holster. Same thing with Greedo - he didn't even have a holster sculpted to the leg. How about the X-Wing pilot Luke? The vintage figure didn't have a removeable lightsaber hilt that plugged into a socket on the figure. The vintage Biker Scout's ankle holster didn't work as a holster either.

What I'm getting is that so far, many of the figures have functional extras that go beyond articulation and detail that the vintage figures never had. So why couldn't one of the function features of a VTSC ROTJ Darth Vader be that it has a removeable helmet?

After reading your rationale, I can say that if they hadn't already done a VOTC Vader, I'd probably be inclined to agree with you.   

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Possible VTSC Wave 2?
« on: April 22, 2006, 12:28 AM »
Quote from: Pete_Fett on April 22, 2006, 12:08 AM
Personally, I'm hoping that the Vader will NOT be another ESB version and instead will be a ROTJ version with (keeping fingers crossed) a 2-piece helmet.
to get so many copies of the same Vader we already have.

IMO that would open up a big can of worms.  That wasn't a figure that came out in the 70's/80's so then it's not really a new-school 'vintage' item.  I'd prefer that they leave the things that didn't come out back in the original days to the NEW lines and save this (so far perfect) line for the high-quality resculpts of the figures that were originally on these cardbacks.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Top 5 Hotties
« on: April 21, 2006, 11:14 PM »
She looks nasty in most of those pictures - the bottom right corner might be the exception.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Possible VTSC Wave 2?
« on: April 21, 2006, 07:32 PM »
Quote from: Darth Broem on April 21, 2006, 05:29 PM
They should make plastic cape and cloth cape variants of the Jawa! 

And an ESB carded Vinyl caped Jawa chase figure.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JD Fantasy Basketball 2005
« on: April 21, 2006, 04:48 PM »
So that's it huh?  No parade for the winner this year...

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: April 21, 2006, 04:33 PM »
Before all the talk about ethanol started, I'd read that the problem with Hydrogen was that it required so much energy to produce - same kind of deal as what we've been talking about.

Plus, there isn't an infrastructure in place to deliver hydrogen to cars.

We all need to just move out of the suburbs, into cities and then walk everywhere.


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Saga Collection '06 / Re: 2006 vOTC (or vTSC) - now with pics!
« on: April 21, 2006, 04:31 PM »
As far as I'm concerned the Star Case they come in is part of the item. 

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Possible VTSC Wave 2?
« on: April 21, 2006, 03:59 PM »
Quote from: MWB on April 21, 2006, 02:01 PM
A $10+ VOTC/VTSC Imperial Dignitary?  I'd like to see that one redone too, but only in the basic line. 

In a heartbeat!  Imagine a posable dignitary with a realistic looking sculpt under a (not too puffy) purple robe with a removable hat.  Then put him on retro packaging and throw in a collector's coin and I'd drop $10.00 without thinking twice.

It would be ******* awesome. 

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: April 21, 2006, 03:55 PM »
If you used Ethanol to make ethanol at a 1:1 ratio - you'd never produce a single net drop of ethanol.  There would need to be some way to make it that wouldn't require as much energy as you'd get out of it.

Anyone know how much energy it takes to run an oil refinery?  I'd be curious about how much oil a refinery uses to refine a gallon of gasoline.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: April 21, 2006, 03:33 PM »
If it takes a gallon of oil to produce a gallon of ethanol, we don't decrease our dependence on oil-rich nations at all.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: April 21, 2006, 01:31 PM »
That sounds like the catch I was looking for.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Possible VTSC Wave 2?
« on: April 21, 2006, 01:06 PM »
In that case, why not a list of already released Modern Vintage figures that weren't on their original Cardback, including all four of the wave 1 ROTJ figures:

Chewbacca
Artoo
Boba Fett
Darth Vader
Threepio
Stormtrooper


A POTF wave at some point with coins would be awesome.

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The Legacy Collection / Re: Fan's Choice Returns
« on: April 21, 2006, 12:05 PM »
Please God no EU when Yarna and Hermie and ICMG are on the table.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Possible VTSC Wave 2?
« on: April 21, 2006, 12:04 PM »
If they're going to put out figures for a second time, I hope they start with re-releases that can now go on their first-run cardback.  Vader on SW, Boba Fett on SW, Chewie on SW etc...


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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Gas Prices
« on: April 21, 2006, 12:02 PM »
What's the catch?  That sounds way too good to be true.

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