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Other Collectibles / Re: WOTC Star Wars Miniatures
« on: May 7, 2006, 02:58 AM »
Depends what Doug...  Doug Schroeder is a colleague of mine on the FFURG.com customizing site.  He's in Columbus. :)

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Power of the Force 2 / Re: Mara Jade - what's she worth?
« on: May 6, 2006, 02:43 AM »
Yeah I hear tell of these stories of EU figures on clearance out west, haha...  They were definitely out at retail, but man they didn't get out much.  I know one guy locally who found them at a TRU and bought the only ones he saw.  He didn't get a complete set even...  Nobody else was able to find anything and wound up like me buying them at the Fan Club store.

Price raping isn't anything new to the FC.

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Customizing Tips and Tricks / Re: Styrene Sheets
« on: May 5, 2006, 06:33 PM »
N/P Brent, I'm glad to help...  Ships/Vehicles/Sets have been a focus of mine since it required nothing to get started that I need for my figure work so I have about 90 half-finished projects laying around, haha.  :)

Plus I've got experience in plastics and things professionally and model making and whatnot from my childhood.  I'm happy to share any help I can to the guys branching out that way.  Scratch-Building is a very satisfying aspect of customizing...  I like it sometimes more than working on figures I think, because there's more creativity involved sometimes IMO.  I feel sometimes limited when working on a figure.  That's why I always appreciate fanfiction work on figures when I see it.  People's imaginations sort of take flight with those, and it makes some interesting results.

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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Custom decals?
« on: May 5, 2006, 06:30 PM »
There's clear sticker paper you can get about anywhere.  I think even K-Mart had it if I recall.  Simple printing, but I'm not a fan of the raised stickers on figures.  They don't look perfect to me for some reason...  Works on other things though.

People make stickers all the time though for other lines.  G.I. Joe in particular I see guys making replica stickers for beat up vehicles or new stickers for customs and such.  Very easy if you have a printer and sticker paper.  Water transfer decals are more involved but result ina more professional production look, as well as a higher realism if you go all out with them.  They can actually be made to bond to the plastic flawlessly.

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I'm wondering if we'll see these resurfacing because my area's pretty picked over on the Skirmish sets.  See one here or there but not more than 2 at any given store.  Seems they got pulled from the back before the reset at most places.

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Sith Eyes Variant of the Evo Anakin...  How smoothly would that figure flow out the door, honestly?  I'd go nuts if they made that actually.  :( 

I'm disappointed we don't see more SA sculpts put out in circulation when they exist.  They put out Obi's, so put out ANakin's too.

Hell put out Obi and Ani's SA figures with "burns" on their outfits and smudges and stuff for a Mustafar variant of both.  WOuld you not rebuy those figures just for that?  I would...  I'd love that.  :-\  I'd buy that Evolution Anakin 2 more times just like that then.  One Mustafar variant, and one clean for JTA Anakin...

Of course, the fear I'd have then is that they wouldn't get good distribution and they'd be a pain to find.  Very possible outcome with this being a wholely separate line and all.

I'm in on some of the Clones, even the Commander (they sold well here till the green one saturated the market completely).  If you're re-releasing a COmmander though at all, why not the correct paint Bly?  That's a bitch to find.

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I have an order in for 10...  My army grows.

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Power of the Force 2 / Re: Mara Jade - what's she worth?
« on: May 5, 2006, 06:12 PM »
I can't recall now...  I know I got all my EU at one time though as I never saw them in a store.  I've read things at some sites where people say if you looked you'd find these, but I know for a fact Pittsburgh got very few in at any store so these werne't anything that you just had to look hard for...  They were non-existant in some areas, mine in particular.

I think mine were $10-ish but I could be wrong on that Brent.  I do know they were tied in bundles though, not individual at first.  Later on you could get Katarn and the Darktrooper alone but I know I got my Mara with Thrawn and others in a "set" or some such.

Wait, nix that i got Katarn in that same bundle, it was the Space and Darktrooper that came as a pair later...  ANd were subsequently the hardest 2 of the EU to find.  I got THrawn, Luke, Emperor, Mara, Sentinel in their own bundle though.

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Saga Collection '06 / EpIII Heroes
« on: May 5, 2006, 04:55 AM »
Some of it's really not bad, I'm excited to see the shocktrooper, the black pilot...  I'm into picking more of those up.  I think some of those choices are comically bad though.  I mean, Obi-Wan in any form?  The one in the Coruscant Wave just came out...  Same with Anakin.  Lay off those figs...  And Vader.  He was a pegwarmer last year, so was Bacara, so why release them again?  I don't get it...

The Clone pilot, shocktrooper, and 501st are all good...  The Wookiee I dig seeing again though why not the Wookiee Heavy Gunner figure?  That was hard to find actually.

Dooku and Padme are ok, they were never terribly common in my area...  Good to have on the pegs.  Same with a 3PO figure too I think since he's sort of lacking on the pegs.

Lots of bad choices in these...  And it's gonna feel like 2005.  It's like Hasbro's in some panic that the line needs to get a shot in the ass of what they got last year...  I think Hasbro's missing the point though that the movie's done and anything they f'd up on capitalizing on last year is done and over with...  I don't know how much they'll benefit from re-releasing this stuff now a year or so later.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: 4/30 Target Reset
« on: May 5, 2006, 04:49 AM »
Mine have gone through the reset finally...  Not much there though.  One Skirmish pack and no VTSC on the pegs.  It's surprising really to see so little after a reset.  I wonder if the VTSC were just all pulled from the back already or what?  No Grievous either...

And a wall of Derlin and Vader on the basic pegs...   How the hell Vader keeps surfacing when he doesn't move THAT fast is beyond me.  He didn't blow out the door last year either...  Especially at WM.  Now Target's got the Vader army to deal with...  Ugh.

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I'm sort of hoping more show at some point...  I'd like a second one I think for a small 2-man team or something.  I'm not big on this figure's price but I do like having at least two of the pricey Clone/Stormie exclusives.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: TRU Exclusive Endor AT-AT
« on: May 5, 2006, 04:43 AM »
I'm going to go a step further and think that it's a cardboard cut-out of a scout and AT-AT Driver.  No figures, just cardboard placeholders.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Battle of Coruscant Wave
« on: May 5, 2006, 04:42 AM »
I actually saw the Coruscant Wave in abundance for the first time tonight at TRU...  Word in from the local collector that works there is that they got 10 cases in and put them all out...

Now I didn't get there till late so it was picked over.  Tons of UGH were long gone, and so were the Scorch figures and Foul Moudamas, but all the rest were in abundance, even Cody (first I'd ever seen him on the pegs) and firespeeder pilot (same thing).

It was nice seeing TRU with a basic figure on the pegs.  Since their sale they haven't had anything at all...  Now a ton.

This tells me WM just isn't really interested in SW right now, and not that they're getting "shorted" on anything from Hasbro.  I think they expect the line to die and are treating it as such...  TRU at least is getting stuff in for once.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: TSC Recent Purchases
« on: May 5, 2006, 04:38 AM »
I've gotten jack and **** from Newforce so far...  I have a case on order so I'd better get the damn thing.   >:(  I'm not lookin' hard for VTSC simply because I get my doubles and triples out of my case order...  It's irritating getting no word on those though.

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Power of the Force 2 / Re: Mara Jade - what's she worth?
« on: May 5, 2006, 03:32 AM »
I got mine from the Fan Club for right around the same price, so I wouldn't say that.  They were $10 or so on the FC store plus shipping...  Pricey.  I got the EU in one large set there at least though.  Saved some that way.

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