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Kubricks / Re: Kubrick Newbies - Questions and Advice
« on: September 25, 2007, 03:36 PM »
Can someone please direct me to someplace I can get some kubs withou spending a ton? I'm not looking for full sets just certain figures.

The best place to look for individual figures is to head to eBay.  There are a few places that sell individual figures, but most are sold out since it's been so long since we've had new figures.

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Rogue One / The Playset Thread
« on: September 25, 2007, 11:12 AM »
Can the market support Sideshow playsets?  My gut feeling is yes

If there are 1250 collectors out there willing to drop $50 on a 12" scale Dejarik Holochess Set, then there are definitely 1250 collectors out there willing to pay $100 for a really nice, really detailed playset.

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Kubricks / Re: Series 8
« on: September 25, 2007, 10:40 AM »
[note to self]sell Brent/Dale extras from my Master Cases[/note to self]  ;)

I will still be buying.  Maybe my next mega-order won't be 7 Master Cases, but I'll still be buying.  I loves me some Kubricks, and even Prequel Trilogy stuff can't break my jones for new Kubies. 

I spoke with Robby.jp today.  They expect to be taking pre-orders on Series 8 sometime soon, so I guess it's time to kick off Jeff's Kubrick Star Wars Series 8 Mega-Order:)

All I will take orders for right now is Master Cases (4 boxes of 12, 100% chance of at least 1 chase figure), Boxes of 12 (approx. 50% chance of at least 1 chase figure), or Basic Set of 6.  Since we don't know ratios yet, it's hard to guarantee any specific individual figure requests yet...

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Kubricks / Re: Series 8
« on: September 24, 2007, 03:49 PM »
MARCH 2008.  Yay!  :)

It's about friggin' time...  thanks to Medicom for passing along the info:



STAR WARS(TM) [SERIES 8]
2008年3月発売予定 (March 2008)
Kubrick Series No.230
1 BOX (12 pieces)

● BATTLE DROID with BATTLE DROID BLASTER
● DARTH MAUL with DOUBLE-BLADED LIGHTSABER
● ANAKIN SKYWALKER (PODRACER) with TOOL PARTS
● QUEEN AMIDALA (THEED INVASION)
● QUI-GON JINN with LIGHTSABER
● C-3PO

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: New 30th Anniversary Tins
« on: September 24, 2007, 12:59 PM »
Yeah, Celebration Europe flew under a lot of people's radar since almost none of the sites covered it...

I think RS may have been the only site of the "big 4" that went to the show and these tins full of repacks weren't exactly buzzworthy I guess.  :-\

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: New 30th Anniversary Tins
« on: September 24, 2007, 12:53 PM »
Hasbro showed those at their panel at CE

They said then that there was nothing new planned for these sets (figures and tins will just be repacks) and they mentioned that there would only be these three.




From the looks of the new pictures, that seems to still be the case.

While they will be a TRU exclusive in the UK, they were not sure where they would show up in the USA...  edit:  I see that RS is saying they will be a K-Mart exclusive here in the USA this fall.

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: Your 30AC Shopping: Retail or Online?
« on: September 24, 2007, 10:53 AM »
Along the same lines of this question, if you have been buying figures at retail this year - which store has been the best source so far?

For me, if it hasn't come from NewForce (30AC), it's probably from Target (Legends, Comic Packs, Battle Packs, GH, Vehicles, exclusives). 

The only things I buy at Wal-Mart and TRU are the exclusives, because it's just not worth it for me to go to those 2 stores that often when I have 3-4 Targets that I pass on the way to get to either of them...  :P

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: Wave Shuffling
« on: September 21, 2007, 08:32 PM »
Monkeys work at Hasbro? :D

Yes, they do.



Very talented and they work cheap too...

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Kubricks / Re: Series 8
« on: September 21, 2007, 12:01 AM »
Mace would be good, but I'm thinking they'll save him for Series 9...  no reason behind it, Mace just seems to fit better in the AotC series to me.

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: SWShop Concept General Grievous
« on: September 20, 2007, 11:32 PM »
Putting all the $17 talk aside, I have to say that this Grievous is actually a really nice figure.

- He's got ball jointed ankles, knees, elbows, shoulders, head; plus swivel hips and torso.
- He's got a great soft goods cape, a removable chest panel, and some unique weapons.
- He's the best scaled Grievous so far

Yeah, he cost way more than he should, but he's definitely a nice figure once you get him open.  He makes for a nice transition display between that Wave 5 Pre-Cyborg Grievous figure and the more "robot" RotS Grievous figures.

Wish I could say I regret spending the $40 to get 2 of them, but honestly I don't.

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All signs point to it being like the Shuttle was last year (in the ad & on an endcap), so sometime in November/December.

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Other Collectibles / Gentle Giant Animated Princess Leia Monument
« on: September 20, 2007, 06:01 PM »
Life-size Animated Leia Monument.  No Joke:



It should be in the next issue of Previews magazine - around $800 bucks and is around 5 feet tall.

I thought that the Life-size Yoda they did was crazy... but this, this is crazy.  :o


(ps. don't poke your eyes out on those things...  :-X)

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TV-9D9 / Re: 2008 Live-Action TV Show Discussion!
« on: September 20, 2007, 05:39 PM »
A few tidbits from the TV Guide Interview are below.  Sounds like they really want to get to 100 episodes... probably so it can stay in syndications after it's run is over.   ;)



TV Guide: What about your Star Wars live-action series for TV?

Lucas: Yes, I'm working on that. We're just going to start writing it in about a month from now, start doing scripts for it.
 

TV Guide: And where will that live in the Star Wars continuum relative to Clone Wars and relative to the films?

Lucas: Well, Clone Wars has got all the characters in it — Yoda and Anakin and Obi Wan and the Emperor and all that — so it's basically the movie. The live-action [series] is not the movie. It's the Star Wars universe, but it's characters from the saga who were [previously] minor, and it follows their stories. It's set between [movie episodes] III and IV, when the Empire has taken over. It's like Episode IV in that the Emperor and Darth Vader are heard about — people talk about them — but you never see them because it doesn't take place where they actually are. There are storm troopers and all that, but there are no Jedis. It's different, but I think it's very exciting because I get to explore a part of that universe that I haven't been able to explore. Once you have a saga, it's got a lot of requirements because it's about a particular [thing] — in this case, Darth Vader — and so it's his story from the time he's 10 to the time he died. You really can't go off that track because that's the story. Whereas now, I can make a left turn on 10th Street and go down there and see what's going on.
 

TV Guide: And how are you going to produce this one? Are you going to film a certain number? Are you going to have a deal with a network before you go ahead with filming?

Lucas: No, we'll do it just the same way that we're doing the animated series, which is we usually write a whole year first, and then we'll start shooting, and then we'll shoot the whole year and then once we've got [something to show], we'll see where we can put it. We're going to do a hundred of them, too. [It should be] easier [to place] than the animated one because it's live-action.


TV Guide: So you'll film before you get a commitment? Or how will that work?

Lucas: Well, we're doing these before we get a commitment, so we're just doing them on the faith that we're going to [sell them]. I mean, we're doing them ourselves, so we can finance them, we don't need to have a commitment of any kind. We're simply going to sell them.



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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: 30AC Wave 5 - Expanded Universe
« on: September 20, 2007, 03:36 PM »
Yikes, I hope my wave 5 order gets filled.  :-[

NewForce is getting the rest of their Wave 5 order along with Wave 6 next week, so you should be covered I think...

SW update Wave 5 and 6
September 19, 2007 | 8:57 AM | newforce1

The balance of our wave 5 order is shipping to us next week, as is our order of wave 6. We also should receive the next several Lengends Saga cases.



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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: 30AC Endor Battle Pack
« on: September 20, 2007, 09:45 AM »
Doesn't WM get the Jabba's Band set?

Yes, but Hasbro already said those were just 2 separate 5-figure battle packs and not a "Ultimate Battle Pack" like the Geonosis and Hoth sets...

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