Battle of Tatooine Wave

[Darth_Anton]

Where the hell are these figs   Besides the Heroes and Villains line, the Coruscant line came out 1.5-2 months ago?

Shhhhh! Their delay is good.

[speedermike]

Yeah, some of us just found the Curoscant wave.  In fact, I just only found Commander Cody.

[jedipurge]

ya really i've still have yet to see  a Cody on the pegs, and have only just last week got a firefighter.  although i want this tatooine wave probably more then any of the others that have come out so far i could really use a break w/all the exclusives that've come out lately.  P.S. sandtrooper ROCKS.

[Mister Skeezler]

****...it looks like R5-D4 is a three-leg special...

[Mitsukara]

Three leg special? The last I heard he was a reprint of VOTC/TSC R2D2 with a new head and paintjob, which means articulation at the neck, top of the legs, and "ankles," with a removeable third leg. All three "feet" have wheels on the bottoms, and he's got this oh-so-groovy glued-on panel.

So, R5 is good for doing whatever R5 does in the movie as well as portraying other, similar droids, or just playing with or whatever... which is cool in my book, far better than "Launchpad" R5.

I would actually buy a couple Hans for customs if I couldn't get the same figure with a different head for $3 or more less on eBay at any given moment.

[Jeff]

Yeah,is definitely the VOTC Sculpt with a new head.  You can see the panel lines in this picture.

So, unless they did something stupid like glue the leg in place, it should be removable...

[Mitsukara]

Hey! This R5 loks like his paintjob is better than R2, there are some details here that were blank n mine- like those bars on the third leg and the silver next to the "ankes." Glad to see that improved.

Though, the same smeared/streaked dirt seems to return here... oh well. I'm pretty happy with the looks of this figure overall

[CHEWIE]

I think I may actually pick up a Vader to open. I kinda want the little crates he comes with. And I don't have an opened 500th Vader so I guess I may nab one.

CHEWIE, only 4 sandies?

I think I'll pick up around a dozen of them.

4x Momaw Nadon
1x Darth Vader (maybe)
12x Sandtrooper
4x R5-D4
3x Hem Dazon
4x Garindan
1x Luke Skywalker (maybe 2)
0x Han Solo

Yeah, probably just four or so of the Sandtroopers, since I have so many of the Evolution Sandtroopers.  Still though I might get more than four.



I just wish we'd get a Stormtrooper instead though, without dirt on him.

 

[Greg]

I'm happy with the Sandtrooper. I like those troopers a lot more than regular stormtroopers, most likely because of the Sandtroopers extra gear and variety of weapons. They look like better infantry soldiers, too. I can see why you'd want clean stormtroopers. Taking off the gear for the sandtrooper doesn't help for that. Perhaps one will come out alongside the DVD's.

[SilverZ]

I'm working on the complete gallery right now, but I was just too geeked out to not post this right away. Check out what is inside of Obi-Wan's storage trunk that comes with TSC Luke #36:

[Ryan]

Woah! Nice find Jared! Are both of the light saber handles removable too?

Where did you get your sample BTW?

[Reid]

I guess Ol' Ben kept his pilot headset after the Battle Of Coruscant.

[SilverZ]

Woah! Nice find Jared! Are both of the light saber handles removable too?

Where did you get your sample BTW?

I cheated on this wave, Ryan.  It's strange, but just Luke's is removable, but the Obi one is molded in there with the belt peghole still intact. I'm not too sure what the reasoning was there.

So, I take it the headsculpt is all-new? I tried comparing him to the EB version, thinking that was the likely match, and it's not it. The rest of the body is straight-up 1999 Luke, including the copyright date on the feet.

The complete gallery is up now if you click on the chest image up above.

J

[TheBlackDog65]

Question. I have the Tatooine wave on order from Entertainment Earth. For those who have been ordering from them lately two questions.

First, what are the chances that EE receives sufficient quality to cover the pre-orders? Mine was at the end of March first of April. Guess I am worried after what happened to others with the UGH cases, but I am not overly concerned about that with this wave.

Second, lately when has EE been shipping versus product showing up at retail?  

[SilverZ]

For me, EE's had a great preorder track record. I'd think you're well within the window of safety, and usually they'll change an item's status to "pre-sold out".

Unfortunately they've been running behind the big retailers for a while now. I'm finding them averaging 2-3 weeks behind Target and Walmart on 2005 waves. It was almost on month of vTSC.