Leaning towards more realistic expectations of what I'd want or like, I'd like to see the Vintage cardbacks (I agree though Diddly, they're nothing special really but I like them and they're harder to rip off than a box you can reseal, IE: black series), and while I'd love it to be basically be hyper articulation all around, tons of new stuff or upgrades of deserving stuff, I'd more realistically like to see:
-TVC cardbacks (again, for theft's sake)
-An INCREASE in articulation to 2007 levels... Selective, some SA, some quasi, some lacking leg articulation mostly, some angle-cut elbows ala 2006, etc.
-A 2-accessory minimum... 2 blasters, or a cup and a blaster, you get the idea here.
-TBS level paint apps... that is to say, I don't expect them to go back to the great old days of paint washes and stuff, but it'd be nice to see it SOMETIMES, and otherwise, just straight eyes, a little more detail than the current basic line, etc.
-And a price that at least doesn't bump up from where TBS currently is, but ideally I'd like to see it around $9.99-$10.99 anyway. Maybe wishful thinking there.
Again this is tempered... The "Everything should be SA and great" crowd is living in a dream world where they'll never be happy, and where nobody seems able to pull them out of said world and back to reality. Those days are over. That said, I think there is a leeway where price and articulation can somehow meet a middle ground, and I think that'd be fantastic.
-As far as vehicles go... minimal interest here. Ships are rarely a scale I care about. I'd love to see some mini-rig type stuff maybe, something more akin to what we got with TCW that was plausible looking as a working thing in that universe.
-As far as playsets go, I laugh at you for even thinking it (if you're doing something realistic, not something you just want in a perfect world
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-Mega vehicles, see above.
-Repacks... I would personally like to see the RFT, Yavin Tech, Honor Guard, obviously a Stormtrooper which ideally would be some "ultimate" kind of idea here... A couple aliens I could see getting a repack too, some droids, whatever. Depends how "big" this line was gonna go, which I cannot imagine it'd go too large unless it morphed in with the new movies too.
-And as an exclusive, somewhere, a multi-pack in a vintage-esque package that includes a blue (tall w/KISS boots) Snaggletooth, red (short & shoeless) Snaggletooth, green Greedo, onesie Hammerhead, funkadelic Walrusman, Blue Gonk, and chrome DSD, (last 2 repaints of existing sculpts) all in their original colors and styles, but in a modern style of sculpt and some updated articulation, drink glasses... Just some huge fan wank that goes to EE or something. I'd plunk a $100 down for that, seriously, but obviously less would be better. I want it that bad though.
The latter would be in that stupid realm to dream, but I'm throwing it in anyway.
Now this is a 40th SW only kind of thing... But if it went to a greater more movie thing, hey, great. I'd love to see a ton of new figures from the new films, Rogue One especially, in the above format... Improved, but not super, articulation. I'd love for the line to just go this direction in general. I don't expect any of it though. I totally expect Jeff's meme, and I expect the madness to follow.
Sure, I'll be disappointed, but I have other stuff to collect I enjoy, and a life, so I'll kind of enjoy the general collector meltdown going on that will follow that soothsaying, and it will be epic and fun to observe as people lash out.
