Star Wars Toy Thread

[Bravo]

Men and women X-Wing pilots have the same bodies...exact same height and everything. Oh, Duro got new hands. They remembered that.

[Swindle]

Wish I had money for the retro stuff. Sucker for Padme lol.

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I read that Target's ebay store had the less interesting Phantom Menace set for $30, but not being aware of such a thing I missed...if I would've gotten it.
Bullseyedeals is the name of their ebay store. Something like that.

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Next TVC Haslab is the Mos Eisley Cantina. Just a one month window.
No plans for Wuher and Tonnika Sisters to be released outside it.
So you order one, devalue them by opening the glued blister bubbles. Or not open them, and what's the point?
$399.99
$499.99 if you want a complete set, really.

Geez. I'd have preferred they made the bar and a modular booth at mass retail. As much as I like the cantina, it's just a bar.

STAR WARS The Vintage Collection Mos Eisley Cantina

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You would have to display it via table and it'd have to be a room center piece to be able to use it completely. The different tiers are scummy. 100 bucks for chairs.

The figures are much more interesting that the set itself.

[Bravo]

As someone put it "Figure Hostage Lab".
Gushers are loving it and poo-poo the naysayers. Fandom as usual.
The mystique of the unmade Tonnika sisters reminds me of dumb GI JOE hype about rare foreign figures. Things that were NOT part of most people's childhoods and fan experiences become Holy Grails. It's silly. Had the sisters been mass retail releases 20 years ago, they'd have been clearance fodder, passed up even by "collectors" (non-completists are always fickle) and only worth money years later because they'd never be made again.

If the Haslab were like $200, I'd talk myself into it. But...$500 to get an actual "complete" set. I mean, no exterior except like the door area. No band area, because the original set didn't have it. No floor, no roof options.

Why do they limit buyers/backer to 5? I suspect it's because resellers would eventually devalue the Haslab concept. "Oh, last time resellers had tons in stock, I'll wait for that, by then maybe I'll have some money to spare."

[Felix]

Sheesh. Glad I got out of the Star Wars game when I did.

The sisters are kind of cool...fans only been waiting 45 years for them.

[Bravo]

The Vintage Collection card/packaging fetishism has done more harm than good. It propelled the figures to premium formats. Of course, Disney's greed and failures killed the 4" kid's stuff, too.
We have this weird dichotomy of insisting on absolute best newest articulation, but must come on retro cardbacks with glued on bubbles. We want nostalgia, except many fans hate the Retro Collection, because not that kind of nostalgia. (I'm not big on the Retro collection, either for reasons).
And once Hasbro realized they do a kickstarter type offering based on FOMO, collecting current Star Wars became a richer person's hobby.
For me, it was all over when I couldn't rationalize the Sail Barge. LOL. See, that was something that NEEDED to be made. Cantina toys had been made, if lacking.

[Felix]

"Why don't you wait outside 3PO, we don't want any trouble."

Cantina should include real jar of sand! HA!

I liked the empty carded figure someone had on ebay that was just "The Force".
Pretty sure it was just a space background.

To be honest, I was never a big fan of the aliens as a kid. Not counting Jawa's and Sand People. They were cool. They are like the homeless guys in Star Wars.


I loved ROTJ, but when all the aliens blew up on the sail barge, my first thought was, "Good, I don't have to collect any of them."

Kenner style figures were the best. Vinyl capes and lightsaber poles in the arms for the win.

[Bravo]

Based on ANH and ESB, the Empire could've been mostly human. Tatooine is fringe planet barely under Imperial jurisdiction. Even ROTJ's original backstory for the Mon Calamari was they were attacked by the Empire, not former members of the Old Republic. The prequels decided the Republic was a vast, diverse species organization. So naturally, when it becomes an Empire, what the Empire want to push is speciesism. That only works as a form of control/oppression if non-humans are a minority. And then the Empire gradually decommissions the clones, losing manpower needed to enforce. It's not like the Sith made sense, anyway.

[Swindle]

I always thought, people trash on Attack of the Clones, but there is a scene in it that makes pretty good sense. Anakin and Padme are having a convo and Anakin expresses clear authoritarian tendencies. "One person should make the decision" vs Padme who believes in elective republic. Anakin grew up a slave and the Republic seemed hapless to enforce its own laws, so Anakin not being keen on it felt pretty true given his upbringing. Its the whole thing, Empire could cut through red tape and get shit done because polticains were not a factor. Now, clearly, Palp was not a benevolent dictator, but they have existed in real history.

The Disney Sequels made Leia into a bad military leader who the Republic didn't listen to. Dumb. The First Order was peanuts compared to proper Empire, yet they caused chaos in Force Awakens because dark force users are obsessed with super weapons.

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I still say Attack of the Clones is the best prequel, even having some of the worst scenes.
Revenge of the Sith was mostly fan service, and that's often a good/bad thing.
The sequels were made by people who claimed to be fans but didn't understand how the source material worked.
Rogue One felt like a comic book prequel to a major movie. Good in a lot of ways, but also hard to reconcile stylistically with its source. But what wouldn't be with Star Wars A New Hope's 1970's-ness?
Solo, again fans who didn't entirely understand the source material. Those dice. I never thought or cared about became a big thing to Disney. Han himself in the film is a flippant joker. When does he become the cynic we see in the original trilogy? When Qira takes off at the end?

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Yeah, Attack of the Clones moves the plot along and some of its reaction felt like backlash from when critics/fans turned on TPM. Ep1's two big points are Anakin will be trained by Obi and Palp is a slime ball hiding in plan site. Everything else in it is superfluous. You don't need over 2 hrs to make those points.

Solo was the first time clearly, the shine was off the IP. I went and saw it with some friends, I think maybe 5 other people were in the theater. "A Star Wars Story," Not just a "Star Wars Movie."

[Bravo]

Cantina is closing in on 4,000 backers, half of what it needs. Not bad for a day, but the final backer goal is 17,000 for the wolfman. over 4 times what it has now. And to get at in a month's time? We'll see.

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Jun 8, 2024 15:23:51 GMT -8 Bravo said:

Cantina is closing in on 4,000 backers, half of what it needs. Not bad for a day, but the final backer goal is 17,000 for the wolfman. over 4 times what it has now. And to get at in a month's time? We'll see.

He'll end up like Mustard and Ketchup of Skystriker Haslab fame.