But I have no pants with which to hold quarters!
1 I recently saw the obi-wan kenobi fx figure at toys r us, but the blade on the saber was green, not blue as it should have been. All of the kenobis in the store had the green blade, as did some i spotted at a KayBee. However, in a catalogue that came with a beast pack (dewback, maybe) Kenobi has the appropriate saber color...was the proper blue saber ever produced? -Matt
I had the same question when these first hit. So I did what any well-connected fanboy should do: get on the horn with Hasbro. Jen informed me that it had to do with them wanting to use a light-emitting diode (LED) that was the same color as the saber, and blue LEDs were unavailable due to the cost. So they used green instead. No blue sabered FX Kenobis were made beyond prototype stages, unless I'm mistaken.
2 Do you have any idea how long the TRU sale will last? -Sctblocker
Until the stock runs out.
3 If Hasbro said that they were going to resculpt either the Rebel Fleet Trooper, the Hoth Rebel Soldier, or the Endor Rebel Soldier, and let you decide for them which one they would resculpt, which one would you choose and why? -John
Since I loved the Endor figure, and there already are two sculpts of the Hoth soldier, and the Rebel Fleet Trooper sucked, I'd go with the Rebel Fleet Trooper.
4
What you see is what I know about. While it's possible the SW Bucket could have some new figures, it's unlikely: last I heard on the rumor mill was that it was going to be a build-your-own-Podracer set.
5 Did I hear correctly that the Classic Trilogy Special Edition is being rerealeased on Video, or was this a figment of my imagination, like everyone claiming to have seen the Biggs scene in the 70s? -BlueCowl27
Last I heard was a November release for the Special Editions.
6
I've seen several Toy Fair report sites, and not a one showed Sio Bibble. But Yakface's Realm did post carded pics of the figure, so don't worry-- he is coming.
Hasbro frequently leaves a few items behind at Toy Fair, comic shows,
and so forth... it just happens. It doesn't necessarily mean anything
was canned.
7
I use Elmer's Glue Sticks. Them's suckers work good.
8
The entire (dismal) Collector Fleet line ended a long time ago. Anything you see in stores now is old stock, and no "new" ships are planned. In addition to the Mon Calamari Cruiser, a Death Star was also scrapped.
9
These were released in the USA. Sort of.
I got my sets from Galoob directly, as their web site had them available
to order for about eight bucks per or something like that. The books
were Dark Force Rising, Courtship of Princess Leia, and Dark
Apprentice.
These sets were pretty cool, but like with most hard to find Galoob
stuff, extras are scarce and I have never seen these for sale beyond
Galoob's offerings way back when.
10
Why? People have been actively asking for Porkins since at least 1996. Dodonna I have almost never seen anybody ask for (and please, dear readers, don't send requests in to me because I just wrote that.) While a lot of people are complaining, most of this year's classic stuff comes from fan requests-- Dagobah Vader and all. I'm cool with it.
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Questions for February 24, 2000
1
Well, the first figure in the Trophy Assortment is the Darth Maul with Binoculars and the mini-Sith Infiltrator we saw a few months ago on Teekay's site. It comes on a blister card, and one slipped to eBay the other week. I haven't got a look at the others in the assortment just yet, but the rumors mention a Bongo with Kenobi and a few others. If you like resculpts, you'll love these. I'm getting a little sick of 'em, personally...
2 I have seen that on the back of the transforming head set boxes by micro machines, there is a tie fighter pilot set pictured but I have never seen one of these in stores or on eBay. Whats the deal? I would love to get ahold of one of those. -ThisBoysNameIs
It shipped the same time as the Royal Guard head, and was pretty common in my area for a while. It's probably the lamest set there was in the classic heads assortment, and I'm almost positive they're showing up on the TRU Clearance Binges.
3 Remember on the Teekay-421 site, they showed the Sio Bibble figure with one of the cool, improved commtech chip? Well, how come the carded image of Sio Bibble shows the same old chip? -Dre187
I know that all manufacturers leave stuff out of toy fair, especially Hasbro, but how does that explain the absence of the new CommTech design and the new CommTech Reader? Not that anyone cares, but I do.
While I haven't gotten official word one way or another, I wouldn't be at all surprised that the product was altered before Hasbro gave the final go-ahead with the new chips & reader. I mean, the first reader isn't selling worth a darn, even at $10 or less people aren't buying these very quickly. Since the only images of new chips & readers have been in advance Hasbro photography, it's possible-- although not confirmed-- that these may never see production. (I hope so, anyway...
last thing we need is another huge non-selling SW item.)
4
Well, I'd guess it's the same reason the 4" "Live" Anakin for POTF2 had Kenobi's saber: Hasbro just messed up. If it was the other way around, it'd make sense, but I have yet to see anything showing multiple unlit Lightsabers... so it looks like it's just gonna be screwy.
5 What are your thoughts and feelings over Rep. John McCain using the Star Wars theme as his campaign song? What about when he referred to himself as Luke Skywalker flying out of the Death Star? -Leo
Considering pop culture at large seems to see Star Wars as stale, I'd say it was a bad idea.
6
Since exclusives are, well, exclusive, and Toy Fair is to sell product to retaillers, showing exclusives wouldn't be in Hasbro's best interests unless they had some as-of-yet-unassigned exclusives. Which they probably do. Plus anything that doesn't have pictures of final product can become unconfirmed in a heartbeat.
7
None of them? Depending on where you live, different ones are incredibly common.
8
I know that usually the photos do not correspond to the actual product
packaged. But I would like to know if this Fett indeed comes with his rifle
and its just not visible from the outside of the bubble.
The Deluxe Fett doesn't include the regular gun, or for that matter, a cape or a rocket pack. Just the ultra-jumbo-butt-kickin' rocket of doom.
9
There were also more Lukes than Leias, and Leia had more outfits than Luke... it's just the sad state of the toy biz: resculpts of male heroes sell better than most other figures.
10
The naming of the Ronto was actually much more
simplistic: George saw a design, started referring to it as a Bronto (or
some at LFL, pretty sure it was him) and when someone asked for a name,
he said "drop the 'B'." (No, I'm not making this one up.
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