As part of Hasbro's Q&A session, Rebelscum passed on 2 of your burning questions and now we've got the answers for you.
Rebelscum: Can you tell us more about the Vintage Collection C-3PO figure shown at Toy Fair? The two on display and the one in the presentation were all very different. (The carded sample being the worst example, with ill-fitting plates, kit-bashed legs and missing shoulder cuff, and the presentation image being the best looking Threepio sculpt you have done to date.) What figure will we be getting? Will the final figure be shiny vacmetal? If so, could the metallic finish be dulled, like in the films, with a matte spray? Hasbro: The figure will not be a shiny vac metal, as this figure is made of PVC which cannot be vac-metallicized. Instead, we are using metallic spray which has definitely improved in recent years in terms of the possible shininess. Looking at a finished carded sample in hand, the effect is more like a matted metallic like what you are asking for. Let's hope it passes muster (be sure to let us know).
Rebelscum: The Force Unleashed 5-packs are great sets! Very nice to see more characters from this video game brought to life as action figures. One puzzling thing: the Shadow Stromtroopers are the same in each set, yet the original official photos showed a darker removable helmet Stormtrooper included with Proxy and the gang. Why the change?Hasbro: The original intent was to give a different version of the Shadow Stormtrooper in each set, and so we had developed two versions of the phased trooper. However, Lucasfilm did not like the second version (that you mentioned) and we had to make a last-minute change and made them the same.
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