star wars "saga"

[jjreason]

Wow, tons of time for action features to spoil key plot points! Just like AOTC!

[anarky]

Torryn Farr is less than three bucks on Amazon. When I first looked, she was $2.74; when I went to order, she'd dropped to $2.68. I couldn't pass at that price.

[jjreason]

She's actually well worth the money. Good figure. But then again, I liked the latest Dagobah Luke & Yoda. ><

[anarky]

Aaaaaand... basic figures are now $12 and up. After seeing posts on Facebook about increases to as high as $16 at some Targets, I verified it with my own eyes at two Targets and two Walmarts (the third WM had no figures).

No melodrama or exaggeration, but fuck that, I'm done if this isn't changed back to at most $10. Jaxxon is literally the only figure left to make that I'd think about considering, and it's more likely Natalie Portman would just show up at my door and blow me on the spot than Disney would let Hasbro make him.

[Ran]

$12-$16? Earlier this week the Disney Store had them for $10.95. I figured the extra $0.95 was because it was in the mall.

If the price is going up above $10, I'm done too. Not that I expected to buy much, if anything, this year. Movie years typically don't offer much I'm interested in.

[jjreason]

The only thing I can think of that they never made was the Tonnikas, and the dude on the skiff with the white jumpsuit and the black hockey helmet. I feel like we've made out better than fine; if I never get another Star Wars figure I'll survive.

I would like the last 2 I need from this wave though, the Ree Yees and Skiff Guard continue to elude me....

[Ran]

The only thing I can think of that they never made was the Tonnikas, and the dude on the skiff with the white jumpsuit and the black hockey helmet. I feel like we've made out better than fine; if I never get another Star Wars figure I'll survive.

I would like the last 2 I need from this wave though, the Ree Yees and Skiff Guard continue to elude me....

I got the Skiff Guard and skipped Ree Yees. It was a good run if the figures we are "missing" are background characters with a few seconds of screen time and no spoken lines. There are only 3 figures that were made that I wanted but don't have. Rebel in Biker Scout disguise, Blue Snaggletooth from the K-Mark cantina set, and the BG-J38.

[jjreason]

I'm pretty good too. Off the top, I remember not getting the multi-pack of Astromech droids that I would have liked, as well as the cinema scene with that same Rebel Commando in Biker Scout armor. I had a list at one point of all the items I had missed & still wanted, but it's long long gone. What I really want is the last 5 loose figures for my vintage collection, and possibly the loose creatures. And maybe a small ship or two. And those 2 playsets with the cardboard Sandcrawler & ATAT we used to have....

[anarky]

I'm not kidding that I want Jaxxon. But I'm under no illusion they'd make him. Teek was a huge surprise, and probably only made because of the Star Tours cameo.

With Ree-Yees and the nameless Skiff Guard, you're not missing anything. I passed on both those when I saw them at a TRU Express (basically a small in-mall TRU store during Christmas, with higher prices, even though there's a real TRU right outside) because they were $12 and not worth it.

[Diabolical]

Lucasfilm/Disney isn't 100% opposed to Jaxxon. He's appeared in some official webcomics, a reference on The Clone Wars and he's on one of the many variants of Star Wars #1 (Jason Aaron said he'd love to bring him back).

[Diabolical]

Every once on a while I see a reminder as to why I don't seriously collect anymore.


Although I kinda want this for the sheer awfulsomeness of it.

[vynsane]

C-Derp-E-0!

[anarky]

It looks like the main guy from Revenge of the Nerds (no idea what the hell his name is) dressed as C-3PO!!

[jjreason]

Some of the 5 Point figures have looked really good - others have been shameful. Not hard to see which toilet bowl C3 Urine O falls into. I'm relieved there are are only a few more Black Series OT figures on deck.

[Ran]

It looks like the main guy from Revenge of the Nerds (no idea what the hell his name is) dressed as C-3PO!!

I thought it looked like Dan Akroyd in Ghostbusters when he's having that dream about the ghost blowing him.

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