Any New Year's TOY resolutions??

[Orion]

I need to keep my focus a little better this year. I strayed off course a couple of times and started purchasing items that are a little outside my regular collection. So I will try to stay on the Mego path this year.

[clemso]

C'mon this has to be the year that someone finally sells me a set of Mad Monster window box mibs, enough already

[toys2cool]

Get some more WDCC disney figurines

Find something of Warrior I don't have

Get some Dick tracy stuff and I'll be set

[BlackKnight]

Oh there's ALWAYS new STAR WARS toy news ramping up to the beginning of the New Year, what with Toy Fair in February and all.

It's all very exciting.

Hasbro has promised that this is going to be a serious year for celebrating the 30th Anniversarry of The Empire Strikes Back.

I just hope with every fiber of my being that the rumors of an all-new bigger, more accurate, AT-AT walker are true. I've never really cared for the current toy design, and I'll gladly sell off the ones I have to make room for some new ones.

The Rebel Armored Snowspeeder has been re-visited by Hasbro in an attempt to correct all of the bad mistakes of the previous versions of the toy (based on the vintage Kenner mold):

1) Scale-wise, it was actually too LARGE (believe it or not)
2) The cockpit was so badly designed that action figures could only recline on their backs facing virtually upward.
3) No working brake flaps (as seen in the movie)
4) Scribe lines on the ship's surface panels were raised (instead of recessed like they should be).

Here's an advanced photo of the prototype test-shot:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/darklord1967/IMG_0466a_1_.jpg

And after YEARS of denials by Hasbro that a new Cloud City Twin Pod Cloud Car would ever be offered up (not an "aggressive enough" ship, they said), THIS photo surfaced early this month of a prototype test shot of the toy coming out in 2010:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/darklord1967/IMG_0275a_1_.jpg

Unlike the vintage Kenner version (which was already nice), this version has retractable laser cannons that appear out of the center engine cluster AND, the heat fin panels at the backs of each pod are separate pieces rather than just molded on.

Looks like a serious piece of business.


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Damn Man !
I had previously never tracked down a Snow Speeder..., I kept waiting for them to re-issue it..., and well around here they never did ..., perhaps this is why. I look forward to this piece..., and the New AT-AT ... I still collect here and there, I do not have the "collect them all " mentality with Star Wars anymore,... I do not have the room, cash flow, nore do I need a packaging variation of characters.

I am really enjoying the Clone Wars toon right now, more so the Clone Trooper Toon Figures. I do believe the Boy and I are caught up to date with them all right yet..., We got the Turbo Tank for Xmas,.. and have yet to open it and check it out,.. just been real Busy.

I look forward to hearing more about these pieces.., big thanks for the Info.

[z3zep]

I need to sell some stuff -- I am being over-run by all my toys.

[Riffster]

Complete my teen titans, just need Speedy and Aqualad now