Why no Droids or Ewoks animated series action figures?

[BlackKnight]

Yeah, the "animated debut" Boba Fett figure was cool... based on his first appearance in the animated segment of the SW Holiday Special.

The Canadian animation company that produced that segment, Nelvana, also did Droids and Ewoks.
(And some cool stuff like A Cosmic Christmas and The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Rock & Rule. They even almost did a Doctor Who cartoon!)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/...9a2f8c0d87.jpg

That's the 1.

[boynightwing]

I never cared for the Droids cartoon as a kid. I couldn't understand why Luke and Han were not with them. Does it take place before the movies? I haven't seen it since then.

The Ewoks cartoon I love. I watched it without fail every week. I even bought a DVD with a few episodes on it. I would pick up figures in that style of them.

[samurainoir]

Weren't the Ewok figures the peg warmers back in the day?

I'm not up on vintage stuff these days, but for the longest time the (movie versions at least) were the cheapest you could get for your Star Wars action figure collection since they were so plentiful (except perhaps for Wicket).

[LadyZod]

I never cared for the Droids cartoon as a kid. I couldn't understand why Luke and Han were not with them. Does it take place before the movies? I haven't seen it since then.

The Ewoks cartoon I love. I watched it without fail every week. I even bought a DVD with a few episodes on it. I would pick up figures in that style of them.

Droids was supposed to take place before A New Hope, but after Revenge of the Sith.

[bgiles73]

An Ewok jedi?
You sir must now turn in your SW card. Ewoks are evil and one of the most annoying parts of any of the films. I hated them in 83 and i still have no love.

I meant that more as a joke. Actually I'm surprised Lucas never added one to the Jedi Order! Even more outrageous would be Ewok and Jar Jar Sith Lords!

[LadyZod]

Ewok Jedi would rule. I'm just saying.

[rche]

We Have those ..., I was talking Droid Toon .

right; So, IF hasbro was going to put out a retro droid toon 3po or R2, it would probably be a repaint of these on a different cardback. Easy enough to customize; just need some yellow and tan paint for the protocol droid and maybe redo r2s dome in a grey instead of silver.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I never thought of it, but yeah; if they can do the ice-cream maker guy, why no Duloks? Looking at them now, the cartoons weren't bad. "Ewoks" was kinda Care Bear'd up, but "Droids" had some neat stories. Plenty of material there that I'm surprised hasn't been plundered. (Especially since bits of it have been working their way into cannon.) Same goes for the Marvel comic; although I bet Marvel has a Vulcan death-grip on anything they made. Still; I'd love proper figures of Valence and Jaxxon.

Don C.

[BlackKnight]

right; So, IF hasbro was going to put out a retro droid toon 3po or R2, it would probably be a repaint of these on a different cardback. Easy enough to customize; just need some yellow and tan paint for the protocol droid and maybe redo r2s dome in a grey instead of silver.

They Actually look a Bit Different ...
If they were just Repaints, I might get them ... maybe, maybe Not.
How Many R2's and Epo's are out there now ? ... Like 7to10 of each ? ... I'd like new Sculpts. I don't customize Star Wars 3&3/4 inch, No Desire to do so. I play with my Son's figures, and Keep mine on the Cards.

[Werewolf]

Hmmmm....

I never thought of it, but yeah; if they can do the ice-cream maker guy, why no Duloks? Looking at them now, the cartoons weren't bad. "Ewoks" was kinda Care Bear'd up, but "Droids" had some neat stories. Plenty of material there that I'm surprised hasn't been plundered. (Especially since bits of it have been working their way into cannon.)

Exactly! The Droids and Ewoks SW toons were actually pretty good and offer loads of untapped character choices instead the usual blink and you miss them set dressing characters or 500 different versions of Anakin and Luke. And I'm pretty sure the Droids and Ewoks cartoons are officially considered canon now.

[Bruce Banner]

Same goes for the Marvel comic; although I bet Marvel has a Vulcan death-grip on anything they made. Still; I'd love proper figures of Valence and Jaxxon.

Don C.

Figures of the Marvel SW characters would be awesome, and I'm still hoping they'll do Valance, Jaxxon, Crimson Jack, etc. some day.

At least we got Lumiya a while back.

I think Marvel sold off the rights to all their original SW characters when they sold the reprint rights of the entire series to Dark Horse, but I'll have to check.




And you gotta love these:

[samurainoir]

And you gotta love these:

http://droidsandewoks.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/7/2/1672548/9237214_orig.jpg

http://droidsandewoks.weebly.com/upl...18423_orig.jpg

These were fun. I think I got mine from Disney World back in the day, and I seem to remember that they were still selling them at the MGM ride a few years ago.

[jds1911a1]

[QUOTE=Bruce Banner;594357]Figures of the Marvel SW characters would be awesome, and I'm still hoping they'll do Valance, Jaxxon, Crimson Jack, etc. some day.

At least we got Lumiya a while back.

I think Marvel sold off the rights to all their original SW characters when they sold the reprint rights of the entire series to Dark Horse, but I'll have to check.

QUOTE]

Every year about June several sites have a poll for what figures the fans want starting with sub categories for each film, comics, games, books, and other tv (Droids, ewoks, ewoks tv mvies, clone wars 2003, Holiday special) and as each category closes the categories and winners are rated against each other to try to come up with a list which will not peg warm.
Rebelscum.com: 2010 Rebelscum.com Hasbro Wishlist Poll: Top 25 Overall