Why Hasbro Star Wars Should Call it Quits!

[megocrazy]

Next month Joe's Discount Department Store will be releasing the Megocrazy Jedi Starfighter. Unfortunately the figure is still too big to fit in the cockpit and can only stand out side and look at it. Star Wars toys have been ridiculous for a long time. You would almost think they should release a new movie so they can create a new toy line.

[PCofmisfittoys]

it's still supply and demand. i say the same thing about all the superhero figuresthat are rehashed over and over . I stopped buying " new" SW figures a few years ago but will still pickup new ones that where never released. Like everything else , there are new fans of the old series and kids still want them.

and grayhawk, i thought they should have stopped making little people and weebles a long time ago too..lol . you can't replace the originals of those

[MarkStalcup]

The Battle-Damaged Vader is pretty cool-looking, but I wonder what the story is with him. They say his damage is from Rebel agents onboard the Death Star.

Elsewhere, he fights Obi-Wan and wins...he fights a young Luke and wins. He kills buttloads of Jedi and wins. And Rebel spies are somehow supposed to do THAT kind of damage?

I don't think so. Looks cool, but that's got to be a heck of a story there.

The bad thing about Hasbro is, they release these high-end superarticulated figures in the "Vintage" collection for $12.99 and then less than a year later, many are out again in repacks or on new cards for $6.63. Add to that the high cost for such a small figure and the fact they're on their 33rd Darth Vader with dang little difference in most versions, and it gets old. Those sell to the kids and the fanatics, but again, anybody who tries to keep up is a tad crazy...there's stuff they released that I didn't even know existed, mostly here-today, gone-tomorrow Target exclusives like the Snowspeeder.

They lost me when the Expanded Universe figures came out, and I couldn't get them all, as well as the poorly distributed R2-D2 with hologram Leia...once that broke the cycle I kind of resigned myself to just getting the ones I saw and liked.

[palitoy]

I saw this coming when the line relaunched in 1996, I spent a year trying to keep up and then realised it was never going to end. No matter how many figures I bought ten new ones would be waiting for me the next month. It was a bit like quitting smoking, I packed everything up and sold it, I was lucky to make a few bucks on the deal (probably $100-200 profit).

I actually couldn't even look at Star Wars for a long time after and have never purchased a new product since.

[Seeker]

My Walmart just started getting in the Force Unleashed figures based on the game. I managed to pick up a Battle damaged Darth Vader on the way out.

He looks pretty cool with his removable chucks of armor. Anakin in all his burnt scabby glory.

[MarkStalcup]

That scene's actually from the new video game "The Force Unleashed" where Vader does, in fact, fight wookies. And those multipacks are repacked figures that are also aimed at kids and parents, who want maximum bang for their buck.

I'm pretty worn out with Star Wars myself, but every now and again, they come along with something cool, i.e. the Biggs Darklighter toy, the Yarna (fat Jabba's dancer) one that's forthcoming and so on...the mistake people make is trying to buy EVERY figure on every variant card when they've reissued several multiple times.

[jwyblejr]

Both are Target exclusives anyways. It's not like you'll see them clogging the shelves everywhere. You'll just be lucky to find them,with the history of how well Target exclusives have sold in the past.

[starsky]

yeah i know what you mean! i gave up long time ago and already got rid of the ones i did have. it was just getting too ridiculous!!

[grayhank]

Reason # 1: Let's take a bunch of leftover figures put them in a scene that has never happened...we might get away with calling it Expanded Universe provided nobody notices.

Darth Vader with two Stormtroopers fighting Wookiees. I must have missed that scene during the 6 Star Wars movies. I do recall a scene that had "Clone Troopers" fighting Wookies but that happened somewhat before Anakin becoming Vader. They are just making this stuff up as they go along now.



Reason # 2: Let's take a very overused vehicle, give it yet another paint job (that we've already done over a dozen times before) and call it something else.