Star Wars Black Series

[docsilence]

I can see a sad montage of a droid making his way through the galaxy losing parts one at a time and replacing them with whatever he can find. He's the perpetually put upon scrappy underdog your heart goes out to through the use of clever editing and music choices and goddammit I'm going to buy this thing aren't I?

It just keeps splash cutting to him getting blasted to shit and then doing some self-repairs. Starts out as a pristine but aging battle droid, ends up looking like concept art from Chappie

 

[joshsquash729]

You know, it kind of didn't hit me back when they were revealed, but Dogma and Hardcase are coming out as a 2 pack. And we have had Pong Krell rumored for quite some time. Dogma and Hardcase were in the Pong Krell episode. I wonder if that is just a further clue Krell is on the way? That Hasbro is letting Dogma and Hardcase out as a Wal-Mart exclusive two pack to maybe coincide with Krell's release. I hope he is finally revealed at SDCC.

I think I somehow missed that pack being announced/leaked. I just looked it up and have no memory of seeing that before. I got Hardcase a while back from Veils Toys, so I'm not entirely sure I'd need a second one, but I do admittedly like that un-helmeted head. Maybe I'll snag it when it goes up, and try and turn my original one into another Clone; I've never attempted any sort of Clone customization.

I agree on the Mercenary Droid- there's just something really cool about him. All the Merc Droids, really- I hope we see at least the Super Battle Droid one and maybe one other- would be cool to see them re-use the L3 head again. I wanna say this one was the one we saw super quickly in the pilot seat during the air battle at the end, but I could be wrong. If it even matters- there were so many of them, there was undoubtedly a couple that looked exactly the same. Much as I'd love to army build these guys, for money purposes, I can't. I'm using the "well, they were all cobbled together, so none of them would look exactly the same" excuse to justify not getting more than 1.

But it does make me smile whenever Hasbro does a background character anymore, especially one as "intricate" as this one. I miss the good old days when everyone got a figure

 

[JakeEkiss]

Something that never gets old on toy forums is watching people talk themselves into buying things in real time.

I think I'm going to take a risk and assume that because he's a no-name character from a film that underperformed he's going to go on deep discount int he next few months. I'm going to roll the dice on him. If it works out, Enfys Nest gets another teammate on the shelf.

It just keeps splash cutting to him getting blasted to shit and then doing some self-repairs. Starts out as a pristine but aging battle droid, ends up looking like concept art from Chappie

At some point you get a version of this scene from 8th MS Ground Team:

 

[docsilence]

I think I'm going to take a risk and assume that because he's a no-name character from a film that underperformed he's going to go on deep discount int he next few months. I'm going to roll the dice on him. If it works out, Enfys Nest gets another teammate on the shelf.

At some point you get a version of this scene from 8th MS Ground Team:

That's a safe bet - Amazon discounted him by almost 4 bucks before he even shipped for me.

 

[Reefer Shark]

I think I'm going to take a risk and assume that because he's a no-name character from a film that underperformed he's going to go on deep discount int he next few months. I'm going to roll the dice on him. If it works out, Enfys Nest gets another teammate on the shelf.

At some point you get a version of this scene from 8th MS Ground Team:

Classic! I could watch 08th MS Team gifs all day

 

[JakeEkiss]

That's a safe bet - Amazon discounted him by almost 4 bucks before he even shipped for me.

He's already below the threshold where I could just get him for "free" using Amazon credit, so I always have the choice to impulse buy him if I want. But I'm going to see what SDCC stuff looks like first.

 

[docsilence]

He's already below the threshold where I could just get him for "free" using Amazon credit, so I always have the choice to impulse buy him if I want. But I'm going to see what SDCC stuff looks like first.

You just reminded me I have an insane amount of Amazon points because that's the card I use for book/convention expenses and household supplies, so it's just steadily building up points. I got the Lego X-Mansion last year for like 30 bucks after I had to put in my booth supply expenses.

 

[Schizm]

Walmart listed the second movie Mando wave at $24.97 which is why Amazon pricematched all of them, except for Zeb, I think.

I haven't had a chance to see the movie yet for like a billion reasons and I"m sure he's a nothingburger of a character but he's a droid in a cape! He's got parts from like nine or ten droids! He's seen ten star systems of bad road! He needs a name. (I had the same feeling with Guavian Enforcer and the Pike soldier. I kinda want a shelf the Nobodies mercenaries for Star Wars some day.

I am not a fan of unnamed characters - but there is something about *only* Star Wars where the background characters almost deserve a shelf. The galaxy is so big and the designs are always so well-done (even if the character ends up sucking) that I don't mind creating a shelf of just cool toys that look like they belong together - that phrase may be the key. All Star Wars toys look like they belong together. Maybe Hasbro was right to not make TBS animated figures faithful.

I think this is one of the reasons Holdo really didn't vibe with audiences - nothing about her looked Star Warsy.

I can see a sad montage of a droid making his way through the galaxy losing parts one at a time and replacing them with whatever he can find. He's the perpetually put upon scrappy underdog your heart goes out to through the use of clever editing and music choices and goddammit I'm going to buy this thing aren't I?

The episode of Rebels where all Chopper wants is a matching leg surprised me by how rude everyone was to him about it and how none of them figured he would just steal it.