I played the game for a while but got bored and went back to Space Marine 2 (on my PS5 -- I have different games I'm playing on my X). I'm sure I'll pick it up again eventually. It's just, even after all the changes, not a great game. I fucking haaaaaate the Ubisoft-style open world mission types of 'go here and talk to a person, then go all the way somewhere else, then go back and talk to the person again for the next step - and nothing happens in between any of this.' And that seems to be like 50% of this game. Still... I'm open to toys.
Maybe? I know I had one several years ago from a set with poncho-wearing Qui-Gon. They may have re-used it for a Kenobi set. Looking at it with 4" figures, though, it is a fairly big boy and I'd be a bit surprised to see it in Black Series when these fucking clowns can't even get a Rancor to happen.
There really is no rhyme or reason to things anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm so happy that we got Turgle and Skoova Stev, but never in a million years would I have bet that we'd get them any time soon, let alone before more iconic creatures like the Rancor. Good or bad, Hasbro is always full of surprises!
That's for sure. But it also means they're not reliable for anything - including stuff you'd think we would have had years ago. It makes building and planning a collection quite difficult. And, I have to imagine, most of us -are- planning our collections these days. How many of us are just 'I buy whatever and I don't care what comes out?' I can't imagine very many.
Seriously. How has this line gone on so long without obvious entries like Lobot, Nien Nunb or the Max Rebo Band? How do we NOT have most of the cantina aliens in the line already? Why has Hasbro NOT done a Death Star Gunner? It boggles the mind.
For sure - but I'm even talking about the completionists. I imagine even the guys that buy every figure still -CARE- what's coming out. Most of them, I imagine, are still planning who will go on what shelf, what a 'complete' display looks like for them, who is more essential to their collection if the line should end, etc etc. Even people that buy every figure still want to know if they're going to be adding Lobot to their Cloud City display, or if they'll ever have to make room for a Rancor in their RotJ (or Book of Boba, or Jedi Survivor) display.
I'm sure the argument is that it is a big, expensive box - and that tends to be two things that retailers are allergic to. Maybe you can get larger or more expensive items out there for the OT, because it's the OT. But it seems like retailers are interested in either those high-level legacy items (again, OT) or whatever is current, no matter how bad it is. My understanding is that even something like the STAPP and Darth Maul w/ Speeder is a hard sell because it costs a lot, takes up a lot of shelf space, and yet isn't considered 'relevant' by retailers.
I'm not a completionist but I buy, I fully admit, TOO MUCH SHIT when I like a line. (I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I lost my childhood collections in a house fire, and then I moved overseas and got rid of EVERYTHING I owned in my 30s, so now in my 40s I am absolutely overcompensating for some empty spot in my heart and buying too many action figures.) But even I, an easy mark, really, really care what's coming out, and I'm pretty bored with Star Wars right now. I didn't even try to get the SDCC exclusive and if I want something like that I'll like, schedule a meeting with myself in the calendar so I can order it. But I have a half-dozen beautiful Ben Kenobis, two or three beauitful Anakins. Just nothing there to get me excited enough to fight for it.
