the vynsane asylum

Cool. I'll have to see some good photos of the set and compare it to the Rebel Troopers I have from the first Saga collection (and POTJ, was it?). I think I have 3 different heads on them and that one of them had the burns, but I'll look into that one.

And I'll fire up a fucking double post too - just to be part of the "in" crowd (and yes, you can bite me too, Dino bitch).

Royal Shitheads claim that the heads are different, and upon inspection they are. The stormtroopers look really good as well, so this set is now on my list of things to get. Piss me off.

Found some TAC today, had Target run the DPCI and they brought out 2 fresh cases for me. Anarky, I got you a concept Stormie because you said you needed it. Will toss it in with the other stuff I have for you if ya still want it.

Is anyone getting sick of the "discussion" at a certain other site?

It's not even the bitching anymore. That I was fine with. Now it's people who refuse to listen to reason.

1) The "Vintage" figures. Sure, they're nice. But Hasbro proves again and again that they can do the same level of articulation on a basic figure. So why encourage the SOBs to produce figures for $10 (or, likely, $11-$12 this year)? "But the packaging is so cool!" Dude, shut the fuck up. Buy some goddamned real vintage figures if you like the shitty old cards that much.

2) The pack-in game. Moisture Vaporator with inferior new Tatooine Luke. Awesome Zev Senesca with the same old fucking Snowspeeder. Now GH Qui-Gon and Jar Jar with every other fucking TPM GH figure ever. No one realizes that Hasbro is going to keep doing this shit until enough people say, "Dude, enough. Give us the fucking stuff we want without the bullshit." Instead, I keep reading, "That new Tatooine Luke sucks, but I want the Vaporator. I'll only buy twelve."

3) Darth Cobra Commander. I am so fucking tired of people defending this stupid piece of shit. A boring-ass looking figure from a game only available on one system. "Well, if it was available on only one system, that means it was even more popular that it won." Shut the fuck up. Read the facts. First, the guy didn't win. Quinlan Vos won, but Hasbro didn't have the fucking common sense to take an already-planned figure off the list. He came in second. And he had a full 8% of the vote, with a 2% margin over the next figure. That's not a mandate. That's such a minor number that a runoff is necessary to see any real results, especially since the real winner was disqualified. [In fact, given that the poll was conducted by a magazine aimed at retarded elementary school kids, it's actually worse for Darth CC that he scored so low!] Certainly not enough of a margin to justify putting out multiple stupid-ass KOTOR figures that suck.

3A) I'm so fucking sick of, every time I say anything about Darth Cobra Commander, all these dumbasses come back with, "Man, you EU-haters need to shut up! You've had all your figures." First, I'm the EU-hater? Have you read any of my posts, ever? Where the fuck were you ten years ago when I was asking for Corran, Teek, etc--who, by the way, still aren't even rumored. Second, Hasbro's making stupid shit like this and Pre-Cyborg Grievous instead of stuff we ask for? So, to prove to Hasbro we want EU, I'm supposed to buy all this ugly shit that had minimal costs to retool? In other words, "Keep giving us turds we don't want. We'll buy them to show you we want other stuff." That makes no goddamned sense.

4) Unnecessary resculpts. All these fucktards keep defending the decisions to make the most ridiculous resculpts. "We need a super-articulated 4-LOM because the first was inadequate, and because they've resculpted all the other bounty hunters." So, they screwed you on the other characters, so now they need to screw you on the last one to make it even? WTF? I really want to know who the fuck decides, "Hey, let's resculpt Bossk again instead of making Cliegg Lars." If they're so keen on resculpts, why not the characters who actually fucking need it, Dr Evazan chief among them, because the only figure of him looks more like fucking Goofy.

5) "Kids don't buy these." Bull fucking shit. Every time I'm in the store, unless it's late at night or the buttcrack of dawn, there are kids looking at SW, or parents looking on their behalf. "Kids don't buy background characters." Again, bull fucking shit. It's the parents who don't. I once heard a kid take five minutes to talk his dad into getting him K-3PO instead of another Obi-Wan resculpt. "Kids only want the main characters." Dude, did you only want Batman in twelve costumes when you were a kid, with no Robin or Joker? No. Do you honestly believe the past few years have made all the kids retards or something?

I'm am a stone's throw from being in EP's corner here. Hasbro can do excellent work when they try, but they're becoming more and more obviously in it for the money.

Yessss... YEssssssss......come to me, my precious. I'll make all the stress and pain go away. Yessssssss.......

anarky wrote:Is anyone getting sick of the "discussion" at a certain other site?

It's not even the bitching anymore. That I was fine with. Now it's people who refuse to listen to reason.

I completely agree

1) The "Vintage" figures. Sure, they're nice. But Hasbro proves again and again that they can do the same level of articulation on a basic figure. So why encourage the SOBs to produce figures for $10 (or, likely, $11-$12 this year)? "But the packaging is so cool!" Dude, shut the fuck up. Buy some goddamned real vintage figures if you like the shitty old cards that much.

I have to agree here. The difference in price is basically a $5 dollar clam shell? WTF? Are you that fucking retarded?

2) The pack-in game. Moisture Vaporator with inferior new Tatooine Luke. Awesome Zev Senesca with the same old fucking Snowspeeder. Now GH Qui-Gon and Jar Jar with every other fucking TPM GH figure ever. No one realizes that Hasbro is going to keep doing this shit until enough people say, "Dude, enough. Give us the fucking stuff we want without the bullshit." Instead, I keep reading, "That new Tatooine Luke sucks, but I want the Vaporator. I'll only buy twelve."

I am so against buying the Luke, but I do want the Vaparator. I m,ight just toss Luke to the kid. I never got one of the snowspeeders, I guess its good I held out, because no way would I have bought Zev for 30 bucks. The Qui-Gon and JJB GH figs are pissing me off. I dont want the otehr bullshit in there, just those two.

3) Darth Cobra Commander. I am so fucking tired of people defending this stupid piece of shit. A boring-ass looking figure from a game only available on one system. "Well, if it was available on only one system, that means it was even more popular that it won." Shut the fuck up. Read the facts. First, the guy didn't win. Quinlan Vos won, but Hasbro didn't have the fucking common sense to take an already-planned figure off the list. He came in second. And he had a full 8% of the vote, with a 2% margin over the next figure. That's not a mandate. That's such a minor number that a runoff is necessary to see any real results, especially since the real winner was disqualified. [In fact, given that the poll was conducted by a magazine aimed at retarded elementary school kids, it's actually worse for Darth CC that he scored so low!] Certainly not enough of a margin to justify putting out multiple stupid-ass KOTOR figures that suck.

Fuck Darth CC and his punk ass video game. Make a fuckin Yarna figure already

3A) I'm so fucking sick of, every time I say anything about Darth Cobra Commander, all these dumbasses come back with, "Man, you EU-haters need to shut up! You've had all your figures." First, I'm the EU-hater? Have you read any of my posts, ever? Where the fuck were you ten years ago when I was asking for Corran, Teek, etc--who, by the way, still aren't even rumored. Second, Hasbro's making stupid shit like this and Pre-Cyborg Grievous instead of stuff we ask for? So, to prove to Hasbro we want EU, I'm supposed to buy all this ugly shit that had minimal costs to retool? In other words, "Keep giving us turds we don't want. We'll buy them to show you we want other stuff." That makes no goddamned sense.

You hate EU and you know it. WTF is comments like that? I dont like 80% of the EU. I dont want video game figures, if I did I would be clamoring for Roz from Bounty Hunter.

4) Unnecessary resculpts. All these fucktards keep defending the decisions to make the most ridiculous resculpts. "We need a super-articulated 4-LOM because the first was inadequate, and because they've resculpted all the other bounty hunters." So, they screwed you on the other characters, so now they need to screw you on the last one to make it even? WTF? I really want to know who the fuck decides, "Hey, let's resculpt Bossk again instead of making Cliegg Lars." If they're so keen on resculpts, why not the characters who actually fucking need it, Dr Evazan chief among them, because the only figure of him looks more like fucking Goofy.

I dunno, I shook my head when I saw this. A SA 4-LOM. I mean seriously. Why? Who needs it?

5) "Kids don't buy these." Bull fucking shit. Every time I'm in the store, unless it's late at night or the buttcrack of dawn, there are kids looking at SW, or parents looking on their behalf. "Kids don't buy background characters." Again, bull fucking shit. It's the parents who don't. I once heard a kid take five minutes to talk his dad into getting him K-3PO instead of another Obi-Wan resculpt. "Kids only want the main characters." Dude, did you only want Batman in twelve costumes when you were a kid, with no Robin or Joker? No. Do you honestly believe the past few years have made all the kids retards or something?

I see kids buying SW all the time. They pass right over Spidey and Marvel shit, but they want these. Sure they might not know who 1/2 the figures are, but they look cool as shit to most of them.

I'm am a stone's throw from being in EP's corner here. Hasbro can do excellent work when they try, but they're becoming more and more obviously in it for the money.

I aint that far yet, but am saving a shit load of money this year especially with all the EU and repacks.

kidhuman wrote:You hate EU and you know it. WTF is comments like that? I dont like 80% of the EU. I dont want video game figures, if I did I would be clamoring for Roz from Bounty Hunter.

I'd kill for comic-based or novel-based figures. Even the multi-colored clones, for all my bitching, are cool to a certain extent (though a dozen within a year is excessive).

I'd even like some video game figures. But when LucasArts is thoughtful enough to only make the game for XBox, and I have a PS2 and GameCube, I have no interest in the game.

BTW, Hasbro is making things really easy for me. I found Death Star Trooper, Pilot Han, and Ceremonial Luke today. These things look like shit! The Luke is the worst Luke figure ever, and has the shittiest paint application ever seen on a SW figure.

I passed on two. I ended up getting the Trooper, though I was on the fence. I figure if I change my mind, Luke and Han will always be around, but Imperials tend to vanish more quickly.

Even so, it sort of looks like shit compared to the 1998 one. Sure, it has more articulation, but when a figure is made almost ten years after another, it should show improvement, not several steps backward.

I bought the Luke, Han, and Death Star troop. Han is probably the best of the 3. Since Chewbacca takes up all the room in the Falcon's cockpit, this Han will probably have a permanent home in the gunner's seat. The DST is an improvement of the POTF2 version, but then again, so would a black terd wearing a little helmet. There is a lot more articulation and it isn't pre-posed. But, the oversized round joints make it look more like a SpaceBall than a Star Wars figure.

Luke...I'm not sure why I bought it. I haven't opened it yet. The body is probably ok, but the head sucks.

I haven't really been paying attention, but i occasionally do look at the SW figures just to see whats new and is it just me or are they SHRINKING? I swear that new Han Solo is the puniest looking Han I've ever seen. Did Lucas retroactively CGI Natalie Portman in as Han in the OT and I didn't hear about it? Because Han looks like a 90 lb girl now.

I'll let you know soon - mine's supposed to be here this week. I'll compare him to vintage Han and at least one from the POTJ line - it'll be a Han-off for the ages!

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Wow. Just...wow.

fuck, that was funny.

Vyn, when we find people like that, you need to invite them here. That was fucking brilliant.

that's a good idea...