star wars "saga"

[Diabolical]

How the hell did they fuck these two up so much?
There goes $14 back in my pocket.

[mabudon]

Yeah, that "loss" thing is what I was referring to, pure bullshit and hard to feel sorry about really, "losing" should mean you're in the fuckin hole LARGE, not "disappointed with the soft numbers of what we anticipated to be a much better recieved line" ESPECIALLY in light of shit like that HAN fig holy FUCK

HOW could a figure of Harrison Ford somehow be totally hilarious?? Now we have the answer and it's right up there ^

[Diabolical]

I see what you mean.



Also, that profile of Han could easily be made to look like he's jerking off.

[anarky]

You know the reason the 7" Unleashed was cancelled, right?

After ROTS, the sales of that line didn't increase as much as sales of the other lines.

Think about this for a minute. Unleashed had a very faithful following. Sure, you didn't get kids buying them, but I know a lot of adults who aren't collectors who bought an Unleashed or two. And all the collectors were completists. (It was possible to be a completist with Unleashed.) But everyone who's going to buy them pretty much already is. You don't have the new blood like you do on a line of $6 action figures that actually move. Plus, you only have three of them vs, what, 60 new ROTS figures at once?

Of course the sales increase isn't going to be the same as the basic figures! But they didn't lose money!

And why they're not coming back: They keep re-releasing the same molds over and over. You all know that. But some retailers complained they took up too much shelf space and cost too much. So they somehow decided to fix that by making the packages bigger, and adding $5 to the price. And the ones they're re-releasing aren't the ones people want. Aside from Boba, every re-release was easy to find in the initial release. Most went to clearance. And yet, something like the second Vader (with removeable helmet), which everyone wants, they won't release! Every year at Comic-Con, they're asked about it, and say, "That's not a bad idea, but it's not in the plans." Why not? Did people requesting that one figure every year for three or four years, combined with resale values on eBay, not clue you in that people want it?

Yet they keep say they're testing the waters, re-releasing the same crap and hoping that, magically, it will sell better than any Unleashed figure did originally. They say they can't spend money on new sculpts.

Never mind that they could do new sculpts, sell them as online exclusives for a little more than original retail (maybe $20-$25 each), and sell more than enough to turn a profit.

Big business logic may be screwy, but Hasbro really confounds me sometimes.

[Double_G]

Also, that profile of Han could easily be made to look like he's jerking off.

Quick, turn on the Auxilary-signal!

I'm looking at it this way. Han looks okay when he's strapped in the torture rack, and that's the only place he's going to be. I'm not standing him up looking like that.

[anarky]

Torture rack and masturbation action on the same figure?

Wow.

This might be too good to be true.

[Ran]

Torture rack and masturbation action on the same figure?

Wow.

This might be too good to be true.

Its the "Hurts so good" Han.

Man, I haven't seen those pictures of Han and Lando yet. I'm even less excited about them now.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

I think the Lando figure looks pretty good, actually. I hate Han's jawline - they need to figure out how to do decent head articulation. At least Lando doesn't look like half his fuckin' jaw was cut off.

Also, why is Han's hair blowing in the wind? Were they so caught up in the success of the Moisture Farmer Luke figure that they wanted to do it again?

[kidhuman]

What the fuck is Lando looking at?

[Ran]

Maybe Masturbation Han isn't masturbating himself. Maybe the card game was a cover up on how Han earned the Falcon.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

What the fuck is Lando looking at?

The rest of Han's shit that he's gonna steal in a few minutes.

[kidhuman]

IF ANYONE FINDS THE Starkiller Leia or McVader, please hook me up. thanks fellas.

[Zero]

What's this about Sideshow making playsets?

[anarky]

I'm looking for Starkiller as of this moment. I found myself one, so next one's yours (assuming I see shim again).

[Ran]

What's this about Sideshow making playsets?

In one of the Q&As last week, Hasbro admitted to having preliminary talks with Sideshow about giving them the rights to make playsets for the 3.75" line. They said nothing is definite yet.