Hot toys Snowspeeder Pilot Luke Skywalker

[ObiGlennKenobi]

Nor Clone Wars Obi-Wan.

Nor Padme,Bespin Han or Lando.....







oh wait...

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

44 pages in 4 days ! Not bad. Snowspeeder Luke is clearly the most talked about as far as I can see.

Which makes HT refusal to make key OT characters like Bespin Han and Lando all the more frustrating and ridiculous.

 

[Creighton]

Im back. what did I miss?

Heres to Snow "SPEADER" Luke and the imminent pre-order.
Plus three cheers for not giving him a flimsy base like the Jawas.

 

[Hoody999]

Personally I think they'll release Snowspeeder Luke either when hype for Mando S2 is ramping up, so they get him out before it starts. Or a ways after once they have released several S2 figures. (Cara Dune, Moff Gideon, maybe Kuiil, maybe another trooper type, maybe a Gamorrean Guard ?

That said, I guess if they make some pro pics of that gorgeous V2 Snowspeeder Luke prototype they'll be able to sell that baby any day of the week.

 

[Hoody999]

Im back. what did I miss?

Heres to Snow "SPEADER" Luke and the imminent pre-order.
Plus three cheers for not giving him a flimsy base like the Jawas.

Thank goodness you're back......

Are you sure it's not the flimsy base ? It looked a lot like it to me.

 

[Hoody999]

Which makes HT refusal to make key OT characters like Bespin Han and Lando all the more frustrating and ridiculous.

Yep. It always comes back to this unfortunately. What gets me is that they have clear sales data for Star Wars figures. So they know the potential in say EU or USA compared to Asia where it is known to be not so popular.

Who knows maybe SW sales in USA and EU are not as high as we think ?? I mean we are in a bit of a bubble here in this forum.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Nor Clone Wars Obi-Wan.

That's just there to sell Anakins. Never gonna be made.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Yep. It always comes back to this unfortunately. What gets me is that they have clear sales data for Star Wars figures. So they know the potential in say EU or USA compared to Asia where it is known to be not so popular.

Who knows maybe SW sales in USA and EU are not as high as we think ?? I mean we are in a bit of a bubble here in this forum.

No doubt there are a lot of things that factor in to what is being made, but when you have stuff like the Sith Trooper getting made but no ESB Han/Lando/etc I have to question if all the folks involved in making this stuff are applying common sense?(hint, the answer is no)

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

That's just there to sell Anakins. Never gonna be made.

Imagine?

 

[Indiana Fett]

Which makes HT refusal to make key OT characters like Bespin Han and Lando all the more frustrating and ridiculous.

What happened to all the big ESB 40th announcements? May 4 - re-release of Vader and repaint of Boba, July - Snowspeeder Luke proto.

No Bespin Han, no Lando, no Chewy with 3PO backpack, no 3P0, no Bespin Luke 2.0, no Dagobah training Luke, no Bespin Escape Leia, no Snowtrooper re-release, no Hoth Luke, no Hoth Solo, no General Veers, no Admiral Piett, no bounty hunters... They had so many opportunities here.

 

[Wor-Gar]

No Bespin Han, no Lando, no Chewy with 3PO backpack, no 3P0, no Bespin Luke 2.0, no Dagobah training Luke, no Bespin Escape Leia, no Snowtrooper re-release, no Hoth Luke, no Hoth Solo, no General Veers, no Admiral Piett, no bounty hunters... They had so many opportunities here.

Too risky. I sent your list to HT and this is the reply I got back:

Bespin Han - Ford no like
Lando - scary foreigner
Chewy - failed too many times
3PO - gold paint expensive
Bespin Luke - not as much reuse as we thought
Bespin Leia - the head mold has finally had it, no more Leias
Hoth Luke - on the planning board because the gritted teeth sculpt looks cold
Hoth Han - we don't want to deal with Ford anymore
Adm Piett - who?

 

[chrisstbh]

Lando - scary foreigner

Honestly all jokes aside, Chinese people still have huge amounts of prejudice when it comes to black people, so I'm honestly not surprised that Lando and Mace Windu haven't been shown yet.

The only reason we got Finn was because they were riding on that Force Awakens hype wave, and you can find that figure for dirt cheap now.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Yes. I know. That's what I meant.

 

[chrisstbh]

Which is a shame because us Western folk would eat that **** up.

 

[Hoody999]

Too risky. I sent your list to HT and this is the reply I got back:

Bespin Han - Ford no like
Lando - scary foreigner
Chewy - failed too many times
3PO - gold paint expensive
Bespin Luke - not as much reuse as we thought
Bespin Leia - the head mold has finally had it, no more Leias
Hoth Luke - on the planning board because the gritted teeth sculpt looks cold
Hoth Han - we don't want to deal with Ford anymore
Adm Piett - who?

"Ford no like"

 

[momaw]

Too risky. I sent your list to HT and this is the reply I got back:

Bespin Han - Ford no like
Lando - scary foreigner
Chewy - failed too many times
3PO - gold paint expensive
Bespin Luke - not as much reuse as we thought
Bespin Leia - the head mold has finally had it, no more Leias
Hoth Luke - on the planning board because the gritted teeth sculpt looks cold
Hoth Han - we don't want to deal with Ford anymore
Adm Piett - who?

Honestly all jokes aside, Chinese people still have huge amounts of prejudice when it comes to black people, so I'm honestly not surprised that Lando and Mace Windu haven't been shown yet.

Ah, the irony of calling out racism toward POC from the Chinese while laughing at a racist sterotyping joke about the Chinese. Good times.

 

[heon123]

I doubt that's the reason. Plenty of Black Panther lines bring made. Like someone said before, OT lines will sell so they can take their time with it. Better to capitalise on Clone Wars and Mando now.

 

[chrisstbh]

Ah, the irony of calling out racism toward POC from the Chinese while laughing at a racist sterotyping joke about the Chinese. Good times.

It's not a "racist stereotyping joke" though, I'm not gonna get too deep into politics but there are plenty of articles that you can read out there on the treatment of black people and Muslims in China. Kindly look for an arguement elsewhere

 

[momaw]

It's not a "racist stereotyping joke" though, I'm not gonna get too deep into politics but there are plenty of articles that you can read out there on the treatment of black people and Muslims in China. Kindly look for an arguement elsewhere

Wasn't an argument or looking to start one or denying the issues in China. But if you don't see the inherent racism basing a joke on an asian broken english sterotype then I suggest you look deeper. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I'm guilty. I chuckled at Wor-Gar's joke. But lets not kid ourselves here please.

And again, this isn't an attack on anyone.

 

[pug205]

but there are plenty of articles that you can read out there on the treatment of black people and Muslims in China.

Yes if only they could treat them as well as we do in western society.