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fantasticfrog
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It will because they have more tv shows in development so more releases that will clog up potential ot figure spots. Plus, ht going for easy money means that important characters from the shows will never get made (cara, ugnaught).
I only collect Star Wars, predominantly ot. I will get many pt and some clone wars figures but I am getting bored. Really bored. Hot toys will lose customers who get fed up and move on. We are not asking for sy snootles (well, I am), we want major characters in bespin han and lando. I don?t buy the ford likeness approval thing. This is classic hot toys.
Honestly, I don't think they care. Mando figures are probably selling in larger numbers than OT figures for them. They're going to produce what they can sell the most of and make the most profit from.
I would assume casual Mando and Clone Wars fans don't buy HT Mando and Clone Wars figures. HT Star Wars collectors buy them and those are the people that also want more OT. I guess it's because Mando (and CW to some extent) are the hot topic right now and they want to make sales while interest is high. OT would sell any day of the week so there's no need to rush them out.
I imagine casual fans don't buy high end collectibles for any franchise. There are also new fans to account for, the ones that don't use (what they consider to be) antiquated forums, and grew up on the prequel trilogy. Also the new fans that Mando has brought on board.
I think you're right though. They're striking while the iron is hot.
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Recently I got the chance to interview three 31 year old males, two 32 year old females and two 26 year old females and they were specifically asked SW related questions.
This was their answers.
31 year old males: PT is definitely better than the OT
32 year old females: SW is boring all of it!
26 year old females: We heard of it why is it so popular lol
The 31 year old males were the only ones who said they collect.
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This was their answers.
31 year old males: PT is definitely better than the OT
32 year old females: SW is boring all of it!
26 year old females: We heard of it why is it so popular lol
The 31 year old males were the only ones who said they collect.
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Centrocal
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just because it doesn't guarantee release, doesnt mean there wasn't intent behind it. They made that bespin han. They understood he was the next logical step. Obviously Leia would sell better with Han. They put him in the promo pics, with the intent to tease the next figure. All the gears were turning- then [something] stopped them.
Its just like the Mysterio headsculpt debacle. They made the announcement they were gonna do the sculpt. They showed a blurred out picture of the face- then [????] stopped them/delete post/disavow all knowledge. In both scenarios HT going about their business and then some outside force obstructing them
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If there was ever a time to show bespin han, last week was it. They previewed so few new figures for Star Wars, han would have ignited the community. Everyone loves bespin han. This board would be on fire right now. Something must be up because that is a money maker no matter what. At first I thought they didn?t want to lose sales from young han, but that is out. Maybe he will be featured in snow speeder luke promo pics. Maybe be never comes out.
It is too major of a character to not have though, hot toys has to know it.
It is too major of a character to not have though, hot toys has to know it.
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And even figures that never got released, were shown at conventions 
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Larger numbers than what? ROTJ Luke? No chance. The Jawa? Probably.
I'm sure the Beskar Mando will sell an absolute ton, but stuff like the dumpy scout and flametrooper won't come close to OT numbers.
It's all speculation since they don't publish their numbers. Obviously I didn't mean that every single figure from Mando would outsell a curated list of characters from the OT. The scout is likely a precursor to a RotJ version. Allows them to capitalize on the figure and speeder bike build before releasing a more popular version. Flametrooper is an easy one since it will be a repaint of an existing mold with a few unique accessories.
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Hot Toys are just riding the Mando Hype. That's about to happen again when S2 starts, I expect this Luke to drop in August or September.
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Just imagine if in season 2 we have a guest apperence of Luke in a snowspeeder gear as a surprise just like the Dark Saber in Moff Gideon hands?
We already know that The Mandalorian will act like a mothership for the new shows (like Ahsoka), Kenobi could be Luke after ROTJ telling someone the history of Ben Kenoby.
Mark Hamill is far too old to reprise the role of Luke in Mando and I doubt they'll recast him. The first season takes place five years after RotJ.
Also... Kenobi.
Also... Kenobi.
Yep, and younger kids are growing even more uninterested. STAR WARS is really for the generation who grew up with it. That's the core. It'll always play to a portion of the population (or at a certain young age), like the Wizard of Oz, but its dying as its generation ages and dies off.
Sad but true. It doesn't help that the franchise was woefully underutilized for long periods of time and that Disney came along and wiped out most of the extended universe, turning the history of Star Wars into a convoluted mess.
At least when you introduce the Wizard of Oz to someone you don't have to explain all of the movie, video game, TV, comic, and novel tie-ins... with the disclaimer that 90% of it is no longer canon. Imagine being introduced to that mess as a kid.
STAR WARS got too complex and convoluted for its own good. The OT was very simple and straight-forward, part of its lasting appeal.
I honestly wasn't too upset when Disney nuked most of the extended universe. The problem was them replacing it with something inferior instead of using what they destroyed to build something better.
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If it weren't for the Internet and forums like this, with companies churning out novel product aimed squarely at us ... how many of us would give much thought to Star Wars, roughly 40 or so years after the fact?
It's not that I didn't have affection for the franchise, but I've spent decades not giving it much thought at all beyond a casual reference here and there.
I didn't 're-discover' it until 2011 after the PT was long dead and gone from my mind, save a lightsaber duel in TPM. Disney failed to recapture the original magic in part because it's a different world now.
A couple of more generations and Star Wars will fade from popular consciousness. If Disney keeps flogging it, it'll just blend into the saturated entertainment landscape more so than it already has.
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Only EU I was ever exposed to was Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon (was that even the title?) and I feel like I must have read Han Solo at Star's End but can't remember a single thing about it, so maybe I'm imagining it. There was also some 486 computer game that I never thought of as anything but a what-if story set in the same universe. Some guy doing stuff for the rebels...?
From what I've learned of it after the fact, it seemed overwrought, unwieldy and soap-y.
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