Spoilers The Controversial Star Wars Opinion Thread

[cooleddie74]

No, but many do.

Now, most of the Separatist leaders in Episodes II and III have figures. Only a few here and there don't, and many of them are in TCW (Admiral Trench, for one).

 

[fireproof78]

Do all the officers around the conference table in EpIV have action figures?

Are you talking about the Imperial Conference Room?

There was a specical set for most of them, but not all: Rebelscum.com: Photo Archive

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[CorporalCaptain]

That's a cool video.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yep. Toryn Farr. 2014 Black Series 3.75" line.

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So, they gave her a name and then trademarked it. That's so Star Wars.

 

[cooleddie74]

Originally she was going to come with her control console with tactical screen and a chair as a Deluxe figure set so this is actually the simplified product that made it to stores. This previously unknown woman was going to get royal treatment so lavish it would have put the Yavin 4 medal ceremony to shame.

 

[Jedi Marso]

It's funny, in 1977 I had all of the original run SW action figures, including a couple of the vinyl cape jawas, Luke with the arm-retractable yellow saber, R2-D2 with the big dome eye as seen in Ahsoka, you name it. I played with those things until they wore out and eventually replaced them with newer ones. If you'd told 8 year old me how much money they'd be worth in the package today, it wouldn't have mattered. I would have played with them until they were totally worn out. Back then, toys were for kids and you played with them, not for collectors to stuff a closet with.

 

[fireproof78]

Back then, toys were for kids and you played with them, not for collectors to stuff a closet with.

As it should be. The collector's mindset is one that I struggle with. Frustrating at one point and also just depressing to me at a certain level, because the playing with toys should not be something overshadowed by preservation.

So, they gave her a name and then trademarked it. That's so Star Wars.

Whenever people talk about Disney and their "shameless cash grabs" with Star Wars I just look back at figures like this, and other "event" type things, and just laugh.

 

[cooleddie74]

And now a vinyl cape Kenner Jawa on a 12-back card from 1978 can go for five digits. I opened all my toys as a kid and didn't even own a toy that I kept in its cool packaging until the 1990s.

 

[Jedi Marso]

And now a vinyl cape Kenner Jawa on a 12-back card from 1978 can go for five digits. I opened all my toys as a kid and didn't even own a toy that I kept in its cool packaging until the 1990s.

It's funny, but part of the reason so few of those vinyl capes are left intact is because they tore so damn easily, and wound up being discarded. When the cloth-covered Jawas appeared, all my friends and I remarked on how much of an improvement it was over the vinyl cape, not to mention looking more like a Jawa as well. The original Obi-wan figure had a vinyl cape like the Jawa as well. It didn't take long for old Ben to be capeless...

 

[cooleddie74]

And the pointed nibs on the Luke, Obi-Wan and Vader retractable lightsabers could break off easily. I took care of mine and all of them still have fully intact lightsabers, but they didn't make those points out of the sturdiest kind of plastic.

 

[The Wormhole]

So, they gave her a name and then trademarked it. That's so Star Wars.

Eh, let me know when she gets her own novel and/or comic series.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Eh, let me know when she gets her own novel and/or comic series.

She's the star of the next Disney+ Star Wars series.

 

[cooleddie74]

GOING TOO FARR: A Star Wars Story.

 

[suarezguy]

I don't blame Han for leaving rather than going up against the Death Star, I agree with him that that was more like suicide than courage.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I don't blame Han for leaving rather than going up against the Death Star, I agree with him that that was more like suicide than courage.

Spoiler: he came back and went up against the Death Star.

 

[Set Harth]

Luke with the arm-retractable yellow saber

They should have actually gone this route in the movies. After Cloud City Luke comes back with a saber built into his stump.

 

[Starkers]

It's funny, in 1977 I had all of the original run SW action figures, including a couple of the vinyl cape jawas, Luke with the arm-retractable yellow saber, R2-D2 with the big dome eye as seen in Ahsoka, you name it. I played with those things until they wore out and eventually replaced them with newer ones. If you'd told 8 year old me how much money they'd be worth in the package today, it wouldn't have mattered. I would have played with them until they were totally worn out. Back then, toys were for kids and you played with them, not for collectors to stuff a closet with.

Those retractable lightsabres were the worst. Once you snapped one off, as you inevitably did, you were stuffed. At least with the later versions if you lost the light sabre it was easy to replace (used to get a match stick and colour it in with felt tip pens to look like a light sabre and it worked just fine!)

 

[Jedi Marso]

Those retractable lightsabres were the worst. Once you snapped one off, as you inevitably did, you were stuffed. At least with the later versions if you lost the light sabre it was easy to replace (used to get a match stick and colour it in with felt tip pens to look like a light sabre and it worked just fine!)

Truth. I was a little OCD maniac about making sure I didn't lose the accessories like lightsabers, blasters, etc. When I eventually sold off my collection (like a feckin' MORON) in 9th grade, every figure had its accessories.

 

[cooleddie74]

There are two Modern (1995-present) action figure homages to those old Kenner sliding lightsabers. The 2002 Outland Peasant Disguise Anakin Skywalker has a blue lightsaber blade that slides out of his right arm and the ANH Luke Skywalker that comes with the 2005 remake of the original Kenner Early Bird Kit has a retractable blue lightsaber blade built into his right arm.

Go to 7:04 if you don't want to sit through the entire video.

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[Reverend]

It's always seemed so bizarre that Star Wars is both kind of notorious for making action figures out of any old random background character, and at the same time has some glaring omissions when it comes to some relatively major characters. In the original line you had no-namers like hammerhead, snaggletooth (two variants!), A & B Wing pilots, cloud car pilots, generic imperial officers & rebel troopers, something like 5 different ewoks, and like half of Jabba's court, yet no Tarkin? No Veers? No Reiken? No Mon Mothma?

I ran into this recently after being asked what my favourite "Glup Shitto" type character was, and I decided that it was the bounty hunter Sugi from Clone Wars. On a whim I decided to look up her action figure and considering maybe grabbing one off ebay as a desk toy . . . and (unless you count a single lego mini-fig) there's none to be had. Never released in any line so far as I can tell.
Embo; yup, Cad Bane; yup, Seripas; yup, Aurra Sing; Yup, Cato Parasitti; yup! But Sugi, Latts Razzi & Rumi Paramita? Nope!
Given how popular bounty hunters are as a faction (of sorts) in the franchise, you'd think every single one of them-- speaking role or no--would have at least one figure in one line or another, especially in a world where the likes of Whorm Loathsom and El-Les figures got made!