1) I noticed that the Kybuck's clone-belt (around its neck) includes some
Aurebesh characters on it. When I tried to translate, all I could get
figured out was UAEB and two other characters I couldn't decipher. Is
there any significance to these letters, or is it just a cool mysterious
design element?
2) Ewoks. Sansweet said 2007 was the Year of the Ewok, but looking at
the Hasbro Ewok figures released from 1995 - present all standing on a
shelf together, the thing that leaps out is the fact that there seem to be
three distinct size ranges in our ewok ranks. The old POTF2 figures like
Wicket and Logray (and their various repaints and slight retools) fall
into a mid-sized range, while the latest tool-ups, like Chief Chirpa,
Romba and Graak, are all positively tiny by comparison. Conversely Teebo,
while a great figure, is HUGE, towering over tiny little Chirpa like a
Wookiee, with hands feet and face twice the size of his boss.
Is the smaller "Chirpa" scale the new standard going forward? And if so,
can we expect to see prominent ewok characters, like Wicket, Logray,
Paploo and Teebo, revisited in the new scale within the next two years or
is it more realistic to expect a longer wait please?
3) A lot of questions surround the announcement of Hasbro taking over the
Force F/X series of lightsabers. In your last Q&A you said the price
point would be about the same, but my question is: are you getting the
license for F/X sabers and then applying your own R&D and technology to
release sabers that look similar and have a similar function but are your
own design, or are the releases coming up (all of which seem to have been
done by MR before) going to be the same design (electronically as well as
aesthetically) that Master Replicas had created?
To find out the answers to these questions,
listen to this week's episode!
A special announcement from the Hasbro Q&A Team:
Collectors,
We have previously announced that there would be three waves of our 30th
Anniversary basic figures in Spring. That has now been changed - there
will be only two. The last wave (on shelf approx. early March) will be
The Force Unleashed wave. Due to some last minute delays, the previous
third wave has been picked up and moved to the new Fall basic figure line.
Nothing will be bumped from the Fall line....these will just be added in.
Fans should not worry as all figures will be coming to the shelf,
including General Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Saesee Tiin, Clone Scuba
trooper, and more. More details on this assortment will be released at
Toy Fair. Similarly, due to production delays, we are pushing back the
debut of the next wave of comic packs (including Anakin/Durge and
Asaaj/Tol Skorr) until fall as well, but all announced packs *will* be
coming out.
Also, previously we announced that the new Obi-Wan and Darth Vader/Anakin
figures from our Wave 1 '08 30th Anniversary Wave (now shipping to retail)
would not have new articulation. In fact, they do indeed have enhanced
hip articulation (ball and socket) and are great upgrades over the
original. Collectors should look to these for their increased poseability.
Hasbro's Star Wars Brand Team
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