Re: Star Wars is a dying franchise..

>My gripe with Kenner/Hasbro all along has been their inconsistency. I will >not buy everything that has Star Wars stamped on it now. I just will not >do it anymore. That just released Jabba the Hut/The Announcer is gruesome. >Big, Fat Mistake. I don't think little kids will even like that. Both >figures are quite ugly and poorly done. I think the ratio of good figures to bad ones is about 1:7. The best ones in my opinion was Captain Piett, Removable Helmet Vader, Zuckuss, the Blast Shield wave, and the Lobot wave (minus mon mothma). >But some of the new figures are excellent. Captain Tarpals for instant is >very well painted and sculpted. Rune Hakko gets the same treatment. Nice >metallic paint on the eyes, great sculpt. Then they turn around and >release Nute Gunray with this so-so paint job...what happened? It just >doesn't make sense. Tarpals, C-3po, Watto, Queen Amidala (naboo) and Queen Amidala (coruscant) are the highlights of the new line in my opinion. A lot of the others are mediocre or just plain boring. >I will occasionally buy a 12" figure. But I can't handle the scale >problems they have. (Slave Leia with the big pumpkin head is a good >example.) the line is also plagued with inappropriately bulky fabrics >(poor Qui-Gon looks like he is ready for a frosty Hoth adventure in those >extra thick robes.) Ever see the chewie 12 inch? Enough said. It looked like that one character from "land of the lost". >All the Star Wars items are priced way high enough to cover hiring artists >who understand the scale of the human body. They can get the fabrics >right. Yeah, makes you wonder if hasbro is concerned about quality. >My way of dealing with their hit or miss toys is just to buy the ones that >appeal to me. But that does leave a lot on the shelf..... Which is less than 20. +-+-+==-+-+-==+-+-+==-+-+-==+-+-+==-+-+-==+-+-+==-+-+-== ^ ^ ( @ v @ ) -"who are yoouu?" / ( ) \\ | m m|