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Disney Droid Factory Halloween themed Droids

Happy Halloween!

I suppose one could argue those two aren’t the same character and maybe Logray is a title rather than a name. But to me it seems more like a Jimmy Smits/Benjamin Bratt situation.

Logray as he appears in The Ewok Adventure

Logray as he appears in Return of the Jedi

Also, regarding Logray there, he’s the character that got a noticeable redesign for The Ewok Adventure and arguably looks much better.
It would be great if they’d put out that version of him.

Hasbro 3.75” Star Wars figures depicting Lowry, Chief Chirpa, and others among Ewok Village

Along with the 10th anniversary for The Force Awakens and the 20th for Revenge of the Sith, the milestone I’m most disappointed Hasbro didn’t commemorate in 3.75” plastic this year is the 40th for The Ewok Adventure.

Been wanting a tiny plastic Chukha-Trok the Ewok woodsman for 4 decades now.

Hasbro Star Wars 3.75” figures recreate the scene from Revenge of the Sith where Emperor Palapatine and his shock troopers find what’s left of his apprentice Darth Vader charred like a burnt marshmallow

Limbless and charred burnt marshmallow Darth Vader has got to be one of the weirdest 3.75” (more like 3” really) Star Wars figures Hasbro has ever made.

Hasbro Star Wars 3.75” figures recreate the prelude to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader’s confrontation in Mustafar as an unconscious Padme lies helplessly at their feet

Anakin from the recent TVC Journey of Anakin Skywalker set is a great upgrade to 2010’s VC13.

Releasing it individually on a Revenge of the Sith card would be a fitting recognition of the ROTS 20th anniversary.

So of course Hasbro released ROTJ Emperor’s Wrath Vader from that set instead.
Sigh.

3.75” Hasbro Star Wars figures recreate the aftermath of the attack on Maz Kanata’s castle, with figures of Maz, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and an assortment of the denizens emerging from the ruins only to be surrounded by Stormtroopers

I’m definitely not in the “5POA is not OK” camp (the original figures were 5POA after all) but it is kind of nuts that Sequel Trilogy Han Solo only has a 5POA figure, especially ten years later.
One would think at some point in the last decade Hasbro would have gotten around to it.

The new Star Wars The Vintage Collection Darth Vader’s TIE Advance

I was surprised to see how much larger the new Vintage Collection TIE Advance is compared to the old Power of the Force 2 version from the 90’s.

Most TVC vehicles are kind of a cheat size wise and wind up more like 1/24th scale than truly 1/18.

This might be an exception.

Titanium Series Rey with a swooshing lightsaber

There were a few in the Black Series 3.75” Titanium Series.

Not sure which look I like better, the more sculpted and stylistic Titanium Series ones or the more flat Black Series aesthetic.

An alt helmet would make the Emperor’s Wrath Vader a great figure rather than a niche oddity.

But maybe there are other off screen scenarios where Vader might have an electrocuted head and that’s why he has the alt hand and lightsaber?

The Hasbro Star Wars TVC 3.75” Jedi Spirits 3 pack figures with Anakin and Obi-wan in custom plastic capes rather than softgoods

Gave Obi-Wan the lighter color blue to match.
Still not sure what to do for Yoda.
Maybe he stays as is.

(Pretty remarkable how a paint job that looks fairly decent in real life has a ton of flaws when it’s a photo you can zoom in close on- or maybe I just need new glasses)

Custom 3.75” Jedi Spirit Qui-Gon Jinn figure

After doing the custom robes for the new Jedi Spirits Obi-Wan and Anakin I decided to make a Qui-Gon Jinn version.

A Hasbro Star Wars 3.75” figure of an Ewok displayed holding a torch taken from an Indiana Jones figure on a Kenner Robin Hood Sherwood Forest playset piece

Big fan of translucent plastic flames.

Hasbro Star Wars 3.75” Kylo Ren figure

Somewhere out there is a reality where Steven Soderbergh and Adam Driver made a Ben Solo movie together.

Instead we’re in the one where a bunch of real life Kylo Rens turned fascist trying to be who they imagine their grandfathers were.

TVC Jedi Spirit Obi-Wan with a custom hard goods robe

Did a second plastic ghosty robe for Obi-Wan.

I forgot how inconsistent the transparent blues can be though and this one is a bit darker so I might redo it at some point.

Hasbro Star Wars 3.75” figures of Poggle the Lesser, Nute Gunray, Count Dooku, Jango Fett, and lil’ Boba Fett perched on the balcony of the Geonosis Arena

Dooku and his crew in their box seats at the Geonosis Arena.

Something definitely missing from the current era of Star Wars is bad guys trying to feed captive good guys to monsters for the entertainment value of it.

Hasbro Star Wars TVC 3.75” Force Spirit Anakin Skywalker with a customized plastic robe replacing the soft goods the figure comes with

Wasn’t overly fond of the softgoods look for the new Jedi Spirits figures so I decided to customize a plastic robe.

I think it turned out pretty well, particularly in trying to match the pearlescent look and the fade into translucent blue.

I’ll do another for Obi-Wan at some point soon as well.

Knock off Chinese bootleg variants of Hasbro 3.75” Star Wars TVC 501st Clones

Back before the De Minimis Exemption was inexplicably, unilaterally, and illegally closed, I ordered this batch of K.O. 501st Clones from China.

I would have bought them from Hasbro had they made them and would still if they did now.

S1 Rex in particular seems like a no brainer.

Totally understand why they might still avoid the label Death Squad Commander though.

Pretty crazy that was the name of a toy.

Hasbro Black Series 3.75” Death Star Trooper and ForceLink Toys R Us Canada exclusive C-3PO

Personally I have no desire for a vac metalized C-3PO or a cardback to read “Death Squad” and have a Kenner colors gray uniform.

A redo of the ‘78 display stand might be a way to do those Kenner color versions though, similar to the recent Kenner colors Tatooine set.

Just a thought.

Modern Hasbro interpretation of the original Kenner twelve Star Wars action figures displayed on the 1978 display stand

Hasbro has revisited 10 out of the original Kenner 12 from 1978 over the past couple years and hopefully they’ll get to the last two soon.

I suspect the hold outs are due to the challenge of the niche but vocal 1978 wants of some that are very difficult for them to offer in 2020’s TVC.

Hasbro Star Wars TVC Gamorrean Guard with a drooling mouth and runny nose

I went ahead and experimented with adding some glossy snot and drool effects to the TVC Gamorrean Guard.

I would never have done it to a figure that was $50 and up on the secondary market with a $20 reissue it felt like a safe bet.

I think it turned out pretty good overall.

Not the biggest fan of the sheer blue lamé negligee look for the robes though.

As good as they’ve gotten at soft goods, some things still don’t translate well into that.

I would have preferred basically translucent blue traffic cones.

The Hasbro Star Wars TVC Jedi Spirits three pack with the Force Ghosts of Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda appearing on Endor at the conclusion of Return of the Jedi

Debuting in 2004, the Hayden Christensen version of Anakin in Return of the Jedi is now 21 years old- as old as the Sebastian Shaw version was then.

I appreciate that Hasbro included a swappable head for Shaw, but Christensen is Anakin to me at this point (and I saw ROTJ in theaters in 1983).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turgles

Power of the Force 2 Millennium Falcon Gunner Stations and the Millennium Falcon PC Game set displayed together with TVC figures to recreate the escape from the Death Star in A New Hope

Lots of scuttlebutt around a Death Star release in time for the 50th anniversary, but might I humbly suggest a Millennium Falcon cockpit interior?

I like the old POTF2 gunner stations and PC game thingy, but I imagine they could do something incredibly impressive today and it’s an iconic location.

Hasbro Star Wars TVC 3.75” figures of Boba Fett and Fennec Shand recreate the scene from Book of Boba Fett where they plan to retake Fett’s starship from Bib Fortuna’s Palace

I’d still like to know what Bib Fortuna did that was so bad that Boba shot him and had to sneak in to steal his starship back.

Maybe he always hated Bib Fortuna and Jabba was the only thing that stopped him from doing it before?

Whatever it was it’s a story that should eventually be told.

Update: Watched the Jared Leto movie and liked it.

Cool soundtrack, cool visuals, that’s all I ask for in a Tron (it would have been nice to actually have Tron in a Tron but oh well).

Also backed the HasLab.
Maybe it doesn’t back but I like what they’ve done and hope for more 375 to come.

Hasbro Star Wars TVC 3.75” Gamorrean Guard

The Gamorrean Guard was a smart TVC rerelease.

One of the more elaborate figures from the line- truly “deluxe”- that’s fairly expensive on the secondary market, and a “troop builder” is the best type of figure to put back out.

I’m tempted to go in and give him some glossy snot and drool though.