Luke Bacta is great, but why a breathe tube?

[JediTricks]

I just picked up Deluxe Luke Bacta, and it's a pretty cool set, but I'm wondering why Hasbro chose to use a little tube for you to breathe through so bubbles come out of Luke's oxygen mask. This tube isn't really long enough to get a good look at the effect, if you're blowing the tube, you can't see the darn the whole set!

"But that's the only way they could have done it", no it's not, Hasbro could have attached a small bellows or cheapo pump to the tube and instead of having an asthma attack playing with this toy, a simple few pushes of the bellows would have pushed the air through the tube and you could see this thing in all its glory! I have a small bulb pump from an old Spider-Man Water Wars toy that may fit on this thing, so I plan on using that next time I fill this set with water, but looking at Toy Biz's sales on that line, I may be the ONLY person to buy one of these figures. ;)

Anyway, it just seems like they should have done this, or at least given a much longer tube. I don't hate the figure for this, I think it's a pretty cool set, I'm just confused by absence of something like this.

[Mandalorian Candidat]

Why a breathe tube? JT, how long have you been collecting SW? How long have you been purchasing the little lumps of polymer we so lovingly call Star Wars figures? Certainly by now you would have learned to just accept the little big quirks brought to us by that lovely organization we have come to call "Hasblow."

It is not ours to question, just to accept, purchase, and go away quietly. I thought you would have realized that there is no reasoning with Hasbro. It has no compassion, no feelings. It's like a juggernaut, putting out more and more and more products with painted on chinstraps, pantyless female figures, amorphous holsters, and the like. A breathe tube fits right along with its game plan.

No, JT. It's not up to us to question why, just to accept and move on.

Here, let me hook you up to this IV. The Hasbro people tell me the lobotomy won't hurt, much. :eek:

[Tycho]

Why a breathe tube?

Why a giant yellow proton torpedo?

Why is Paploo only offered in a vehicle exclusive?

These are the questions mankind has been trying to answer for sometime.

To do so, we must journey deep into the forbidding jungles of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Once there, we will face many perils. But we must persevere!

We must look for a rare, and VHTF cukoo bird.

[evenflow]

I guess the best answer woul dby why not. It is just one of those little things that HAsbro does that makes things sound really cool, but don't always work out. A great example right now would be the RFT. Removable helmet = cool, big hole in back of head and painted chin straps = :( :mad:

See my point?

[LTBasker]

Originally posted by Tycho
We must look for a rare, and VHTF cukoo bird.
Hmm.... shouldn't that be the non-existant dodo bird? :D

JT, the Luke Bacta, Hasbro knew we were pleased with the way the thing was looking and knew that they had finally made a really good almost-flawless toy, therefore including the smaller tube to give us something to gripe about and not to spoil their reputation. :p

[Sliver FBI]

The Bacta Tank was designed so that it can also work as a bong! :D

[Starfig873]

I pretty certain this fits into my thoery of how Star Wars was meant to be a porn.

Well, since we've driven this topic down the toilet already... :p

I wonder if you couldn't attatch a straw to the tube? And besides, I was thinking that blowing through the tube would look more like Luke has bad gas rather than breathing...but maybe thats just me.

[JediTricks]

A straw wouldn't work, whatever you put around the tube will have to have a fairly tight seal between the new device and the breathe tube. Luckily, the red bulb pump from that Spider-Man Water Wars figure fits just right.

[MisterPL]

Yeah, there's a letter to Hasbro:

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Dear Hasbro,

I would prefer a Deluxe Luke figure that blows itself.

Thank you.

Have a pleasant day,

Adult Star Wars Toy Collector
1138 Mom's Basement
Anywhere, USA 45612
(555) 326-3827

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Would this toy suck even if it didn't blow?

JT, try this: get a friend to blow it for you while you watch. Unless you'd rather pump it yourself with that other toy you mentioned. Your choice.

[Jayspawn]

I still have yet to find Bacta Tank Luke. Soon I hope.

[SQueek]

"instead of having an asthma attack playing with this toy", i have horrible horrilbe asthma and i really hate it, living with it is like hell, and by reading that post made me LMAO for about 30 seconds, thats actually a really long time if you think about it

[bigbarada]

Originally posted by MisterPL
JT, try this: get a friend to blow it for you while you watch. Unless you'd rather pump it yourself with that other toy you mentioned. Your choice.

I could just see it now, JT invites a friend over to his house and pulls out the Luke Bacta, then asks his friend to "blow my Luke while I watch." I foresee many lonesome days for JT after that.;)

[JediTricks]

Barada and PL, you guys know how this stuff goes over on other threads, so how do you think it'll go over on a moderator's thread? ;) (we need an "evil grin" icon, dangit)

Anyway, I don't think any toy that costs ten bucks should require two people to play with it, that's just ridiculous.

Luckily, the bulb pump works fine (though it's a cheap pump, so it also sucks up a little water) and even has more pressure than what I could force through that little straw. The diameter of the straw is SO small that you have to exert great pressure (like trumpet playing) to get bubbles to come out BOTH sides of the mask, but the pump does this with a simple squeeze.

Squeek, I also have asthma, so I know that 30 seconds of laughing can lead to 10 minutes of asthma... so when don't want to laugh, just read one of bigbarada's posts. :D ;)

[MisterPL]

Originally posted by JediTricks
Barada and PL, you guys know how this stuff goes over on other threads, so how do you think it'll go over on a moderator's thread?

What? :confused: Maybe you should just do it in front of a mirror. I don't know! I'm trying to help here!

My point is, would you rather have a Bacta Tank minus the bubbling feature? Personally, I would have preferred a light up feature. I know that's probably more expensive from a costing point of view, but think about the R&D time it took to come up with an "action feature" that you can't really enjoy without a friend or a mirror.

I'd rather put out a little extra up front to get more bang for my buck rather than have a some sucky blow... thing only to end up hyperventilating myself unconscious and collapsing onto the floor next to a tiny, naked Mark Hamill and a giant wet spot.

Bottom line: Pumps are nice, but are more expensive. Deluxe Luke needed a longer hose. But this is Hasbro: you get what you pay for.

By the way, can you at least hear the bubbles? That'd be great.

[bigbarada]

Originally posted by JediTricks
Squeek, I also have asthma, so I know that 30 seconds of laughing can lead to 10 minutes of asthma... so when don't want to laugh, just read one of bigbarada's posts. :D ;)

BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! That wasn't funny. :p

[JediTricks]

Sorry Barada, it was you or GNT, and he hasn't posted in this thread yet. ;)


MrPL, your "blow itself" comments are what I was referring to. As to your point of the cost of the pump, a bellows pump would cost them an extra 2 CENTS at most here by my guess, yet they didn't even spring for the extra 1/8th of a cent to add a longer tube. Yes, I'd rather have the breathe tube than not, but you have to wonder if there's a brand manager who looked at this and said "we need to save between one-eighth of a cent and two cents per unit on these, and I refuse to allow it to be in the tray or the quality of the card or the pre-assembly of the unit"

The light-up feature seems like a pricey thing, but the cool thing about this set is the bottom of the tank is open, so you can place a flashlight underneath and light it yourself.

Yes, you can hear the bubbles. Even in your sleep, they haunt your every moment! The bubbles! THE BUBBLES! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Err... uh... yeah, you can hear the bubbles. If you blow too hard, the bubbles can make the water splash right out of the tank since the topper is made to be an open seal to allow airflow.