Tycho
05-13-2007, 07:22 AM
Yakface.com: With the most recent release of the TAC #15 Concept Boba Fett, and previously the ROTS #35 Palpatine figure, Hasbro has shown the ability of producing figures with swapable heads. It seems that the next possible step would be to offer the same type of ability to non-descript soldier type characters by offering alternate heads packed with one common body. Take for example the current #13 Death Star Trooper: He includes a head to use with the removable helmet, but what about also including a head with the Officer's Cap molded on? This scenario would work on the Rebel Honor Guard as well. This could provide a way for collector's to bolster the variety of their Imperial and Rebel Alliance ranks without the need for producing running variants, thus saving in packaging costs and it has the potential of freeing up a slot in later case revisions for other characters that would be slated to be packed one per case. Am I on to something here or have I been hitting the "Jawa Juice" too hard?
Hasbro: Ease off the bottle. ; ) What you outline is essentially a new figure. Fans would need a new body to display the new head with, so we're really back to square one. But perhaps the biggest issue is that doing different head sculpts is really introducing new characters in one basic figure card. We (and Lucasfilm) prefer that we concentrate on one character per pack rather the dilute and confuse the story too much, as appealling as it may be to some fans.
Yeah right. Please refer to Saga2 C-3PO. The Protocal Droid body comes with both C-3PO's head and a battle droid's head. With either head on the body, the figure becomes a different character. You'd need a battle droid body with an option for attaching the C-3PO Protocal Droid head on it in order to make C-3PO in battle droid mode. The CPU is in the head. You only get 1 body with this figure. If you want to display both, you need to buy 2 figures - that is both protocal droid body options. You can't even recreate the battle droid body option for the C-3PO character.
And Palpatine? He's either the chancellor or Darth Sidious. You don't get 2 bodies with that figure either.
So what if DSTs or RHGs or RFTs, Bespin Guards, Naboo, etc. came with different heads? It would be useful for us army builders, and we'd still buy multiple figures. But this way, no variation is rare, etc. It's different with the black Endor Rebel, because he'll require different hands as well as head, and they changed the gear up on them a little. But in general, Hasbro is full of it.
Hasbro: Ease off the bottle. ; ) What you outline is essentially a new figure. Fans would need a new body to display the new head with, so we're really back to square one. But perhaps the biggest issue is that doing different head sculpts is really introducing new characters in one basic figure card. We (and Lucasfilm) prefer that we concentrate on one character per pack rather the dilute and confuse the story too much, as appealling as it may be to some fans.
Yeah right. Please refer to Saga2 C-3PO. The Protocal Droid body comes with both C-3PO's head and a battle droid's head. With either head on the body, the figure becomes a different character. You'd need a battle droid body with an option for attaching the C-3PO Protocal Droid head on it in order to make C-3PO in battle droid mode. The CPU is in the head. You only get 1 body with this figure. If you want to display both, you need to buy 2 figures - that is both protocal droid body options. You can't even recreate the battle droid body option for the C-3PO character.
And Palpatine? He's either the chancellor or Darth Sidious. You don't get 2 bodies with that figure either.
So what if DSTs or RHGs or RFTs, Bespin Guards, Naboo, etc. came with different heads? It would be useful for us army builders, and we'd still buy multiple figures. But this way, no variation is rare, etc. It's different with the black Endor Rebel, because he'll require different hands as well as head, and they changed the gear up on them a little. But in general, Hasbro is full of it.