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Fuck. May as well name the next Jawas Hick Namlin and Lohn Jindquist...wait. Those actually sound pretty good...

Slicker wrote:Fuck. May as well name the next Jawas Hick Namlin and Lohn Jindquist...wait. Those actually sound pretty good...

Where the hell is Mabs when you need some EU stories written?

Slicker wrote:Fuck. May as well name the next Jawas Hick Namlin and Lohn Jindquist...wait. Those actually sound pretty good...

Those would be some tall-ass Jawas.

They're not Jawas, they're Awajs.

6 foot tall Jawas would make a fantastic EU story. You see, tall to Jawas is what dwarfism is to humans. The other Jawas are frequently ridiculed and not allow to participate in various Jawa games. They live together in a hut at the edge of the main Jawa settlement. One day, Sandpeople attack. Hick Namlin and Lohn Jindquist come out of their hovel screaming "UTINNI!" Sandpeople, who are easily startled, shit their robes and leave. Namlin and Jindquist become instant heroes and part of epic tales among Jawas all over Tatooine.

Ran wrote:Namlin and Jindquist become instant heroes and part of epic tall tales among Jawas all over Tatooine.

FTFY.

There's actually already a tall Jawa (well, one played by something other than a kid or a midget) in ANH so I'm sure a hack EU writer or two thought about going down this exact route.

Pics of Wave 4 have surfaced. I thought they were going to be on new cards, but they look like the same plain old black cards still.

Torryn looks, well, like Torryn. She's not a figure you can really get excited over, but she's long overdue and I definitely want her.

Yoda looks not nearly as good as in convention pics. He's not bad, but definitely a "wait and see in person" figure.

Luke looks like ass. The head is fucking awful. The lower half of his body looks decent, but the articulation in the elbows is extremely clumsy and ugly. I've said it before and will again: these Hasbro design teams need to share tips and tricks, and use a consistent construction. Because I've got dozens of sleeveless or short-sleeved G.I. Joe figures with more articulation at the elbow, and far better concealed.

I found links to picks on RS. Torryn Farr is fine. It is what I expected. Yoda isn't what I hoped he would be. You're right that he should be a "wait and see" figure. Luke is horrible.

Since it is all the same company, why doesn't the GI Joe and Star Wars lines share the same articulation? In the past 5 years I started collecting GI Joe, the only complaints about articulation were for the vehicle drivers for the last movie line. If they were all the same, you would think they could save money by using parts from each line.

No idea. I just know one ROC Cobra pilot (Lampreys, version 2, IIRC) had a better Harrison Ford head than the SW or Indy teams were ever able to do.

It's not a license thing, as has been claimed. Joe parts are routinely used for the occasional Jurassic Park figures, and even some Marvel figs, and Star Wars sets have been reused as Joe playsets. (The dead Battle Droids surrounding the Cobra base in the VvV set were priceless.)

anarky wrote:Pics of Wave 4 have surfaced. I thought they were going to be on new cards, but they look like the same plain old black cards still.

Torryn looks, well, like Torryn. She's not a figure you can really get excited over, but she's long overdue and I definitely want her.

Yoda looks not nearly as good as in convention pics. He's not bad, but definitely a "wait and see in person" figure.

Luke looks like ass. The head is fucking awful. The lower half of his body looks decent, but the articulation in the elbows is extremely clumsy and ugly. I've said it before and will again: these Hasbro design teams need to share tips and tricks, and use a consistent construction. Because I've got dozens of sleeveless or short-sleeved G.I. Joe figures with more articulation at the elbow, and far better concealed.

I think Yoda's problem is the soft goods cloak. It's all bunched up and concealing everything right now, so hopefully it'll look better in person.

And the black and blue TIE Pilot helmet cards will debut later in the year. Jeezuz, Yoda looks so tiny on this shitty, shitty card design.

Luke is insanely articulated. The elbows don't look very good, but it looks like ball-joint shoulders, upper arms, double-jointed elbows, two pairs of ball-jointed hands, swivel ankles, and all the other usual stuff. Good lord almighty.

Senor JabbaJohnL wrote:Luke is insanely articulated. The elbows don't look very good, but it looks like ball-joint shoulders, upper arms, double-jointed elbows, two pairs of ball-jointed hands, swivel ankles, and all the other usual stuff. Good lord almighty.

Yeah, my point is the articulation doesn't work well here. The same company did this a few years ago. And this is one of their later efforts (I'm not even sure you can make out the ball-joint ankles and rotating thighs in that pic).

Yeah, costs of production and licensing and all, but the difference still shouldn't be THAT extreme.

If the likeness were better, I might be more forgiving. But it's not.

Senor JabbaJohnL wrote:

anarky wrote:Pics of Wave 4 have surfaced. I thought they were going to be on new cards, but they look like the same plain old black cards still.

Torryn looks, well, like Torryn. She's not a figure you can really get excited over, but she's long overdue and I definitely want her.

Yoda looks not nearly as good as in convention pics. He's not bad, but definitely a "wait and see in person" figure.

Luke looks like ass. The head is fucking awful. The lower half of his body looks decent, but the articulation in the elbows is extremely clumsy and ugly. I've said it before and will again: these Hasbro design teams need to share tips and tricks, and use a consistent construction. Because I've got dozens of sleeveless or short-sleeved G.I. Joe figures with more articulation at the elbow, and far better concealed.

I think Yoda's problem is the soft goods cloak. It's all bunched up and concealing everything right now, so hopefully it'll look better in person.

And the black and blue TIE Pilot helmet cards will debut later in the year. Jeezuz, Yoda looks so tiny on this shitty, shitty card design.

Luke is insanely articulated. The elbows don't look very good, but it looks like ball-joint shoulders, upper arms, double-jointed elbows, two pairs of ball-jointed hands, swivel ankles, and all the other usual stuff. Good lord almighty.

Here is the last Stormshadow figure, who has bare arms. The joints are well hidden and has full range of motion.

Those GI Joe figures also have the giant wrist ball-joints that Hasbro has used a few times in the SW line and don't look very good to me – Blu-ray lightsaber construction Luke was an example of this type of articulation done poorly, and the current Mace is an example of it done well (aside from the joints being the wrong color). There have been sleeveless figures in the Star Wars line that looked fine (the current Mara Jade, for one), but Dagobah Luke has double-jointed elbows so he can hold the backpack straps like he does in the film as well as do normal poses. That's why it looks weird, not just because they don't know how to do elbow articulation. Can any of the Joe figures do that? I really know almost nothing about the line, but it doesn't look like it in these pictures. I can't see the Sgt. Slaughter (I think that's him?) or Snake Eyes figures' elbows very well but they look standard to me.

GI Joe hasn't used double joints in the elbow, just the knees. I could almost live with Luke's elbows. What really bothers me is the shoulders.

It is a 4" figure. Maybe they just aren't meant to be able to hold their backpack straps.

This is just fucking lazy. It'll probably retail for more than the two figures, currently pegwarming, sell for at full price.

Are they even trying anymore, or do they get a kick out of watching us complain?