Hawthorne Village Star Wars collection

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You may have seen ads for these in some magazines. I was a little intrigued, but thought that the pictures looked totally fake and photoshopped. So I was interested to see this thread with pictures by a guy who bought the cantina. As I suspected, the actual thing looks nothing like the picture. Admittedly these are pretty small figures and the building doesn't look quite as bad, but I think this is pretty much false advertising.

I did a little side-by-side using a larger image of the ad and the actual in-hand figure. Not pretty.

Well, it has a certain... 'je ne sais quoi'...

Luke is a tranny? lol

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Man - What a joke!

Don't really know much about these... but what is the scale? sure that looks bad when its 6" on a screen, but is it really like a 1/2" tall?

It's about 1.5 inches tall I think.

Thanks iCruise for confirming my worries. I'm soooooooooooooo glad I passed on this.

luke's got a bridgette neilsen look to him.......

The Cantina looks pretty cool IMO...

I like the cantina. I don't understand why it took so long to get miniature versions of iconic buildings from Star Wars. Yes the figure looks like crap but it's 1 1/2 inches tall, what do you expect?

$75 shipped for the cantina though? Ehhh... Maybe a bit too much IMO. I'd pay maybe $45-50 from a store where I can inspect it before I buy it.

Shropt said:

I like the cantina. I don't understand why it took so long to get miniature versions of iconic buildings from Star Wars. Yes the figure looks like crap but it's 1 1/2 inches tall, what do you expect?

$75 shipped for the cantina though? Ehhh... Maybe a bit too much IMO. I'd pay maybe $45-50 from a store where I can inspect it before I buy it.

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Yeah, but even that tall they could be better... just look at the detail on M.U.S.C.L.E. figures. 1 3/4" inches and were 4 for $1

After being painted:

I recently got the Max Rebo band ornaments by Hallmark and I was really impressed by how well done the sculpt and paint were. They're less than an inch tall. So it's possible to do a good job even with small figures.



But the main issue in my mind isn't that they paint job is sub-par -- it's that they are clearly misrepresenting what the things look like in their ads.

Anime eyes Luke.

The figure looks awefull!! I was however interested in the Jabba's palace they had drawings of in a recent issue of SW Insider.

Jabba's palace? Any pictures or info available online? I'm a sucker for Jabba.

I was going to order this---Glad I did not

icruise said:

Jabba's palace? Any pictures or info available online? I'm a sucker for Jabba.

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It was in the june or july issue of the Star wars insider. They were talking about the cantina and showed sketches for his palace and I think the endor bunker.

I wonder if it'll be possible to just get the Jabba set by itself, or if you have to sign up for the subscription service and get the other ones as well. Of course, given the response this is getting they may not make it that far.

Icruise, did you ever see the model kit from Jabba's palace? I remember it from when I was a kid... very small scale, but was the whole throne room. Pretty cool and decent detail for the scale.