Phew! I just got my figures at work and I almost never open them here. Given these reports, I did, expecting the worst and I'm glad to report mine are totally fine in regards to paint.
I'm much too embarassed to show my shoddy dremel work (the majority of my demel experience is "fixing" shallow Hasbro figure heads to reduce giraffe populations), but the idea is to sand down the spacers around the post. It took me about 40 minutes with a my copy of Chronicles opened to the...
Too bad to hear about the loose joints. I was pleasantly surprised that all of mine were nice and tight and hoped it meant they'd worked out the "kinks" from the earlier figurs.
Re: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (SPOILERS)
Last week I had nothing better to do but watch the "behind the scenes" features from the Clone Wars movie DVD.
I was a little surprised that the first feature was about describing the themes behind the episodes and not the movie. I was getting into it...
The only reason I can think for that would be that his ROTS outfit would have been too dark.
Although it seems that if he was wearing his cloak it wouldn't look bad. For that matter, they could gave gone with the somewhat lighter AOTC outfit but a regular Jedi cloak. I say this will full...
I'd be on board with a $200 ROTS Vader.
What could possibily justify another $75?
A burned Anakin figure with removable mechanical legs and arms as shown on the operating table.
I think it has to do with the choices of exclusive. As EVILFACE said, they should just be "nice to have" instead of "must have".
To me, exclusives that fall under "nice to have" includes:
Stormtrooper blaster.
Kit Fisto's droid head.
Anakin's Sideous hologram.
They're cool, but as a fan of the...
I'd hesitate to bet on one over the other. Now that they have both a Clone Trooper body and Stormtrooper body and head, they can quickly/cheaply open the floodgates either way with:
Sandtrooper
Luke in Stormtrooper Disguise
Han in Stormtrooper Disguise
AOTC Clone
AOTC Clone Pilot
ARC Trooper...
Interesting.
I just ordered a regular edition trooper to go with the exclusive. Comparing the three order numbers, I get (rounding to be paranoid):
Ex Vader - Ex Stormtrooper = 1600
Ex Stormtrooper - Regular Stormtrooper = 2200
Or roughly 3800 orders from Vader through my Regular...