SSG’s Bi-Weekly Hasbro Q&A – March 20th

SSG’s Bi-Weekly Hasbro Q&A – March 20th

Posted by jeditricks on March 21, 2008 at 3:05 AM

What’s a day early and dyed in bright colors for Easter? It’s Hasbro’s answers to SSG questions for March 20th, 2008. Thanks again to Hasbro for the answers, to all the folks who sent in questions and especially those who voted on them.

Hasbro Q&A for the week of March 20th

SSG: Should Hasbro ever decide to revisit the Ishi Tib species with a new figure, would you be more inclined to do one from Jabba’s palace first, the prequels, or would you want to update the figure from 1998 of the unnamed rebel?
Hasbro: We would probably go with an OTC version. While an Ishi Tib is not in any planend waves for the next couple of years, it is a good candidate for eventually updating since there is also a vintage precedent.

SSG: With the upcoming Comic Pack figure of Cade Skywalker, you seem to have nailed his look, but he doesn’t seem to be coming with his green lightsaber. Might that be rectified in time for the figure’s release since it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing another Cade Skywalker figure for a while? Cade’s even holding the hilt on the cover of Legacy #2, and after all, your figure of Quinlan Vos wasn’t entirely accurate to the issue he came with, instead opting for his more popular look, so why not give Cade his saber?
Hasbro: Originally, it was planned that Cade would have a saber hilt. However, the hard copy was misplaced and by the time the mistake was discovered, it could not be included. We decided to release as is (since he has his blaster rifle).

SSG: While it’s our site policy to avoid rumors, our readers have been wound up a bit on this one so they demanded we ask…. It seems like there was a lot of hype and rumor about a new Millennium Falcon vehicle for the main line, including the leak of a Target DCPI number that came with the AT-TE – which Hasbro is indeed materializing. There was a lot of expectation that Hasbro would unveil both the AT-TE and this new Millennium Falcon at Toy Fair, and while the former appeared, the latter did not, so might you comment on these Falcon rumors at all? If nothing else, a simple confirmation or denial would ease a lot of collector tension.
Hasbro: We have no comment on anything to do with a Millenium Falcon item, other than to say that it is not our policy to comment on certain rumors especially as they pertain to items that may appear in the Target (or any other retailer’s) computers. Often, there is a reason for this secrecy because some items may be part of that retailers promotional tactics such as the Ultimate Battle Packs at Target. Whether or not there is another such concept in development will not be commented upon for this reason.

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And the questions at ActionFigs.com:
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[*]Would Hasbro ever consider doing a figure of a “classic style” Sy Snootles from before the Special Editions? That’s the one including the feather hat, tusks, more realistic eyes, a microphone, and can still be seen in the current version on the sail barge.
[*]Does Nippet the Wokling come out of his basket? If so, might you be able to share a picture of this?
[*]Although Hasbro’s been releasing more and more Battle Droid designs lately, one that’s been overlooked so far has been the Geonosis Battle Droid Commander, the one that has the OOM-9-style yellow markings on a maroon body. Moreover, the last Battle Droid Commander you released had a regular Battle Droid’s backpack, which is inaccurate, the commander droids have no backpack, only a small antenna array as seen on your Ep 1 OOM-9 figure. Might this design be considered for the next time we see Battle Droid figures, perhaps even in a Geonosis Arena battle pack with the unreleased Geonosian Cannon accessory that was originally shown with the Arena playset?[/LIST]

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