Someone, somewhere at Hasbro, is regretting pretending to listen to fans in the wake of Star Wars fansite Rebel Scum announcing the final candidates in their action figure wishlist voting. I mean, I'm sure that knowing that you have an established fanbase for new toys is a reassuring thing, but how many random Target shoppers are really going to pick up a figure of Cliegg Lars? Check how geeky you are by seeing if you recognize any of the frontrunners in the voting after the jump.
Rebel Scum's wishlist poll is arguably a lesson in frustration in itself; it's not that the website has any particular "in" at Hasbro, they're just preparing to present the finalized wishlist to Hasbro representatives at SDCC in July and hope for the best. The voting is separated into three uber-categories (Original trilogy, prequel trilogy and extended universe) and then subsets within each category (For each movie, and one each for comics, novels, video game and "TV and other" characters), and some of the front-runners are surprising in just how obvious they are - Is there really no General Grievous toy from Revenge of The Sith, or Obi-Wan from The Phantom Menace? - but the majority of names being bandied around are particularly obscure. How many of the following would you buy action figures for?
The Phantom Menace
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Attack of The Clones
Cliegg Lars
Revenge of The Sith
General Grievous
A New Hope
Tonnika Sisters
The Empire Strikes Back
Bespin Security Guard
Return of The Jedi
Luke Skywalker in his Death Star 2 outfit
Comic books
K'Kruhnk from Dark Times
Video games
Bastilla Shan from Knights of The Old Republic
Novels
Darth Caedus from Legacy of the Force
TV and other
Captain Fordo from Cartoon Network's Clone Wars series
Voting is open to any and all right now. Vote early, vote often, but feel free to vote irresponsibly.
2008 Rebelscum Hasbro Wishlist Poll [The Force.net]













Comments
I'm pretty sure I have an Obi Wan from Phantom Menace. I bought a lot of that before I saw the movie... Sigh
No collect star wars.
Wouldn't look good next to my Dunny, Trexi and UNKL collections.
I'm still holding out for Toryn Farr, otherwise known as the "Standby ion control" girl.
Bastilla Shaw? As much as i like Kotor the figure should be Darth Revan in the robes with the mask (And to support the game make a male and female model). But Bastilla is a close second.
Which Luke Skywalker outfit from the second deathstar are they talking about? Where he's wearing black? They have that one already. Or are they referring to when his shirt was kind of folded black, and there was grey showing?
There is a General Grievous toy, and it's one of the worst action figures ever made. He's held together- poorly- by rubber bands so he can "explode" at the push of a button. You DO NOT need to push the button to make him explode. Maybe they're just looking for a GOOD figure of Grievous.
Gonna go with "none" here. I've still got my Box 'O Kenner in the closet, and I'm really waiting for someone to release a Moya and/or Talyn diecast.
Remember the brown kinda rectangular robot that the Jawas had in the beginning of Star Wars? I had that one as a kid.
I want an action figure of Bea Arthur's cantina mistress in the Holiday Special.
It's expanded universe, not extended. Pet peeve, sorry.
@Plague:
Eletist ; )
When are fans going to stop asking for the Tonnika Sisters? For various reasons, they will never be made.
@Plague: You could do a custom Dunny with a Death Star head to ease the transition on your shelf.
General Greivous, or else the hot Jedi Knight that gets killed in #III.. I would look up her name, but i don't want to be mistaken for somebody who has seen it more than once; i.e. a fanboy
who are the Tonnika Sisters?
@gwerner: A couple of extras in the cantina scene.
@SVreader:
True.
But that would probably look better as a Trexi.
@B: GONK!
I thought Lucas had a great opportunity just before the prequels came out to market, say, a generic figure of a cow as "Jedi Cow," just to see how many people would buy the Jedi Cow, to hear what fans would speculate regarding the Cow's role in the films, to read the fanfics and stories about the Jedi Cow, and to observe the inevitable cult following Jedi Cow would engender.
There were three Obi-Wan Kenobis for The Phantom Menace (at least) - each one with a slightly different cape. There were also three Qui-Gon Jinns and three Darth Mauls, which, again, varied only in the shape of their capes.
It was at that point that I stopped buying Star Wars toys.
I can't believe people voted for Bastila over HK-47.
HK-47 is one of the greatest characters from Star Wars or video games.
@B: GNK Power Droid
(also a favorite)
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I'm actually excited by the prospect of Cliegg Lars. But I agree with CarolynG: HK-47 is one of the greatest creations of our age.
Bespin Security Guard? The guys in blue? They made one of those, I had him. Actually, now that I Google it, they made two: a black guy and an Asian guy.
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