New Star Wars Figures Allow You to Recreate the Awesome "Standing on the Medical Frigate" Scene
Posted at 11:04 AM Jan 13, 2009
There hasn't been much Star Wars toy coverage on Topless Robot. There are two reasons for this: 1) I used to have a heroin-like addiction to Star Wars toys and did incredibly depraved things to get them, so seeing all the new toys is kind of like making an ex-addict hold your needle while you tie up your arm, and 2) I've had a hard time trying to figure exactly what's new and what isn't, thanks to Hasbro releasing several zillion toys per month. However, I have figured out that this wave--specifically, the Legacy Collection Wave 6--are new.
Now, the set is mostly ESB: clockwise from the upper-left is Cap'n Needa, Luke in his flowy medical frigate gown and an open prosthetic wrist, the Emperor from RotS, Leia in her less flowy frigate gown, a generic Hoth Rebel Trooper who looks a lot like Hoth Luke thanks to his scarf (copycat), and two Ugnaughts, who are either not to scale or monstrously large. Entertainment Earth says the set will be out in May, and you can pre-order them here. Now, if you need me, I'll have chained myself up in my basement to prevent myself from heading to Toys R Us.
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Captain Needa got a shout out in 30 Rock. "But Captain Needa dies! He dies!" Good ol' Tina Fey ...
Posted 01/13/2009 at 09:53:57 AMIf you're implying by the paraphrasing of the Peanuts catch-phrase that she's a vaguely pathetic individual filled with self-loathing, I won't disagree. ;)
Posted 01/13/2009 at 11:42:51 AMYou're forgetting the most important piece of information about this wave: the build a droid is HK-47!
Posted 01/13/2009 at 11:51:16 AMI can't really tell because I'm reading on a blackberry (instead of working), but is hospital luke holding a lightsaber? If so, why? Did he reenact how dads lobbed his hand off for Leia's entertainment?
Posted 01/13/2009 at 12:29:30 PMSince all the other figures are from Empire Strikes Back, I figure that Palpatine is also supposed to be from ESB, and not RotS.
Yeah, that irked me so much that I had to write a comment about it.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 12:37:14 PMChristopher - I DENY YOU! Palps has his younger, rounder face which only showed up in RotS. If he's supposed to look like he did in ESB, then Hasbro fucked up, because he looks just like he did in RotS.
So there.
Weird that I don't mind when someone calls me a fucking pussy or an idiot, but if someone says I've gotten a star wars figure wrong, I reply in seconds.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 12:47:01 PMActually, that IS the Emperor from ESB, the original ESB, not the Special Editions. The guy looked so weird because it wasn't an actor as much as a special effect. They filmed a chimpanzees eyes, the mouth of a female Lucasfilm employee, and dubbed a voice actor over it. Pretty freaky, but still not enough to make me want to buy more Star Wars junk.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 12:58:17 PMChristopher - I DENY YOU! Palps has his younger, rounder face which only showed up in RotS. If he's supposed to look like he did in ESB, then Hasbro fucked up, because he looks just like he did in RotS.
It's ESB Palpatine. Old-lady-faced, monkey-eyed holographic transmission ESB Palpatine.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 01:06:16 PMMaterialist Zen — I ALSO DENY YOU, because the Emperor in the non-special edition ESB has that freaky fisheye, which this figure does not have, and the SE one looked just like the regular Emperor from RotJ, which this also doesn't look like.
I'm not saying Hasbro isn't pretending he's from ESB, but I am saying he looks exactly like he's from RotS instead. If you disagree, you are clearly a terrible person.
Posted 01/13/2009 at 01:06:23 PMGotta go with Rob on this one. ESB/ROTJ Palpy is hunched over and in more of a bathrobe, not in jumping-worthy pants and flowing cloak. More importantly, ESB Palps surely never had a lightsaber in any shape or form. Plus, yeah, the face.
Captain Flunky said:
I can't really tell because I'm reading on a blackberry (instead of working), but is hospital luke holding a lightsaber? If so, why? Did he reenact how dads lobbed his hand off for Leia's entertainment?
"And I was all like, 'pshew! pshew! vrrrm ktang!' And he was all, 'Raaahhrrr.' And I was all, "Aaaahhhh!'"
Posted 01/13/2009 at 03:06:44 PMHeh, good post. Just watched Empire in 1080p last night, it was a near-religious experience. "Apology accepted, Captain Needa." Sadly, the quality of many figures has been dropping, and I've found myself in stores *almost* ready to pick some up, but then putting them back when I looked critically at how the figures were actually made. (Like the lame "ball socket heads" that look so awful, which you can see Leia has here.)
Posted 01/13/2009 at 06:36:28 PM