New Star Wars Battlepack Images From Big Bad Toy Store
The title of this post says it all, online toy retailer Big Bad Toy Store has a couple of images from upcoming battlepacks that are worth checking out.
Battle On Mygeeto
Battle On Mygeeto features a couple of clones, that ugly cone head Jedi, a super battledroid, and one of those spider looking droid things. (I almost feel like a better person not knowing the name of EVERY Star Wars character and thing now that the prequels are out.) The pre-order price is thirty bucks so I’m guessing there will be a couple more figures in there.
This is a must pass for me. There’s nothing about this set that in any way makes me want to buy it. I guess the clones are kind of cool, but I’ve never been hot on the design of the droid army or that cone headed Jedi, Ki-ada-Ugly or whatever his name is.
Hoth Speeder Bike Patrol
Now we’re cooking with lasers, although it’s not as apparent what’s exactly in this pack. Sure, you get the two white speederbikes with two cool scouts, but what else do you get for the thirty bucks? There’s no way it’s coming with the AT-AT pictured, unless Hasbro has a plan to lose as much money as possible.
While I enjoy the Bikerscouts and speeder bikes as much as the next guy, I’m wondering why they aren’t Snowtroopers. The only time I’ve ever seen snow related speeder bikes is with Snowtroopers. And when did the speeder bikes show up in Empire Strikes Back? I’m thinking Lucas needs to do another special edition…
January 7th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
For 30 bucks you probably get 2 speeder bikes, two scout bikers, two Hoth Dewbacks and 40 pairs of snow ewoks that were also fighting there just off screen. Holy crap how much of a badass must a guy be to pilot a fast moving speeder bike in the snow and still get a bead on something with a laser pistol that he’s aiming with one hand? The wind chill has gotta be about negative ten thousand degrees when you’re speeder biking on Hoth. Also, I thought you needed to be holding on to the two handlebars to steer and balance the bike. Maybe it doesn’t matter and their arms just get frozen in that one position and they freeze to death by the time they get to the other side of the battlefield.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:17 am
I think I love you Evil King Macroanios…
But I think I’d prefer the snow speeder job flying across open plains rather than ramming into a california redwood.
January 8th, 2008 at 3:05 am
LOL! Evil King Macrocranios wrote my favorite reply ever, and I mean that.
This has now become officially IN-SANE. I’m rolling in petty cash right now, and I still think this isn’t worth it. I love SW, but they’re just not offering me anything I want.
And dear-gawd. . .the canon-contradicting anachronisms just send me in the other direction entirely. There’s a clear message here, “We don’t really care if there’s any structure, rhyme, or reason to the SW universe, just buy more crap.”
. . .
Female stormtroopers are comin’ up next boy, mark my words. Curvy, plastic-bustier-plated girl clones. Gah!
I love Star Wars. But it’s getting to the point where when I look at anything SW anymore, I don’t see Star Wars. Nooo, instead I see either a huckstering Hasbro exec. . .or Kevin Smith.
Does that make any sense?
-PJ
January 8th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Even though I think the marketers have fooled me into thinking it’s cooler than it really is with that bad-ass backdrop, I’m really into that Battle On Mygeeto set.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
what exactly is contradicting canon?
January 14th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Yeah they should have included snowtroopers instead of white scouts. For that price too, we’ll be getting those 2 huge boulders pictured. Nice.
Think I’ll just get 1 loose speeder bike and scout on ebay, def not the whole set.