Sorry, We’re Low on Ewoks This Year
I get email news updates from a couple of online stores and while browsing through the latest mailing from Brian’s Toys (one of the fine sponsors of last year’s Joes for Tots contest), I saw that there was going to be an Ewok themed battle pack. Well feast your eyes on this beauty:
What? One Ewok!? Granted he’s got a flying rig there, but one Ewok? And two other dudes? That’s like two and a half figures total! I was suitably upset and wrote this on Twitter:
Paul_Rudolph Thanks to @brianstoys I now know there’s an Ewok battle pack that comes with 1 ewok. Woah, Hasbro way to be generous with the ewoks.
Seriously, this doesn’t even qualify as a battle pack. I know times are tough and they’ve moved from giving us five figures to four or three and a neat pack in, but come on already. This is two and a half figures and a piece of plastic that’s been released several times already.
Yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn’t care so much about an Ewok, but awhile back I made the commitment to myself to rebuild my vintage Ewok village to be faster, stronger, and all of that. I need as many Ewoks that I can get my hands on to populate the thing and you’d think an “Ewok Battle Pack” would basically take care of my needs. Hell, they’ve packed two Ewoks on a single card, so you’d think that even now that they are down to four normal figures that they could stuff at least four Ewoks in there plus a bonus into an “Ewok Battle Pack”.
At least this gave me a reason to break any kind of record for the number of times “Ewok” was mentioned in a single post on the internet.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I’m gonna post an entry at Retrobate consisting of nothing but thousands of repetitions of the word “Ewok,” just to steal your glory.
I have no 3.75″ Star Wars toys, but that said, I dig the Ewoks. Screw the haters, ’cause Ewoks are cute, funny, surprisingly violent little bitches, and I think they’re cool.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Monte… it’s on.
The sad part of all this is I think I’d buy the set anyway. I just realized I have no Lukes that work well with the village… and I could always sell off the Imperial guy. Curse you, Hasbro!
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Dude wasn’t there a walmart Comic Pack with 3 Ewoks for like 10 bucks?
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Yes, and you can still find it easily. They’re just in ghastly colors…
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Yo go re: That’s what I was going to say. They’re hideous. I’d have to repaint them.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
yeah, but they’re Ewoks: just dip their hats in brown and you’re done…
June 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
“I just realized I have no Lukes that work well with the village…”
The Luke they packed with the new Rancor looks pretty swell.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I rather liked the comic pack Ewoks. I should review them soon, I’ve been sitting on them for months. Well, not literally.
I pretty much never buy Star Wars figures, but like Monte said, I too love Ewoks. They’re awesome.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
more proof for the theory that Gungans were introduced only to make Ewoks look better!
June 4th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Wal-marts here refuse to get the new comic packs. So while they gather dust elsewhere, we get nada. Typical. I wanted those Ewoks, but not pay $$$ shipping, etc. for them, not when the outlet that’s supposed to carry them has 2 stores within 20 miles of me.
I am amused that battle packs becoming a worse value than Evolutions. But they are canning evolutions because the series actually requires new tooling.