It’s finally here! I thought I blathered on about it on my site in the past. It’s a lot harder to dig through the archives because Jeremy had to disable the widget allowing it on the home page or just keep experiencing Web-page constipation. Either way, it’s pretty cool to make a 45-year dream happen. No more hunting down somebody on Etsy or FeceBook! Hoping they’re former craftspeople from Robot Chicken.
Hasbro made it pretty simple. You just do a few motions with the built-in camera on your cellphone and boom! You follow up with some modifications as it doesn’t bother with hair (either kind). It’s not exclusive to Star Wars. They got licensing deals for Power Rangers, Ghostbusters, and Marvel. GI Joe they already own. We’ll see if the $60-plus price tag is worth it when I have the money and time to go through with “Gold 10” here. A couple things are disappointing given the price. No helmets. What kind of pilot lacks a helmet‽ Some lack diversity in body shapes, namely the big two traditional (or common? I don’t have any idea!) genders. For example, all X-Wing pilots are mostly male in detail. Women pilots lack the curves most have. I can live with the height issues, action figures are just one size to save money on manufacturing.
This evening, I had a little more luck. Target had the General Merrick figure on closeout! Solves my gripe of no helmet but I can change up the color of my flight suit!
You know I’ll be writing all about this again when mine arrives in the near future.