>>11650772
neat

>>11650772
I remember seeing this in stores and my 7 year old self didn't give a shit since it wasn't from the movies...then I played SotE and wanted it so bad but couldn't find it.

>>11650772
It really was, I got a N64 for christmas in 1996, then in January my parents take me to see Star Wars A New Hope, It was the greatest thing I had ever seen, I went to the store and they had tons of figures of characters that i had no idea who they were and I could only imagine. It didn't take long since the next month The empire strikes back came out in theaters and I was blown away, I got some toys and love the first two movies and then bam out of nowhere just a month later Return of the Jedi comes out, I watch it and fucking loved it. Got more figures as well to go along with the movie, including some Shadows of the Empire toys, at this point I knew who all the characters were but didn't know who the SOTE guys were, and then I realize one day that there's a N64 game called that so I get it for my birthday along with the VHS trilogy of star wars (which were actually the non-special edition versions, as a kid I just thought they removed stuff from the VHS releases which is why there was no jabba in ANH for example). So much star wars in such little time. I was hyped as fuck for The Phantom Menace, hell the whole world was, but the toys, the video games, they didn't hit the same despite me still being a kid.

>>11650321
The appeasement of the boomers is almost at an end, the thickness is back!

>>11650315
Because you can buy most of these sealed for $5, hasbro selling nu versions of them for $30 would be what finally bankrupts them

>>11655130
don't forget that kylo's ship wasn't even correct
disney was being stingy about 'leaks' and gave lego outdated/ incorrect info when they were licensing the sets
the set's wings are straight up and down, while in the film they angle outwards

>>11655134
to be fair, toy makers need about a year's head start and designs might not be finalized when the toy company gets the drawings.

A movie isn't finalized until a couple of months before release, so CGI will be finished around the time merch is starting to be put onto the ships.

>>11655130
The crazy thing to me is how Doug Chiang and his team did the designs for the sequels as well as rogue one, Mando etc. The latter have plenty of sovl designs but everything in the sequels is ugly and forgettable. What happened?

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>>11655176
Director asks designers to make designs.
Designers make 50 different variations.
Director picks what he thinks looks best.

PS, the director has a thing for squinty eyes and no nose nostrils

PPS designers were told the spaceships have be slightly updated OT designs.

So it's like hiring the best chefs in the world and telling them they're catering a party for a bunch of autists who only like oscar mayer hot dogs and mac and cheese

>>11655176
abrams went out of his way to get ot looking designs because he wanted the movie to just be a nostalgia fest for anh
he's the primary reason for why the sequels turned out the way they did, before he got hired as director of tfa things were leaning more into what lucas envisioned for the sequels
jj threw almost all of that out, and then lied about it later

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I love him… I love him so much.

>>11652502
Actually it's Darwin not Vulcan.

Darwin basically is an albino Puerto Rican who can adapt to any attack made against him, making him neigh impossible to kill. He was part of a "lost" team of X-Men alongside Vulcan sent to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa prior to the forming of the All New All Different X-Men, who only existed because Krakoa massacred Darwin's team. Darwin survived by merging with Vulcan and got extracted from him when Vulcan came back for revenge. He later then joined Xfactor for a bit before being forgotten.

His biggest claim to fame was being on X-Men First Class where he was made a normal looking black man played by the guy who went on to play Mr Terrific in James Gunns Superman. The character is quickly killed off in First Class and the actor who played him is still salty as fuck that he didn't get the Jennifer Lawrence treatment simply because he was black.

>>11653289
Darwin dying from something he should have adapted to still makes me salty too, damn.

>>11653386
>X-Men movie characters generally aren't as insanely OP as the comic characters
>nobody really cares most of the time
>introduce irrelevant Z-list character nobody ever cared about, with power of being hard to kill
>Villain kills him anyway, to showcase how threatening he is
I feel like nobody except the "everything in an adaptation must be 100% EXACTLY like the comics" turbo autists would even care if the actor wasn't black and tried to act like his character dying and staying dead was an act of discrimination against him.

>>11653289
>he didn't get the Jennifer Lawrence treatment simply because he was black
Definitely couldn’t have been because he wasn’t Jennifer Lawrence it was 1000% because he’s a nigger.

>>11654416
This isn't the burn you think it is.

>>11654007
I was going to suggest some sort of tax write off.

>>11654587
>>11654444
Hm interesting

>>11654444
witnessed

>>11653848
>KAREN - Breaking the News.
How unfortunate.

>>11655052
Hmm. Maybe I'll actually grab them this time, though it'd fuck up my whole one detolf for Dragon Ball plan if I have to make a whole shelf for namek.

>>11655424
>though it'd fuck up my whole one detolf for Dragon Ball plan if I have to make a whole shelf for namek.
This isn't Namek, this is Bardock Special!

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I'm probably going to recreate Bardock scene where he's reaching for Goku but since I don't have Goku I'll put Kiwi instead

>>11655435
Kinda feels bad for raditz. Bardock seems to only care about goku lmao

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>>11655444
Oh shit, I forgot I had Raditz. I'm going to use him instead

>>11654426
>she
Okay tranny

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE SNAKE EATER FIGURES WE HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN PAINTED VERSIONS FUCK

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tosha bros...

>>11654931
scrapped after delta didn't perform well

>>11654936
That is a lie. Do you make this lie? Where did you find this lie? Liar.

I had an old Luke Skywalker action figure from ROTJ with the Jedi cloak. (The cloak was made from fabric, not plastic). That was my favorite action figure as a kid.

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When I was a kid I had a crush on Jessie Bannon from Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, I got this figure of her from Pizza Hut and rubbed all the paint off her chest so it looked like her boobs were showing.

>>11654518
1983 Luke Jedi is my favorite original Star Wars figure too. Hasbro reissued him not long ago for the retro collection so you can still find a reasonably-priced one.

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>>11654518
Get a cheap retro reissue now while it's still cheap.

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>>11654502
>>11654486
Funny I was going to mention the vipers. You are correct though.

>>11654739
Collecting them now that it's dead is part of the appeal to me. You're not just going to a store and buying the new thing (that can be fun too don't get me wrong), but you're doing research on what you're buying, see who's selling, comparing prices, and the condition, maybe replacing parts. Getting someone's old collection and finding out something rare, even if incomplete is really fun. You can do more research on when they were made, what parts you can expect from that era, etc. Feels almost like paleontology/archeology for lego.
Also the quality of bionicle slowly declined with each new set, so if you were collecting them as they were being released, you'll only get disappointed. But collection now that it's dead, you're going in the opposite direction. You'll easily find the newer, less quality ones for cheap, but getting the older ones is more difficult, so it's like you're digging deeper to get the rarest loot.
And now your collection has value, since they are not being produced anymore, they are like old artifacts from a bygone era. While buying something new will feel like you're just consooming the thing.
Reading and understanding a story that is old and done also is more appealing to me than following something that is still being written, again, sound's like you're doing archeology.
Unfortunately it ends soon, now that I have most bionicle I want, I went deeper and started collecting old legos, but I'm not as enthusiastic about them, and they're a lot more expensive.
If I was going to collect something that is still being made, I'd get into the halo megabloks sets, or gunpla.

>>11654819
Wonder if there's another way of storing Kraata than the backpiece, could be interesting for a moc

>>11654716
I’ve seen proper female rahkshi porn (aka of them like that) before, though the only real lore accurate one I saw that looked good was drawn by Trout

>>11654172
I don't mind that they were new faces though. And while lore was minimal, I appreciated that they stood as their own. I wouldn't mind seeing them come back in the future, get a second chance. The change to making element no longer tied to male/female was also wise.

>>11655017
>The change to making element no longer tied to male/female was also wise.
While it's indeed nice, I understand why it was done in G1 in the first place. Since they didn't have the budget to give a different, more feminine shape to the Matoran like they did for Gali, they just made it so all the blue ones are female so that it's easier for kids to understand who is a girl

>>11654352
How wasn't it? It's not like it was filled with a bunch of repacks or Mandalorians again.

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Forbidden love

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>>11654791
>Do you see that mountain over there? It's where you should fuck off.

>>11654791
And she was a good mom

>>11654816
>Sand People
>Sand People Everywhere

>>11651250
R fraid so

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>>11650875
is it? jesus zack

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>>11654668
https://youtu.be/ApIf9IfVV9Y?si=Ah9Gr1XPMNBqVkLR

>>11648899
>Vivi is black
I don't know what I expected.

>>11652697
indian, i think

>>11648891
Why have multiple face plates if they all look 99% the same?

>>11652697
Considering Oda had real world nationalities for all the characters for years and Alabasta's inspired by Egypt and the middle east, she was never going to be white. I was more surprised by Nami's sister.

>>11654741
Only like 2 Straw Hats actually followed the nationalities stated by Oda. Oda is perpetually used to excused retard production decisions. Egyptians aren't black either way.

>>11654798
You're on the right board. We have a thread for your bugmen.
>>11654331

>>11654803
...but, do they paint tho.
It's ldcx too

>>11654804
Ah, to learn how to paint figgies, you want Customs general.
>>11643945
The first thing they will tell you to do is to thin your paints.

>>11654810
Learn from where?
>Thin
I added water. It became slippery.

>>11645234
Idk, probably a knock off go bot from a drug store. There was a christmas where i got things they found at yard sales and while i understood the reality of it i guess it kinda bothered me to get just random stuff and a han solo mego sized figure. The han was strange since she knew i did not like dolls in any way so yeah, that was weird.

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>>11647438
My aunt did that to us. Had gotten me that tall Luke Skywalker doll, and my older brother... the Princess Leia doll? lol... it was probably all they had left of the big ones, due to the christmas Star Wars toy craze.

>>11647454
Your bro ended up with a Leia fetish, didn't he?

>>11647483
with fuckable hair like that, who could blame him?

>>11647454
It's kinda crazy how good that likeness to Carrie Fisher is.