[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Skoob

I would like your opinion as a collector, looking at the Force Friday catalogue, which is now fairly widely available online.

Based on the design alone, without watching the movie, do you see anything in there right now that you feel strongly motivated to buy? Is there something that 'grabs' you and makes you think, "I definitely want that?"

The new Chewbacca because I think the head sculpt is a lot better than the previous 6" Chewie and the colors look better too. And then the first order Stormtrooper, this look has grown on me a lot since its debut and I've really come to appreciate how faithful it is to the original armor while still maintaining the idea that this is what it'd look like some 30 odd years later. The one thing I still don't care for is the fact that the guns match the uniform with their color scheme, since when do Stormtroopers accessorize?

I'm not very drawn in by the designs of the new characters. While it remains possible that Finn and Rey could end up being totally cool protagonists that are likable and fun, their toys are just fairly normal looking people so far as the world of Star Wars goes. And while it is also possible that Kylo Ren could be a good villain I'm not very awed by his apparel, his mask is pretty neat and very Revan-esque but other than the mask he's just a guy wearing an all covering nondescript black thing with some robes. I get the whole "oh the bad guys need to be dark and ominous," but maybe they could've done something to mix his look up just a little. It's not a bad look, it's just been done so much already that anything different would feel extremely fresh.

That's my take on the 6" figures anyway, I dropped out of the 3.75" line pretty much when they did the Phantom Menace 3D spiel which completely killed all of my local stores' Star Wars areas until the Black Series and by then I had already decided to walk away from the scale except for two figures that I missed the first time around. I'm pretty much just going to the Force Friday midnight thing so that I can get the two figures I want and then be done with figures for TFA until I see the film and can pass final judgement as to whether I get any more or not.