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Star Wars Saga Collection Action Figures Wave 2

By: News Editor
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2005
Source: Entertainment Earth

Entertainment Earth has announced the upcoming Star Wars - The Saga Collection 3 3/4-inch Basic Action Figure Assortment Wave 2, which contains 12 individually packaged action figures based on the Battle of Hoth. The set contains two General Veers, two Major Bren Derlin, two AT-AT Driver, R2-D2, two Snowtrooper, General Rieekan, Darth Vader, and a Power Droid.

The figures will be packaged in a black and silver style similar to the original vintage toys. Each figure includes a display base with the film's logo and a bonus 2-inch holographic figure.

The package will be available in February 2006 for $79.99.

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Comments/Responses
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• Oct 20, 2005, 09:16am •
YES! Finally, a Cliff Clavin action figure. Now I can recreate in my own home Cliffie's appearance on Jeopardy ("Who are 'People who have never been in my kitchen?'") and his infamous stand-up comedy routine ("Seriously folks...drinking and driving. What's up with THAT?"

• Oct 20, 2005, 09:27am •
Those are pretty cool I'd buy them but I'm in college and its hard to get a girl to mess around with you when you have Star Wars figures on display plus I'd feel like they were watching me.

• Oct 20, 2005, 10:44am •
YESS!!! That'll give me my 37th version of R2-D2!

• Oct 20, 2005, 01:06pm •
Cliff Clavin...thats pretty funny, and that quite possibly could be the gayest pose by a darth vader figure ever, if his long flowing locks where blowing in the wind he could be on the cover of a dirty romance novel.....

• Oct 20, 2005, 02:22pm •
Oh good! We haven't seen these before!

• Oct 20, 2005, 03:19pm •
Yaaah!

• Oct 20, 2005, 05:19pm •
I am not sure I actually understand the complaint that there are more Star Wars action fugures available.
I have read that this is somehow like Lucas raping us all, as if I were being dragged to the toy store and forced to buy it.
It's pretty weird, because there are often articles about other toys that I don't read, because I am not into them (Sin City toys, for example)
I just don't get why someone who thinks these are stupid would waist their time reading about it, (you are allowed to skip articles) and then post an irate comment about it.
And for the record, sonofabith, the Major Derlin figure was available when ESB first came out (I had one). They have also since released it since the new ones came out in 98.

snallygaster • Oct 20, 2005, 06:27pm •
bob21b, I can't speak for the others, but as for myself, I'm a former Star Wars collector. I enjoyed collecting the Kenner figures. It was a very large line of action figures at the time, a challenge to collect, and fun to do so. When the new figures started rolling out in the late 1990s, I checked them out, but never bothered buying them. For some reason, I just had this sinking feeling that the line would become way too much of a pain in the ass, with all the limited editions, variations, short packed figures, etc. And the more I've seen the Star Wars line expand into a seemingly endless series, the more I'm glad I decided to "sit it out."

There was something about the finite number of original Kenner figures that made it an attractive and fun hobby. I'm not going to mock Lucas for continuing the line, or the collectors who buy them up because I understand the passion of collecting. So even though I don't collect the figures anymore, I do read these news items with a sort of interest - and even from the sidelines, these constant releases get to be fatiguing. I'm not so sure that the quip above about the "37th version of R2-D2" is too far from the truth.

And while I really don't think we needed a Cliff Claven action figure, I'm quite happy to see we finally have a "John Kerry in Hoth Gear" figure! OK, so just a little mockery... (and in all seriousness, it's a good likeness - I always thought that actor resembled John Kerry).

• Oct 20, 2005, 08:19pm •
my first stars wars blog! seems so underwhelming. stop buying toys...thats what green-lighted the prequels. Now the SW legacy is forever tarnished. Lucas you are a pimp. Leave indy alone. The LAST crusade--get it??

mckracken • Oct 21, 2005, 01:42am •
blah, what makes this version of R2D2 any different than any other version of R2D2? c'mon. is the John Kerry guy the same actor from the Re-Animator flicks?

Personally, I'd like to see Trippin the Rift action figures, perhaps even those Land of the Dead figures I saw down in San Diego at the convention. More Futurama and Simpsons figures... lets get this blog interesting and talk greatest "Movie toys and playsets we never got to see."
perhaps ToddToys will be reading...

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