After
a week off, it's time for another round of Questions
and Answers from the Hasbro team. Read them all here!
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forget, you can submit
questions in our forums and we'll try to get as many as possible submitted to
Hasbro. We can send only three questions per week, so make sure they are good ones! Now,
on to this weeks Questions and Answers directly from Hasbro.
Q.
We recently saw the Diamond/Online exclusive Pirate TIE Fighter with Hobbie revealed. It's
an interesting take on the upscaled TIE Fighter. But will it feature some of
the unique aspects of that TIE as it was featured in the Dark Horse EMPIRE series? Can
we expect Hobbie to come with a sniper rifle, and the TIE to include some kind of
additional hyperdrive pack and astomech droid? The higher price point (approx.
$55) compared with the current TRU exclusive TIE Fighter ($39.99) seems to suggest
that there might be some value added features. Can collectors expect as much?
A.
It will be the existing TIE with the new deco. We just couldn't afford to
redo the body for the Astromech port and instead drew inspiration from the
idea that these TIEs, with their pilots Biggs, Hobbie, Wes Jansen, etc.,
formed an important early wing of the Rogue Squadron's forces after their
mutiny from the Ran Ecliptic storyline. As for retail price, we don't set
that, and retailers often vary for the same item. When it's an exclusive,
they set the price they need to drive their overall business, so it's
difficult to infer features from the price or even compare across
retailers in this case.
Q.
In the ramp-up to The Clone Wars, we've seen artwork on www.starwars.com for
the Y-Wing fighter as it would appear in The Clone Wars (image attached). If the
Y-Wing does appear in the Clone Wars series in this form and it gets enough screen
time to be a serious contender for the vehicle line, would you redesign it from the
ground up, or attempt to modify the existing tools and add some kind of body fairings? One
of the interesting EU notes about the vehicle is that it required such regular maintenance
that the groundcrews started to leave the body fairings off in order to more easily
maintain their fighters.
A.
The new Y-Wing is definitely one of the vehicles we have our eye on, and
if it appears in enough episodes we would take a look at it. It is so
different that it would need to be an all-new vehicle, hence our
wait-and-see approach, balanced against other vehicles that we may see
coming down the road as well.
Q.In
a previous Q&A session with Jedi Temple Archives Hasbro confirmed that we will
be seeing the Republic Gunship reissued with new deco. Will the Gunship be
shipping to retail in cases of Gunships alone, or as part of a large vehicle assortment
as it did with the Revenge Of The Sith era ARC-170? And can we get a sneak
peek at the new deco for this fan favorite vehicle? Is this new deco shown on the
box of the Wal-Mart
exclusive that recently showed up online?
A. The Republic Gunship will be shipping by itself and not as part of an
assortment. The colors are reminiscent of the EpIII color scheme with the
addition of the new Squadron-approach to nose art insignia. In this
case, it's a cool version of a Twi'Lek.
Check back in a few weeks and we'll post
the next round of Questions (and answers) as soon as Hasbro offers them.
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