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Your Questions To Hasbro For San Diego Comic Con 2014: The Top 25

Posted by Paul | July 22, 2014 at 03:33 PM ET

You submitted the questions and then voted for your top picks. Now we have compiled the top 25 questions to ask Hasbro as San Diego Comic Con this year. Please know that we will make a concerted effort to get all of these asked, but there have been tremendous shake-ups internally at Hasbro and there won't be a strong presence of reps to answer questions like in years' past. (Usually we have been able to talk with them at length in the past but this year they're running a tighter ship.) So please be patient with us as we try to scour for all the answers your hearts are seeking. In the meantime, click through to see if your question made the cut. Questions have been ranked by popularity. And if you see these questions and/or answers anywhere else, you know where they originated! Also, please feel free to start up a new discussion about your anticipation this year!

1. The prototype for the 3.75" The Black Series Yoda looked amazing but the final product left many collectors disappointed. The paint apps were sloppy, a recurring problem with The Black Series, and the figure only came with 5 points of articulation. Can you explain the rational behind releasing a 5 POA figure in the collector line, especially since the orginal design included premium articulation, and assure collectors that articulation won't be cut on other TBS figures too and that the sloppy and uneven paint applications that have plaqued The Black Series will addressed?

2. Hasbro - it appears you're utilizing a new factory for the Star Wars line and the paint jobs are quite rough. Have you started seeing the unevenness in the line yourselves and perhaps see the need to calibrate the machines better? Has anything been put into motion to remedy this situation?

3. Does Hasbro have any plans to cancel the super articulated 3.75 inch line in the near future?

4. Can you please make a greatest hits line for collectors, chosen by fans/collectors?

5. When is the Vintage Collection and Vintage Collection quality coming back?

6. How many 3 3/4'' figures do you plan to release during 2015? And 6'' figures?

7. The Hero Series Falcon seems like a large chunk of plastic for $60.00, and the same goes for the X-Wing (note the TVC one is collecting dust at Toys"R"us). It seems like this new approach to some larger items, which don't even interact with figures, are very risky and the collecting community is surprised to see items like this being made. What drove the decision to make these items, rather than some sort of (so help me) environment pieces that could have interacted with figures, while at the same time appealing to both kids AND collectors?

8. Several of the later waves of a few lines have only been available in other countries and not offered at retail in the USA at all. why does this keep happening?

9. Figure ratio's in case assortments have been a constant problem for both collectors and retailers. Each time a case assortment is announced for a new wave collectors on fansites are able to tell which figures will end up clogging pegs and which figures will be hard to find. Would you consider polling these same fansites prior to case assortments being assigned to see which of your new releases will be most sought after? There would be a higher sell-through rate on cases, which would be profitable for you, and collectors would have more access to the figures they want for their collections if you were to set the ratios according to those results.

10. There seems to be a lack of female Star Wars figures recently, most noticebly in the Saga Legends & Mission Series. Are there more plans for female Star Wars characters from now on?

11. Simple and to the point: with all the Vintage Collection repacks scheduled for upcoming Black Series wave assortments, are there any plans going on behind the scenes for Ponda Baba to get a second chance at brick-and-mortar retail?

12. We were told that TBS distribution would not be as bad as TVC, but more often than not, it's worse. What do you plan on doing to improve the situation with various peg-warming Star Wars Black Series figures currently, and in the future?

13. Are there any plans to release more TCW characters in realistic style?

14. Now that we know there is a canon story in Star Wars within Clone Wars, Rebels and prequels, is there any chance to see some of these characters in the 6 inch scale as Ahsoka Tano, Cad Bane or Asajj Ventress with some prequels beloved jedi like Plo Koon, Kit Fisto or Shaak Ti?

15. With the upcoming release of TBS #27 Jabba's Skiff Guard (and possibly other skiff guards on the way), is a re-tooled longer desert sail skiff (or re-tool of ANY OT vehicle for that matter) in the two year plan, and if so, would you provide us with a hint or three?

16. Dear HASBRO: concerning the Droid Factory Build-A-Droid astromech figures at Disney, is there going to be a new wave of them with different pieces/paint apps in the near future? Is there any project of getting them carded and sold as regular figures or as mystery blind bags to encourage trading, outside Disney parks?

17. Figures such as the upcoming Ree Yees, and Skiff Guard, along with the most recent Ponda Baba, all have heads which are significantly smaller than their on screen counterparts. Was there a reason for the scaled down heads? and if it was by pure accident will they take steps to ensure the trend doesn't continue?

18. Episode VII action figures will have 5 POA or will have full articulation?

19. Are there definite plans to release SA 3.75 figures for the ST (and yes, for Rebels, too)?

20. Would Hasbro ever consider working directly with collector community sites such as JTA to make product decisions that would both better serve them and the larger S.W collecting community?

21. Hasbro- Has the recent "discontinuity" of the Star Wars Expanded Universe affected your plans in any way in terms of figure selection?

22. What ever happened to the rumored mission series with Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker?

23. What has happened to the new Darth Vader TIE Fighter with new cockpit interior, viewport, guns and proper scaled and accurately detailed wings (instead of the horrible re-tooled 1979 Vader TIE wings and horrible rocket launchers) that was promised by you three years ago?

24. How much stuff for Star Wars: Rebels are you planing to make and when will the first Episode VII items be announced?

25. The Dagobah Luke and ESB Yoda prototypes looked fantastic. The newly-visible pins in the production version of Dagobah Luke's arms are appalling, and the reduction of Yoda to 5POA with a sloppy paint job is one of the single biggest letdowns I can think of. I don't have a question. I just want an admission from Hasbro that Yoda in particular is an awful disappointment, and I want an apology from Hasbro for ruining a potentially awesome figure and selling this 5POA Yoda for $10+ in the collector line. That is all.

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