Hasbro's Questions & Answers #36

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Q. Will the coin packins be limited to the 30th anniversary collection only, or will we see the coins continue in one way or another in future lines? Perhaps as exclusive packins? If they are not going to continue, will we still see them in the ventual vintage style POTF figures, assuming you get around to making any of those?

A. We have no plans right now to use coins beyond the early wave of next year, but if we do any Vintage POTF in future years we will include a coin to make them true to the spirit of vintage.

Q. So far we have seen 6 figures from the Entertainment Earth Mystery Pack and with the exception of the Omega Squad brother none of them are derived from the novels, comics, movies or any other EU source.  With so much EU material out there, including that of the Mandalorians, why did you choose to make figure out of non-characters instead of making a bunch of figures for characters that people already know and want?

A. By now you have seen the full range of figures.  A couple of the Mandos have or will be featured in EU novels, so we felt that was a good starting point around which to build the story of these packs.  There are other Mando characters in the universe of course, but some of the other prominent ones (Jaster Mereel for example) didn't work with the time frame so he wasn't available.  Instead we worked with LFL to identify some we could use, and the rest we were allowed to flesh out.

Q. It looks like that we’ll be seeing the Max Rebo band via a Battle Pack!  That is great news for a lot of people.  Will these all be straight re-packs of the POTF2 figures or will they have new paint applications or new accessories?

A. These will be straight repacks in two new scene packs.  We figured that there are a lot of new fans collecting Star Wars who did not have access to these cool figures previously, so getting them back out will allow folks to build out the cool Jaba's Palace scenes.  With Umpass-Stay at retail very soon, the band is complete except for Ak-Rev, whom we hope will be joining the band before too long with the other half of the gong.

Check back in a few weeks and we'll post the next round of Questions (and answers) as soon as Hasbro offers them.