We interrupt the New York Comic Con coverage to indulge our Throwback Review desires. We continue McQuarrie week (plus a day) with the Concept Stormtrooper.
Hasbro has provided hi-res press images of the 6” figures revealed at New York Comic Con.
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Hasbro has provided hi-res press images of the Hero Series Deluxe, Mission Series and Saga Legends figures revealed at New York Comic Con.
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Our full gallery from the NYCC Preview Party is up. Check out 60 images of the product that will soon be heading into your collection.
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I saw something at Target today that seriously made me wonder about how well Hasbro is managing their business. Not the Star Wars brand, but the business. Click through for my two cents.
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Ralph McQuarrie perhaps had no bigger impact on the Star Wars saga than he did with Darth Vader. George Lucas did not plan for Vader to wear a helmet and it was though McQuarrie’s urging that one of the most iconic images and dehumanizing elements of the character was born. For today’s Throwback Review, we look at the figure based on the Concept Darth Vader.
Hasbro is holding their annual Twas The Night Before Comic Con preview night tomorrow evening and Bantha Skull will be there. The indomitable and irrepressible nomadscout will be on the ground, but he will be wearing his favorite proactive head gear as a precaution. Check in tomorrow as we effort to bring and news as soon as we can.
If our inspiration for McQuarrie week is the concept artist’s heavy influence on the Rebels aesthetic, we would be remiss if we didn’t tackle the Concept Chewbacca as that design is the basis of the Rebels character Zeb. Check out the 30th Anniversary Colllection Concept Chewbacca.
Do you remember those Imperial propaganda posters that made the rounds a few months back? They are featured on a new Jakks Pacific 4-way display hitting Walmart stores. Hmmmm, Jakks Pacific can get figures to the stores in time for the show. Click through for the full sized image.
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As we’re a Boba Fett themed site, we’d better get to the Concept Boba Fett pretty quickly if we’re going to do a McQuarrie week. Without further ado, here is 2007’s Concept Boba Fett from the 30th Anniversary Collection
In classic storyteller fashion we’re going to kick off our week of McQuarrie Signature Series reviews at the end and work our way backward. The Concept Rebel Trooper is the last figure released in the series, but is the subject of our first review.
As mentioned below in the post below, the Rebels TV series is heavily inspired by the art work of Ralph McQuarrie. In honor of that and in anticipation of the series premiere on October 13th, the next week of Throwback Reviews will focus on the 30th Anniversary R. McQuarrie Signature Series figures starting tomorrow.
It’s no secret that the visual style of Star Wars Rebels is directly inspired by the art of Ralph McQuarrie. While Zeb, the concept IG-88 and the concept Snowtrooper helmets in Spark of the Rebellionare fairly overt, did you catch the homage to the Han Solo concept art among the downtrodden in Tarkin Town? Click through for the full sized image.
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The TAC train keeps rolling today with one of the last figures from the 2007 lineup. We look at the Destroyer Droid which features a massive accessory in true 30th Anniversary Collection fashion.
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