Hasbro Star Wars Q&A 6/14

Q. The deluxe line is great. You’ve brought in a lot of cool new vehicles that collectors and kids love. What are the chances that we might see some OT mini rigs based on regular ships, like the X-Wing or Imperial Shuttle? Some ships are a bit too big to come in the regular assortment, but maybe minis of those ships would be a great way for those of us that are running out of display space.

A. We are continuing to explore including OTC vehicles in this segment.

Q. I’m sure you’ve received feedback on the retail success of the Return of the Jedi wave from 2010. Fan feedback polls indicate that ROTJ is the most desired figure source as well. The recent Jedi figures are some of the best ever and it seems like you’re building up a tooling library that would allow for some parts reuse to help us rapidly fill out our skiffs, Jabba’s palace and the bridge of that Sail Barge that isn’t being made. The problem is that waiting for slotting in the basic line is drawing this process out to the point that it takes a little fun out of the scene building. Have you considered going off the Vintage Collection playbook a bit and offering some partially new figures in a multipack either as a main release or exclusive to accelerate this process? There are some three packs that seem like naturals. Completing the prisoner skiff with a three pack including Vedian, Velken Tezeri and an update to the Weequay Hunter seems to make sense. A complete update to the old “Skiff Guards” cinema scene would be welcome, too, since those figure have not aged well.

A. We are contining to mine ROTJ (Jabba’s Sail Barge is chock full of goodness) and we will continue to sprinkle some of these into the line.  A new Weequay Hunter is in the Vintage Collection plan for late 2012.