This week in Star Wars Q&A - Pricing! Fans asked for better paint and more detail, so Hasbro is charging us for more paint and better detail. Also sculpting - did we lose some of the art with computers aided design?

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It's been actual years since we had a movie that could even have a home release, so it is fun to say The Mandalorian and Grogu is now streaming on Disney+ along with a couple of episodes of a behind-the-scenes podcast.

The movie is presently the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars movie, but I would recommend you check it out anyway.  It's about as good as the streaming shows, loaded with creatures, and it even has some pretty fancy Phil Tippet-powered droids in it.  It will be difficult, if not impossible, to get you a movie that makes you feel like you're a little kid again - but there's enough going on here tthat should make you smile.   And if you have a three-day weekend, what else is there to do?

Disney Store still has the new R2-D2 (D-Squad) Droid Factory Figure Set – Build-a-Droid Series in stock for $19.99.  While he doesn't have a new hat, he does have the caution tape yellow and black highlights on the legs plus the RX droid base.

There's also a "SAVEMORE" coupon running for 20% off $100 or 30% off $150.  If you've been holding off ordering R5-PR0UD, the BDX droid set, R2-WRWLF, or those blind-box crate droids, this is probably the time to go for it. 

Ron Salvatore has been writing about Star Wars toys for as long as I can remember, and his new article (from 2 weeks ago) is  A Model Craftsman: Bill Lemon and His Sculpting Contributions to Kenner's Star Wars Toy Line.  In it, you'll find unreleased Micro Collection sculpts, tidbits about early figures, completely alternate sculpts for Kez-Iban and Yak Face, and a lot more. It even has a list of all the figures Mr. Lemon sculpted, so you can look at the old line and go "Yeah, OK, I see that now." 

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: R0-M1 ( & RJ-83, Droid Factory, Boxed). I'm surprised we're getting a new mold in a non-toddler line for this guy, and we'll look at the sidekick soon.

Articulation is more or less on par with any other Astromech droid, with different proportions and colors. What I particularly like is that he meshes well with the Droids cartoon C-3PO and R2-D2, even though they're centuries apart. Hey, it's not like we have and Young Jedi Adventures in this style to collect so I'm happy to put this droid in with other droids.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: R4-M9 (The Retro Collection). This one includes a third leg that's similar to the old Droid Factory leg, but sized to fit Retro R2-D2 and R4-M9. He has the clicking dome and a sticker, but lacks a screw in the body to take it apart. Hasbro switched to a rivet. Also, this figure is just barely too big to put in your Kenner-era 1983 Y-Wing fighter -- so do not put R4 in your 1980s Y-Wing. Getting it in is easy, getting it out is going to be a problem. Aside from that? It's great.

It's the 1978-style R2-D2 body with a new dome that's a little over designed with extra panel detail. That seems like something Kenner would have done in 1983-1985, so I'm not complaining - this is an excellent figure and the kind of new old figure I want in The Retro Collection. Read on!

I was out and about at Walmart, and posted some pictures to my social media. Which I could copy over here too, but I can be lazy and just embed a post. And why not?
 

Last toy reset sighting at Walmart are the Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron 2 packs. From Mando is a Pirate Snubfighter with N-1. From Rebels is a TIE Interceptor with TIE Avenger. Good hunting, toy junkies.

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This week in Star Wars Q&A - Let's finish up August by asking Where does our stuff go when we no longer need it? It's morbid but worth considering. Are we getting our money's worth? Well, people have been complaining about prices since 1995 when figures were $5 and most ships were $20 so... you tell me.

Also we are out of questions so write in - September is mostly open.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Nabrun Leids (The Vintage Collection) . It was a HasLab pack-in, so it is not expected to return to market soon.

This one is interesting in that Hasbro made a lot of pricy additions to the design, like a second set of fully-jointed arms and a secondary hose on the breathing mask. Also, the 2007 redeco of the 1990s The Power of the Force figure still looks good. This HasLab version is the very best we'll likely ever see, but that old one came with Kabe and a display stand, and it's certainly good enough to hang out in a diorama. Aside from the straps on the mask having a different configuration on the back of the head, both figures look incredibly similar - so you can always buy the old version if you don't want to spend the cash on the new one. They're both very good, but it amazing to see that if you traded away articulation you could get two figures for a lower price. Tastes change, it would seem.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: R2-WRWLF (Droid Factory). It's new this year, and actually pretty exciting with new printed patterns, exclusive wolf ears, and a big yellow eye. Also, how many plaid robots do you have at home? Probably not many. This is an inspired idea, and while the weird pricing has been annoying it's only $15 today and more importantly, it's still in stock. Get one while you can. Read on!

This week in Star Wars Q&A - X-Wing pricing. With inflation and recent releases, it may not be too bad. Vehicle pricing, it's enough to drive you off social media.

Also we are looking for questions for September, so write in.

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I'm eternally grateful to my past influences, and I would love to see a simplified version of something like this in The Retro Collection some day. If you're like me, you're fascinated with ships and playsets. And 3D printing. And your 3D printer is too small. And you're cheap. So when you see RWBCUSTOMS' Custom Star Destroyer Toy on Cults3D, you'll say "man, I want that" and also "$85?"

According to the description, the ship has over 100 parts and is about 28-inches long. That's big! They made it so you can seat straight-legged figures at various ship consoles, which include some very nice vintage-style stickers. I've always wondered how a ship-shaped Star Destroyer might look, and this is pretty darned impressive. If Hasbro ever made something like this, I'd shell out for it and if I had the equipment, I'd probably pony up to 3D print one of these myself. 

Check it out, this is the kind of thing that is what I really miss from the old days when it comes to modern Star Wars collecting. I love figures, but without ships and playsets, there's only so much joy to wring from how I wrote a plastic man.  

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: CZ-3 (The Retro Collection). Finally!

A mix of new style and classic C-3PO, and this one has one working hand and one that's sort of like C-3PO - it's open. The joints are good, the sculpt is good, and it fits in well with the old stuff. I like it a lot. The figure has little dents in the eyes and a little bit of highlighting, and I bet you'll dig it.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Geonosian Picador (The Vintage Collection).

It gobbled up the "playset" slot this year, and I can see why. Hasbro gave us a good "trooper" with this figure, and the Orray creature is pretty well fleshed out with easily misplaced plugs for non-rein displays. The articulation on the beast is incredibly good, and it raises the question of "do we really need items to be this perfect?" given the rising prices. Maybe we do - maybe we don't - but the whole package is quite excellent.

I had sticker shock initially, but there's enough going on here that I wasn't disappointed by this one. I'd recommend it if you have a prequel collection. Read on!