This week's Q&A (and sorry for the delay) asks about one of our favorite segments of the line, Battle Packs; the potential for a cool Clone Wars retro-upgrade; and Hasbro's potential goldmine of figures stuck in developmental limbo. (Like a lost Beatles song, but plastic!)

Galactic Hunter: The Bantha Battle Pack and Betrayal on Felucia Battle Pack raise a certain question. Where's the battle? Is it a little taboo to have Anakin Skywalker beheading a Tusken Raider, or a troop of Clones mercilessly shooting Aayla Secura in the back? (Some of us would be happy to have a battle ravaged Aayla Secura.) With some Battle Packs aimed at collectors, and mass release Battle Packs aimed at kids, what's the rationale? I'd like to see an Octuptara Droid and a mess of Galactic Marines ripping Ki-Adi Mundi to shreds. I'd LOVE to see Yoda actually beheading the troops who betrayed him. So what's the official policy on this?

HASBRO: The idea is that it may not be a battle happening in pack per se (some do have a battle), but about-to-happen in the case of the many trooper-focused ones we have done. Scenes like you describe may not always make the best kid presentation, either - something we keep in focus.

Galactic Hunter: With the myriad IG-88 figures that Hasbro has created over the years, and the team's creative use of small-sized vehicle parts, are we likely to see IG-Lancer Droids on their swoops in the near future? (As seen in Clone Wars.)

HASBRO: If and when we get to another Clone Wars wave, this figure could be a great choice. You are more likely to see the droids than the swoops.

Galactic Hunter: With figures being shuttled around to make up for the delayed Force Unleashed line, is there any chance that Hasbro might revisit some cool figures that have been stuck in developmental limbo? (Swamp Obi-Wan Kenobi? Wind-Up Walking Vulture Droid? Holographic Nute Gunray? The Bespin Dinner Table Darth Vader?)

HASBRO: You do know your concepts - some of which never got off the drawing board. Our modern sculpting aesthetics have left some original ideas, like the swamp Obi-Wan, behind.  If we do that figure someday, it will be with an all-new sculpted figure. The battery-operated Vulture Droid never got tooled, so that would be an all-new project (not a bad one to think about, but certainly not a basic figure). The holo Nute Gunray would not be our first choice for a new holo figure (someday we may do him), and Bespin dinner table Vader was nothing more than a new hand proposed to "deflect" a laser shot but the effect was not that powerful so the idea was abandoned.

(Editor's Note: Oh well, we tried.)