Gotta love the C-3PO and Stormtrooper in the Ep. IV set! 🙂

Counterpoint – I’ve only bought a few of the 5POA. I don’t mind the classic nostalgia angle – that angle actually works for me – but I’m only buying the ones that ‘wow’ me. I have to admit that the more recent SL have sparked my interest much, much more than the first few batches.

For me, the Kenner Bossk and AT-AT Driver are beloved favorites from my childhood and I’d like a second, modern go at both of them.
I love collections of all sorts. Some are better than others. I’m interested in the TBS Endor set because I don’t have any of those figures but I just don’t have the budget right now to pay the current prices.
These sets are more affordable but I’m not taken enough with most of the figs here. And so I’ll stick to my credo; if it doesn’t wow me, I pass on it.
I do like the poster art on the back of these boxes, but that’s not enough to reach out and grab me.
Remember the beautiful collectors tin for the Modal Nodes? THAT, my bombad friend, was packaging that reached out and grabbed me by the gonzolas. Gorgeous.

I’ve bought a majority of the 5PO figures. Like Paul B. has said, I too see them kind of as a “continuation” line of Kenner figures. If the contents of these sets hadn’t been previously released I would be all over them. Or if I were a newer collector that still had plenty of room for new boxed sets in my collection.

I hear ya. I actually passed on the last Blu-ray Commemorative Figure Sets (TVC ’10?) for the same reason. Nothing new. The figures were all superb and the packaging presentation gorgeous, but I was already running out of room for more boxed collectibles and as openers, they just weren’t anything new.

Hasbro says these figs are aimed at kids, but these Collection packs are Hasbro’s way of trying to get us collectors to buy the same product.

And even if they sell poorly, it’s not costing Hasbro a small fortune to produce these sets, right? Factories have already churned the toys out, might as well throw them together in a box – call it a “Collector Set” – and see how many more they can sell.

It’s all a bit confusing isn’t it? I still think of these 5POA SL/MS figures as being aimed at kids not adult collectors. Why then the “mature” “simple sophistication” packaging? As you alluded to, to draw in the kiddos you’d probably want a candy-colored circus of packaging graphics to catch their app-distracted attention.

Not bad

ahh yes thats right i remember now that about the time i took back up sw collecting since 2004 🙂

yep, because there is no ROTJ deco Fett, these just repacked the ESB version.

$29.99 in Canada, $19.99 in the US