{"id":16098,"date":"2014-03-05T18:15:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=16098"},"modified":"2014-03-05T18:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:42:42","slug":"the-mara-jade-we-couldveshouldve-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/03\/05\/the-mara-jade-we-couldveshouldve-had\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mara Jade We Could&#8217;ve\/Should&#8217;ve Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2014\/03\/05\/the-mara-jade-we-couldveshouldve-had\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16100\" alt=\"HANDmara_preview\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HANDmara_preview.png\" width=\"383\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HANDmara_preview.png 383w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HANDmara_preview-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intrigued? Click on through for what may be old news to some but was new to me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While surfing the interwebs today (when I should have been working) I happened across an announcement on Facebook from <a href=\"http:\/\/bossfightstudio.com\">Boss Fight Studio<\/a> regarding the launch of their new website. Of course, being as easily tempted by the dark side (i.e. slacking off at work)\u00a0as I am, I proceeded. \u00a0Imagine my surprise when exploring one of the designer&#8217;s portfolios I stumbled upon the \u00a0proposed design for the Mara Jade figure that was originally planned for release in the Vintage Collection, then pushed to the 2013 Droid Factory Wave 2 and finally found home in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TBS\/basic\/TBS_14.html\">The Black Series<\/a> wave 2.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see below, the initial design was for a Sith Assassin\/Emperor&#8217;s Hand version that was all new representation based on numerous artistic interpretations and not the third reiteration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/ActionFigures\/TBS\/basic\/TBS14_mara_jade\/lf25.html\">Expanded Universe\/POTF\/30th Anniversary &#8220;Classic Costume&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16098 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mara_Jade_tech.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mara_Jade_tech-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mara_Jade_tech2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mara_Jade_tech2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The proposed sculpt had more armor and details than the final figure and was even to include a soft good cloak.\u00a0Personally, I find the unused\/unapproved design far more appealing, but with Disney&#8217;s\/Lucasfilm&#8217;s\u00a0new edict on characters from the Expanded Universe being addressed in plastic form, I suspect we will never get this figure and we can only dream of what might have been and\u00a0I applaud the designer, Erik Arana, for his vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrigued? Click on through for what may be old news to some but was new to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,216,39,694,160,16],"class_list":["post-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-boss-fight-studio","tag-droid-factory","tag-hasbro-2","tag-the-black-series","tag-tvc","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16107,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions\/16107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}