{"id":7790,"date":"2012-07-30T18:21:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=7790"},"modified":"2012-07-30T19:20:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:20:27","slug":"toyguide-update-vintage-droid-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/07\/30\/toyguide-update-vintage-droid-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: Vintage Droid Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/exclusives\/specialpacks\/droid_set.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7794\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"droidset_preview\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/droidset_preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/tgmain.html\">Yakface Toyguide<\/a>\u00a0updates resume today with the addition of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/exclusives\/specialpacks\/droid_set.html\">Target Exclusive Vintage Droid Set<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/tvc_SL.html\">The Vintage Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS:\u00a0<\/strong>Hasbro crosses another one of those original Vintage 3-packs off their lists with this release and in a surprise move, they&#8217;ve actually given us something new! While the Death Star Droid is a repack of the TLC B.A.D. figure and the R5-D4 is a repaint of the TSC &#8220;The Saga Collection&#8221; mold. The Power Droid is an all-new design (gone is the frustrating &#8220;walking&#8221; feature in lieu of articulated legs)\u00a0plus a bonus hidden feature: a removable access cover.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>CONS:<\/strong>\u00a0The $24.99 pricepoint may be off-putting to some. The Power Droid is cast in a tan plastic which immediately sent a tremor through the force, and forums, begging Hasbro for a true blue release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/TVC\/exclusives\/specialpacks\/droid_set.html\">Head to the toyguide<\/a>\u00a0for the full image gallery and to judge for yourself whether this set is worth adding to your collection.<\/p>\n<p>You can also weigh in with your impressions on the figures we add to our toyguide on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Yakfacecom\/202559486798?ref=mf\">facebook<\/a>\u00a0and in our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/\">forums.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Yakface Toyguide\u00a0updates resume today with the addition of the\u00a0Target Exclusive Vintage Droid Set\u00a0from\u00a0The Vintage Collection. PROS:\u00a0Hasbro crosses another one of those original Vintage 3-packs off their lists with this release and in a surprise move, they&#8217;ve actually given us something new! While the Death Star Droid is a repack of the TLC B.A.D. figure and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2012\/07\/30\/toyguide-update-vintage-droid-set\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: Vintage Droid Set<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[76,39,86,29,160,16],"class_list":["post-7790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-exclusives","tag-hasbro-2","tag-kenner","tag-target","tag-tvc","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790","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=7790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7941,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}