Star Wars: Micro Galaxy Squadron - Jazwares Scaled Vehicles
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Michael takes a look at the Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron vehicle range from Jazwares - specifically the Millennium Falcon, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and Slave I.
There is a hidden feature for the Falcon. If you repeatedly hit the lights peed button a few times, it will make the hyperdrive malfunction noise.
I really like those nice attention to details!
Just got one bcs this comment
Love it!
You might want to edit this comment bud, you forgot the S in speed
@@smashblaster1-up190 lol. Its been going strong for almost a year.
For those of us who don't live in big American houses, (often with basements), micro collectibles are a great and very practical thing 😁
You are correct. I live alone in a huge house and collected all the mega-sized toys from my spoiled childhood until now. And I can assure you, I am buried in a clutter-prison, and miserable for it! 🥴
@@bentonrp similar to me, but an apartment. Can't seem to stop buying stuff though.
@@DisobedientSpaceWhale I now rent a storage unit each month, and have everything organized and categorized in giant totes.
In the interest of having more space, my mind often wonders of a method to melt down and reformulate the plastic, for storage and back to its toy form,
Just so I can make use of every single little square inch of air of storage. 🥴
Action fleet was amazing. Everything cost effective. Could get a bunch of ships and characters for low cost. I played with them all the time. Basically the ships were the action figure size and the figures were accessories for the ships. Playset could be large compared to the humans as they should be. It worked really really well. Most of the action fleet figures were statis pilots but some had guns and weapons and those were the figures that got more play value. Those were usually in sets with other more action oriented mini figures.
I have to look this up
I will defend this line to the very end as I love toys of Star Wars vehicles, and the fact these are for the most part to scale is a major selling point. And let’s not forget all the different ships available right now and coming soon. There’s ships from literally every era available from Republic gunships, x wings, to tie fighters, and several versions of the millennium falcon oddly enough, I have 2 myself. Listening to the guys who make this line talk about their passion and that they do listen to what vehicles the fans want or what features they want is true dedication right there. Plus the paint on the figures is getting better every wave. And the fact that the preorders for upcoming ships sell out fast shows there’s plenty of life to this line
You'll _"defend this line to the very end?"_ You getting a little carried away there?
I totally agree with you. This is the best collectibles to come from Star Wars, and guess what, they are not made by Hasbro!
@@darrenccwong exactly, hasbro pretty much gave up making ships so it’s nice to see someone else take a shot at it. And this line has ships you’d never expect to get toys, like ventress’ starfighter or all the different Jedi starfighters that are coming out. The guys making this line have even said they want to make every tie variant that exists so that gives me hope for a tie defender eventually
Did you forget the Kenner/Palitoy die cast vehicles from the late 70s?
Those were more like Matchbox/Corgi/Hot Wheels.
Michael, excellent video as always. Though, I hope you take a look at the Slave 1 as you missed that there is indeed a rear door that opens straight in front of the ramp. So you can access the cargo hold from both the side and the rear via the sliding ramp.
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i used to have a few Star Wars Micro Machines that i had glued to barrettes - i had Chewbacca, Leia, and a ship or two
also a few cars, like a volkswagon bug - they were perfect for jewelry cuteness
Collectors with a little bit of building skills could in fact make their own display stands for these vehicles. Honestly it is something I'm thinking about doing.
Great points made here. Imo I think Jazwares was trying to strike a happy medium with satisfying both the younger crowd who want to play with these and the older collectors who just want to display them. It's pretty clear this line is vehicle focused, which is why only vehicles have play features, why only vehicles are scaled up/down but figures are unchanged, and why they haven't released any accessories for the figures themselves. If you look at the new Imperial Shuttle, the doors are too short that the figures can't stand under them, even with how tiny the figures are already. They scaled down the Shuttle so that it's small enough to collect (more room for you to buy more), but big enough that it doesn't look out of place with the rest of the line.
Despite the figures being more of an accessory to the vehicles rather than actual playable figures, I think the line serves it's purpose. We already have 2 different scales for figures (Black Series/The Vintage Collection) and MGS fills in the vehicle void. It's small enough to prevent space concerns, lends itself to being more affordable, but is still full of great sculpt and detail. I do agree that Jazwares totally should have included display stands. That's a glaring flaw for sure.
Honestly some do have flight stands. As a ship collector, I’m just happy for some variety and stuff to buy. To me the figures are display accessories, as I’m too buy swooshing the ships. I think that if they added a Bandai display plug/hole, I’d be happy. I suspect there is a farm Luke speeder in our future, to make the proper falcon crew.
The Luke landspeeder is coming, but I heard that’ll be a blind box rare figure. Oddly enough there does exist a falcon toy with the farm luke figure instead of obi wan, it’s called the Death Star escape I think and also comes with 2 tie fighters
I already had plenty of Transformers, He-Man and GI Joe so my parents refused to buy me any 3 3/4 Star Wars stuff, but they did get me the Micro stuff though. The little playsets were pretty damn cool, but play with the figures was limited obviously. I did get a ton of mileage out of the TIE Fighter and X-Wing that "blew up". I especially loved the battle damage stickers.
The AT-AT one of this series is really good. It’s not only properly scaled, but has a ton of inner detailing and multiple levels.
I really like the new micro vehicles, easy to display on a shelf with good detail. I’m not really looking to do more then well just admire them.
Really fun to watch this, I loved micro machines, these remind me of them. Great video! Always excited to see what's up next!
The slave one ramp door does open, pull the ramp out, open the side door, and push on the ramp door from the interior, it'll open.
I like them for hanging display. I made a mobile that includes Luke's X-Wing, Darth Vader's TIE Interceptor, and two TIE fighers, in the formation of the chase scene from the Death Star attack. They look cool displayed in this way. I have a Millenium Falcon that I need to hang coming in from the side and behind the Empire's formation.
The Star Wars X-Wing tabletop miniature strategy game has spaceships that are nice looking, to scale, and come with stands. I have the Falcon, the Ghost, the Phantom, and the RazorCrest. They are pricier than the cheap toys like the HotWheels ships, but the level of detail matches the price. They also have a separate line for capital ships.
I remember the action fleet ships... you could get those at toys stores in the mall.
that Milennium Falcons is a nice upgrade from Action Fleet Milennium Falcons
I had no idea these micro vehicles came back.
I own the X-Wing, and it's possibly one of the better Star Wars toys out there. Plus, It's by Jazwares so I feel no guilt about buying it.
Bizarrely, I have none of the issues you're having on my copy of the Micro Galaxy X-Wing and I have no Idea why.
I still have some of the Galoob toys. Now they're being joined by these new toys and the Hot Wheels die casts. Waiting for these guys to make an Interceptor to join the 20 year plus old toy and the Hot Wheels version I picked up today.
I got some of these for Christmas. Falcon, Slave One, Jedi Starfighter. I decided there and then to keep them boxed, despite itching to fire up the Falcon's engines. They look good in my Star Wars cabinet, but just wouldn't work freestanding. I also bought myself Bo Katan's ship, because frankly, it's the best looking ship since the Falcon and I have that as a desk ornament and Bo can stay where she is, with the canopy closed.
Funnily enough, both the slave I and Falcon are a little bit underscaled in this line; Slave I in particular has always been particularly underscaled in toys. The cockpit on the actual thing has two entire decks that, when in flight, are visible through the cockpit windscreen. Nobody except for model companies has done that for the consumer market.
As for the micro figures? I absolutely adore them, and I frequently played with the galoob ones as a kid. To me they always had an appeal i likened to lego; the focus was having these little characters explore these big and detailed environments, but with less hard right angles and whatnot. Yeah, poseability is limited, but it was something designed mainly to accommodate the vast selection of vehicles. By and large almost every action fleet/micro galaxy figurine can fit in the cockpit of any vehicle or playset seat; this made the environs and vehicles pretty versatile. Say I want to make jodo Kast and his ship, the foxcatch. You can take an imperial shuttle and a boba Fett micro and have a decent approximation without breaking the bank like you would with lego. I’d say the figurines actually add so much value to the item to me as a collector and toy fan that my interest would drop off in a heartbeat if they took them out; it’s why I stopped buying Star Wars transformers back in the day; they used to have galoob-style pilot figures, until around 2008.
I will however concede that you have a point in the display stand and ease of play when it comes to the figurines; part of what made the galoob ones such a joy for me to play with as a kid was the ease with which I had getting figures in and out of ships and diorama bits. Micro galaxy absolutely needs to improve upon that front. Display stands are a must for these too, and I hope that eventually we can get ones packed in for the larger vehicles that would allow for dynamic in-flight display. You’re right on the landing gear as well; it needs improvement. Galoob did ghd Xwing’s landing gear way better than Jaz, and I found some of jaz’s other landing gear designs wanting too(razor crest for example).
All in all I think part of the reason you’re not super into them might be that these cater to a rather unique mindset; one with a greater focus on the environments the characters inhabit than the individual characters themselves, without sacrificing those characters entirely. Lego accommodates to this mindset too; though it has its limitations(lots of chunky hard angles). This line accommodates to a lot of that appeal well; however they could benefit from having buildings, landing pads, and other structures for these figures and ships to inhabit.
If you read all this, thank you and have a good day
These Jazware vehicles are the first Falcon and X-Wing I've owned and I rather like 'em. I simply don't have the space or desire to have the full phat Kenner stuff further cluttering up an already cluttered box-room.
I purchased the millennium falcon to review on my channel when it first came out. It was so bad that I didn’t even bother. It looked so good in the box… but it’s just bad. I was very disappointed. Not that I minded doing a negative review, there are just so many great toys out there, and this had such a discount store feel to it that I was just out. Not my thing.
Yep, yet more modern day Star Wars toys that I don't need to collect 🤣. A few years ago Hot Wheels made some nice models of the Star Wars vehicles, with display stands and at a reasonable price.
I used to have star wars action fleet back in the day, had x wing, tie interceptor and n1 star fighter. But they all got sold off with all the other stars wars stuf back in the early half of the 2010s between when Diseaseney bought star wars and the 2015 movie. Antway. On a different related note It's a shame that gallob never did much Indiana jones micro action stuff in this scale would of been a cool range. So I had to build my own accurate 1/72 scale BV-38 Flying wing "with motorised spinning propellers" from Raiders and semi accurate 1/64th scale Tank from Last crusade. Which were theme park exclusives. I wonder if Jazwares will produce there own renditions from Indiana Jones aswell?
That’s a fair assessment.
They designed this to displays inbox only it’s crazy
Long before Kenner’s micro collection there was another line of die-cast metal and plastic toy vehicles that were popular when the first two movies came out (‘78-‘81?). I cannot recall who made them. I do know the line was pretty extensive. I had the Falcon, an X-Wing, a Tie Fighter, and a Star Destroyer. The scale was all over the place, but I didn’t care. They were fun to play with and had some nice detail for the time.
Later I had the micro collection X-Wing, and Tie Fighter, and loved them for their detail a playability. The full size vehicles were nice, but I simply didn’t have room for them. These new toys have caught my eye, and I have thought of getting a few… But I’m glad you beat me to it! I think we are on the same page on their pros and cons!
I believe you’re talking about the kenner diecast ship line; I have a falcon, Slave I, y-wing, star destroyer, all from that lineup. Some, like Slave I, were itty bitty, while others were about action fleet-sized.
I definitely agree on wishing they had flight/display stands. I got the Millennium Falcon and Slave One for my office and think they are great, but that would have put them over the top.
The Action Fleet display stands even had a slot in the front for storing/displaying the figures.
Off topic, but would you mind sharing your thoughts on gi joe classified and what the heck they’re trying to do with these Haslabs? O-rings?
I think you missed that the ramp has a door that swings instead of down....there is a continuous transfer from armory to ramp.
Well, it's not like there are any instructions included to show me otherwise.
I had a few Kenner pieces when I was a kid, but weren’t they made out of metal? I got suckered into buying darth vaders tie fighter and the millennium falcon while at Walmart, but to my surprise, they were all plastic!!!ehh…I took an L on this one Micheal!
Btw, been watching you guys since day 1! Keep it up, love the content.
For small scale displayable Star Wars craft, I've yet to see anything better than the X-Wing Miniatures game from FFG.
The fact that the models don't have a display stand is a bit annoying, but would it be advisable to leave them packed up? Come on... I don't think it's all that bad. There are plenty of cheap acrylic stands out there that you can use for display.
I only bought a few. Just to hang from the ceiling in my nerd room.
Slave 1 rear door after sliding the ramp push door out and it swings up so it does indeed go all the way through like the original.kenner slave 1
Do you work for Hasbro? If you like display stands so much get Bandai models. I put double-sided tapes on their ass to keep them in the seats.
Wargames in 20mm. Until some company starts making clone troopers and equipment in 1/72 scale, this will have to do. Wargames!
I'm sure with a few pics and measurements I could knock up a 3d printed display stand for each one.
Bo Katans ship has a flip out foregrip
Slave I is actually that big. Sizing is correct.
Each wave has improved on the last and Jazwares is listening to collectors. Are they perfect? Nope. Quick critique, the Slave 1 wings do lock in place.
Yeah, this line is soooo close to being great, it's very frustrating... Maybe Jazwares could get a license to make 1:24/3-inch figures/vehicles in the same scale as M.A.S.K., or maybe better still a 2 inch line in the same scale as Megaconstrux?
awesome honesty! always a pleasure watching these, never stop! ❤
I was actually going to get in to this line. But the set price when compared to the Buzz Lightyear micro ships put me right off, and I still have no regret that I did.
Michael is what we need in the toy industry. Horrible oversight with any toy company not hiring Michael because he thinks outside a box few venture and think about. Shame. :/
I have never been a huge fan of the micro playsets. Those are used to collect some of the micromachine boxed sets, micro playsets seem as useful to me these days as transformer toys that don’t transform. Basically useless
If they gave us a complete set of toys from the Clone Wars series, people would eat that up. Recreate your favorite battles, make a Battlefront series. Games sell toys.
Most of the ones they have released are from the clone wars series.
@@Youcannotfalter The recent ones include:
X-Wing, TIE Fighter, TIE Advanced, Slave 1, etc.
None from the Clone Wars.
@@Barrobroadcastmaster The micro Galaxy Squadron has more clone wars vehicles than any other part of star Wars, there is a graph online that shows you exactly what.
@@Youcannotfalter It still leaves a lot to be desired. No ARC-170, no BTL-B Y-Wing, no Z-95, no V-19, just more of the same.
@@Barrobroadcastmaster the v-19 is coming in a later wave, along with vulture droids and a geonosian starfighter. Plus there’s the numerous blind box figures of count dooku, battle droids on staps, clones on barc speeders. And right now available are several versions of the republic gunship, Jedi starfighters, and the droid AAT.
ngl, the X-wing looks a little better than the ActionFleet one, but it seems far less sturdy, less well put together, and the landing gear is so much worse. This feels like such a near miss, but a miss all the same :/
The micro veicles are kind of pricey
Too bad they didn’t include display stands.
I always had an affinity for the Star Wars Micro Machines toys. That was my Micro Collection. My parents couldn’t afford the POTF2 Falcon, so the Millennium Falcon playset was _my_ childhood Millennium Falcon. Still have it to this day.
i adore these because they work in scale with eachother better than anything else, the figurines are just a scale point of reference, and will stay in the cockpit
Not all of them are in scale specially the Falcon and the ATAT they did what hasbro did bring the scale down for the big ships.....what a shame.....
I also think this line is cool. There is an angle of using your imagination for a child that is missed. As an adult this a perfect and don’t take a lot of space.
I actually have the Asajj Ventruss ship from this line and it comes with a display base. I kinda wish all the ships did. The Hot Wheels Star Ships line which is far cheaper actually comes with display bases for all the vehicles in that. So there's kinda no excuse for Jazwares to not at least have included a display base for, if not all, at least most of the ships in the line.
You have a point.
Also for a kid, a sturdy display stand would have been a good way to hold the ship while you're flying them around the house.
Yes need display stands and mounts.
I recently got a second hand Yavin 4 Action Fleet playset, just epic. I love the damn thing.
I still have mine, along with the Hoth and Death Star sets.
I’m one of those micro machine diehards. Loved those sets in 90s. Had a general spreadsheet in my head of all the kids that had them so I could buy the unwanted minis later when they fell out. Massive bedroom battles. Hoth….is a true connoisseur’s planet.
Really love this line. Definitely wish there was a display stand for them though. I Also wish that they would make a star destroyer but I don’t know how big it would be and how much it would cost.
In scale to FFG X-Wing Miniatures, a SD is around the size of a car. 😅
I personally preferred smaller figures like army men and lego minifigures, but I think that comes down to fundamentally different styles of play. My play style focused far more on building and composing scenes that represented locations I was imagining, rather than dynamically moving figures around as part of a specific scenario. The smaller figures allowed me to depict larger-scale scenes in the same amount of space (for example, a full city rather than just one building). With the larger, standard-sized figures, there was always an upper limit to the scale of what I could depict.
These are definitely cool but pricey. I will just stick with the Galoob Action Fleets
I love these vehicles but your gripes are valid. Display stands are the missing link. Thankfully none of mine have been removed from the box yet.
I don’t know Michael, I think the inclusion of figures is really awesome. Although I agree with the frustrations about seating them correctly or the constant rattling, the inclusion of figures is a nice option to have when playing with these. You can look inside the cockpits and see a little Luke Skywalker or Han Solo flying, which is pretty cool in my opinion. Otherwise, you could just buy smaller scale models if you really don’t care about the figures; but i really think that’s the whole point about Jazwares Micro Squadrons. The figures are the pièce of résistance.
I concur. I do not recall toys being that accurate or allowing for contoured sitting even as a child. Sure that could do more, but at this price range I think it is a solid. Sounds like just Nick picks.
I agree too. I always felt the 3.75" vehicles were compromised around the figures themselves (for example the Kenner X-Wing is too short to scale). With these, its the figures that are compromised around, with the vehicles receiving more top billing. I am more into ships than figures though.
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I really like this line. There is a great variety of vehicles and I'm excited to see what else is coming.
However, what bothers me the most about this line is the blind box micro vehicles. It's one thing to get more than one Scout Trooper with Speeder Bike, but what am I going to do with two Ahsoka Tanos?
Love negative videos... pointing out the cons (opinions vary). And despite the cons/so called cons, these things are awesome. Great box display etc.. And There is purpose for the figures. They're cute, detailed, and add a little character... I wouldnt to expect to play with them like an action figure.
I had a buddy that use to love reading negative because the needless ripping on deserving and non deserving products of art. 😅 These things are far better than they should be…I like them as well.
One feature you totally missing the figures are approximately 1" tall which is super close to 00 scale 1/76 which is the british standard for train LAYOUTS so having these figures and vehicles around a train layout really adds fun addition to the scenery
My only foray is I bought two of the scout class blind box figures. I got two that I wanted, Darth Maul and his speeder and Mandalorian and his speeder bike. THey COME with display stands. They're cute too. But I can't believe I spent $7.50 on something that feels like a 50 cent toy from 1995.
I think another disappointing aspect of this line is the concept of "chase" vehicles. I was mostly okay with these being niche repaints of normally available vehicles, but some vehicles like Moff Gideon's Tie and General Grievous' Starfighter (along with store exclusives like the Bad Batch Marauder Shuttle and upcoming AT-AT Walker) are harder to get and can only really be found online at outrageous premiums
In my opinion, Star Wars and Star Wars merch was at its best in the 90s when, ironically, we hadn't had a new film for over a decade.
for me personally. the micro's are for the shelves I keep little collectibles on. I have one xwing diecast mini. one falcon mini. one snowspeeder ornament. my 3 favorites from the movies
just found the falcon on clearance at walmart for $20. i think ill display it with my micromachines ships, once i figure out a workaround for the lack of stand. the accurate scale is a lot nicer compared to my ROTJ micromachines falcon from childhood
Dang. I really like this line….You don’t play with your reviews.
Of course. What do you expect from American toy companies? Get Japanese ones! lol
I'd like to see Playmobile Star Wars but not sure if it can ever happen as Lego has them in their corner.
I really love these
i brought these because they scaled with diaclone figures lmao
jazzwares say they are working on some of these issues. I believe that they said they would be including stands with more ships in the future. In some interviews it seemed like they where rushing to put out the first wave. you can tell they have worked on quality of the newer waves of ships. for example Poes X-wing now properly locks the wings in position. Id definetly say let them put out another few waves to see how they have progressed since wave one. so far I Really enjoy this Line but I do agree there are some questionable choices in these designs.
I had ignored these until they had nearly gone, I just picked up all the OT ships I wanted for about 70% off.. absolutely agree the display stand would make this much better.
I bought a bunch of Galoob Action Fleet way back when to use with the West End Games' Star Wars Miniatures Battles game. At a convention I used the Action Fleet Imperial Shuttle as a terrain centerpiece. Old school!
The Falcon, LAAT gunship and AAT tanks are probably my favorites of this line so far but I can’t wait to pick up an AT-AT when they become readily available.
I still have all my Action fleet. I bought Jazwares Falcon as I never bought the AF version. I don't mind the scale issue, The TIE's look great together Vaders, Interceptor and bomber. The rebels ships all look ok together too. It's the walkers and Sandcrawler that let Action Fleet down. I see Jazwares has a large AT-AT coming soon. I'm up for that!
Great review and you’re spot-on with the praises and the criticisms. Don’t forget the blind pack offerings as well, because that random crap irks me. And the figures fall off the bikes and vehicles. My advice, get some Blu-tac poster putty and those figures can be seated better.
I love the blue-tac idea!
@@RandomStuffGarage619 3M sells it as white poster putty too. It won’t harm the figures and you don’t even see it when they’re sitting on it.
that x-wing looks fucking awesome , the only thing preventing me from buying it was that i had the galoob one , however cleaning it all the canons broke , snapped cleanly at the mid section ( i guess 25 Year old plastic its too brittle) so if they release an interceptor on scale with the x-wing , i know where are going like 38 of my hard earned moneys...
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I love looking at that display of the three Milennium Falcons
Wow, I really thought they came with stands. That's, as you said, a missed opportunity. Oh well.
Despite its limitations, Action Fleet was the most fun i'd had with Star Wars since Kenner. It's primarily what got me back into toy collecting as an adult. The Jazwares stuff is ok, but somehow lacks the charm and the plastic feels weird, like a Hallmark Christmas tree ornament.
Honestly, despite my nostalgia for the Galoob Star Wars Action Fleet, I think that Joyride Studios did a far better job with their Battlestar Galactica vehicles.
Objective as always. I can count on Michael to not be a shill and just gush over these toys. What’s the point of the falcons interior if the figures can’t sit? And no Luke with the blastsheild helmet and remote? No droids? It took a lot to not start buying these when then came out. I remembered my disappointment with the action fleet, and the scarcity of some vehicles. It has been the same with these.
Great review my friend! I have seen these available to buy but have yet to pick one up!
I appreciate showing the comparison between these and the Galoob figures and these. I feel like, if yod been into that collection, they could go right along with these. But, that being said, I never really got into the micros. I did get the MicroMachine ships, but that was because I was playing the RPG and used them for combat minis. But now that the
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game is out, well, I don't need a substitute.
I'm just rambling. Great video as always.
I actually played with Micro Machine and Action Fleet stuff when I was a kid in the late 90's, early 00's. It was great because it allowed stuff like Godzilla, Gundam, Zoids, Pokemon and Digimon to get involved in play. There was even Micro scaled Digimon playsets at that time, and I really regret having never got one of those as it was one of the only way to get figures of the actual human characters from the television series. There were also Action Fleet Starship Trooper toys, and Micro Machines Aliens and Predator toys. You could literally have Gundams and Digimon fighting hoards of the Bugs in tatooine for example, as absurd as that may seem.
We 90's kids didn't get much for the 1/18 scale outside of Star Wars, and a GI Joe revival that no other millennial seemed to care about and some other odd lines such as Trend Masters Godzilla line for a movie that was hated by most for decades to come. The micro scale offered a huge opportunity for some wild as hell times, and it was great. Nothing was really properly scaled to each other, so it was more about just using what you had and getting things close enough, it didn't require too much imagination. The Yavin IV base and Death Star play-sets were a center focus of the conflicts between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon on the living room and bedroom floors of my house back in 2001-2002.
Micro Galaxy Squadron is kind of neat in a nostalgic way, but Jazwares is procucing both it's pseudo Action Fleet and Micro Machine toys in a time when there's not a lot else for them to interact with. It feels like it's just Star Wars and normal Earth cars, maybe some non-transforming Transformers Micro Machines (which seems oxymoronic to me) and I doubt this is as good of an opportunity for play for the current generation of children like it was in the 80's all the way up to the mid '00s and I wonder if that's something they'd even be interested in. It pains me to think that the kind of fun I had as a kid is inaccessible and possibly considered undesirable for all other generations.
For years and years I loved the regular micro machines product line before hasbro got its filthy ruining hands on it! For years I even 3d modeled hundreds of custom micro machines figures and had them professionally 3d printed with factory grade machines outsourced before home 3d printers were capable and practical. That was years ago! Now skip forward to now, my interests are now with 3 and 3/4 scale and seeing this revitalization of the "action fleet" like product line, I agree with everything you said. The ships look decent, except for their first release manufacturing where they literally squirted their models with a ketchup squirt bottle filled with black colored paint "wash" that looked horrible. The landing gear sucks to me, the wobbly components, and the thing that I hate the MOST - the CHASE VARIANTS! The company decided to make many desirable vehicle offerings into super rare chase variants! Ha! With the way stores already suck at carrying just REGULAR stupid toys, Jazzwares wants to make limited quantities of desirable ships in each wave so we have to drive to 100 stores that have always empty star wars sections in hopes of getting the chase variant? Ha please! I stopped after getting a few of them and I just leave them in the box. Not for me.
I very much agree on the limitations of the scale, but I think the need for this line is more from TVC’s unwillingness to produce mainline vehicles and sets that are cost effective- in this line, the biggest ticket items are all under $100! It’s really cool to own vehicles that are pretty close to in scale with their figures when I know the TVC and LEGO offerings will often be out of budget (especially for things like the Falcon) and TBS is lucky to get one speeder bike in the line every 3 years
You are dead on the money, I have always wanted a falcon for display and I jumped on this one because in the box it meets my level of detail requirement but when you pull it out of the box things QUICKLY go down hill, upon handling it the build quality is almost trash, the figures fly everywhere it’s just bad, Walmart is selling them online right now for $23 and I kinda regret paying that TBH, if I paid full price I would most likely return it.
All great points.
I am limiting myself to OT ships (so far). To solve the display issue, I'm going to hang them from the ceiling.
Not sure what I'll do with the recently announced AT-AT... I mean I won't hang it from the ceiling lol but it will be my first non ship purchase.
Overall I like them.
Did they really market it as "Slave I"?
That's what it's called, it's always been Slave 1. On the box it's generically "Boba Fett's Starship" so it doesn't "offend" anyone. Ridiculous, it's Slave 1, it always was and always will be. The ol' steam iron has always been awesome
Farmboy Luke comes with the Walmart Online "Escape the Death Star Battle Pack" which packages the Millennium Falcon and two TIE Fighters and includes Han, Leia, Luke, Chewie and two TIE Pilots.