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Post by Pinwig on Oct 29, 2023 20:47:12 GMT
WHAT.
Those cheeky chappies at Palitoy reused their Death Star as an Action Force base?!
This is amazing news!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2023 20:52:25 GMT
You didn't know??!!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2023 20:53:11 GMT
Actually I knew that. We've covered that either here or on a zoom call before now because that pod turned up somewhere else iirc. CONTINENT OF THE JAWAS! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 29, 2023 20:59:23 GMT
I know bugger all about Action Force, but having found some pictures online, it looks more like a reuse of the idea than a reuse of the actual cardboard template. It's a different shape.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 29, 2023 21:58:16 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Oct 30, 2023 8:02:36 GMT
Overall a worthwhile use of an hour browsing and reliving some past memories. Didn't feel a huge urge to go back to collecting those figures, the Retro line is scratching that itch, but it is a stark reminder of how good toy lines are when they have vehicles and playsets integrated into them. Yeah, but kids don't want fun play patterns, they want unreliable electronic gimmicks that'll massively inflate the price of the figures on the shelves instead. (Some exec somewhere, probably.) |
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 30, 2023 12:32:10 GMT
WHAT. Those cheeky chappies at Palitoy reused their Death Star as an Action Force base?! This is amazing news! I still own both. (The Action Force was my brother's, BUT I STOLE IT FROM HIM AFTER WE GREW UP!) The Action Force base is arguably better than the Death Star! It kinda does more stuff and has a really good roof. But both are indeed variations on a theme and are AMAZING!!!! They go great side-by-side and although I don't have any Action Force figures anymore, their base can be occupied by, say, Jabba's goons, or Ponies, or Moshlings- and hijinks ensues! |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 30, 2023 20:37:02 GMT
Does the Action Force one have the trash compactor chute? Are there any shared pieces at all?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 30, 2023 21:58:25 GMT
Yes it does: Entrance is below the red & white bordered black sign, you can see the shape of the tunnel in the next photo: The clips that hold the uprights to the base are identical too There's several other common features, the Tie fighter door to the trash compactor/decompression chamber The illustrated base pits: And the elevated corridor of similar design Although there's a lot less materially in common that I thought but there's no mistaking the lineage between them |
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 30, 2023 21:58:41 GMT
Yes it has a chute- can't remember where it leads, right now... The connector jobbies are the same as the Death Star, and the -I don't know how to describe it- 'windowed walkway' is the same.
The Action Forced base makes use of characters imagined on the walls like the Death Star, and also has a superb folding roof/heli-pad section, and these little moveable 'pods'.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 30, 2023 22:03:31 GMT
'Elevated corridor ' is a better description than 'windowed walkway'.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 30, 2023 22:05:04 GMT
I *think* it's meant to represent the Death Star Cell Block corridor and probably should have the Trash Compactor shute in it
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 30, 2023 22:06:49 GMT
Yes I think you're on to something there. It is funny how the cardboard Death Star tries to emulate things from the film.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 30, 2023 22:10:45 GMT
I love the 'floor bed' in one of the upstairs rooms, and how a huge chunk of the ground floor is taken up by the trash compactor workings (which is essentially a secret inaccessible area). The control room is my favourite room.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 28, 2023 19:39:34 GMT
Finally, finally, finally today I got a proper Black Series R2D2. The one in the current wave at long last has shipped from Pulse. There hasn't been a straightforward R2 in current circulation in this line since I started trying to put my mini collection of New Hope and Empire bits together, which was three and a half years ago when the Empire 40th stuff was coming out. There was a repaint that was in a two pack with Dagobah Luke, but that one was covered in swamp. This I think is the same as the one that was on the Jedi 40th cardback that came out earlier in the year, but that sold out on pre-orders.
I might now just be done with Black Series. I think I have what I want. CASE CLOSED.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2023 20:56:48 GMT
I have only ever bought 4 Black Series figs. They're just the wrong size.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 28, 2023 21:23:36 GMT
They're good for displays, nice detail. But 3.75 is where the playsets and vehicles are.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2023 21:30:21 GMT
3.75 is the correct size for action figures. The only exception is MOTU.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2023 21:53:17 GMT
3.75 is the correct size for action figures. The only exception is MOTU. -Ralph and OG Thundercats and M.A.S.K. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2023 22:30:02 GMT
OG Thundercats toys were pump though. So disappointing.
I will accept MASK.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2023 22:57:51 GMT
I liked them, Panthro had nunchaku.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 28, 2023 23:33:13 GMT
Secret Wars?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 29, 2023 10:46:39 GMT
I have nostalgia for them, but they weren't actually good. Doctor Octopus' tentacles broke off not long after I got him.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 29, 2023 10:53:25 GMT
Were you perhaps being, I don't know a little bit hashy bashy?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 29, 2023 13:50:51 GMT
No. They're just not well made.
Doom's leg ring thing snapped off too.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 29, 2023 16:16:57 GMT
Mine is fine.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 29, 2023 16:52:58 GMT
I'm glad your leg ring is tight.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 29, 2023 21:30:06 GMT
Thundercats were great!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 29, 2023 22:07:12 GMT
I was so disappointed when I went round to a mate's house when he got some Thundercats figures. They were rubbish.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 29, 2023 22:11:21 GMT
But you could push the ring in to make their eyes light up!
Sight Beyond Sight!
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