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Yeah the stats? Not so much. It's more the background material.

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Lucasfilm has published tons of different stories of Boba Fett's origins, then discarded them all in order to create the Jango Clone. Every last one of them was 'officially licensed' and totally canon.

I wonder if FFG are prepared for the increase in sales once Will Wheaton's "Tabletop" show airs their X wing episode. That's going to be immense, I think. Heck, last weeks episode has had 121,000 views and, quite frankly, that isn't Star Wars OR Seth Green.

It's going to be off the scale, I think and there's supposed to be some 'super secret announcement' in the episode as welel.

Just curious are these in scale with the Titanium Star Wars vehicles they used to sell in stores like Target and Walmart?

Dax415 wrote:
Just curious are these in scale with the Titanium Star Wars vehicles they used to sell in stores like Target and Walmart?

It's not bad looking but not very good looking either. BG has some micromachines stuff.

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/957862/my-x-wing-collection-from-ffg-micro-machines-deago

This pic below shows a titanium TIE supposedly.

http://shermon.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/star-wars-imperial-shuttle-lambda-class-miniatures-comparison/

yeah,
New ship packaging...



Exciting stuff.

Panic...

Let's hope these are easier to open.

The B-wing looks a little on the small side.

Nice stuff other than that.

That's two new pilots too, I think?

Sweet!! Has there been any confirmed shipping dates? I'm excitedly waiting to abuse my wallet with these.

B-Wing is right size.

As far as I know tehy will be released in the second half of the year.

 Dysartes wrote:
It does seem a little odd that the TIE Bomber is more agile than the B-Wing or Y-Wing - I don't recall seeing anything in the films that implies that, nor reading anything in the EU material.

It was pretty well established in the video games, though.

Still seems odd to me that they're pushing ahead with new product releases when we've been unable to buy models from wave 1 for literally months. I still only have one x-wing and can't buy any more unless I stock on up $40 core sets, which are also in short supply, lol...

I mean I want TIE bombers, but come on, I can't buy literally any of the other TIE ships and there's no word really on when I'll be able to, that's kinda ridiculous. This game is really fun to play and I'd hate for it to die out because everyone lost interest on account of not being able to actually get the models. You can only do so much with the core set and a Millenium Falcon you know.

Wave 1 should be popping up again soon according to Wayland Games.

It came back in on Friday At last. It was early based upon the latest date we had which was suggesting September. So its great its back in again.

I'll have to check my local store then, but as far as I know they haven't posted any updates on FB about getting more stock so I doubt they'll have any.

FFG will always suck at that.

I'd imagine that store that allowed pre-orders may have already committed all of their re-stock either formally (or informally to regulars)

(so why advertise and annoy those that can't get stuff)

Demand is still way bigger than anyone could have expected.

Wave 1 should available again soon.

The problem is that a factory can only churn out that much products at any given time. It´s the same problem as with new consoles.... in the beginning there is always way more demand than can be satisfied and using bigger factories does not make sense since they would only in the beginning work on full scale and later only partially be used.

yeah,
I found the other two packaging...
so here's all four

HWK-290


Lambda Shuttle


Y-Wing


Tie Bomber


Panic...

Am I nuts or did they show the bombers initially in that blue/grey interceptor hull color?

yeah,
your right!


Although I'll be happier with the grey and might paint my interceptors grey too!

Panic...

I prefer the grey, now that we hopefully know the bombers are going grey I will bite the bullet and repaint my interceptors too... I was planning to anyways (even their cards show regular grey) but if the bombers were blue I was thinking about maybe, maybe leaving them. Ah well, that cinches it!

I personally like my Imperials all in the same matching colour, not sure if it's fluffy or not, but it's my personal preference.

I'm assuming I've missed the discussion about the Gale Force 9 asteroids?

They look neat, but YIKES at the price! Nearly 4 quid each for a rock...

Pre-painted though, but that's the norm for GF9 stuff, nice but pricey!

Might have to get the HWK-290 just for the mini, I LOVED the Moldy Crow. Was sad when Katarn stopped using it.

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
I found the other two packaging...
so here's all four


Y-Wing


Panic...

Y-Wing? You mean B-Wing right? Thanks for posting the picks, can't wait.

 Compel wrote:
I'm assuming I've missed the discussion about the Gale Force 9 asteroids?

They look neat, but YIKES at the price! Nearly 4 quid each for a rock...

There are a bunch of threads down in Misc Boardgames on subjects like this -

In order to actually play the game with the asteroids according to the rules, you need shaped bases of various sizes, and you need to be able to remove the asteroids from the template bases in order to accommodate overlap etc... just a gw flight stand with an asteroid sitting on top of it is pretty but not functional as game terrain.

Guys if you are looking at this thread make sure to head down and contribute to those threads so we can get a good community going for this awesome game!

I'm hearing from multiple birdies wave 3 is much, much closer than we thought... within weeks!