2007/8 New Year Wish List
Dear Hasbro,
Surely you know that we at GalacticHunter.com have been good boys and girls this year. We keep our readers, your customers, up on the latest and greatest offerings coming from Hasbro and all the other great licensees. We try to point out good deals and sales on all of the great 
Hasbro products out there. And every year we give lots of Star Wars toys to charity to share with boys and girls who might not otherwise get Star Wars toys for the holidays. So, all things considered, we’re good, right? So please read over our Galactic Wish List for 2007/8, and see what you can manage.*
CZ-3 (right), also known as the Schizoid Droid of Mos Eisley, was seen several times throughout the trilogy, and he has made an impression on fans. Whether he was seen in pieces in the Jawa Sandcrawler or in Jabba’s Dungeon, or seen as a whole droid roaming the streets of Mos Eisley or among the crowd in Jabba’s Palace, we’re fond of this never-say-die droid. Besides, he’s kinda cute, isn’t he? He’ll grow on you, just give it some thought, OK?
BG-J38 (left) is Jabba The Hutt’s gaming droid, and some of us really want a complete Jabba’s Palace set. (Hint! Some of us want a throne, too.)
Alter-Nikto (right) is the Nikto creature used as reference for the vintage Kenner line’s Nikto action figure. If Hasbro made a couple of Jabba’s Palace figures with pieces to assemble Jabba’s BBQ pit, we’d be extra happy, and Hasbro‘s motto is, "Making the World Smile", right?
We are in desperate need of "Woof", the Klaatu figure seen in Jabba’s Palace and Jabba’s Sail Barge. I think I’ve mentioned my personal penchant for faux-fur, and I’d wear a full length sable pelt to a PETA demonstration to get this fashion-forward figure made. As an added bonus, he has Nicole Richie-esque zombie hands, which are extra fashionable these days.
Of course many of us Jabba The Hutt fans would like to see our favorite gargantuan gangster glob done up in a manner truly befitting his character (see Sideshow Collectibles’ upcoming Jabba The Hutt for reference) with his dais, pipe, throw pillows, rugs, and a real metal chain to enslave his ladies. It’s good to dream.
Gargan or Yarna d’al Gargan, depending on your geekQ is Jabba The Hutt’s six-breasted, pockmarked, heinously ugly dancer. She’s saucy, sassy, and probably slightly homicidal, like all of Jabba’s pals. We know your sculptors are just chomping at the bit to sculpt a six-breasted medusa with the charm of Marie LaVeau and the beauty of Danny DeVito. Bonus points if she can strike her signature pose (seen at right), and extra bonus points for real-feel underarm flab.
Now our friendly sources have told us that Hermi Odle (left) has been on the big Hasbro wish list for quite some time now, but the Ephant Mon-like cost would be too much for a single figure. So let’s make a deal. You work out a Battle Pack, whip up a Hermi Odle, repaint a Weequay guard, kitbash an Ishi Tib, throw in a few odds and sods, and you’ll have a lot of happy collectors running around the country snatching them up. We all know that a huge segment of the collecting mob out here won’t stop kvetching until we get him. C’mon… how can you resist that face?
While we’re visiting Jabba’s Palace, may we suggest a couple of re-issues/re-makes that would be most appreciated? Drunkard psychopath Ree-Yees, last seen at the Official Star Wars Fan Club in 1998 after being ditched overseas in 1997, is long overdue to be refreshed, stuck on a new card and trotted out for the kiddies to buy.
You might think we’ve forgotten, but there are quite a few Cantina Aliens still needed to fill our dioramas. Bom Vindim, the one-horned, bug eyed desperado; Elis Helrot, the Givin, should be haunting the dark corners of our shelves; and a mate for our friend Duros would be an easy figure to kit-bash.
To augment our growing ranks on Endor, we could also use any other Ewoks (Warok, Romba, Lumat); and only the most heartless collector out there could resist Woklings.
Imperial Dignitary Sim Aloo (right) was somehow overlooked when Hasbro decided to make those great moldie oldies, yet he and Janus Greejatus had the most screen time in Return of the Jedi. We’d gladly take any of the others that haven’t been cast in plastic just yet.
On the vehicle front, we’ve rumored and speculated about the Bespin Cloud Car for so long that we’ve decided to hope for something bigger and better – the Rebel Transport. It’s big, it’s fish-like, and it’s long overdue for a modern refurb. Most of us could use another figure case right now, and we can use it in a scene from each of the three films. What’s not to love?
For our friends at Hasbro Games, may we suggest teaming up with our favorite toy sculptors and creating an interactive Dejarik Board Game/Video Game interactive set? What fan of Star Wars wouldn’t love to play a nice bashing, crashing Dejarik Hologame in his/her living room? This one is a Galactic Certified winner!
Finally, a vanity request, but one that many other fans out there (we hope) will agree with. Bar slag, chanteuse, Golden Girl, and the biggest tough guy in the Star Wars universe… Beatrice Arthur (as Ackmena), as seen in the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. She has a voice that Sy Snootles would kill for, a right-hook that Han Solo will never master, and the manly gravitas that Emperor Palpatine can only wish for. Think about it… she could be the biggest toy of 2007. Everyone around the globe loves Beatrice Arthur, and everyone will want this figure!
So that’s our big list for this year. We left out several key figures for the sake of brevity. (*Cough!* Luke Skywalker in his med-robes… Wed15/Septoid 2 Droid… E-3PO… Lando Calrissian in Smuggler’s Gear… *Cough!*) Here’s to 2007, and we hope that Hasbro will deliver ALL of our wildest dreams and wish lists in the New Year.
*Note: Since my last year-end wishlist, they actually made a few from it! Shock! Hem Dazon, Chief Chirpa, bendy-knees C-3PO, and R5-D4 were released in the last year, and, naturally, I’d like to take all the credit. 
Please feel free to comment and add your suggestions!
January 2nd, 2007 at 7:23 am
Yay! Galactic Booger, er I mean…Blogger is back!! About time Adam, we missed ya!
January 2nd, 2007 at 7:37 am
Damn holiday season getting in the way of my toy pimping! I’m going to try to get back to blogging here as a ramp-up to Toy Fair in February. (There’s too much schmoozing to do to "live blog" from Toy Fair, but I want to try to present some opinion-y stuff from the big show.)
I can’t wait to see what Hasbro, Sideshow, Gentle Giant, and all the big guys roll out for our buying pleasure. (Of course, knowing Gentle Giant, they won’t allow anyone to take photos, and I’ll have to write a huge essay describing what they display.)
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:21 am
Hey there, glad you’re back! Just a clarification from above, when you said the Rebel Transport could be used in a scene from all 3 films, for the life of me I can’t remember it from A New Hope. Where was it? Great list btw, I’d get everything on it in a heartbeat.
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:31 am
There’s one parked illegally in Mos Eisley as Ben, Luke and the droids speed through in the Landspeeder.
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 am
Isn’t the Rebel Transport basically just a giant bus? So what the frag was it doing with the Rebel Fleet that assaulted the 2nd Death Star? What could they do with it? load it with explosives so they could kamakaze it into a Star Destroyer? Because that’s about all it would be good for in a battle. Maybe they were thinking they could use it to haul away all the fresh Ewok meat after the battle was over.
Anyway, My suggestion is that Hasbro could double their money making a RT by issuing the ANH:SE version which was kind of rust-colored and the ESB and ROTJ versions which were the classic dirty grey starship color. You reading Hasbro?
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:18 am
We may be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they actually make a Bea Arthur action figure………Of course, like an idiot, I’d buy it only because I can’t resist any new figure. I would almost feel ashamed to own it…and I think this would lead to a deep depression that would make me re-evaluate my life. In fact just the thought of knowing I would buy it is making me question my sanity. Thanks a lot Adam……..
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
All those and MORE I say!!!!!
I can’t wait for the day that Jabba’s Palace and Chalmun’s Cantina are fully realized in all their plastic glory.
Hasbro doesn’t want to talk playset, but modular is the way to go. Give me pieces that I can put together into a playset. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bea Arthur is a bit of a stretch, but I want Hasbro to stretch. I want podrace mechanics and rebel technicians and Mos Eisley denizens, and nightclub patrons… make ‘em all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Nice to see a wish list that doesn\’t include the Tonnika Sisters or a ton of EU stuff. Some of the figures listed could actually have a shot. I\’d like to see Jedi Spirit Anakin (both heads) and Jedi Spirit Yoda (done in a similar style to the Dagobah Obi-Wan from a few years ago). The minor characters are nice, but it\’s time Hasbro went back to some of main characters from the Prequels and did them in proper Super Articulated style: Qui-Gon, Jango, Boba (AOTC), Anakin (TPM), Palpatine (Dual with Yoda) and even Jar Jar. Put these on regular-style cards – I don\’t want to pay extra for “Vintage” packaging. Also, drop the bright blue hologram figures. They are lame, lazy, and usually done in action poses that don\’t make sense in the context of a hologram.
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Good to see you’re back up and running with a great list of ideas for the new year. If only you worked for the big H. The BBQ idea rocks and personally I’d love to see Hasbro do a Porcillus (Jabba’s personal chef) to accompany the palace smorgasbord. HEY HASBRO, ARE YOU LISTENING? Ki-Adi Randy
January 2nd, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Ummm, a super-articulated Jar Jar???? Okay, kinda makes sense since his sole purpose seemed to be to flail around to, well, not quite steal every scene, unless destroying a scene could count as stealing it, in which case, he pretty much "stole" TPM (with the help of an idiotic kid with Force AIDS, a wimpy plot and…argh). You could really pose him in unlimited annoying and "god I wanna poke my eyes out" kinda ways til the cows came home. Qui Gon. Jango. K. They were okay characters with potential, and were/could have been involved in lots of cool action scenes requiring SA for their toy versions. But young Annie??? Boba? Maybe I’m crazy and maybe those latter two plus Jar Jar would sell, so to keep the line going they should be made, but I have a nagging suspicion they might not do so well. I want one of everything, except Jar Jars (has anyone else managed to resist buying him even though you want every other figure they ever put out???? If so, we should form a club!), but I would NOT buy a new TPM Anakin nor a new AOTC Boba simply because they aren’t really needed. Are they? I like those other suggestions for OT SA revamps. Hell, just sand blast a jointed at the knees C-3PO and you’ve got my hard earned cash. And if you wanna talk the PT, what about an AOTC SA Obi Wan? I’m a little tired and scanning my shelves but I don’t see one that isn’t in some sort of scene specific action pose (perhaps I can’t see the tree for the plastic forest?).I think there are still plent of good ROTS background characters and aliens to get made (especially from Utapau and the rest of the Separatists), even AOTC Coruscant denizens would be fun and a pile of them could be kitbashers. And of course, keep those Cantina patrons, Jabba’s Palace aliens and any cool rebel types coming!
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:50 am
Alright, alright…Little Annie and Jar Jar were annoying characters. The Phantom Menace wasn’t a great movie, but it is still Star Wars. Ripping on Jar Jar went out around the time Beanie Babies and Giga-pets stopped being cool.
There has not yet been a great version of Qui-Gon. Hasbro’s best versions of Kid Annie, Kid Boba, and Jar Jar are inferior figures compared to what is being released now. They need an update. Super Articulation does not need to be limited to certain figures. The characters deserve the same superior sculpting and articulation that Hasbro is giving to others.
Could they turn into peg warmers? Maybe. But I think they’d sell much better than the Naboo yellow jumpsuit guy or the latest Neimoidian statue.
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Ripping on Jar Jar must NEVER go out of fashion or humanity is doomed.Yeah SA should not be limited. Wasn’t really my point though I can see how it might have sounded that way. I agree with you on Qui Gon and Jango, but there are other figures I’d just rather see. At least the Naboo pilot was a sort of army builder type, though they should have did the running change red-ish variant when they had the chance.
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:35 pm
This will probably sound nastier than I mean it to, I really mean it to sound like a friendly-debate type question (and yes it has been asked before): But were the prequels really "Star Wars"? I mean on the one hand yes, they were because Lucas wrote them blah blah blah and they were obviously trying to tell us the backstory that made the first films so interesting BUT….Star Wars was a phenomenon of its time and how it came out without the backstory having been shown or told and how it stewed in a culture for almost a quarter of a century. To ignore the fact that it had a complete life of its own for over 20 years before the new films were created, both on screen and in the imaginations of millions filling in the blanks on there own, is criminal and not very generous to all that human energy and time spent (some would say I wasted but not me!). Anyway, not what this blog was about but since we kinda got this going I thought I’d just throw that out there. Again! And don’t get me wrong, lots of stuff I appreciate about the prequels and the figures from them but I’m just not going to let everything slide because it has the Lucasfilm stamp of approval. Star Wars is bigger than what that trademark thinks it can contain.
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Sim Aloo is by far #1 on my list. Sorry, but Bea Arthur would be last.CZ-3 would be a slam dunk. More droids please.
January 4th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Bea Arthur would be so much fun, for a while anyway. I’m sure the novelty would wear off after a year of staring at her on a shelf packed with Cantina aliens. Could always move her toward the back I suppose. I’d buy about 3 or 4 of the CZ-3 droid, I’ve wanted it since around 1979-ish and he shows up in more than one scene so….And Sim Aloo for sure and maybe another dignitary to balance him out, so there’d be four in total for now. I think I saw a phot of four of them once, right? Or are there even more lurking in the background?
January 6th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
I agree with the above list, but we could also use some updates to Shadows of The Empire, Ewoks, Anakin Skywalker with med capsule, and a Grand Admiral Thrawn. Since vehicles are being listed how about Palpatine’s shuttle from the end of ROTS. Great blog. MTFBWY
January 6th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Gargan would be tops on my list. It would be a nice gesture on Hasbro’s part, especially after the Comic-Con rip. I think we also need to round out the Imperials with Capt. Needa and a new & improved Piett.
And for more Mos Eisley characters I’d like to throw in Swilla Corey (the blonde girl briefly seen in the Cantina, but in deleted scenes she was mackin’ on Han Solo), and Wioslea (sp?) – aka the big headed alien that ends up buying Luke’s Landspeeder.
I wouldn’t be against a new Jar Jar, only that he was done pretty good the first time, unless they made a corrected Ep.II version he can be left at that, or at least until we get better versions of Jango Fett & General Grievous.
January 7th, 2007 at 1:26 am
It is only right to make a figure from one of our first exposures to Star Wars and one from the SW Christmas Special would fit the bill. Might attract enough attention to move certain folks to reissue it on DVD. Bea would be a great "ambassador." As to the reissue of the Rebel Troop Transport I think the deco ideas already suggested are great and it could show up an exclusive. Hasbro has shown recent interest in making vehicles by issuing SW vehicles based on the latest three movies but are still behind in filling the gaps from the original trilogy. If not the long awaited Rebel Blockade Runner, then Jabba’s Sail Barge should be priority on the list of vehicles to be made. What a GREAT 30th SW Anniversary surprise that would be!!!! No doubt about a sellout there! All the figures and vehicles from ROTJ issued (and reissues for new interests) would make this a very profitable venture for Hasbro. Certainly the manufacturing costs would be recouped on an item like this. How many times would it have already been reissued if they had made it during the original trilogy releases?
January 8th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Look at that figure of the day. Can anybody really say Hasbro can’t (and shouldn’t) do a better AOTC Boba Fett?
January 9th, 2007 at 8:29 am
One more thing for 2007, Hasbro…It’s nice that you and Lucasfilm have decided that all Clone Troopers/Stormtroopers look like Jango Fett, but not every one of them needs to have a scar on their face. In theory, their helmets should protect them from this type of injury.
January 15th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
I’ve got a good one for Hasbro, & one for Sideshow, Make a Holographic Darth Vader Like the one in Empire. Action figure size & 12" , Complete with cloth goods & accessories.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
whine…first you cant find your shuttle and your exclusive and now youre making demands for custom figures to accent your collection…plus target coudnt serve you ,oh mighty king of dollars and spoiled little man…could you be anymore selfish?