U.K. Toyfair 2012 (SHIELD helicarrier, SW MTT etc)

[DarkHorse]

No pics, sorry.

Red Shadows - U.K. Toyfair 2012 (http://theredshadows.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=tnc&thread=132)

[alcinde4]

Wow. The Helicarrier is 3 feet long? o_O

[DarkHorse]

Yeah, it still looks small though. It's not very heigh either - it's pretty flat.

[starbuck]

MTT = Happy Starbuck

[DarkHorse]

Added pics.

[Jmacq1]

MTT = Happy Starbuck

Really?

I dunno, it seems an awfully boring choice, but then again, Trade Federation stuff has rarely appealed much to me, and Episode I is pretty short on other "big" vehicles.

Personally, I think they'd have done much better if they did a Slave I/Falcon/AT-AT "Upsizing" of the Sith Infiltrator to make it closer to proper scale. Include a compartment to store Maul's Sith Speeder Bike, etc...

Certainly seems more marketable than the MTT to me, but then again, maybe the Clone Wars kids will go crazy for it. The "deploy the droids" gimmick looks like it could potentially be cool. Still, this will probably be the first "big vehicle" that I skip.

[Troynos]

Helicarrier and Quinjet look cool.

[DarkHorse]

Really?

I dunno, it seems an awfully boring choice, but then again, Trade Federation stuff has rarely appealed much to me, and Episode I is pretty short on other "big" vehicles.

Personally, I think they'd have done much better if they did a Slave I/Falcon/AT-AT "Upsizing" of the Sith Infiltrator to make it closer to proper scale. Include a compartment to store Maul's Sith Speeder Bike, etc...

Certainly seems more marketable than the MTT to me, but then again, maybe the Clone Wars kids will go crazy for it. The "deploy the droids" gimmick looks like it could potentially be cool. Still, this will probably be the first "big vehicle" that I skip.

The droid tray is hella cool. It comes out in three sections like in the film. Hatch goes up, main section comes out, trays fold down after. The droids have to stand on the trays though. They don't fold up.

[starbuck]

Really?

I dunno, it seems an awfully boring choice, but then again, Trade Federation stuff has rarely appealed much to me, and Episode I is pretty short on other "big" vehicles.

Personally, I think they'd have done much better if they did a Slave I/Falcon/AT-AT "Upsizing" of the Sith Infiltrator to make it closer to proper scale. Include a compartment to store Maul's Sith Speeder Bike, etc...

Certainly seems more marketable than the MTT to me, but then again, maybe the Clone Wars kids will go crazy for it. The "deploy the droids" gimmick looks like it could potentially be cool. Still, this will probably be the first "big vehicle" that I skip.

A big factor is that it hasn't been made before. Also, my kids are really into Clone Wars, and they have an AT-TE and a Turbo Tank, but nothing really big enough for the droids to fight back with. This will solve that!

[Jmacq1]

A big factor is that it hasn't been made before. Also, my kids are really into Clone Wars, and they have an AT-TE and a Turbo Tank, but nothing really big enough for the droids to fight back with. This will solve that!

I'll never argue with a kid liking it, but the reason I always thought of it as kind of "boring" was that it never really seemed like a counterpart to the AT-TE or Turbo Tank (though it'd be closer to a Turbo Tank), because it never struck me as much of an "attack" vehicle versus just "something that carries a lot of battle droids." But that's what imagination is for, and it does have those big blaster cannons on the front, I suppose. And yes...new is good.

If you can fit the new Battle droids in it (the ones that have the capability to fold up properly) then that's pretty cool, from what I'm hearing the 20 battle droids it comes with are "pre-folded."

As far as the other stuff goes: Quinjet and Helicarrier look interesting, except that the Helicarrier looks like it's nothing but a big display stand for the Quinjet, by the look of things.