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Ah - the first catch of the year.... This is another painful one, owned it back in the day, sold it and now getting it back - with the wave 1 of the Target exclusives that now means I have 7 of the 13, I think wave 2 of the Target exclusives will be a lot harder to find - certainly at an acceptable price - but the hunt will go on

 

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Next few toys arrived yesterday. Getting closer on the SAGA Blue line - I think I am down to maybe 30 figures left (basic line). And the first of the new Loyal Subject MASK toys arrived - annoyingly it was the special edition Rhino which somehow arrived all the way from the US before the standard editions from the UK - Loyal Subject have made a mess of their distribution for sure.

Haven't opened the MASK box, but already I would say it looks **** (the box) compared to the old stuff - the material is thin and crap and the way the image is presented doesn't work (Could be the colour choice -but the black sucks all the vibrancy out of it) - and you can hear the thin plastic inside the box move as there is almost zero rigidity to it. Very disappointed really - I hope when the mainline order finally arrives the quality of the packaging is better.

The SAGA figures are mostly great - far better than I remember and to be honest I have avoided this line mainly due the fact I wrote it off as crap - I'll happily walk that back now - there are some really nice figures here, I still say overall the line was a mess, in that it didn't really give ATOTC's it's own design and space, rather mixed them in with OT figures - and it was the line that really went to town on reissues, kit bashing and paint changes, setting an annoying precisdent going forward - but there is some good stuff here and happy to be close to done with them (nowhere to store them of course.... but thats another problem)