Amazon lowered Jecki to $20.
Thanks for that. I'll preorder her for that price. I'm debating on getting a second for my Meetra custom but I don't know if she's gonna be tall enough. She looks kinda short in the box.
True, since he actually has the same hair style for once!
While I've actually liked most of the Acolyte so far, I still don't feel any real desire to buy figures of these characters. I felt the same way about Andor, even though I loved that show. Perhaps it's the fact that toys have gotten SO much more expensive that I have to really pick and choose these days?
@thegillman yeah, that makes sense. I've said before but I was the exact same way with Andor. I've been trying to stop letting these things be such toy commercials, enjoy them on their own merit for once, and get more selective with who goes on the shelf, and price is certainly a big factor there. But Sam also for me, I'm enjoying the show, then go an ask myself who I REALLY want to put on the shelf. I can enjoy this show, and its characters without having miniature versions of them all.
That said... Maybe just the bad guys. As I mentioned before, every star wars collection for me the last thirty years started with "I'll just get Boba Fett", but stage two is always "I'll just get bad guys".
Oh yeah, I'd take a Darth Smiley for sure. Who knows how much screen time they'll end up having and what they'll do, but the design is just so cool and creepy that it would be such a shame to not have it on the shelf.
Glad Jecki and Yord both dropped a bit in price. I'm actually one of the few who seems to be enjoying the show so far, so I wouldn't mind thaaaat much if they were all full price, but money saved is money saved!
So... the thing about Andor and figures is that the vast majority of characters in Andor were very human looking types. The fun thing about Star Wars figure collecting was always that your roguish starship captain and young jedi ingenue were rubbing shoulders with shiny robots and crazy looking aliens.
While narratively Andor was excellent - there was very little variety in terms of species and the costume colors were rather drab. It just wasn't a property that screamed for a huge bunch of figures to collect.
At least with the Acolyte there are a bunch of different species and a variety of costumes and color - I'd personally be much more interested in figures of the Acolyte cast than Andor even while acknowledging that Andor is a far superior work.
@ru1977 Oh, I know all too well what you're talking about. When I first started collecting Black Series, I said I would only do Original Trilogy characters. Yeah....that didn't last. Now I have dozens of figures from the Prequels, Sequels, Shows, etc. I try to set parameters so I don't go overboard, and sometimes I can stick to that...but more often than not I cave and buy a figure outside of what I've determined for myself because it looks too cool not to!
@panthercult thats a great point, and the non human thing is why I was initially excited for Jecki, and Kelly, but I just have to get my brain around the 'if I get this one, then I've gotta have that one' nonsense. The human characters are varying levels of great, just not excited to collect them as much.
@thegillman mmm, we're definitely starting a support group here.
I tried so many times to only collect certain "groups" if you will, or certain eras or films in the Black series line. Between rising costs, and how many toys I have, I just was trying to lessen how much stuff I'd collect and how much money I'd spend.
I'd tell myself
Just get characters from the Original Trilogy and Prequel Trilogy.
Just get Jedi and Sith
Just get characters that would actually do battle, such as jedi, Sith, Mandalorians, Bounty Hunters, Troops.
But no matter what I did, I just couldn't take it. I love Star Wars too much. So, I have cut some of the other toy lines I collected out completely or mostly, in favor of just getting all the Star Wars Black series offerings (except for things like Holiday figures, or Carbonized etc.)
Sometimes you have to just make peace with the fact there are things you love so much that they need to come before other things you may just like or even really like. There are always those properties that just mean so much more.
For me, it's Masters of the Universe and Star Wars. There can be no holding back. There can be no skipping. I want them all. Because I love them. So that's why I just started picking and choosing in certain other lines.
I don't want anything holding me back when it comes time to pre order some MOTU or Star Wars. Everything else can be decided and handled later, and over time.
How do we know that
There was another Jedi shown who looks exactly like
The one Jedi is definitely who everyone is saying he is. The other is not Plo Koon.
The one Jedi that IS who everyone is saying he is doesn't technically break any lore or Canon being in The Acolyte. George Lucas himself and some merchandise from back in the day says how old the Jedi is in Episode I, but it is never stated in the films themselves. Only the 6 original Films and Clone Wars are considered Canon. Anything said or on merchandise I guess technically doesn't count. But the fact George said his age specifically feels like it should make it Canon. But again, the Jedi's age is NEVER actually stated on or in film or shows. And only what is directly in the 6 original films and Clone Wars stayed Canon. Everything else, legends.
The Acolyte had me interested in episodes 1 and 2. I enjoyed them and was interested in what was happening and where everything was heading. But episodes 3 and 4 were honestly pretty bad.
They both just had some very foolish writing and some very cringeworthy moments.
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