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<blockquote data-quote="Snaketibe" data-source="post: 505322" data-attributes="member: 7379"><p>News from Rebelscum: (<a href="http://www.rebelscum.com/story/front/2019_International_Toy_Fair_Hasbros_Preview_Event_The_Retro_Collection_Presentation_183138.asp" target="_blank">http://www.rebelscum.com/story/front/2019_International_Toy_Fair_Hasbros_Preview_Event_The_Retro_Collection_Presentation_183138.asp</a>):</p><p></p><p>"Hasbro will be producing a new line of action figures based on the classic Kenner action figures. Like the Boba Fett released in The Vintage Collection, these figures are new sculpts and are just a bit bigger than the originals. The line will offer newer collectors an alternative to the vintage market prices and gives collectors of the original line some new figures to fill in a hole left when the collection (ended) in 1985!"</p><p></p><p>Also, I notice that the Toy Fair photos suggest that the weapons with these new figures are jet black and also look to be sharper sculpts than vintage originals:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]52945[/ATTACH]</p><p>So the answer to the discussion in this thread is that this new line is comprised of neither reproductions or reissues, but actually brand new sculpts! I must admit when I made my earlier post about the Classic 4-pack, I was forgetting about the rocket-firing 'vintage' Boba Fett figure Hasbro released a few years ago, which was a brand new sculpt made to look like the vintage original, albeit in a very slightly larger scale. If these new figures are similarly proportioned, hopefully it will assist collectors in differentiating them from vintage originals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snaketibe, post: 505322, member: 7379"] News from Rebelscum: ([url]http://www.rebelscum.com/story/front/2019_International_Toy_Fair_Hasbros_Preview_Event_The_Retro_Collection_Presentation_183138.asp[/url]): "Hasbro will be producing a new line of action figures based on the classic Kenner action figures. Like the Boba Fett released in The Vintage Collection, these figures are new sculpts and are just a bit bigger than the originals. The line will offer newer collectors an alternative to the vintage market prices and gives collectors of the original line some new figures to fill in a hole left when the collection (ended) in 1985!" Also, I notice that the Toy Fair photos suggest that the weapons with these new figures are jet black and also look to be sharper sculpts than vintage originals: [ATTACH type="full" alt="New Leia.jpg"]52945._xfImport[/ATTACH] So the answer to the discussion in this thread is that this new line is comprised of neither reproductions or reissues, but actually brand new sculpts! I must admit when I made my earlier post about the Classic 4-pack, I was forgetting about the rocket-firing 'vintage' Boba Fett figure Hasbro released a few years ago, which was a brand new sculpt made to look like the vintage original, albeit in a very slightly larger scale. If these new figures are similarly proportioned, hopefully it will assist collectors in differentiating them from vintage originals. [/QUOTE]
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