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Hasbro's June STAR WARS Q&A Answers for ActionFigureNews.ca
AFN: While many of us love SA, the use of BJ hips has been something of a mixed bag. So far on every figure that has incorporated BJ hips, what we end up with is a figure that has big bulging hips to the sides ruining the aesthetic of the figure. RotS Obi Wan looked incredibly silly with them and many collectors are referring to the upcoming TVC Bespin Luke as "diaper Luke" due to the wide hips. Will Hasbro ever be able to narrow the hips down? What about using the BJ hips as seen in your Iron Man 2 figures?
Hasbro:The Iron Man figures are built to a slightly larger size (4") so you may be seeing the same size mechanism but a slightly different aesthetic. We'll take a look in any case; the ball and socket hips are really the first generation and we can look for ways to slim them down if we can.
AFN: I'm seeing that Hasbro will be again releasing the 501st Clonetrooper in the fall with the new Saga Legends line. Yet in the photos which preview this figure, it's clear that Hasbro still hasn't fixed the glaring error with the helmet stripe that was first reported to you in the Q&As over a year and a half ago. The error was the blue stripe that is missing on the helmet, between the black horizontal stripe and the visor. Also the blue stripe that adorns the topside of the helmet is incorrect - it should make a "V" shape but instead is painted with uniform width. The artwork you use on the card depicts how the helmet should look when done correctly. It's not even a hard error to fix: just use the paint mask from your TSC Commander Appo figure (which did not suffer from these errors).
Hasbro: You are right, we have not fixed the Saga Legends figure since as a "carry-forward" figure we typically don't involve designers to oversee the development of the figure. We'll correct that; thanks for the heads-up.
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