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onslaught86 wrote:Won't stop me feeling cheated out of a TIE bomber pilot minifig.

Hey, yeah, and how come we didn't get any of the guys in black who man the Death Star? With those awesome helmets?

Turns out its these dudes:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_star_gunner

onslaught86 wrote:I expect it'll be a fluff answer along the lines of "We removed the pilot figures to bring the Star Wars Transformers in line with the new concept of Transformers: Crossovers, and future figures will be designed without the pilots in mind."

Wanna put money on this? It's gonna be "our budget couldn't afford it anymore" I bet.

Dominic wrote:I am betting the old "Action Fleet" pilots will become much more desired.

They're a slightly smaller scale.

Onslaught Six wrote:

onslaught86 wrote:Won't stop me feeling cheated out of a TIE bomber pilot minifig.

Hey, yeah, and how come we didn't get any of the guys in black who man the Death Star? With those awesome helmets?

Turns out its these dudes:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_star_gunner

Death Star Gunners? Good point. I think they wanted to army-build that Stormtrooper since it was more recognizable.

Wanna put money on this? It's gonna be "our budget couldn't afford it anymore" I bet.

I bet you an Ego Puff Point!

That'd wash if they'd designed the new moulds not to use the pilots, but those have cockpits as much as the older ones did. And as this is the umpteenth milking of the Starfighter and Slave moulds, how can they justify not using the same pilot figures they've already released? Kenobi, Anakin, Grievous-ship, and Boba just require the same ones already used, only the TIE and that other white ship I don't recognise need new pilots.

So what, packaging constraints? Plenty of room in those new crossover packages for pilots. Anakin even reuses the same headsculpt as Ep3 Starfighter Anakin, which is weaksauce.

I wanted a Grand Moff Tarkin with the Darth Star.

Let me add some fuel to this fire:

Why no pilots with the other "Crossover" toys? Seriously.

Dom
-ahahahahahahahahaha.

Because they tried it in that "Megamorphs" line, and want as little as possible in common with that crap?

As little as possible in a line of transforming superhero robots, anyhow.

138 Scourge wrote:Because they tried it in that "Megamorphs" line, and want as little as possible in common with that crap?

As little as possible in a line of transforming superhero robots, anyhow.

Aw man, but if the Marvel toys did come with minifigs, we could get full-on Sentai Superhero robot action! I'd put the minifigures on TOP of the toys in robot mode, just to enhance it.

My guess for why the Marvel toys didn't come with minifigures is that there would be some serious scale issues. Where would you put minifigures in the Venom and Spider-Man toys that wouldn't look hilarious?

Prowl, did you forget about the actual Spiderman Sentai show?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMvs0aSfFLs

Why no pilots with the other "Crossover" toys? Seriously.

I'm calling scale on that too. Motorbikes and jets in the same price point = bad for minifigs.

Be neat if they had, I say.

Mind, that begs the question of why there'd be transforming Spiderman bikes in the first place, since they'd only be about as tall as some villains. Like, Hulk and stuff.

onslaught86 wrote:I bet you an Ego Puff Point!

That'd wash if they'd designed the new moulds not to use the pilots, but those have cockpits as much as the older ones did. And as this is the umpteenth milking of the Starfighter and Slave moulds, how can they justify not using the same pilot figures they've already released? Kenobi, Anakin, Grievous-ship, and Boba just require the same ones already used, only the TIE and that other white ship I don't recognise need new pilots.

Those little pilots need molds and assembly. New molds cost money, old molds cost money to run, paint, and assemble.

I wanted a Grand Moff Tarkin with the Darth Star.

He's too sexy an action star to be kept there. (Oh wait, he's a boring old man figure.)