Bandai release schedule

[Hunk a Junk]

What a load of crap. Here's the argument: Some people don't like the PT so NO ONE can have models of the PT ships. Hows about this: make the kits and people who don't like the PT don't have to buy them. Bandai, there are 7 saga films, not 4.

Gee, sorry I don't meet thy King's definition of a "serious" modeler. :facepalm

 

[SGK]

What a load of crap. Here's the argument: Some people don't like the PT so NO ONE can have models of the PT ships. Hows about this: make the kits and people who don't like the PT don't have to buy them. Bandai, there are 7 saga films, not 4. Gee, sorry I don't meet thy King's definition of a "serious" modeler. :facepalm

The only logical reason Bandai Hobby doesn't list the PT in its website is the fact that they haven't announced the release of anything from the prequels in kit form. As I've said before, Bandai the company hasn't chosen to neglect the prequels because they plan to release a whole line of SHF action figures from the PT.

 

[Hunk a Junk]

I hope you're right, SGK, but it's hard to imagine when we'd see any. This year they're releasing TFA kits and then only a year from now will be Rogue One. Assuming Bandai has that license too, Disney is going to want them to make kits promoting their new films.

 

[Jaitea]

....and round we go again.....'Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament... again.'

J

 

[craig g]

Bandai are a business trying to make money.
They have looked into the sales I'm sure of Finemolds, Revell and Mpc prequel kits. Seen the poor sales compared to prequel kits and stayed clear of them.
Let's be honest, how many of you bought multiples of any prequel kit?

 

[Hunk a Junk]

And you know these "poor sales" how? What evidence do you have? Any? Do you have a link to a statement from a Bandai rep back this up? I mean, Revell is in the business to make money and they chose to make Clone Wars kits even after the PT. I've bought plenty of PT and CW kits. I just did a quick count -- I have 20 finished PT/CW kits and several more on the pile.

Good Lord, it's like it's some kind of personal insult if other people are allowed to buy PT kits.

 

[TK7713Gra30]

And you know these "poor sales" how? What evidence do you have? Any? Do you have a link to a statement from a Bandai rep back this up? I mean, Revell is in the business to make money and they chose to make Clone Wars kits even after the PT. I've bought plenty of PT and CW kits. I just did a quick count -- I have 20 finished PT/CW kits and several more on the pile.

Good Lord, it's like it's some kind of personal insult if other people are allowed to buy PT kits.

Come on Hunk a Junk, don't take it so personal or it begins to sound like you are throwing your toys out the pram, likewise as you stated above, do you have any evidence that the masses would buy the PT, I doubt it also.

You only need to look on the SS thread and you can see that generally PT is modelled a lot lot less, that gives a litlke indicator of its popularity, admittedly it's not definitive. Are bandai seriously going to invest in the same costs to design and have the dies cut to mass produce vehicles that will probably sell a fraction compared to OT and TFA , of course not.

We just have to admit that the PT was a pup sold to us, while some designs were OK, the whole cgi essence came as a a detriment I think and I genuinely believe that it's non popularity is that few if any SS vehicles were made, all being designed on cgi. I think half the captivation and love with modellers is they can directly link their models to the actual filmed studio models of OT. The same applies to many of the popular vehicles over the years, thunderbirds, 1999 where an actual real model existed.

 

[Hunk a Junk]

I'm not taking it personally. It's a spirited debate. :cheers Space 1999, Thunderbirds, Jonny Quest -- these are all shows with cult followings at best, yet we get models for those shows. "The masses" aren't buying those models and most kids have no idea the shows or the models even exist. They're niche products for a very narrow customer base. There's no reason a few PT designs (and many of them WERE built as physical models) couldn't be made. I'd bet they sell way more than a Jonny Quest plane or even a Jupiter 2 (I know, heresy!). Even PT haters will admit the clone armor is pretty cool and I'd bet some would even buy a 1/12 Bandai kit. I think wanting other fans to not be able to buy products from certain episodes is just fanboy phallus measuring. "The movies we like are better than the movies you like so you can't have anything from your movies because we want to pretend they don't exist." That's all.

 

[Jun Austria]

After watching the Force Awakens, I have to order more Bandai Falcon. Gonna take a shot on dioramas. To rekindle a good and fun memories about the movie.

 

[DanielB]

After watching the Force Awakens, I have to order more Bandai Falcon. Gonna take a shot on dioramas. To rekindle a good and fun memories about the movie.

I wish Bandai would do a Kylo Ren shuttle. I'd love to do a diorama of the beginning of the movie with the shuttle in the village. The Revell shuttle doesn't come with a Kylo Ren figure, but so far all the Bandai ships do. A Kylo Ren shuttle model with a Kylo Ren and a couple of Stormtroopers would be sweeeeeet.

 

[Jun Austria]

I wish Bandai would do a Kylo Ren shuttle. I'd love to do a diorama of the beginning of the movie with the shuttle in the village. The Revell shuttle down't come with a Kylo Ren figure, but so far all the Bandai ships do. A Kylo Ren shuttle model with a Kylo Ren and a couple of Stormtroopers would be sweeeeeet.

If Bandai can finish there planned models for vehicles and characters. Some accessories for dioramas would be perfect!

 

[SGK]

As they plan to release a model kit of Kylo Ren, it's not illogical to expect a kit of his shuttle to come out soon or at around the same time frame they release him, similar to what they did with Boba and his Slave I.

 

[merkava74]

Let me join the fray.

I for one would love to see more PT models:

Gunship
Maul's ship
Pod racers!
AT-TE
Droid command ship
Imperial destroyers
Droid tanks
Droid dekars

I think they were cool vehicles.

Some figures and creatures too! Like those 3 creatures in the arena with Padme Anakin and Kenobi (sideshow could do those)

Geonosians




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[Galactican]

I would be VERY pleased with a 1/12 General Grievous.

 

[edge10]

Count me as a little 'spooked' by the thinness of Bandai's Star Wars lineup next year...

 

[Jaitea]

Count me as a little 'spooked' by the thinness of Bandai's Star Wars lineup next year...

Maybe they've had to rethink things after the trade embargo,.....they had the world,...now its a bit different for them

J

 

[craig g]

And you know these "poor sales" how? What evidence do you have? Any? Do you have a link to a statement from a Bandai rep back this up? I mean, Revell is in the business to make money and they chose to make Clone Wars kits even after the PT. I've bought plenty of PT and CW kits. I just did a quick count -- I have 20 finished PT/CW kits and several more on the pile.

Good Lord, it's like it's some kind of personal insult if other people are allowed to buy PT kits.

As I'm not employed by Bandai I cannot know for sure
But any company is going to do their homework before investing large sums of money in tooling
All I have are my MK1 eyeballs seeing prequel kits gathering dust in hobby shops. This and other forums are hardly exceeding their bandwidth on prequel builds and never have. Can't see many people counting rivets on A Naboo or Jedi starfighter in 40 years

 

[Hunk a Junk]

In other words, the evidence is just dubious anecdotal claims based on noticing what kits are on some shelves in some random LHS. The hobby shop near me has a ton of Revell OT kits sitting on the shelves, some that have been there for years. Which is evidence of nothing really.

I was never a fan of Babylon 5. That show never had the ratings of Star Trek TNG or Deep Space 9, yet they managed to put out some kits for the fans of that show. The ships in that show were entirely CG -- no physical models -- yet, I've seen dozens and dozens of Starfury builds over the years and no one pissed and moaned about how there were no studio scale references for modelers. And even though I would never even consider buying a Bab5 kit, I'm pleased as punch for the fans who got to build vehicles from the show they liked. It was no skin off my nose that they were happy. It cost me nothing. The idea that a Starfury or a Jonny Quest Firefly is somehow going to be a better seller than a Star Wars kit -- even one from an episode some fans don't like -- is ridiculous.

 

[astroboy]

As I'm not employed by Bandai I cannot know for sure
But any company is going to do their homework before investing large sums of money in tooling
All I have are my MK1 eyeballs seeing prequel kits gathering dust in hobby shops. This and other forums are hardly exceeding their bandwidth on prequel builds and never have. Can't see many people counting rivets on A Naboo or Jedi starfighter in 40 years

To be fair, no one is making Studio scale prequel builds because there weren't any in the films.

And for the most part, Revell has been the only ones making prequel models, all at box scale. Hardly desirable.

There are many prequel builds I'd like to do. They just don't exist.

Prequel lego sells well, why wouldn't the models?

 

[thorst]

Why is everyone bashing the Prequels so much?

It is one thing that one personally dislikes them, but this kind of subjective judgement doesn't do justice to the people who like them.

I for one think Ep. I is the best Star Wars movie, not because of the best plot, but because of the best execution. Contrary to the mainstream belief, there have been a lot of ships in Ep. I filmed from real models (for example the Radiant, the transport ship, the Naboo starship, the droid command ships etc.), and they look great. I would buy a kit of one of those ships.

I do understand that the CGI in Ep. II and III was overdone and ages strongly, but even that doesn't make the ship designs bad. I would love to build a good kit of for example an Eta fighter, an ARC fighter or the different versions of the star destroyers. Also the vehicles from the battle of Geonosis would be very welcome.

That the Revell kits stay in the hobby shops has other reasons in my opinion, mostly that they don't attract serious modelers because of their scales and the bad quality, and that kids like playing with other toys more.

I really hope that Bandai does some nice Prequel stuff.