Dragon gets Star Wars licence

[Yorkie Fett]

Didn't that happen with Zvedza?

They produced a Pirates of the Carribean Black Swan kit, I believe it even got to the final stage, then something happened and they wound up not getting the license from Disney. They had to scramble last minute and change the packaging and do an alternate tooling for some of the defining features like the figure on the prow and release it as a generic "pirate ship"

Oh great, so that probably means they're gonna stick a trunk on it and release it as a 'future mechanical robot elephant"!!

 

[TazMan2000]

Zvezda had the "Cars" license but there is nothing I can find regarding the PoTC. Perhaps Z figured that if they had a Disney license, they had carte blanche to make anything Disney.

TazMan2000

 

[BDK]

I vaguely recall the Zeveda thing from back when I worked at a hobby shop. I don't remember the end but do remember a lot of people disappointed that they didn't release it as promised.

Reads like another packaging issue like Anovos is always blaming delays on. So could be true, could be a good scapegoat.

 

[tdb68]

on the Zeveda front their facebook page this morning is showing a 60" star destroyer kit coming December. Be interesting to see if this one actually makes it to a release.

 

[tdb68]

oopps my bad... 60cm https://www.facebook.com/Zvezda.ModelKits/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

 

[DanielB]

Who is Zvezda? I've never heard of them until today.

 

[tdb68]

a Russian model company

 

[Gans]

Its been over a year since Dragon got their Star Wars licence and the Star Wars kits they have released in that year have been amazing :facepalm:facepalm
Lets hope they got more than a 1 year licence :wacko:unsure
They can't seem to get their latest Tiger tank right even though they have done 700 of them................I hope they can bring out something better the Revel standard if they can bring anything out at all.

 

[Alric]

I like the products that Dragon put out as I have a lot of the Avenger figures but they have had items in the past that have been listed but never appeared in the shops. ie the Hawkeye figure.

Hopefully we will see the kits soon.

 

[Galactican]

Its been over a year since Dragon got their Star Wars licence and the Star Wars kits they have released in that year have been amazing :facepalm:facepalm

Indeed! They are dashing things out like a machine gun. So fast that you are gonna miss them in the stores if you just blink.

 

[Yorkie Fett]

Perhaps they were so successful, they sold out in a matter of hours, and we just didn't notice!

 

[Yorkie Fett]

I'm assuming this stuff has died a death?

Anyone know anything, any updates?

 

[zorg]

a Russian model company

In Soviet Russia, model makes you!

 

[Richard Baker]

I'm assuming this stuff has died a death?

Anyone know anything, any updates?

It has been a bit too quite for a while- someone posted elsewhere that Dragon my be reorganizing a bit- they also missed a major toy exhibition (cancelled year before, never even reserved this year).

 

[Bob Solo]

Dragons Snowspeeder needed a re-design for starters. I think for 2017 they should make 1/12 75cm tall AT-ST :thumbsup

 

[rbeach84]

Crickets...

R/ Robert

 

[zyates87]

I'm hoping it's a case of "no news is good news"...

Vapourware, someone said on the last page. I'm thinking that too!

 

[FlyAndFight]

I was really hoping for that 1/35 scaled AT-AT to be released. Even have a pre-order placed somewhere out there... Sigh...

 

[jthornton1993]

Considering it's still on their facebook header I don't this the AT-AT has been axed or their SW line in general, but an update from them would be nice. Not just ignoring everyone's questions about it.

 

[psimon]

Looks like Dragon removed their Star Wars header off their Facebook page. No word if they lost the license but I suspect since the release dates are months late and the header is gone, they did lose it.