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To be honest I think Asajj is a pretty good choice for the first EU figure to be made as she's a Sith and a pretty cool character in her own right.

I'm still surprised Snow Bunny Padme won the SSC fan favourites competition considering some the other figures involved.

The only thing I can think is that most people who voted went with Padme because she's been in the movies and they knew who she was.

Rather than some of the lesser known EU characters you wouldn't be familiar with if you didn't read the comics or the books.

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Yeah I think youre right. I dont really have much of a clue about the expanded universe. Ive dipped into some of teh comics and whatnot but Ive never really follwed any of the EU stuff.
I voted for Kir Kanos though, becauseout of the available options he seemed the coolest looking characater. I dont think the options in the poll were all that stunning really, but again, thats probably because im not a follower of the expanded universe in the first place.

Ventress seems like a cool enough figure to make though. Its a sith and a female so thats 2 good reasons to make the character. I like the costume as well.

I only hope theres a bit more expression to her face by the time its finished though. Bit of a snarl maybe. These vanilla face sculpts are starting to get boring. I know and understand the arguments for not going with any one 'look' but at the same time, you need to have a bit of the persons character in the scuplts. Like Sith should be mean looking. I dont want my sith looking like theyre daydreaming about what they need from the supermarket. :|

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I agree vanilla face sculpts just don't work.

The main thing is that the sculpt looks accurate, if Darth Maul is snarling so what? The character is all about rage, so it fits, as long as the expression fits the character it's not a problem for me.

Going with vanilla expression is just sitting on the fence. A lot of people didn't like Luke's expression but I didn't mind as I could see where they'd taken it from. I think that's why SSC has been hesistant to use certain expressions on characters with subsequent releases.

Still though Maul with that glazed over expression just looks dumb to me and others have mentioned it too.

So really you've still got fans complaining about how the figure looks even though they might think they're playing it safe going with a vanilla expression.

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I like Mauls stare, I'm glad they went with that over the generic evil smile. But I plan on posing mine with the full robe, like when he was making that particular face talking to Sideous, so I can see if you want to have him fighting Qui Gon you'd be ticked. A.V. doesn't do much for me, but I've said it tons before, when it comes to CW I want animated or none. Gendy spoiled me. WELL on Mauls case, lets hope Medi busts out a superior one!
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I'll say it again till it happens Exar Kun

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I'll say it again till it happens Exar Kun



I'm with you 100% on that choice!

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I'm with you guys too - Exar Kun, Cay Qel-Droma ,Warb Null, and pretty much any other character from TOTJ. Those series were awesome.

We all know it's never gonna happen though, right? I mean, hardly anyone knows who these guys are.

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I dunno lotta EU fans do, we gotta get over at the SS boards and request these.(but SS has a lot more main guys to put out first.)

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I dunno lotta EU fans do, we gotta get over at the SS boards and request these.(but SS has a lot more main guys to put out first.)



LOL!!Yes a lot of more "main" guys like Endor Sergeant Chubby-Cheeks,Nameless Endor Rebel Infantry Soldier,and Bib Fortuna.

Personally,I can think of a lot of characters that deserve figures made of them BEFORE Bib Fortuna,but I guess Jabba needs someone to stand next to him and make him less ugly.

If Sideshow gives us some TRUE EU characters (and I'm not talking about recent "favorites" like Asajj Ventress...I'm right along the lines of characters like Exar Kun,Ulic Qel-Droma,Dash Rendar, and of course...Mara Jade) then I'll happily start cashing in on Sideshow's products.

I am a big Star Wars EU fan and I have been for a while and I'm so tired that companies like Hasbro and now Sideshow are cashing in on making figures of characters that have less screen presence or appearance time than all the stars in the space scenes in the movie. I'm surprised Hasbro hasn't given the movie's opening intro. montage its own action figure yet.

I'm excited about Hasbro's upcoming EU comic packs (though not the Marvel ones) and hoping that Sideshow follows suit with more EU characters....but come on!Most longtime EU fans I know want OTHER characters (ex. Exar Kun,Kir Kanos,Thrawn) and have wanted figures of them for years before new EU characters like Asajj Ventress came around.

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I dunno lotta EU fans do, we gotta get over at the SS boards and request these.(but SS has a lot more main guys to put out first.)




Personally,I can think of a lot of characters that deserve figures made of them BEFORE Bib Fortuna,but I guess Jabba needs someone to stand next to him and make him less ugly.
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