2 Questions about Palpatine

[padiwan]

On websites and stuff i always see Palpatine with a blue force beam, but mine is see-though like the rest. Does anyone else's look like this or is mine a wicked awesome collecters item? Also doesent Palpatine just use the Seperitists, then become the Emperor? If so, why is he a Seperitist?

[spartan117]

All the ones ive seen are see through. kinda like Grievous gray in pic but red in real life. and becuase he is there only hasbro knows.

[Dark Horse]

Preproduction photos (like in the catalogue) nearly always differ from the final product. I don't think there are any specific reasons (apart from cost), I think it differs from figure to figure. The biggest pisser I thought was not having clear coloured lightsabres or the shiny Gree.

[sfx5000]

(from YodaBreaker) Oops...I edited this post when I meant to quote it. I'll reconstruct it as best as I can...

apart from the cost

Making Palpatine's Force blast clear instead of blue means that they can make all Force blasters at the the same time. It saves both time and money.

Also, it's probably a good idea that they used the plastic they did in the lightsabers. If they went with the plastic in the early photos we'd have an epidemic of broken lightsabers (we can just leave that up to Yodabreaker for now! )

[YodaBreaker]

Palpatine's Force blast is clear as of the production run.

And as for his affiliation with the Separatists, I believe that it's because these are EpIII figures. Hence, it would be odd for Palpatine (the villain of the piece) to be on the same side as Bail Organa and Padme Amidala. Hence, he's on the Separatist side, largely because they didn't make an Empire affiliation.


ETA: Am I really the only one who's ever broken a lightsaber? The plethora of problems I've had with my first Yoda makes me think he had *major* issues. My second one has performed like a champ. And I'm *really* sorry about mistakenly editing your post, sfx5000

[spartan117]

my friend broke 2 of his agen's exept thats cuase he throws them cuase he hates jedi!
( i hate jedi to)

[YodaBreaker]

And here I was, thinking I could have taught you otherwise Perhaps his Agens could be repaired by super-gluing and baseball-wrapping the tips?

And I very much look forward to the idea of the Basic Jedi soldiers; a cheap striker that actually works would be much appreciated.

[spartan117]

Hey if your lucky Grievous body guards work.
and most likley that what the ten point jedi warrior will be is just like Grievous bodyguard
execpt that lightsaber instead of batons.

[generallygrievous]

You know, come to think of it, my Agen broke too, as in about 10 minutes out of the package. And that raises a good question Spartan, why the heck do the Grievous Bodyguards kinda suck? Although I must say that we are talking about a game, (despite how much I love it) which on the box says ages 6+ My guess is that they werent thinking about us older "kids" taking it seriously...That will teach them!