Hello all, I’m happy to announce to you that One-18th will be participating in the Star Wars Q & A for 2010!  Please check below for results!

Q) Rumors of a new large AT-AT have surfaced as the upcoming large vehicle. We’re obviously excited about the news. Can you give us any details on this big guy, and how will it differentiate from AT-AT’s in the past, like the TRU exclusive, for example?

A) Well, we can confirm that there is indeed a great new AT-AT coming this Fall. Set to hit shelves on 8-1, it will be offered at a $99.99 SRP (same as the AT-TE and Turbo Tank) and will be an all-new version, rethought from top to bottom with great new play features, a lot of room for figures, and a huge number of electronic phrases and sounds.  It has been designed with both collectors and kids in mind, and we think that it will wow both audiences.  We’ll give you one additional tidbit: it was originally designed to follow the $149.99 SRP Millennium Falcon price
point, but the recent economic climate cause us to rework the beastie. Amazingly, we were able to keep the size intact and delivery on everything we wanted at the new price.  Look for more details, and photos,  at Toy Fair.

Q) With all the various droid parts and pieces we’ve obtained through the Build-A-Droid collections, is there any plans or thoughts for a Droid Factory that we can either use and/or store parts of incomplete droid pieces? 

A) There we some thoughts along this regard, and work had been done to develop something like the original Droid Factory that would have had elements of EpII but a feel like the vintage set with places for parts, etc.  However, the fall off in Legacy/Droid Factory figure sales led us to drop this idea.   Even thought the Droid Factory buildable figure mechanic is going away after a two-year run, it doesn’t mean that this cool and fun slice of figure place is any less relevant going forward.  There is a lot of heart for it, and if we are successful in getting collectors back with the Vintage launch this Fall, this idea could be restarted.

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