Yak's Top Ten Discussion Thread

[darthvlad]

So will the Top Ten polls be covering the Sequel era and standalone films?

Yes, we will be doing the Sequels and stand-alones. I’m not sure which one is next so I’ll have to confer with my list. I think it’s TFA though. We just delayed it a week to get Rebels some more promotion.

I really hope the responses to the Disney movies are civilized though. If one doesn’t like them, one doesn’t need to reply.

 

[darthvlad]

With the holidays making busy time, I'll let the TFA poll run an extra week and we'll get back to TLJ next Monday.

 

[YAK_Chewie]

Sounds good! I like one every 2 weeks.

:wink:

 

[darthvlad]

I may switch to every two weeks for the 2019 round and separate the scales as well. It’ll make it easier to tally votes, I think, plus extend the polls for most of the year.

I’m not sure but do we (Yakface or allied site) have someone who attends one of the annual events. It’d be nice to have someone personally hand the Yak’s Elite off to Steve Evans (or maybe his instagram?).

 

[ThisIsNoCave]

Interesting results from both the SOLO and ROGUE ONE polls. There's a lot of ground to cover for both of those films for The Vintage Collection.

Other polls I'm interested in seeing? One for each of the animated Television series: Clone Wars, Rebels and Resistance. Clearly we have to wait for The Mandalorian and the untitled Cassian Andor series' to air before getting into those.

And I'm also curious to see polls for Creatures as well as one for Vehicles.

 

[darthvlad]

Interesting results from both the SOLO and ROGUE ONE polls. There's a lot of ground to cover for both of those films for The Vintage Collection.

Other polls I'm interested in seeing? One for each of the animated Television series: Clone Wars, Rebels and Resistance. Clearly we have to wait for The Mandalorian and the untitled Cassian Andor series' to air before getting into those.

And I'm also curious to see polls for Creatures as well as one for Vehicles.

Solo results should be out tomorrow, but yeah, we almost need a Top Ten poll from both Solo and Rogue One for not main characters. I agree: Hasbro hasn't given us much love for SA figures from these or any of the recent films.

Did you miss out on the animated Top Tens? We've already covered CW and Rebels for this round. I am going to skip Resistance this round since it's a relatively new show and getting figures, but going forward I'll include it.

And yes, the new series will be covered as well though I'm frankly not sure how I'll cover all these since it seems like Disney is releasing so much new media that it could take a year just doing one a week that we'd never get caught up! I'm not sure how to proceed because I'd hate to condense say the animated shows into one poll or OT into one, PT into one, etc because that really limits a person's choices. But any suggestions are welcome.

Creatures and Vehicles will be coming soon!

 

[ThisIsNoCave]

DOH! I blanked on the animated series polls, which I did participate in. Forgetful me!!!

 

[darthvlad]

Need to tally up votes for Creatures tonight... moving on to Vehicles...

Don't be concerned about the year on these, we're still on 2018's round. :wink:

 

[darthapathy]

So, will we get a top ten for the Mandalorian after the end of the season? Chapter 8 (last episode for season one) is to air on December 27th.

I think Hasbro kind of dropped the ball on not releasing 3.75" figures to coincide with TFF or at least the premiere of the show. They could've released the Mandalorian as a new figure and gave us a few repacks/repaints/kit-bashes.

Remnant Trooper (repaint)
Off-world Jawa (repaint)
IG-11 (repaint/kit-bash)
They could've thrown them on basic cards and labeled them as "Sneak Preview"

 

[darthvlad]

So, will we get a top ten for the Mandalorian after the end of the season? Chapter 8 (last episode for season one) is to air on December 27th.

Most definitely. Plus a Rise of Skywalker one as well. Most likely will happen mid-January 2020 to give everyone time to watch and digest both media.

 

[darthvlad]

Just was thinking with the latest TVC reveals, we can remove some of the picks:

A New Hope
05. Bith Musician/Modal Nose (Figrin D'an)
09. EG-6 (Lars Homestead GNK Droid)

The Empire Strikes Back
02. Lobot
03. Lando Calrissian (Bespin Baron)
03. Princess Leia Organa (Bespin Capture)

Return of the Jedi
02. Emperor Palpatine (with Throne)
03. Bib Fortuna (Jabba's Majordomo)

Rogue One
01. General Antoc Merrick (Blue Leader)* (Exclusive)
02. Chirrut Imwe
04. K-2SO

The Mandalorian
01. Kuiil
02. Greef Karga
02. Moff Gideon
04. The Armorer
05. IG-11
07. Din Djarin (Full Beskar Armor)
10. The Child

That's 16 figures from the list since we started doing these in 2018: 10 OT characters and 6 Mandalorian


Vehicles
05. T-65B X-wing starfighter (General Antoc Merrick, Blue Leader)

Playsets
03. Cloud City (Carbon Freeze Chamber)
06. Emperor's Throne Room? (Kind of?)

 

[darthvlad]

I put up Visions anthology for the next Top Ten running through December. It looks like Book of Boba Fett runs through February 9th, so would it be best to run that in February or March? I feel if I start it in February there might be little activity for the first week and a half as there are 2 episodes and people are likely to be tweaking their lists, but it'd still be fresh in everyone's minds. Does anyone have thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions for January?

 

[darth_sidious]

I'd like to see a discussion and list surrounding the Ewok TV movies, I'm just not sure the forums here are active enough to generate much feedback. I know over on RS there are a number of fans of those classic OT era movies, but I'm not sure they all use YF. It's something I'd enjoy seeing, as Gaming Greats and Visions aren't figures I'd be all that interested in buying in TVC.

 

[darthapathy]

I'd like to see a discussion and list surrounding the Ewok TV movies, I'm just not sure the forums here are active enough to generate much feedback. I know over on RS there are a number of fans of those classic OT era movies, but I'm not sure they all use YF. It's something I'd enjoy seeing, as Gaming Greats and Visions aren't figures I'd be all that interested in buying in TVC.

Were you thinking about a list for each movie or one to cover both? Myself personally wouldn't mind figures of some of the characters from the Ewok movies but would rather have them in another format than carded. I would like to see something like multi-packs for them. Some sort of commemorative sets acknowledging some sort of chronological event. :wink:
I'm okay with paying current price for a Noa or Marauder or Jeremitt Towani but not for Cindel. If she was pack in with another figure or had a ton of accessories then maybe.

 

[darthapathy]

I put up Visions anthology for the next Top Ten running through December. It looks like Book of Boba Fett runs through February 9th, so would it be best to run that in February or March? I feel if I start it in February there might be little activity for the first week and a half as there are 2 episodes and people are likely to be tweaking their lists, but it'd still be fresh in everyone's minds. Does anyone have thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions for January?

I know we did a general EU Top Ten but what about a Top Ten from a specific EU source such as Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron, Thrawn trilogy, Holiday Special, etc?

 

[darth_sidious]

I'd like to see a discussion and list surrounding the Ewok TV movies, I'm just not sure the forums here are active enough to generate much feedback. I know over on RS there are a number of fans of those classic OT era movies, but I'm not sure they all use YF. It's something I'd enjoy seeing, as Gaming Greats and Visions aren't figures I'd be all that interested in buying in TVC.

Were you thinking about a list for each movie or one to cover both? Myself personally wouldn't mind figures of some of the characters from the Ewok movies but would rather have them in another format than carded. I would like to see something like multi-packs for them. Some sort of commemorative sets acknowledging some sort of chronological event. :wink:
I'm okay with paying current price for a Noa or Marauder or Jeremitt Towani but not for Cindel. If she was pack in with another figure or had a ton of accessories then maybe.

I'll take them in any form - carded TVC, multipack, white boxed, 5 POA basic, 5 POA Retro, bootleg - any of the above, lol. I've just always loved those movies, perfect for a kid growing up with ROTJ as their first SW movie. I made my own customs for several of them many years ago, but I'd like official releases. I think both movies could be combined into one top ten, seeing how little coverage they've been given. I'm realistic though, so I don't expect much of anything, but maybe if there were enough fanfare, they'd consider it. Even if they just repacked Teek and did a 5 POA Cindel for a 2-pack, that would be amazing!

 

[YAK_Chewie]

Looking forward to a new round 😀

😉

 

[darthvlad]

Looking forward to a new round 😀

😉

Yes, I'm thinking of restructuring the Top Tens a bit... more like eras instead of individual movies and shows.

 

[darthvlad]

Okay! The first Top Ten of the year is up! With so much media out, I am going to combine these into eras.

Jan: The Prequel Trilogy
Feb: Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, Rogue One
Mar: The Original Trilogy
Apr: The Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka
May: The Sequel Trilogy
Jun: Animation (Droids, Ewoks, Clone Wars, Rebels, Bad Batch, Tales of the Jedi, Visions, etc)
Jul: Expanded Universe (Everything else - books, comics, video games, Kenner, etc)
Aug: Troop 4-Pack
Sept: Beasts/Big Aliens
Oct: Vehicles
Nov: Playsets
Dec: Yak's Elite 25

 

[darthvlad]

Justin, I'll need your help getting this posted on the other Yakface pages (facebook/IG). Thanks!