Ha... I didn't think I was typing anything that would require a comfy seat and a bowl of snacks...
I meant last SW figure. But I'd be surprised if it was. As with any major toy or collectible line the development time would indicate the SSC Luke Jedi has been planned for some time and none of us will really know how much each company knew about the others releases but with SSC being a distributor they obviously knew HT were going to have two separate figured to cover Luke's ROTJ appearances. Did that then influence SSCs decision to put two complete figures in one set at a reasonable price? if HT didn't know about SSCs release how has that affected their Luke Endor release? and in turn how will that affect their Leia Endor release?
I'm genuinely interested to see if this overlap of SSC and HT figures is just a massive coincidence and blip or if we do actually get this kind of thing happening more often. It's this that I was referring to as people were mentioning competition being healthy and whether prices might to up or down because of it. If they do just decide to have completely independent release schedules and sod any overlaps then there's more chance of the HT Snowie Commander seeing light of day.
I think when reading this thread there was a general consensus that HT first developed the figure but let SSC take over the release for some reason (and then develop their own figure entirely), maybe due to an overlap in release schedule. Maybe HT were happy to let it slide seeing as they'd done an FO Stormtrooper, Stormtrooper Officer, Stormtrooper Heavy Gunner, Stormtrooper Riot Control, Snowtrooper, Snowtrooper Officer, Flametrooper etc. Every Forbidden Planet or independent reseller I've visited still has FO troopers in detolf cases just sitting there... so maybe that's why the Snowie Commander and the Shoretrooper variants were shelved.
