I hate Disney, so much. They're like a tyrannical empire that have conquered the Lucasfilm and Marvel kingdoms.

I feel the same way. Buying out both Marvel and Lucasfilm, retconing the expanded universes of both and now preventing people from getting Figuarts?

Fuck Disney. The worst part about all of this is that some people think they can do no wrong but Disney's just as bad if not worst than the others.

This news breaks my heart.

Which "news"? Everything beyond the stop put on the sale of model kits is pure speculation. Figuarts are still available, and no retailer contacted me that they can't sell them in the west anymore.

We're getting slightly off track now, but Lucas never considered the EU to be canon, he says as much in many interviews. He liked parts of it and adapted certain things into the movies, but there were massive parts of it that were made redundant with the prequel movies and Clone Wars series.

The EU still exists in the same space it always did, there just isn't a preconceived notion that "EVERYTHING IS CANON" anymore, which is good. The future movie universe would have sucked really hard if they attempted to work in crap like the Solo kids, Chewbacca's death or Luuke, not to mention any of the really stupid stuff.

I'd still like to see some actual evidence of Disney's involvement in this matter. Hasbro stopping other companies releasing competing toys makes sense, especially with how high profile the recent Figuarts announcements were, but Disney cracking down on imports doesn't make much sense. They're still being made for Japan and only being sold there, if some people are importing them from Japanese retailers, it's still money lining their pockets.

To get this topic sorted out already I've written to the retailer who started this by putting this banner up saying that they can't sell the model kits anymore, HLJ.

I still can't possibly believe that this will concern SHF's in any way, but since this topic won't stop I asked. Should have an answer tomorrow.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the only reason we're getting Figuarts in the first place because Disney bought out those companies? I have some vague recollection of reading or hearing that it's because of Disney that there's been a lot more merchandise of these properties available. Not to even mention that without Disney's involvement in the MCU or the new Star Wars films figures of those things would probably never exist in any case...

Yup. the Iron Man mark 6 Figuarts was released years after Disney bought Marvel. Without Disney we wouldnt have them.

Hopefully Disney doesn't get too restrictive of what Bandai can and cannot sell internationally though if it's written in a contract that Bandai signed then its kind of hard to avoid. I'm just glad I'm not a huge Star Wars fan and have no interest in the figures so I don't have to deal with any potential headaches. Disney does also own Marvel though so if anything happens there I will definitely be on the look out.

Thor looks kind of derpy. lol. Still looking forward to him though the Figma Thor was pretty stellar I think.


In other news, I got more photos of SSJ2 Gohan to share:

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