Star Wars Saga Collection 2006: Preview Exclusive Hunt for the Millenium Falcon Bounty Hunter Boxset

It's been a while since I been on here, but came across an awesome find, so had to put it up, since its hard to come by nowadays. Picked it up today at Edmonton's bi-annual pop culture fair. Pretty cheap, the guy was super nice and let this box set go for $20! He had 2, and right after I picked it up, the next time I came around to his table he had changed the price to $50. Lucky Me.

This box is a pretty extraordinary box set. The box I have is pretty much mint. The previous owner took the liberty of wrapping it entirely with clear plastic bag somehow. The box has a a big window on the front, but what i really like are the windows on the sides and above so you can feel like Hasbro put a bit more effort in this set than what they have done in the past.

The set contains Vader and all the bounty hunters Vader had hired to look for the Millenium Falcon in the Empire Strikes Back. Most people won't recognize the guys in the set besides Boba, IG-88 and Bossk. The other guys are relatively unknown, but the main thing is i don't think too many of them came out as individual figures, so I'm glad i came across this one.

The figures look really well made, and the details look as if they excel those of the basic figures. They look very sturdy and dense. Especially Vader. This version appears to not have any fabric and brings it back to the plastic cape and skirt (which i kinda missed). The bounty hunters however don't look very poseable. Well neither does Vader. They don't appear to bend at the knees or elbows so i imagine Hasbro wanted to built them sturdy and better detailed to be kept in the box, opposed to taken out to display. Well looks like thats what I'm gonna be doing. Photo's below, take a look.

Star Wars Saga Collection 2006: Ultimate Galactic Hunt Scorch

So this was probably the hardest figure to find in all of 2006 out of the Star Wars basic figures. I don't know if you know what UGH (Ultimate Galactic Hunt), but during the years of 2006/2007/2008 for a dozen of the 60-100 released, they select a few to be "UGH" so maybe 1/50 - 1/200 of that one character to have an Ultimate Galactic Hunt Sticker and the special chrome base. One of the hardest figures to find is Scorch not being Galactic Hunt. The UGH one is ultra rare, so to have this in my collection makes me pretty happy. Paid retail 10 bucks for this guy, here are some pics:

Star Wars Saga Collection 2006: Target Exclusive Ultimate Galactic Hunt Demise Of Grievous - Signed by Matthew Wood!

So today was the Edmonton Collectible Toy and Comic Show. It was pretty nice, held at shaw conference which created a pretty nice atmosphere. 501st Legion was there which had lots of people in costumes to entertain the kids and over 200 vendors. I knew Matthew Wood was gonna be there, so I brought along my Grievous Mighty Muggs and my UGH Demise of Grievous. He voices General Grievous in Episode 3 and also voices him in the ongoing Star Wars Clone Wars series.

So the doors opened up at 10 a.m. and he was really close to the front doors so went straight to him first. To autograph an individual item it was $20 bucks, so I had to choose one or the other so thought it'd be more worth it to get the UGH Grievous signed over the Muggs. He was really friendly and didn't mind taking a picture with me at all, real cool and down to earth guy. He signed the figure and didn't mind getting a pic taken with it. He also didn't mind any questions or telling you what he does and where he works. If you ever get a chance to meet Matthew Wood, I hope you go for it because after meeting him your respect for him and his work just goes up by that much. Oh yeah, and he did a Grievous impression after every autograph he signed, so that added to it to. "Cruuuuuush Them. Make them suuuuuffer."

I picked up the figure last year from BigBadToyStore for about 10 bucks. Costed 20 for his autograph so this fig totals out to about 30 bucks. 

Well here are some pics of the fig and Wood himself holding it up.