First Look: Phantom Menace Vehicles / Multi-Packs

Check out Sandtroopers.com's shots of some awesome looking, soon-to-be-released Phantom Menace vehicles and multi-packs! Look for these on shelves in early 2012, just in time for the 3D release of The Phantom Menace!!!

Feast your eyes on:

Pod Racers
Astromech Droids
Sith Infiltrator
Emergence of the Sith
The Rise of Darth Vader
Rebel Heroes
Sith Speeder
Naboo Royal Fighter
BARC Speeder
STAP

Definitely picking up the Sith Infiltrator and Sith Speeder with Darth Maul.

While the packaging design is very spiffy and eye-catching, what the hell is going on with the archaic sculpts and hinge articulation for EVERYTHING, are we seriously not going to get any more good "ball-hinge" hip/leg jointed figures? (ala the badass "Endor Capture Luke" from the vintage line) Damn it hasbro.... :/

Oh God @ the Han Solo line looking worse day by day

I agree. I'm not really impressed with any of this personally. In fact it feels like I've pretty much got all this stuff already. And I'm still not 100% sure why we're back to Darth Maul for the artwork on a line that spans movies beyond Ep I. So far the only thing in recent news I'm really excited about are the Ep I vintage-style figures, mainly just for the cards so all my shelves will finally tie together.

Naboo Fighter....really Hasbro? the original is still shelf warming the Kmarts in my area. Jeebus, expect to take a sales hit the quarter these come out and be ready to fire whatever CEO thought these things were a good/profitable idea.