Hasbro Fan Choice Vote. SWNN Finalists Revealed!
Well, the votes are in and we find ourselves in a similar place as we were last year. A concentrated effort from a specific subset of fans have skewed the results towards a single legends figure, while the rest of fandom split your votes in smaller amounts among 91 of your favorite Star Wars figures.
This year’s vote tally is a bit of a mess. There are accusations of ballot box stuffing by recruiting non-fans to vote in multiple places to boost the agenda of the legends fans. Our friends over at the Jedi Temple Archives in particular are very convinced that some less than fair is happening here.
To that end, you will see 7 rather than 6 top recipients in the list below. Since we are unable to independently prove that there is something nefarious going on, we will not omit Ben Skywalker from our submissions, but we will include our #7 figure and make Hasbro aware of the accusations and efforts around this contest and allow them to decide whether Ben Skywalker should be eligible for the final vote.
It should also be noted that we are also aware from the comments that there is some disappointment that we removed TFA Luke from our poll last year and he still has not arrived. We still think Luke is on his way, just well behind schedule, so we will not be adding him back to the vote for this year as we believe it would be a waste of a spot.
So without further ado here are your top 7 picks in Hasbro’s Fan Choice vote.
Stay tuned for word on the finalists and when the final vote will begin. We’ll bring updates to you as we have them.
Ooh, Aphra or Ventress. I’m there for it.
Dr Aphra is a no-brainer. Ben Skywalker would confuse the heck out of a casual fan who is familiar with Ben Solo. Even for EU fanatics it is a terrible choice. Way to muddy the waters.
I personally think that is why Hasbro will most likely pass over the Ben Skywalker choice.
And he won’t make for a cool looking figure. Just a dude with a saber…
a ton of people who wouldn’t be confused…great choice, he was a GREAT character!
He might have been a great character, but he is rather obscure at this point.
in regards to making figures….none are irrelevant or obscure in SW!
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Oddball from Kelly’s heroes certainly had some PTSD issues.
Who cares if people were recruited to cast votes? A vote is a vote and if people have a problem with the results, don’t have a fan vote to begin with.
Doctor Aphra
Aphra!!!
why doe
why not?
That is a very unique set of characters compared to some other places. It will be interesting to see the final vote. I applaud your handling of the situation SWNN, very smart.
Shitty comment about skewed votes…specific subset of fans…wtf??? Once again, the EU was super popular, don’t kid yourselves! Once again, an EU character wins! How about that!
Ventress is a solid choice. Fives and Bendu would work great for me too. Ventress though really deserves a solid figure. She’d be an excellent choice for sure.
I understand why people like specific clone characters, but when it comes to these type of fan choice polls, why choose another clone. Why not go for something unique like the Bendu.
I agree with Ventress choice. I would love her Bounty hunter/DarkDisciple costume.
How does one go about recruiting non-fans to do something as nerdy as voting for an action figure?
SATELE SHAN all the way!
I would vote for Satele Shan too
While I was hoping for Satine to win the poll I’m really happy with the final list. Now I have to choose between Pong Krell and Bendu. Such a hard choice. I like Pong Krell better in the show, but Bendu will also look so cool on display. I also like to say that it might be a smart choice for Hasbro to divide the fan poll next year into 2 sections, 1 for EU characters and 1 for canon characters (and things like old republic which are still kind of canon, or at least it’s an ongoing series)
Ventress and Aphra would be amazing figures!
Go, Satele!
Doctor Aphra has my vote
LOBOT………………………………….. or the Benduu
I vote Doctor Aphra.
Aphra, Ventress, and Bendu would be great.
…In 6′ scale. (My daughtre was just waxing poetic on the possibility of getting a giant Bendu toy for “our tall Star wars guys” on way home from Pre-K yesterday.
I really don’t care too much about the 3.75s anymore, but she loves them.
Satele Shan all the way!
Definitely with Pong Krell or Asaj I’ll be very pleased.
As cool as Krell would be, I really want Fives.
I really really really want a Doctor Aphra figure!
Shit I wanted General Grievous 🙁
but I would either want Fives or Satele Shan
But I would say Fives
For the hundredth time and third year in a row: voting blocks are not cheating. Campaigning is not cheating.
who said they were cheating?
Jedi Temple Archives and the mention of ”
This year’s vote tally is a bit of a mess. There are accusations of ballot box stuffing by recruiting non-fans to vote in multiple places to boost the agenda of the legends fans. Our friends over at the Jedi Temple Archives in particular are very convinced that some less than fair is happening here.”
If that’s what has gone on it is kinda cheating- recruiting non fans to vote on something which only a fan would buy is making these ‘campaigning’ fans voice count for more than the others. That said, it’s just an action figure so it’s not the end of the world.
I’m hoping for Ben and/or Satele Shan (she’d go great with my Revan figure.)
She’d go with it real well if Hasbro just do a repaint on the Bastila Shan figure.
Satele Shan
She’s awesome and one of my favorite characters from TOR.
GIMME APHRA!
Kinda disappointed with these finalists, but Doctor Aphra would be cool.
Me too. Not actually aware of who Dr Afro is. I wouldn’t rush out to buy any of these figures. There are characters from ANH who either haven’t be released as a figure or only released as rarities. Still, it’s the community choice so gotta suck it up.
Let’s go dr.aphra ,let’s go whoo hooooo!!!!
These all suck, except for Ventress.
BENDU!
Something smells a little fishy. Of all the Legends characters to choose from, why the heck would Legends fans rally behind Ben Skywalker. There are way cooler Legends characters to choose from. Any one of the Sith Lords from the Old Republic games, Kyle Katarn, Mara Jade, Corran Horn, the list goes on.
In all honesty though, I stopped caring when they announced the figure wouldn’t be a six inch figure. I still have a cherished collection of the smaller figures, but once I went six inch, I just couldn’t go back.
Ben Skywalker.
Ben Skywalker (Legends)
I feel like you ruined EU fan’s chances of getting Ben now.
There was no cheating/hacking/ballot stuffing done.
The collectors that didn’t want Ben OR like that he was being chose so much made the whole thing up.
I’ve yet to see a voter for Ben say ANYTHING about “Black Sun”.
The only ones I’ve seen mention “Black Sun” are the ones hating on the votes for Ben.
I also keep getting banned for challenging this lie. I’ve been banned from ISY and JTA because I pointed out that there’s a facebook page with 11,000 EU fan collectors that vote in the polls.
we ALL intend on buying Ben or other EU and PT/OT characters.
Please, you need to see through that ruse.
I’ve emailed Hasbro this info already and provided screen caps of the stuff the Ben haters were saying/claiming and the lack of Ben voters mentioning “Black Sun” or telling non collectors to vote.
I hope you hear me out on this. I’ve had two sites turn me away for telling the truth and proving that the “cheat/hack/ballot stuffing” is a lie.