Takara Star Wars Black Series

[Darth Cylon]

Does anyone know if there's any difference between Takara's and Hasbro's Star Wars Black Series?

[jjwankenobi]

Looks like Takara is just Hasbro's distributor in Japan for STAR WARS so I'd guess there is no difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takara...ip_with_Hasbro

[Darth Cylon]

Thanks. That's what I thought too...Black Series is just too unrefined compared to Bandai s.h.figuart for my taste.

[jjwankenobi]

Ya, only own the 6-inch Bespin Luke and Vader and gotta admit they're somewhat underwhelming.

But you can bet your Bantha poodoo I'll be picking up the recently-announced Landspeeder and Luke when it comes out.

http://screenrant.com/hasbro-black-s...peeder-figure/

[B13]

With the regular series, Takara's products are the same as Hasbro's with a stickers showing Japanese text slapped on the back! I purchased this figure from HLJ.

[jjwankenobi]

Originally Posted by B13

With the regular series, Takara's products are the same as Hasbro's with a stickers showing Japanese text slapped on the back!

LOL.

That's like the toy world equivalent of making Mickey Rooney look Japanese in "Breakfast At Tiffany's"



Or, just as bad, James Bond's 'disguise' in "You Only Live Twice"...