Question #3: from August 19, 2013:

36 years and a bazillion figures later, we still don't have this guy. The original Jabba the Hutt from the first run Marvel Comics. What can be done to make it happen?

--Blisstasticman

My answer from 2013 With commentary from 2025:

Fake Jabba (or Mosep Bineed [white hair]/Taws Khaa [red hair]) is one of those many Cantina aliens that just haven't made it out yet. Part of the problem here is going to be making sure Hasbro understands what fans are trying to ask for, as now we've got two Nimbanel figures to ask for and as we've seen over the years, Hasbro sometimes gives us what we ask for (Imperial Dignitary figures) but not what we meant (Sim Aloo).

You want Mosep? Great! Start asking. Post to forums. Start a petition. Talk to other fans - make this a key talking point for everybody when you go to a convention. If you want an obscure alien made today, you are the source of action here. I'm not going to do it - neither is anybody else. Make it your goal to raise awareness for the character and get people interested. It's happened before, and it can happen again.

Given the direction of the line, which heavily favors "star" characters and remakes of things you already own, you're going to have to make a lot of noise. People are still making inroads for Yavin Ceremony Han Solo with the proper shirt, and obviously I'm continuing to make my wasted efforts asking for Vlix, but the power to get anything made is going to mean a lot of fan involvement. So get crackin'.

Well, we got Mosep in 2015 - one of very few new original trilogy characters to see plastic over the past decade. We've had plenty of remakes and reissues, but few all-new characters.

But what really surprised me is that someone other than Hasbro made Jabba the Hut (the Marvel spelling). Marvel-Jabba from The Next 17 is $48 and not a licensed release. It's Kenner-style, and while I have yet to buy any from this maker others speak very highly of his work. It would have been super cool to have received one as part of the Return to Tatooine, but that whole sub-line is a little short on all-new debut products.

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We're told some new aliens are in the works for the Cantina but I don't have specifics. I could use some. I assume anyone who is new to the hobby, or wasn't collecting prior to 2015, probably wouldn't have many figures. That's something we don't think about very much - how accessible is this hobby for newbies?

Thanks to the internet, you can buy literally anything right now. It might not be affordable but if you want a Dice Ibegon? One can be had. Zutton? Affordable. Labria? Stop giggling, and you can get one for a fair price. Weirdly The Legacy Collection-era Cantina aliens are quite expensive, as that may be a time when a lot of old-school collectors jumped ship due to a disinterest in The Clone Wars. (Those kids liked it, grew up, and still like it.) But I digress.

If you were born around 2005, it's a pretty safe bet you haven't had a crack at most Cantina aliens at retail price. (You probably didn't buy the Cantina either!) There could be a big audience of fans dying to get these figures again - or new ones - but also consider The Black Series. Since its 2013 debut we got Momaw Nadon, Greedo, Dr. Evazan, and Ponda Baba... and that's pretty much it. Two of those guys were made up of molds from other characters.

Since 2013, The Vintage Collection and The Black Series have had - including reissues in the last year or two, to be fair - Bom Vimdin, Greedo (and Kenner Greedo), Brea Tonnika, Senni Tonnika, Wuher, Mosep Binneed, Dr. Evazan, Ponda Baba, Momaw Nadon (and Hammerhead), Zutton (a 2021 reissue of a 2012 figure repainted blue in 2025), and a seven-member Cantina Band in 2023. From Hasbro's perspective, I assume that's a lot of Cantina aliens and it's surely a good amount of weirdos for non-lifers. For fans collecting prior to 2013, there were three 100% new figures in there and a few new versions of things they had at home. Good upgrades, for sure, but this hobby is about more than upgrades. It's about the hope that Hasbro will waste time on something silly like an official Marvel Jabba the Hut, which I would run out and buy at pretty much whatever the asking price was.

--Adam Pawlus

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