Paul hated the idea of Hasbro giving us random Mandalorians to use as background characters.
>Our review on the Republic Elite Forces (Mandalorians & Clone Troopers) Entertainment Earth exclusive multipack set may create some hate mail (or love mail depending if you dislike these sets too), but we won’t hide our true feelings about this set. Never has there been a worse exclusive in our opinion released to the collecting community than an assorted mix of Skittles-colored Boba Fett-esque action figures and mandalorian specific clone and ARC troopers. And to be honest, we’re not sure which is worse, the actual Mandalorians or the included Clone Troopers with the huge Jaing skull symbol on their chests. (It looks just as ridiculous in this write as it does on the clone troopers.) Interestingly, the included figures may have been a lot more welcomed by us had they been sporadically included in various exclusives (or even the basic figure line) here and there. But the overwhelming multipacks (there are two of these believe it or not people) really turned off hardcore collectors in ways that words just probably cannot explain. The set served more as an ego stroke to various Hasbro employees than anything else. Many of the crazy and almost unpronounceable names are anagrams of various Hasbro employees. And there really aren’t any palatable background stories that are even remotely interesting in the Expanded Universe. Can you tell we despise these exclusive multipacks? Well, we do.>With all of the wonderful background lore on the Mandalorians, it’s mindboggling that Hasbro would decide to create their own unique take on characters that didn’t exist until now. https://www.jeditemplearchives.com/content/modules.php?name=JReviews&rop=showcontent&id=786