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The Vintage Collection / Re: Imperial March
« on: March 14, 2024, 01:33 PM »
I've seen some talk that the Stormtroper is the former Walmart exclusive (TVC 231).  Not sure if the Vader is newish.

The Stormtrooper is indeed still numbered 231, but the card art was slightly updated on the front to move the warnings away from the Hildebrandt art. No word on what the back of the card looks like, I'd imagine it's the new "no cross sell" style.

Vader is another retool of the Dark Times sculpt, now with the torso piece redone so that the tabbards go over the shoulder armor as they did in ANH and Rogue One. About as significant a costume variation as Vader gets.

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The canopy slides forward to open as opposed to lifting up like the X-Wing, so it's not that impractical...just have to mind your noggin.

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It's interesting that Chris made a point of highlighting the cargo space in the aft section of the E-Wing's fuselage.  And he seems to be aware that we need some storage for accessories.  It's nice to see it here, but I think that concept would be better explored with crates and containers in the deluxe figure / worldbuilding part of The Vintage Collection.

I took him explaining the storage space more as a function of him having explain the big hole he had to expose as a step in plugging the astromech into the socket. He also explained the front landing gear didn’t work as intended on the model while showing us how the rear gear retract. For once using the designers as video presenters made sense and allowed for some insight.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 4” Epic Hero Series Figure Line
« on: February 5, 2024, 10:16 PM »
Jayson said that, and Adam Pawlus kind of seconded it in his QnA column this week, saying the figures were all open to order for all, which makes sense seeing as his workplace Entertainment Earth also sells them.

Mr. Pawlus also said there is already a Wave 2 that hasn't been officially revealed, and went on to say "it might be a while before Hasbro feels like actually playing up what could be a pretty interesting development," though it is not clear exactly what he is referring to at this time.

Either way, he concedes it is possible that WalMart might be the defacto exclusive retailer if Target passed up on ordering any, but time will tell on that. For the record, the new carded Marvel Epic line is at Target already, but not the carded Star Wars Epic line yet.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 4” Epic Hero Series Figure Line
« on: February 1, 2024, 02:38 PM »
Which makes the 4 pegs/1 figure each layout even more perplexing for an 8 figure lineup. How do Luke, Grogu, Ahsoka, and the Stormtrooper get to retail?

I saw the same 4 peg layout at a second WalMart today and have seen pics verifying it elsewhere. This will be a weird one to watch play out.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 4” Epic Hero Series Figure Line
« on: January 31, 2024, 08:27 PM »
I saw figures from this line at WalMart today...if they had Luke I would have bought him.

They had 4 pegs, 2 for the Basic figures and 2 for the Deluxe. But the thing is, each peg was earmarked for a different individual figure.

That's not so bad for Sabine and Paz, they worked out just fine. The basic pegs were for Mando and Vader, and each figure was loaded enough that these must be shipping in solid freaking cases. Why have an assortment if you don't sell them by assortment?

This is where I think Hasbro is shooting their lines in the foot, with the widget mentality. This line will only survive as a kids line if the kids can find the figures. Mando and Sabine vs Vader and Paz is not going to be anybody's play pattern.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Re: Future HasLab Ideas
« on: December 30, 2023, 09:14 PM »
That someone was JD regular Nicklab.

For my money, it's the Havoc Marauder. I suspect Hasbro has left the Bad Batch team AWOL in TVC in hopes of fitting them into the budget via crowdfunding like they did with the Rebels crew. Hunter was an exception because his armor can be repurposed.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 Last Figure Standing Poll
« on: December 4, 2023, 01:33 PM »
Well, a Star Wars team "promised" to finish the 96, but the team has changed since then so does the promise hold? I don't think Jing was in charge of the line back then...

I participated in the poll, and maybe I am not indicative of the standard participant, but 9 of the 10 I picked to start didn't make it to the first round, and the 1 I did pick has dropped out by round 2. They were all 10 never before made characters. So why do I care about these remains? When I vote for some of these remainders, there's very low priority to me and the results of the poll are artificially skewed.

I feel like I retired from collecting 15 years ago, and the things I pick up these days are mostly gravy outside of the very few OT figures I felt were missed in the first 30 years of collecting (I think the last one that checked a box for me was the Lars Gonk.)

This poll has evolved into something I have no investment in, and that's okay. If it comes down to Baylon vs Shin, I couldn't care less.

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TV-9D9 / Re: Ahsoka (SPOILERS possible)
« on: November 21, 2023, 07:01 PM »
I like this idea. He could be a better story guy and producer guy than he is a screenwriter guy or director guy. Promote him far away from the front line.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Disney 2023 TVC Life Day Chewbacca
« on: November 17, 2023, 12:08 PM »
These are now in stock on ShopDisney. I missed out on the Pulse orders, so I was glad to nab one this morning.

Happy Life Day, all!

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I was charged for this pack yesterday, with the shipping soon note.

EDIT: And has now shipped out.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 Last Figure Standing Poll
« on: November 11, 2023, 10:30 AM »
Agreed that this is a concerted effort by the March Madness team to provide a different style of poll. Doubly agreed that the results, while engineered to give a "consensus" result, will in fact not be a figure on the top ten most wanted by most collectors.

I submitted 10 off the top of my head yesterday, it wound up being 6 Andor figures, 3 OT aliens (Shasa Tiel, Wiorkettle and Treva Horme)  and Therm Scissorpunch. I doubt any of those will make the next round, much less survive further.

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Kenner Retro Collection / Re: 2024 Kenner Retro Collection - Ahsoka
« on: November 6, 2023, 11:49 AM »
Seeing the slow drip of this wave at some of the local Target stores - Most of what I've seen is just 1-2 figures randomly per store.  Chopper/Hera at one Target, Hera/Sabine at another.


Also, these are starting to pop up on Amazon...  Marrok is the only one in-stock (thanks to Nick C. for the heads up)

Marrok -> https://amzn.to/463NLYn #sponsoredlink

Ahsoka -> https://amzn.to/3snTBWB #sponsoredlink
Morgan  -> https://amzn.to/3FKsJ6e #sponsoredlink
HK Droid -> https://amzn.to/3SoGNtL #sponsoredlink
Sabine -> https://amzn.to/3SvjO0e #sponsoredlink
Hera -> https://amzn.to/3slbNQD #sponsoredlink
Chopper -> https://amzn.to/3u5mDeg #sponsoredlink

I suspected these were broken up cases showing up at Target as well. I found Morgan and Ahsoka on Friday which could gave been left as the turds of the case, but as soon as I saw someone post Hera and Chopper, it seemed there was no way those two were remnants left behind out of a case.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Wave 3 (New TVC Wave 35)
« on: November 3, 2023, 11:49 AM »
Ok fine I give up. 

I’ll get the Stan solo ones in a few months and that’ll be that.

Can you elaborate on that? Are they 3d prints?

Stan Solo makes vintage Kenner style figures, both characters we didn't get back in the 80s and bootlegs.

His figures are factory made in relatively small runs.

For the Tonnika Sisters he is using another creator's designs that are available to 3D print (I forget who, but think maybe it is the Trash Compactor design?) and putting them through his factory process.

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The Bullpen / Re: Marvel Legends Haslab - Giant Man
« on: October 23, 2023, 05:41 PM »
I still think this thing will fund at the last moment. A lot of the dialogue about it has moved to it being such a low production run if it gets across the finish line. Speculators could easily push it over with future flipping in mind.

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