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Target had to find ways to get stuff into the online buyers hands faster in order to stop losing business to Amazon Prime 2-day shipping.  The Store-as-hub model apparently saves them tons in that regard.  Filling the orders closer to where the customer lives is apparently driving a lot of those savings.  I am sure there is probably savings in the fact that the retail store workers ($13-15/hr average) are usually getting less than the warehouse workers ($18-20/hr average).

In the case of little plastic Star Wars figures, it may not be saving them very much at all. I'm sure there probably is a better, cheaper way to service the niche "old men buying little plastic men" community, but not cheaper enough to any degree that it makes sense upsetting their giant store-as-hub strategy and $110b in sales operation.

Thanks, that really does add a lot of context outside of the action figure niche, which of course is their focus as a company, and may at long last help to satisfy my curiosity about Hasbro's switch to solid case packs (vs assortments)  in the TVC World-Building boxed figures, the Retro ROTJ wave, and the TVC exclusive figures.

I appreciate the education!

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  And it's not a theory - I got this direct from a Hasbro retail store rep (when they still had those) during a conversation with him during the spring.

I didn't mean to suggest it was an unsourced idea, just questioning the logic behind the practice of opening cases at the DC to send to stores while opening cases as the stores to send to online customers. I don't see where the savings is there.

The "only Lando shows up on pegs" point further proves my point. Especially when we all know Hasbro offers full cases of specific figures in an attempt to facilitate fulfilling online orders so that the assortment cases can be used for in store stocking.

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Nicklab, the theory makes sense, but how does it jibe with the stories of Target stores not even receiving full cases of some of the products at times? I understand stuff like the nonassortment packed Boba Fetts and Indiana Jones figures arriving in stores and being shipped out to fulfill online orders, but when the regular TVC and Retro figures show up in batches of 3s from the repack box it doesn't add up.

Especially considering their has to be a warehouse/DC somewhere putting together those repack boxes to ship out to the Target stores.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Disney+ Streaming Service
« on: August 17, 2023, 02:22 PM »
From what I understand it is a bit of a slippery slope that are on. On the one hand they are writing off the project as unreleasable to get the write off. On the other they filmed in the UK to take advantage of UK tax credits to reduce the budget...but those tax credits get cancelled if the product is deemed unreleasable, leaving them with a new tax bill to pay. Hope the one covers the other.

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They allow the figure to sit on a speeder bike LIKE A BANTHA.

Fixed that for you!!!


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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: August 6, 2023, 03:12 PM »
I'm not sure if Hasbro is being devious or is just incompetent.

It's been my experience that they are far too incompetent to be intentionally devious.

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Well of the Souls / Re: Hasbro 2023 Indiana Jones Retro Collection
« on: August 1, 2023, 09:32 PM »
They came and went at the same time as Short Round. He was plentiful in my area for a few weeks, then clearanced and gone. Still waiting for Henry and Sallah to show up in stores in these parts.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 27, 2023, 02:32 PM »
Why would you need Vader's meditation chamber?  That was on his Star Destroyer.

In the scenes cut from the beginning of Return of the Jedi, the first place Vader goes upon his arrival at Death Star II is his meditation chamber.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Disney 2023 TVC Life Day Chewbacca
« on: July 27, 2023, 09:22 AM »
Too bad they didn't do a multi-pack of Chewie and his family

How did Disney miss the opportunity to do a remake with Alden Ehrenreich going to Kashyyyk to meet Chewie's family (Baby Lumpy = $$$ right?) and celebrate his first Life Day? This stuff writes itself!

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 27, 2023, 09:15 AM »

Do you have a link to share?  Interested to see which rumored version this is...

He posted it here:

https://forum.rebelscum.com/threads/the-ghost-8-561-backers.1151891/page-9

It's about the middle of the page.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Disney 2023 TVC Life Day Chewbacca
« on: July 26, 2023, 01:50 PM »
I'm pretty sure Life Day is November 17th.  Now I'm scratching my head and wondering if that was the original airdate for the Holiday Special?  But that's the date where it was Celebrated in the Disney Parks last year.  A November 1st date for orders could get the figures to people in time for the 17th.

Yes indeed. November 17th 1978.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 26, 2023, 01:13 PM »
Maybe even something like the unproduced POTF2 Death Star!  I know some pics of that have been circulating around social media in the past day or so.

I have been obsessing over a sketch Jayson did of a potential Death Star Haslab mockup he saw, which has led me to looking up all the Death Star prototypes over the years...so that was probably my doing!

But for the record, I would much rather have the POTF Imperial Outpost as a future project if we are picking between cancelled playsets.

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They were on display in the booth, I believe the cards said Spring 2024 availability.

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Technically, no, the only badge Piett wore in ROTJ was the one that he has in the carded release. (Every officer has the same rank badge in that film, even Moff Jerrjerrod.)

You can display either version on an ESB shelf, because he was both a Captain and an Admiral in that movie and wore both versions of the rank badges.

The 4-pack version was only ever seen in ESB, in the finals scenes of the movie when he has been promoted to "Admiral."


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Long story short, the rank badge system that was set up in ESB was not followed in ROTJ.

In ESB we see Captain Piett at the beginning of the movie, then at the end his rank badge has changed to an Admiral's badge. This final scene Piett is the figure in the 4-pack.

The Admiral Piett seen in ROTJ has the generic badge every officer in ROTJ had, which matches the Captain rank in ESB. So the ROTJ carded figure already out works for Captain Piett in the early part of ESB too.


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