I will too... it doesn't matter if you do it on day 1 or 58 if you know you want one.

I will add this caveat about the benefits of backing early...

The Razorcrest was only supposed to have 2  tier unlocks, but it getting backed so insanely fast prompted Hasbro to add the Carbonite blocks and the Jawa Chief to the list. Those only got in there because people backed early.

He seriously looks like they made him using the Selfie Series.

8-D8 and Salacious Crumb are confirmed to be carded on ROTJ cards in the set.

Images for a wave 2 of ROTJ figures coming in a box set have surfaced.

The 6 figures are Admiral Ackbar, Gamorrean Guard, Emperor's Royal Guard, Wicket, Yak Face (!) and Mon Mothma (!!)

It's all Steve Evans. He is championing this line with the tag line "y'know, for KIDS." While we did get the SpiderVerse and GOTG3 movie figures in there, there is a subline of Avengers figures with transforming mechs and an upcoming water-squirting Spider Man subline. Right now there's a range of X-Men 97 figures hitting in the line, too, because Disney+ was supposed to start the new cartoon continuation nowish before it got delayed.

This took the place of the Retro Legends Figures that got put "on hiatus" after the last wave this spring, more or less, spinning the focus to what kids would want to play with, but Steve is a big fan of 3.75" scale and his work with Star Wars and Marvel has borne this out to our benefit time and again. We will see how this one goes.

I am the same way about 3D prints. Last winter Funky McClunkey offered up some Chewie's family prototypes all printed and painted and I jumped at them, but otherwise I don't want to do the paintwork. It's been 20 years since I painted a figure! Edited to add a pic:




Stan Solo updated on FB that the deal with DallasVintageToys for R4 fell through so he is just going to fund it himself. And he seems to be getting uneasy about how many preorders he currently has going...he doesn't want anyone to feel like he is getting ready to cut and run...wonder why people would be antsy about that?

 He also said Greedo will likely beat Dagobah Luke out of the factory as the next release.

And that anecdote goes exactly to the point that Krahn was scamming the whole time, he was never trying to be careful and thoughtful with his customers. Of course we know Chris Smith was planning the SLC Bantha before he sold the company, and of course we know Chris Krahn was going off of Smith's plans when he started taking money for the project. He could have taken responsibility and been transparent in answering your follow up question by admitting he was having difficulty with the factory or whatever was the issue. But instead he chose to use the switch of company owners to imply you contacted different people, which was most likely not the case, just better than admitting the project was already troubled and giving you reason to ask for your money back.

 It was always about keeping the money to him. When the thing wasn't happening in the first six months like he originally thought it would, he had an opportunity to call it off, give everyone their money back or some kind of credit, and be real. He chose to obfuscate and tighten his grip on the money.

In my business dealings with him, after he asked me to create a set to be sold only on TFSB, he "forgot" to cover extra costs on shipping and packaging when paying me for orders received. I called him out on it and he acted insulted that I made him give me the agreed upon amounts. It soured the relationship and I ended it as quickly as I could thereafter. He was always about more money for him.

Wasn't it Iger and Kennedy who said they learned their lesson about releasing these things too close together after the poor performance of "Solo?" That means take a nearly 7 year break, then release 3 movies in 18 months? Sounds like no lesson learned, and subpar planning as usual.

And how about we get a good script written BEFORE we schedule the movie's premiere? This is all just the same old bad practices still in play, and I have zero interest in assembly-line moviemaking from these characters anymore. Give me something that someone is passionate about as a work of art and/or storytelling, and then we can talk.