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Kenner Retro Collection / Re: 2019 Kenner Retro Collection
« on: July 30, 2019, 02:09 AM »
I like that the e-tailers are all listing these as wave 1. :)

So has anything been said that there might be a 2nd wave? I wouldn't mind seeing them reproduce the original 12 and then maybe a nice representative collection of figures from ESB for the 40th Anniversary. If they could actually get waves to hit at the same time, I think it would be cool if they did something like this:

ESB Retro Collection Wave 1:
  • Bossk (Bounty Hunter)
  • IG-88 (Bounty Hunter)
  • Leia Organa (Bespin Gown)
  • Luke Skywalker (Bespin Fatigues)
  • Rebel Soldier (Hoth Battle Gear)
  • Yoda

Modern TVC ESB 40th Anniversary Wave 1:
  • FX-7 (could just be a repack of the POTJ figure)
  • Han Solo (Hoth Outfit w/Hood Up repack)
  • Imperial Stormtrooper (Hoth Battle Gear repack the Black Series figure)
  • Lando Calrissian (new figure)
  • Bespin Security Guard (use Legacy Collection body w/new head for updated version of the "moustached" Bespin Guard)
  • AT-AT Driver (Legacy Collection Re-pack)

and then have wave 2s:

ESB Retro Collection Wave 1:
  • Dengar
  • Han Solo (Bespin Outfit)
  • Imperial Commander
  • Cloud Card Pilot (Twin Pod)
  • Luke Skywalker (Hoth Battle Gear)
  • TIE Pilot

Modern TVC ESB 40th Anniversary Wave 2:
  • Lobot (new figure)
  • Too-Onebee (2-1B) (new figure)
  • Zuckuss (repack of Legacy collection figure)
  • Bespin Security Guard (use Legacy Collection body w/new head for a more accurate representation of Sgt. Edian played by Quentin Pierre)
  • Ugnaught (repack one of the Legacy collection figures, or a kit-bashed combo of the two Legacy collection figures that looks similar to the Vintage figure)
  • Rebel Commander (repack of the BD42 Legacy Collection figure)

That would be 12 retro style ESB figures and 12 modern 3.75" SA style ESB figures covering 24 out of the 29 total figures Kenner released for ESB - the only figures missing would be: C-3PO w/Removable Limbs, R2 w/Sensorscope, 4-LOM, AT-AT Commander & Leia (Hoth Outfit) - and with the exception of C-3PO, we've already gotten all of them in the modern vintage collection.



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Given the rules of color matching, my buddy did the math and says the number is 5040 different combinations.

That's what I came up with as well - there are seven slots for color: head, right arm, left arm, torso, left leg, right leg, lightsaber blade. So I'm pretty sure, that means the permutations are 7! = 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 5040

But I could be mistaken though, since I think that would only apply if there were seven different colors for the parts, but there are only six - so it might actually be (6 x 6!) instead which would be 4320 permutations.


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Got my Ship-to-Store Prototype Vader order today. Mildly disappointed that the two figures ended up being identical. Oh well. I'll see if any Targets around me actually get the figure in stock and then if I can find one that's different I'll pick it up - wasn't going to go crazy with the color variants, just wanted to get two different ones to have examples of the fact that they were "random".

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The Vintage Collection / Re: The Future of Star Wars Collecting?
« on: July 23, 2019, 01:27 AM »
If Hasbro had a wave (or two or three) of SA 3.75" figures "on deck" based on previously released media, I think that would have gone a long way to quell the unease with their presentation. For example, imagine if they basically said "Well, we have a pair of TVC waves for Triple Force Friday and a month later ready and those are going to support the launch of The Mandalorian and Episode 9, and unfortunately, we can't show them, BUT! Starting in 2020 will be these next three TVC Waves..." and it was waves that consisted of:

Wave 1
Han Solo (either a repack of the WM Black Series 3.75" figure or a SA version of his smuggler gear outfit from TFA)
Baze Malbus
General Hux
Dryden Vos

Wave 2
Finn (repack of the Black Series WM 3.75" figure)
Chirrut Imwe
Admiral Holdo
Tobias Beckett

Wave 3
Lor San Tekka or Maz Kanata
K2SO
Poe Dameron (repack of the Black Series WM 3.75" figure, or SA version of his TLJ outfit)
Q'ira (from later in Solo, not from the beginning)


For me at least, getting SA, TVC releases of the above characters would all be great and welcome additions to adding to those three movies' representation in the Vintage Collection.

They could have even tabled the discussion around the line as saying "we want to fill in the line with as many characters from the ST and Star Wars Story movies as well as continue to knock out updates from the original 92 as we enter this extended period between major movie releases and how long we are able to keep the line going depends on the support of the fans of the scale and packaging format..." (typical marketing speak)

And then if you let EE start taking pre-orders for cases of those waves? You can really see how well people are paying attention both at the show and how the message is getting out online; and what kind of interest there is in the format.

At least that would have shown some commitment in keeping the line going. And if you have EE set to take enough preorders to meet the minimum order quantity needed to justify production, you could stay engaged with the community to let them know whether or not a certain assortment is in jeopardy of not being made.

Showing nothing just feeds the doom and gloom trolls unfortunately...

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Yes, thank you! I just ordered one for myself as well.

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LEGO / Re: LEGO Sales and Deals
« on: July 16, 2019, 07:51 PM »
I saw Darth Vader's castle and Kylo Ren's TIE Silencer in case anyone's interested. Nothing else Lego Star Wars-wise unfortunately.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 16, 2019, 01:13 AM »
I think Unicron is a great choice for a HasLab project. Interesting that Hasbro is going to have multiple projects running at once, but their choices of project certainly do not have much overlap in terms of collector community so they should be good. Now if they were to introduce a Marvel or GI Joe project now, I think there would be quite a bit of fighting between collecting communities if neither project got backed because it might be viewed as overlap between the collecting communities affecting the ability for backers to take on both projects.

Unicron was one of those two projects I had heard was coming...  the other is Star Wars based. ;)

I REALLY hope you're not implying that a 3rd project announcement is on it's way and it's going to be a Star Wars project.  :(

I could honestly use a little break.

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$231,249. Over 4x the initial ask! Congratulations to Blue Milk for coming up with a product that's enthused so many in the community. One stretch goal after another met. Looking forward to the chapter on concepts, the poster, the coins... man, all of it. Can't wait for the book to arrive. Btw, any secret prize for hitting $225k?  :P   

They did announce (to backers) that Left Coast Graphics will be producing a bookmark in the same vein as their Classic Kenner Vintage Stickers, but "with a TVC twist" - no pictures yet, and not really tied to the $225k goal either, but still a neat addition IMHO.

Something that made me chuckle this morning, on the activity tab of my kickstarter profile, for this project, it shows the percentage funded as 462%  ;D

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LEGO / Re: LEGO Sales and Deals
« on: July 14, 2019, 10:25 PM »

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I decided to go ahead and do it, what the heck...

I've been thinking about downsizing my collection considerably, but the one thing I would keep would be all of the Vintage Collection stuff, starting with the VOTC stuff and forward. Maybe hold on to the 3.75" Black Series carded/boxed items too, but other than that, keep only the opened stuff and then moving forward, only collect openers of any line other than the Vintage Collection which I'll still get MOC/MIP/MIB items to keep. So this book would be a nice companion piece to all of that...

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I know I've only got a couple hours left at this point, but I'm still trying to decide if I want to get this...

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Sony would be stupid to take Spider-Man out of the MCU.

Yes, Sony would be stupid to take Spider-Man out of the MCU and that's why they're not going to do it.

All of the talk this week about what can happen with the sharing arrangement, blah blah blah. At the end of the day, Spider-Man: Far From Home is approaching $850M worldwide and internationally, without taking into account inflation, it's the highest grossing Spider-man movie to date.

Sony knows that the reason it's doing this well is because it's connected to the MCU. People are coming to the theater to see it to see how it connects and continues to the MCU story.

Personally, I think Venom did well because people were hoping for a Deadpool-like take on the Venom character (which they only sorta got) and they thought it was tied to the MCU (and may have been surprised to learn it wasn't). I think Matt is right, there will be a lot of folks who basically stay away from the sequel to Venom because they will know that Spider-man won't be in it and it's not tied to the MCU narrative.

Quite frankly, the team at Sony should be going to Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige and saying that they want to put up the $$$ to have at least one movie a year, hand over creative control and let Marvel Studios go wild. There is still a way, before any other Venom-verse (or Sony-verse or whatever they're calling it) movies come out that they can "fix" things. You could always just say that the events of Venom took place mid-way through the blip, people in San Francisco were trying to move on and Carlton Drake, an Elon Musk-like billionaire was running his own space exploration program out of the Life Foundation. He didn't come up on the Avengers radar and Tony Stark who would normally snoop around in the business of other tech geniuses was busy on his farm with Pepper and Morgan.

I think most fans would welcome this, it would strengthen the franchises on both sides because it would allow Marvel Studios/Feige to FREELY incorporate Spidey villains into the MCU.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Stranger Things - Netflix
« on: July 14, 2019, 05:22 AM »
I thought Hopper was great this season. In fact, I thought Season 3 was far better than Season 2, and the only redeeming aspect of Season 2 is that we needed the story elements of Season 2 to "happen" in order to get us to the story that was presented in season 3. As far as overall story, pacing, character arcs, what each of the characters got to do, etc... this season was fantastic. The extra year break between seasons 2 and 3 really showed in the quality of the product.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 13, 2019, 09:18 PM »
Well, that site did not let me down, the best comment I read went (and I'm paraphrasing) - "as a supporter of the first HasLab Project - the Sail Barge, my wanting the next project to be Star Wars and being upset that it's not Star Wars isn't entitlement, it's that I want more Star Wars" - when you read stuff like that you wish you could tap the person on the shoulder and hand them a dictionary already open to the word "entitlement" and ask them to read the definition.

The other comments that had me laughing were the ones that equated the 2nd HasLab project NOT being Star Wars as a sign that Hasbro clearly has NO interest in Star Wars anymore and probably isn't going to be renewing their license. Oh, that's what it means? Wow, well thank you very much Carnac the Magnificent!

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 13, 2019, 07:28 PM »
I've been super busy at work, so I'm only just now finding out about this! All I can do is laugh, I literally CAN NOT WAIT to jump over to a certain other site and laugh from all of the entitlement comments that I'm sure to find stating how dare Hasbro not have this item be another Star Wars item.

Like many of you, I was not expecting it to be another Star Wars item, never expected it to be a Sesame Street item, but hey, if they can get the backers, kudos to Hasbro. The item itself does look impressive.

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