Anyway you look at it, the OUS folks are not flooding Dark Side in the way some US folks were hoping... as sales have slowed to a crawl over the past week, my expectations have gone from 'really hoping this will still happen' to "damn, I really wanted this to work 
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Ditto. I really wanted this to work too. If I didn't, I wouldn't have committed to two of them on Day One. This was a great opportunity for the collecting community to stand up and get a vehicle made that most of us never thought in a million years would ever get made.
The sad reality is that as a community, we just don't have the numbers to support something as big as this.
If this had been something like Vintage Carded releases of Janus Greejatus, Sim Aloo, Kren Blista-Vanee and maybe one or both of the other two advisors in the picture below:
For let's say $80, I don't think Hasbro would have had any trouble getting enough backers for the endeavor. They could have just re-packaged the Greejatus and Blista-Vanee figures we already have and then made new sculpts for Sim Aloo and the other guys and then just mailed them out in a while mailer box.
OR they could have even had tiers - where like if you wanted to pay $100 you could have gotten them in a display box set similar to the Vintage Carbon Freezing playset to have as a nice display piece.
Something that regular retail channels would never pick up, but that collectors might get behind.
What about that funeral pyre Darth Vader they had on display a while back? That might have a shot.
My point is that I think there is definitely room in the collecting community for DTC offerings, and I
REALLY hope that failing to meet the goal for the Sail Barge won't discourage Hasbro from trying other items in the future.
