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The Vintage Collection / Re: Hasbro "Fan First" Livestream TVC 3.75" Reveals
« on: January 24, 2024, 11:41 AM »
Quote from: Rob on January 24, 2024, 10:09 AM
Garbage offerings.  There’s literally nothing to get excited about with these reveals, for me at least

Eh, I was excited about Sabine & Chopper. I think they look great. I was also happy to hear see the overall shift from removable helmets to swappable heads. It's nice to finally see Cobb Vance get pipelined. I do like the new Rex. He wasn't as high on my list but the last figure kind of sucks and he is one of my favorite characters, so I'm happy for the upgrade.

Overall though it did feel pretty ho-hum. Outside of Cobb Vanth, and Season 3 Sabine, there wasn't anything that isn't a retool/kitbash/repack of some sort.

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TV-9D9 / Re: Bad Batch (Disney+)
« on: January 22, 2024, 06:01 PM »
Final Season Trailer dropped today! February seems so soon, I thought this would be a lot further out. I'm really excited to see how this all wraps up.

It was crushing to see Tech again.  :'(

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 TVC Deluxe Sabine Wren
« on: January 16, 2024, 12:29 PM »
Cool

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The Vintage Collection / Re: The Future of Star Wars Collecting?
« on: January 15, 2024, 04:39 PM »
Do we know if he is replacing someone or stepping in as the new lead over the existing team?

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Vintage Collection Pricing - Sales, Discounts, Price Hikes!
« on: January 9, 2024, 03:23 PM »
Quote from: Mister Skeezler on January  9, 2024, 02:23 PM
Quote from: Jeff on January  3, 2024, 01:38 PM
Quote from: Rob on December 28, 2023, 08:55 PM
Dark Troopers down to $16 on Amazon now…

TVC Dark Troopers = $15.74 at Pulse:
https://hasbropulse.com/collections/clearance-collection/products/star-wars-the-vintage-collection-dark-trooper

Thanks! Just ordered two more.

I have 12 (that I originally got for $20) or I might have gotten a few more at that price. If the Dark Troopers had been in season 3 instead of (or in addition to) the commandos, I’d have wanted more of them.

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Star Wars Anthology / Re: The Mandalorian & Grogu
« on: January 9, 2024, 01:42 PM »
Quote from: Jeff on January  9, 2024, 12:39 PM
https://www.starwars.com/news/the-mandalorian-and-grogu

This seems to be different from Filoni's Mandoverse movie.  This one is to be directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni.

The Mandalorian & Grogu will go into production in 2024.

Nice! Hopefully, this production has better luck than the last few planned movies. Considering this is directed Favreau, features Mando and Grogo, & production is starting this year, signs are looking good.

Hopefully, it ends up being better than S3 of Mando, too. As of now, I'm cautiously optimistic and excited. It'll be fun to hear more about this. It's been a long drought for SW in theaters, and longer still since a good SW movie was in theaters.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: New Playset/Vehicle Rumor: Code Name = DECLAN
« on: January 9, 2024, 01:35 PM »
With the ANH mains coming out again later this year, I am really hoping for a modular Death Star Hallway playset, which would tie in nicely together with the pipeline figures. It'd also fit the rumor description of the box size being very reminiscent of the Tantive IV set. Ideally, it would be designed in a way that could later connect to a larger HasLab type set.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: JediDefender Wishlists 2023/24: The Eras Tour: The New Republic
« on: January 1, 2024, 10:01 PM »
Shoot, got distracted over the holidays and forgot to get my list in. I’m pretty happy with the top 20 though we are just so short of figures from this era outside of Mandalorians and Grogu.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Vintage Collection Pricing - Sales, Discounts, Price Hikes!
« on: December 19, 2023, 04:27 PM »
Quote from: Nicklab on December 19, 2023, 03:19 PM
Star Wars The Vintage Collection AT-ST & Chewbacca - $43.99 from Best Buy.

I had some Best Buy rewards, so it came out to $25 for me.  I couldn't pass on that!

It went quick and sold out before I could get to it. I may have to try and check a Best Buy this week. I'd grab one at that price.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 Last Figure Standing Poll
« on: December 18, 2023, 06:07 PM »
Quote from: Jeff on December 18, 2023, 12:33 PM
The answer is so easy here - A Cantina Goons 4-pack.

Go with the same format that was used for the recent Jabba Goons 4-pack:
- Tonnika Sisters take the two "obscure human" slots (like Taym/Velkin)
- Momaw Nadon/Hammerhead takes the "redo" slot (like Tessek)
- Ponda Baba/Walrus Man takes the "repack" slot (like ReeYees)

Hasbro gets to run around boasting how they filled three top fan choices in one set, the 'finish the 96' get Hammerhead, the "give us new" folks get Tonnikas.  Everyone wins (except people who hate paying $80 for 4 figures if they don't want them all).


Quote from: Rob on December 17, 2023, 05:29 PM
I’m happy to keep voting for the Tonnika Sisters to let Hasbro know I think that a 50 year old photo that says Star Whores isn’t a good enough reason to not make the figures. 

Yeah, after 25 years of asking for them in the modern line, it's kind of mind boggling that the party line is still "LFL said no, no further comment".  Like Nick said, seems to be a really hard sell at LFL which is just so dumb at this point.

Love it. I'd buy that in heartbeat. I'd be fine swapping Dr. Ezavan for Ponda, too.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 TVC Wave 6 (New TVC Wave 32)
« on: December 16, 2023, 02:39 AM »
I’m wondering if the Grand Inquisitor is going to follow in Reva’s footsteps… the two targets nearest me have each had 6 on the pegs for a few weeks.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Vintage Collection Pricing - Sales, Discounts, Price Hikes!
« on: December 16, 2023, 02:36 AM »
Ross finds continued tonight. I finally found some of the E-Web stormtroopers and even some Death Star Gunners. I hope the Wal-Mart “Finish the 96” waves continue to show up at Ross. I want more great army builders for cheap.

I’ll probably do a Ross run this weekend and hit up a few.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Deluxe AOTC Jango Fett
« on: December 13, 2023, 12:58 PM »
Overall he looks great. Its a little hard to tell if that is a removable helmet or a swappable head. In those pics, the bucket looks to be about the right size and looks much better than the Axe Woves.

Echoing the 'Deluxe' vs. 'Basic' & concerns, nothing about this feels "Deluxe" though. At least the price has dropped to $24.99 but that still feels overpriced for what we are actually getting here. I do wonder if Jango originally had more accessories planned (second jetpack, poncho, pilot headgear, poison darts, etc.) that were cut to save on cost? As is, we are basically getting one newly tooled (maybe?) wrist flame effect & two repacked jetpack flame effects for an extra $8.00-$13.00. I'd much rather have just skipped the effects and taken him on basic card. I might have bought 2-3 Jangos to replace him in some displays, but not for that price. I guess I'll wait for the inevitable clearance on these guys to pick up any extras.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Recent Vintage Collection Purchases
« on: December 11, 2023, 01:52 AM »
I picked up a bunch of custom fodder at Ross this weekend. The stores around here had some TVC figures for $3.99 each. I grabbed 7x Obi-Wan (VC245), 4x Padawan Anakin (VC80), 2x Cassian Andor (VC261).

I've seen pictures of people finding the 2021 Wal-Mart Deluxe figures (Ahsoka, Flametrooper, Stormtrooper w/ E-WEB), The Rescue set, & TBS Rey's yellow Skywalker lightsaber.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Troop Builder Phase II Clone Trooper 4-Pack
« on: December 1, 2023, 01:56 AM »
Quote from: Jeff on November 29, 2023, 11:46 PM
I agree - VC45 was a nice upgrade at the time but those skinny legs? Yuck.

Quote from: Ryan on November 28, 2023, 12:13 PM
Looks like we are getting a new helmet sculpt on this set already.

Looking closer at the pics, these might not be new helmets, but whole new non-removable helmet-heads?  I don't think Hasbro has shown any pics of them sans helmets.

Yup, I'm seeing that, too. These look like an improvement over the first version, the visor is much better as is the scale, but now it looks like something is off with the mouth area. I really wish they would have just got these right... Maybe third time is the charm?  :-\

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