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Collectibles => The Vintage Collection => Topic started by: Rob on January 24, 2022, 09:31 PM
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Hold up… there is another $27 deluxe Boba Fett up for preorder tomorrow!?
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Mando and Book o Boba looks, so yes, another drops tomorrow.
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Hold up… there is another $27 deluxe Boba Fett up for preorder tomorrow!?
I think it's the same one, just up for preorder at a different site.
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I think it's the same one, just up for preorder at a different site.
Nope, they are different. The last one was TBOBF Fett and this one is Boba Fett (Morak) from Mandalorian Season 2 Ep 9.
(And, I suppose they can still milk us for another $26+ deluxe figure when they offer the Tython unarmored Boba Fett from The Mandalorian - #BobaFettTax :P)
$26+ is crazy expensive since this new one looks like it's re-using some of the parts of the other one (main difference is in the legs/below the waist). I hope the new Morak Fett includes something better than a couple busted up Stormtrooper helmets...
Here are comparison pics - first pic is the TBOBF Fett and the second pic is Morak Fett:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGliLCcXIAgwAWj.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ63sfzUUAE6LBH.jpg)
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****...might as well buy another TVC Slave 1 while I'm at it!
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Ugh, that price sucks, again. Especially since he is pictured without any accessories there. At that price he should come with some SERIOUSLY solid accessories, like a real rocket firing pack, or an artillery stormtrooper. (He won't of course.)
I'll still be picking him up I guess, but if this trend continues I am going to start being more stingy with these.
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Total price gouging ****, and I’ll still buy one. >:(
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At that price he should come with some SERIOUSLY solid accessories, like a real rocket firing pack, or an artillery stormtrooper. (He won't of course.)
At that price he should come with another whole figure. Remember when Hasbro used to make multi-packs for a little less than double the regular priced figure? That's what this should be and I'm not talking a little Grogu accessory. These prices are ridiculous.
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Total price gouging ****, and I’ll still buy one. >:(
I have to grudgingly agree with all of this.
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I'll buy one...but I'm going to complain the whole time.
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From the photos I don’t think this comes with any accessories. Not even a pair of empty stormtrooper helmets.
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Where is this going to be available?
**Edit** Looks like this is a Target Exclusive. ****.
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From the photos I don’t think this comes with any accessories. Not even a pair of empty stormtrooper helmets.
Yeah... TBOBF Fett had a removable helmet (or alternate head - still not clear on that), 2x Stormtrooper helmet, pistol, rifle, jetpack, rocket, 2x flames.
Based on the pictures, Morak Fett doesn't seem to have the 2x flame attachments for the jetpack or the Stormtrooper Helmets. There is no justification for what looks like a kitbash (new waist/legs) with less accessories to cost $26+ other than "we know you'll pay it". :-\
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I'm looking for a link...if anyone else finds it, post it here.
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Target exclusive!?
I'm looking forward to it selling out in 25 seconds.
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not live yet, but soon... link from Yak/Jayson -
https://www.target.com/p/-/A-85766838
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You sure? It already says Preorders have sold out...
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That's what I'm seeing too. They may not have added inventory yet.
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not live yet, but soon... link from Yak/Jayson -
https://www.target.com/p/-/A-85766838
Jeff you magnificent bastard!
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I'm assuming NO ONE has actually been able to order on right? It's not like a few people snatched up an extremely limited number?
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You sure? It already says Preorders have sold out...
When I posted the link here, it wasn't an active link yet. Just the generic "product coming soon" landing page.
I can't tell if it sold out in like <30seconds or what?
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Over at BanthaSkull Chris pointed out that the qty is 99, so it's possible the bots got them. But I don't see any eBay listings.
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I'm assuming NO ONE has actually been able to order on right? It's not like a few people snatched up an extremely limited number?
I don't know. I got the preorder link and when I put add to cart, it said they were already out of stock. This was at 12:00/1
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Quantity is 99?
WTF is the point of that?
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I don't think it's live yet. Putting the exact name in the search yields nothing.
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Quantity is 99?
WTF is the point of that?
Sorry, I meant qty can go as high as 99.
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Ah, I thought you meant that they'd put 99 total up for preorder.
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Ah, I thought you meant that they'd put 99 total up for preorder.
Well let's just say I wouldn't find that surprising these days!
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This is ridiculous. Seeing claims of people had them in their cart and then showed sold out.
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This is ridiculous. Seeing claims of people had them in their cart and then showed sold out.
I was one.
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I wonder if they noticed a mistake at launch and pulled back to correct it.
I's 25 minutes past go time....I'm beginning to think this is yet another botched exclusive.
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This is ridiculous. Seeing claims of people had them in their cart and then showed sold out.
I was one.
Same here.
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There are zero eBay auctions though, so I'm thinking it's not a bot issue, it's just they haven't loaded the ******* things onto their site. Glad I spent my lunch break doing this, and not something more rewarding, like jacking off or doing my taxes.
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Figure is now showing up in search results as preorders sold out. Stellar job Target/Hasblo!
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I wonder if the Fett going out today may be a mistake. Today is the next drop of info for the weekly bounty program which happens at 1pm et. The preorders usually happen the following day at 1pm et so there might be some miscommunication going on there with when Fett was gonna be available?
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I have no clue. The Droids Fett lasted longer than this....it's so odd that this went in under a second. If it's true that there was no order limit and bots grabbed them all, it would be easy for Target to cancel any preorders that were more than two. They've cancelled preorders on my at the drop of a hat!
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I wonder if the Fett going out today may be a mistake. Today is the next drop of info for the weekly bounty program which happens at 1pm et. The preorders usually happen the following day at 1pm et so there might be some miscommunication going on there with when Fett was gonna be available?
Sounds reasonable, but I wish we could get a clear answer. This is ******* stupid...40 mins of refreshing a page on Target.
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Did anyone get one of these? I'm guessing if nobody got one here, then they've not actually released them for order yet. I can't believe we're all failures...
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FYI, there's a feedback link on the order page.
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There's an auction on ebay, so someone got some. BIN of $90!
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From @yak_face twitter (https://twitter.com/yak_face/status/1486046812343619588):
"Would this be a bad time to say there is ANOTHER (exclusive?) TVC deluxe item for $26.49 in Target’s system?"
If that is the case, it would explain the price mix-up from the press release... doesn't explain the rest of the screwed up ore-order though.
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I guess they did drop the price to $20.99 - which is still gouging.
$90 BIN is RIDICULOUS.
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This whole situation is ridiculous!
I'm wondering if something just screwed up on the website and it still hasn't gone live.
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Maybe someone just needs to build a Bot for the JD community that can just purchase a couple hundred of each of these preorders and then we can all just divide it up later.
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$90 BIN is RIDICULOUS.
Whoops! Make that $99! + $10 shipping.
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Just went up and I got one!
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Got one too!
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Got it. That was thoroughly awful
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Got it. That was thoroughly awful
Perfectly said.
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WOOOOO.
The struggle is real.
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I got 2!
Edit: Still waiting on the confirmation email...
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Just saw it was available. Put two in my cart and hit order, it complained about an issue but then let me order anyways. Who knows what I got, lol
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Edit: Still waiting on the confirmation email...
I got a confirmation email for my Fett. I was able to use a pair of $5 gift cards to bring the price down to ~$12 with tax. That takes away a bit of the pain, so special thanks to my wife for spending $30+ on hair care products a couple times and earning us those gift cards to make my toys cheaper. :P
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I managed to get two. It took a while for me to get the order to go through. There's a take a quick survey on the page. Dare I click it?
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Edit: Still waiting on the confirmation email...
I got a confirmation email for my Fett. I was able to use a pair of $5 gift cards to bring the price down to ~$12 with tax. That takes away a bit of the pain, so special thanks to my wife for spending $30+ on hair care products a couple times and earning us those gift cards to make my toys cheaper. :P
Still nothing on email, but by looking at my orders on my Target account it says they went through so I should be fine.
EDIT: Just got the confirmation. Love how the subject line read: "We foresee big smiles ahead..." Yeah, after all the torment you put us through.
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Just got my confirmation email too... glad the price wasn't as high as advertised, and glad that it's done.
They've really managed to turn this hobby into a pain in the ass... although it's a lot easier than driving around town going into different stores hoping for the best.
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Just got my confirmation email too... glad the price wasn't as high as advertised, and glad that it's done.
They've really managed to turn this hobby into a pain in the ass... although it's a lot easier than driving around town going into different stores hoping for the best.
I do both like and miss driving around looking for toys. All things being equal I'm fine ordering everything online.
I will say that having more advance notice would be nice. If you happen to be travelling or not paying attention to the Star Wars social media world it makes it really easy to miss out on the pre-orders for these things. The time between announcement and pre-orders being sold out for this was about 24 hours.
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Of course I was in a meeting when it went back up and missed it. I'm on the fence still about driving vs preorders. If these pre-order windows were a bit bigger and I had a full day or two to get a preorder in, it'd be fine. As is, releases like this SUCK.
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I missed this? Didn't expect it to sell out.
G damn work. Of all days of the week these pre-sales come up, of course it's when I have stacked meetings.
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Of course I was in a meeting when it went back up and missed it. I'm on the fence still about driving vs preorders. If these pre-order windows were a bit bigger and I had a full day or two to get a preorder in, it'd be fine. As is, releases like this SUCK.
I got up to get lunch and came back to it being live with no warning.
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Instead of jumping through all the hoops to get another overpriced Boba Fett exclusive (because he would never sell as a mass release. Right? Isn't that the Hasbro justification for exclusives with higher pricepoints?) I did something more fun.
I went on eBay and bought an old 30th anniversary Luke Skywalker with Moisture Vaporator for 20 bucks. That's a deluxe figure, and a set I would buy multiples of in 2022 too if Hasbro wants to do Deluxe sets.
Can't have too many vaporators (bonus-- the seller put the Saga Luke with poncho and floppy hat in the set instead of the 30th Luke with the funky hair.)
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I got a sold out message online, then tried the Target app. That seemed to work for an order of 2, but when I went to finalize the checkout it said there was some "random error on their end." I tried 5-6 times with no luck. Then I Went back and changed my order to just 1 in case that was the problem. Same error a couple of times, then it went through. I was tempted to try to order a second one, but then remembered Target's prior issues with cancelling orders for people that ordered multiple times, so just left it. Hopefully I'll get at least the one, which is probably all I should be buying anyway at these prices...
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Instead of jumping through all the hoops to get another overpriced Boba Fett exclusive (because he would never sell as a mass release. Right? Isn't that the Hasbro justification for exclusives with higher pricepoints?) I did something more fun.
I went on eBay and bought an old 30th anniversary Luke Skywalker with Moisture Vaporator for 20 bucks. That's a deluxe figure, and a set I would buy multiples of in 2022 too if Hasbro wants to do Deluxe sets.
Can't have too many vaporators (bonus-- the seller put the Saga Luke with poncho and floppy hat in the set instead of the 30th Luke with the funky hair.)
That's actually a decent price for that on the secondary market. I love those moisture vaporators! **** it, I'm going to eBay.
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Some fan sites got to do Q&A with Hasbro this morning (https://twitter.com/BanthaSkullcom/status/1491785200967163904) (your old pal JediDefender was not included :(), and Emily said that the Target TVC Morak Boba Fett is NOT a deluxe/boxed item but just an exclusive standard numbered basic carded figure. I guess that kills the notion that something else is coming with it... So what the hell was the $21 price tag for then? ::)
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Some fan sites got to do Q&A with Hasbro this morning (https://twitter.com/BanthaSkullcom/status/1491785200967163904) (your old pal JediDefender was not included :(), and Emily said that the Target TVC Morak Boba Fett is NOT a deluxe/boxed item but just an exclusive standard numbered basic carded figure. I guess that kills the notion that something else is coming with it... So what the hell was the $21 price tag for then? ::)
Patrick said that Boba Fett has significantly more paint apps as TVC figures go, and there's an associated cost. Sounded like corporate doubletalk to me.
If you were ever in a position where you need a corporate type to be able to talk their way around a problem, hire Patrick. But being on the other side of things? Uggghhhh
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Patrick said that Boba Fett has significantly more paint apps as TVC figures go, and there's an associated cost. Sounded like corporate doubletalk to me.
If you were ever in a position where you need a corporate type to be able to talk their way around a problem, hire Patrick. But being on the other side of things? Uggghhhh
Well said. These Deluxe offerings are testing our limits as far as what we will pay. The fact that they still sold out fast means we aren't there yet, but as soon as we reach that limit, the BS justification of the price increase will have to be rolled back or BS'ed around in some other way.
Put another way, if $25 Fetts didn't sell, it's not like Patrick's artistic integrity would stop him from putting a dumbed-down/cost-effective version in the TVC basic line to move units. (Instead, we will have to wait and see what the $30-$35 version will be in the future as Patrick continues searching for the ceiling.)
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The fact that this is not a deluxe figure and has a deluxe figure price tag is still a bit of a smack in the face. Target will EVENTUALLY get us the Droids version of Boba Fett - basic figure with TVC grade sculpting and articulation, the specialized paint apps, etc. That figure's MSRP is $15.99.
The Morak Boba Fett is $20.99, and will be on a TVC numbered card. The jump in price from one 3.75" exclusive figure to the next of the same character is a little difficult to swallow.
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Back up for pre-order if you still need it... https://www.target.com/p/-/A-85766838
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It would be funny if you preorder this and end up with Axe Woves.
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It still shows it is up, but if I try to add it to the cart I get an error that it is sold out. ::)
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It still shows it is up, but if I try to add it to the cart I get an error that it is sold out. ::)
Boba Fett or Axe?
I just refreshed Axe and got a preorder, but wouldn't let me add to cart.
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It still shows it is up, but if I try to add it to the cart I get an error that it is sold out. ::)
Boba Fett or Axe?
I just refreshed Axe and got a preorder, but wouldn't let me add to cart.
Fett for me.
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It still shows it is up, but if I try to add it to the cart I get an error that it is sold out. ::)
Boba Fett or Axe?
I just refreshed Axe and got a preorder, but wouldn't let me add to cart.
Figured I would ask. So maybe Axe is on his way with what happened with me.... I just want to be done with this.
Fett for me.
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I was able to snag one online when it made a brief re-appearance between 1a-2am Pacific this morning. Years of having a screwed up sleep pattern finally paid dividends.
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Any updates on when we should expect this guy? I wasn't able to get a preorder in but I'm hoping I can find him at Target at some point.
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I haven't seen any concrete information about it. They seem to have shown up overseas, but there's no indication that they've arrived in North America yet.
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Do we even have carded images of this one yet? Do we know if this is in standard VTC packaging or in the deluxe "plastic free" packaging? Based on the number I assume it is the former.
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Do we even have carded images of this one yet?
From toyhideout Instagram via Yakface Twitter:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTScNCNWQAA_R-o.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTScND1WIAEef58?format=jpg&name=large)
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Still mad about this one… $21.00 for a single carded repaint of a figure that was $26 but came with two Stormtrooper heads. Basically, $50 for two figures. It’s Black Series pricing for TVC.
Not impressed.
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Still mad about this one… $21.00 for a single carded repaint of a figure that was $26
It's not just a repaint. The two figures have different legs -
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGliLCcXIAgwAWj.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ63sfzUUAE6LBH.jpg)
Of course, that still doesn't really justify the $26/$21 price tags for these figures. The DLX Fett sculpt was designed in a way to swap parts out and make all these Fett variants - Tatooine/TBOBF, Morak, Tython/Robed, etc. It sucks though that we, the customer, are having to pay the higher initial costs for the complex mold since Hasbro will be the ones making money off it's re-use in the long run.
It'll be interesting to see how they treat the Tython/Robed Fett from Slave I set (which re-uses parts from these two Fetts)- will they drop it in the basic line for $15 or will it be another $21 exclusive like this Fett?
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I have to contend that the Boba Fett tax is quite real. And that we're seeing the results of some things that Hasbro might have set in motion. The argument that Hasbro has put forth about higher prices for the Tatooine and Morak Boba Fett seem to revolve around the complexity of the paint apps for both figures. But is that really it?
I think if we want to be able to judge this appropriately, we can look back to last year. And particularly at the VC186 Return Of The Jedi Boba Fett. Try comparing this figure to the current TVC Deluxe Tatooine Boba Fett. Do the paint apps on the new figure seem that much more intricate than those on the VC186 Boba Fett?
I think that Hasbro saw just how well the VC186 Boba Fett performed at retail. Some online retailers still have standing preorders for this figure, albeit they're sold out at this time. I also think that the sensor bar "error" may have been a deliberate effort to see how much collectors would obsess over such a fine detail. I know that I bought multiples of both versions. I may have as many as 6 between the two variations.
And ever since that VC186 Boba Fett was released there has not been a single 3.75" Boba Fett at the standard TVC basic figure price. The Morak and Tatooine versions are both substantially more expensive. And Hasbro chose to pack-in the Boba Fett in Tusken Raider garb with the newest release of Slave One to the tune of a $40+ price hike.
Looking at these facts, it's hard to call these price increases a mere coincidence regarding such a fan-favorite character.
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Got an update this will be released on 10/2.
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I got the "something great is coming" email from Target on this and Axe Woves today. I guess they're shipping real soon.
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I got the "something great is coming" email from Target on this and Axe Woves today. I guess they're shipping real soon.
Same. I think all of my Target preorders will be fulfilled this week. Now, if only Walmart would do the same.
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All of my Walmart preorders ARE getting filled this week it says. A bunch are in the mail already, a few are expected to ship and arrive by October 6.
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All of my Walmart preorders ARE getting filled this week it says. A bunch are in the mail already, a few are expected to ship and arrive by October 6.
Nice! My Original 96 figures are being 'prepared' (prepared to ship, prepared to be delayed, I don't know), my deluxe figures are still delayed (after being delayed at least twice already) and Tython Boba is still expected in Feb 2023.
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Saw a case worth of these tonight. $24.99 in stores after being like $20.99 to preorder.
They also had little metal security stickers on the back of them, and I don’t think anyone is going to be removing those without doing damage.
Can’t wait to see these on clearance. $27 after tax for a 3.75” figure was and is totally absurd.
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Just wanted to say this line from Steve is my favorite quote of the year.
"My Original 96 figures are being 'prepared' (prepared to ship, prepared to be delayed, I don't know)"
It is so on point. I always thought once stuff was preparing to ship I was good but then WM said hold my beer