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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: September 4, 2023, 06:15 PM »
I'm still considering backing a third... I'm going to take a look tomorrow around 6pm, and if we are within 1000 or so of Zeb I may pull the trigger. I don't really want to have a third that won't resell as well without a completed set of mural cardbacks & Season 4 Rebels.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: September 3, 2023, 02:30 AM »
Quote from: P-Siddy on September  2, 2023, 08:50 AM
After the Ghost, I'd really like Hasbro to have mini-Haslabs that focus on never-before-made figures multipacks that wouldn't sell well at retail.  Have a focus on Jabba's Skiff/Barge guards, Cantina denizens, characters that interacted with the Razor Crest, characters that interacted with The Ghost, Jedi, Ewoks, Partisans... the possibilities are endless.  Make the packs on cards (like the 3 packs we've been getting) but put them in the $100-150 range (for 4-5 figures).  They could do this a couple times a year, once during a big Haslab campaign, and I think collectors would be for that.  But I know I'm only dreaming.


I do like that idea, too. It would be a good way to get some of the deeper cut figures on our wishlists. It's not the TLC/TAC days anymore. I feel like this may be one of the only remaining avenues to get some of the more unique background characters.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: August 30, 2023, 04:01 PM »
Quote from: Nicklab on August 30, 2023, 02:23 PM
- Extend the backing window to 60 days.

I feel like that would have been the easy solution. (Assuming the Ghost even shows up next week at this point.) Disney has had the premiere date set for a few months now, it wouldn't have been too much of an inconvenience on Hasbro's end to extend the time frame by 15 days. Right now we are on a pace (about 375 daily backers) to unlock Kanan just before the campaign closes and finish with just over 14,000 backers. The extra 15 days and a meaningful appearance of the ship on Ahsoka could have ended up being the difference in this HasLab getting the extra 3000 backers to unlock all of the tiers.

Those 3000 backers would represent $1.5 million in revenue for Hasbro, plus we'd get the option to give them more money for the other mural cards. It seems like the extra 15 days would have been a no-brainer.

These campaigns of course don't fund following a linear trend, as Jeff pointed out earlier. So I'm still holding out a tiny bit of hope that FOMO will get the better of a few thousand people this next week, and we will get to Zeb.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: August 30, 2023, 01:09 AM »
Quote from: Rob on August 30, 2023, 12:55 AM
I’m not holding my breath.  Three episodes in and the ship hasn’t even shown up in the show.

Best case scenario now is that it makes an appearance one day before the campaign ends.

What a joke.

Oooff. I was honestly a bit surprised by that. It seems like LFL could have worked with them to time that a little better.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Hasbro "Fan First" Livestream TVC 3.75" Reveals
« on: August 29, 2023, 06:05 PM »
Quote from: Matt_Fury on August 29, 2023, 05:59 PM
After so many releases of Luke as an X-wing Pilot, I'm excited to get him as a Piolet.

I thought the same thing. :D

Fun fact: A piolet is the word for a small ice climbing ax and is the name is of French origin. (I'm guessing spell check didn't catch it because of this.)

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: August 29, 2023, 06:01 PM »
I didn't look this AM before the live stream, but hopefully, the backer-count jumps up significantly after tonight after Ahsoka and working people catch up on the stream and daily news. It was good to get additional confirmation on Rebels Mural Chopper & Sabine (less good that they are going to be an extra purchase on top of everything else...) Hopefully that all snowballs a bit and gets us to the next Tier in the next day or two.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Hasbro "Fan First" Livestream TVC 3.75" Reveals
« on: August 29, 2023, 05:57 PM »
Quote from: Matt_Fury on August 29, 2023, 05:52 PM
Anyone else think that the Leia should've been #300?

It was a little surprising that it wasn't a main from the OT. But people have been wanting Hera for 9 years, so I'm ok with it.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Wave 1 (New TVC Wave 33)
« on: August 29, 2023, 05:55 PM »
Not what I expected for VC300, but Hera is a good choice. The figure looks great. I, too, am surprised to see just how different the two versions of Hera look. I would guess that based on what they said about Zeb & Ezra, their main-line live-action versions will look pretty different from the HasLab mural versions.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 TVC Wave 6 (New TVC Wave 32)
« on: August 29, 2023, 05:32 PM »
Even though we all knew these were coming, I am still excited. They look great, especially the soft-goods. I too would be more than down for a few troop-building packs of the HKs.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Defender Wishlists 2023: Tournament of Champions
« on: August 28, 2023, 04:32 AM »
It was so hard to narrow it down to only 25... I originally had the mains on my list but decided to drop them. There is no way we aren't going to get them in the line again and I wanted to give their slots to some less likely figures. I also dropped most of the Rebels figures from my list given The Ghost is coming out. Hasbro knows that we want figures to fill out the ship and Rebels is getting a lot of love. I think those will come out at some point soon, too. I tried picking some figures that Hasbro could reuse parts from to make other new figures. In the end, most of my choices are from the OT era. If I put this off much longer I think my list could completely change. Realistically, I'd happily take any of the 175 choices we had here.


  • Shasa Tiel (Return of the Jedi)
  • Mother Talzin (The Clone Wars)
  • Galen Erso (Rogue One)
  • Darth Malak (Knights of the Old Republic)
  • Sim Aloo (Return of the Jedi)
  • Fozec (Return of the Jedi)
  • Rebel Commando (Endor, Jumpsuit) (Return of the Jedi)
  • Baze Malbus (Rogue One)
  • Bodhi Rook (Rogue One)
  • Saw Gerrera (Rogue One)
  • Admiral Raddus (Rogue One)
  • Benthic Two Tubes (Rogue One)
  • Pyke Guards (Solo)
  • Sgt. Ruescott Melshi (Rogue One)
  • Bix Caleen (Andor)
  • Bistan (Rogue One)
  • Luthen Rael (Ferrix) (Andor)
  • Brasso (Funeral) (Andor)
  • Echo (The Bad Batch)
  • Tech (The Bad Batch)
  • Wrecker (The Bad Batch)
  • Omega (The Bad Batch)
  • Crosshair [Imperial] (The Bad Batch)
  • Peli Motto (The Mandalorian)
  • Cobb Vanth (The Mandalorian)

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 TVC Wave 5 (New TVC Wave 31)
« on: August 27, 2023, 07:35 PM »
Just got mine today as well. I had ordered two of each and just about all of the cards came in super bent and creased. I am debating on how many of them I am going to return. I am almost considering returning all eight to double my chances of getting a decent carded version of each figure.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Target 2023 TVC Deluxe Tusken Warrior & Massiff
« on: August 23, 2023, 07:38 PM »
Mine arrived today as well. The Massiff is excellent, it's nice to see a creature (even just a small one) back in the line again. I had forgotten to cancel my single-carded Tusken Warrior, so she's just a duplicate but she is still a very nice figure. If these ever go on clearance I am down for a few more to get a couple extra Massiffs, even though we are sure to see the Massiff in some other sets down the road.

The only thing I am not happy with is the giant red Target UPC barcode sticker that was slapped on the front of the box.  >:(

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: August 16, 2023, 06:24 PM »
Quote from: Matt_Fury on August 16, 2023, 04:40 PM
Quote from: Dave on August 16, 2023, 04:25 PM
Jayson was doing a push on Yakface to tell people that were on the fence to go ahead and back it, and if they change their mind to cancel it later.  The momentum will start building more that way.

Jayson is basically reiterating what was on Bantha Skull.  Great points made by both.  If you going to back the Ghost, go ahead and pledge now.  That way Hasbro has an accurate accounting of the popularity of this project and if all the goals are hit early enough, it gives them a chance to add more.

I think Hasbro put out some updated images of The Ghost's deco on Instagram yesterday, too. Bossk's Bounty had a nice video showing them off.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 TVC Wave 3 (New TVC Wave 29)
« on: August 10, 2023, 12:51 AM »
Quote from: Matt_Fury on August  9, 2023, 03:34 PM
EE finally shipped my case of these figures.

Nice! I finally just got my Clones from EE yesterday too.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: August 10, 2023, 12:50 AM »
Missed the counter but we passed 10k. Jeff's screenshot is better. :P


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