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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Wave 1 (New TVC Wave 33)
« on: July 27, 2023, 06:44 PM »
Pre Vizsla is a new build, but he does share parts from some of the recent TVC mando figures from TCW.  I guess he is more of a kit-bash/partial new figure in that sense than "all-new'.

Darth Revan is all-new according to Hasbro.  There could be some parts sharing in there (like the legs under the robes might be re-used) but they claim it is new.

Thanks.  Looks like I waited too long and Amazon and Pulse are both pre-sold out.

...Slight grumbling that they've decided to spend new development resources on figures we already kind of have - so many interesting unmade figures (especially from Andor) that they could make.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Wave 1 (New TVC Wave 33)
« on: July 27, 2023, 05:44 PM »
I don't have my old Pre Vizsla and Darth Revan handy.  Are these TVC versions all new, or mostly new, or just straight reissues of what we've bought before.

Have you guys assessed how new they are?

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Disney 2023 TVC Life Day Chewbacca
« on: July 27, 2023, 05:36 PM »
This seems like an odd thing to have at Disney.  It seems random for collectors and you would think it would be a Pulse or EE exclusive.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 27, 2023, 04:46 PM »
They could certainly cut a few sections out to save a few bucks.  Sure I'd spend $1000 on the mega set, but I'd prefer if they scaled it back a bit to something in the $400-600 range, or made it modular so you could buy it in chunks over a few years. 

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Disney 2023 TVC Life Day Chewbacca
« on: July 27, 2023, 08:40 AM »
Too bad they didn't do a multi-pack of Chewie and his family

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 25, 2023, 06:32 PM »
I'd love to see a playset with modularity to it so people can choose to go broad, or longer and narrower.  Something like a Death Star or Ewok Village would be great.  Finding a shelf large enough for The Ghost is going to be a challenge.  I've got 18 months to figure it out, but right now I'm not sure where to put it.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 25, 2023, 05:02 PM »
Agreed that they don't need to do a TVC HasLab on an annual basis.  But I also don't believe they should be doing SW HasLab annually either, especially if they don't have good ideas that are likely to fund from other areas of SW collecting. 

Doing an every other year HasLab TVC would be great as far as I'm concerned.  And they don't have to be $500.  Maybe a HasLab every other year and a direct to market on the odd years would be great.

There are plenty of good ideas that could fill the next decade.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Big Items of the Future!
« on: July 25, 2023, 04:25 PM »
After a third successful 3.75" scaled Star Wars HasLab, what do you think Hasbro does next?

- do they get bolder with big money non HasLab things (like the $230 Throne Room playset) and offer a few more direct to Pulse?
- do they go right back to the HasLab well with another 3.75" SW next year?
- do they give non-3.75" SW another HasLab try?  And if so, what do you pick that is popular enough for what it'll cost?

I don't really understand the calculus they use(d) to decide what goes the route of HasLab and what goes straight to market (e.g. BoBF Throne Room).

I think a Death Star, if its done in affordable modular bits, would be a no brainer for a direct to market item.  It they wanted to do a fully integrated big ass expensive playset they could always go HasLab.  I'm just not sure anyone at Hasbro has the balls to make bets anymore on something without HasLab to backstop their decision making process.

I honestly think they should just stick with 3.75" things.  There are plenty of cool things they could do and there is no reason to deviate.

The Rancor might have worked if they provided more value from the get go, but by the time they tried to recover from their disastrous rollout it was too late. 

All of the 3.75" items funded without much effort.  Keep it simple and keep making TVC items we want.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: July 25, 2023, 01:43 PM »
Old man 3.75" collectors win again.  It only took about ~91 hours for 3.75" nerds to pony up $4million dollars.  $4,000,000 dollars.

That is incredible if you stop and think about it.  Bring on a HasLab Mos Eisley Cantina next!

I hope somebody at Hasbro finally is getting a clue.  TVC works for haslab projects.  Everything else has failed.  Just stick with TVC.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: San Diego Comic Con 2023 Reveals
« on: July 24, 2023, 07:25 PM »
Yeah, I don’t feel like I need a slightly different axe woves.   It would have been nice getting something all new.

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I still want them to come out with an Andor multi pack of imperial officers in their white uniforms. Hopefully these molds allow them to make those easily.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: July 21, 2023, 10:02 PM »
It’s been live for about five hours and it’s halfway backed.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: San Diego Comic Con 2023 Reveals
« on: July 21, 2023, 09:26 PM »
Totally boring choices for TVC.

Axe Woves?
Grogu?
A Clone Trooper?
Count Dooku
Finn
Cassian from Rogue One?

Horrifically boring.

My thoughts exactly - especially Axe Woves, Clone Trooper, Finn, Dooku.  Did they just go through their archives and find figures that had tooling in good shape and picked those?  Seriously, who is going to buy those figures?

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: July 21, 2023, 06:49 PM »
Up to 2400

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The Vintage Collection / Re: RUMOR 2024 TVC HasLab The Ghost
« on: July 21, 2023, 06:08 PM »
Wow.  The numbers are climbing fast on this.  I think it only took Razor Crest a day to back.  This might be on a similar trajectory.

Love we get a Phantom II.  Has anyone heard if Phantom 1 would fit as well if you want to interchange them?

I'm assuming we'll get a Sabine and Ahsoka figure in the mainline release soonish, so they probably left them out of the unlock tiers.

Overall I think this looks fantastic.

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