2024 HasLab - TVC Project, Coming Soon!

[Jeff]

Revealed on today's Hasbro Star Wars Imperial March Fanstream:

The next Star Wars HasLab project will be revealed the week of May 4th... and it's from The Vintage Collection! 

Let the speculation begin... 

(Patience, Black Series 6" fans - maybe you'll get another turn someday  )

[Muftak]

Nicklab and Jayson have been playing a game of cat-and-mouse about what it will be somewhere else. Not a lot of compelling options on the list to my eye ( as a mostly OT fan)

[Matt_Fury]

I highly doubt you'll see a Black Series Haslab ever again.  They're 0 for 2 and TVC is 3 for 3.

[Rob]

Hoping for a proper Cantina that includes a few new aliens… I’m just about tapped out when it comes to space for enormous vehicles and the Ghost hasn’t even shipped yet.

[Scott]

The Cantina is about the last big thing I’ll buy…except maybe the Yavin tactical display table or the once planned Echo Base playset

[McMetal]

Flagg sized Tantive IV 

[Rob]

Flagg sized Tantive IV 

I'd have to throw it in the garage and start parking my car on the street.

[Scott]

Flagg sized Tantive IV 

paging Michael Fright

[Nicklab]

Nicklab and Jayson have been playing a game of cat-and-mouse about what it will be somewhere else. Not a lot of compelling options on the list to my eye ( as a mostly OT fan)

Here’s the list in question.  Jayson has not given me any indication which of these choices might be the next TVC Haslab. 

EPISODE I - BMF Naboo Royal Starship

EPISODE II - LAAT/C Republic Gunship Carrier

CLONE WARS - The Twilight

EPISODE III - BMF Turbo Tank

THE BAD BATCH - The Havoc Marauder

SOLO - Lando's Millennium Falcon

OBI-WAN KENOBI - Inquisitor Shuttle

ANDOR - Luthen Rael's Fondor Haulcraft

ROGUE ONE - BMF U-Wing

EPISODE IV - Mos Eisley Cantina

EPISODE V - Rebel GR-75 Medium Transport

EPISODE VI - Imperial Lambda Class Shuttle

THE MANDALORIAN - Mandalorian Gauntlet Assault Craft or the Imperial Landing Craft

THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT - Boba Fett's Rancor

AHSOKA - Ahsoka's T-6 Jedi Shuttle.

EPISODE VII - First Order Troop Carrier

[Dave]

My favorite in the list is:

EPISODE V - Rebel GR-75 Medium Transport

[Rob]

Yeah the GR-75 or Cantina are probably the only two in that list I’d be terribly interested in.  Ther are a few other okay ones I guess, but nothing else too exciting to me.

[Dave]

To be honest there is a bunch of stuff I'd like them to make, including the rebel transport, but I don't want it to be a $450 version.  A $150-$200 version would be just fine for the rebel transport, a Ahsoka's T-6, First Order troop carrier, Fondor Haulcraft, etc. 

I thought the Mandalorian N-1 was perfect.  Something mid-sized where reasonable compromises are made to keep it affordable.

In fact I'm not sure there is anything on this list that feels like I would want to spend $450 for and have it take up a giant shelf.  Even if they did the cantina I would hope they could find a way to create value without making it too expensive and elaborate (e.g. I don't need piles of Instagram worthy pillows, etc.).

[Muftak]

I have seen that elsewhere Jayson confirmed it is NOT the Havoc Marauder, and also said that whatever it is, it is not "a representation" of the vehicle/location like the playsets have been, which would seemingly nix the Cantina unless they are doing a full interior/exterior for it.

[Nicklab]

I saw the "not a representation" remarks, too.  And for me?  That seemed to rule out a Death Star playset.  I think it might also rule out the GR-75 Rebel Transport, too.

I'm glad to see that Hasbro seems to want to build on the success of previous Haslab campaigns.  I think the big dividing line might be between old media and new media.  Is there anything in the legacy media (pre-sale to Disney) that might be a home run idea?

GEORGE LUCAS ERA

EPISODE I - BMF Naboo Royal Starship - Previously made in 1999

EPISODE II - LAAT/C Republic Gunship Carrier - Never made before - would need an accompanying AT-TE to be a home run

CLONE WARS - The Twilight - Never made before.  Appears in 10* episodes of The Clone Wars

EPISODE III - BMF Turbo Tank - Previously made in 2009

EPISODE IV - Mos Eisley Cantina - A representation - not likely at this time

EPISODE V - Rebel GR-75 Medium Transport - Made in the Kenner era, 1980

EPISODE VI - Imperial Lambda Class Shuttle - Originally made in 1983/84; Reissued in the modern era in 2002/03 and 2006 based on the Kenner tooling


DISNEY ERA

THE BAD BATCH - The Havoc Marauder - Never made before - Eliminated from contention per J

SOLO - Lando's Millennium Falcon - Made in the SOLO line in 2019 in a simplified form

OBI-WAN KENOBI - Inquisitor Shuttle -  Never made before

ANDOR - Luthen Rael's Fondor Haulcraft -  Never made before

ROGUE ONE - BMF U-Wing - Made as a one man fighter in 2016's Rogue One line

THE MANDALORIAN - Mandalorian Gauntlet Assault Craft - Never made before  /  Imperial Landing Craft - Never made before

THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT - Boba Fett's Rancor - Previous Rancors have been made before, not this specific one.  Would Hasbro attempt another Rancor Haslab after the failure of the Black Series Rancor Haslab campaign?

AHSOKA - Ahsoka's T-6 Jedi Shuttle - Never made before in 1:18 scale.  Seen in Tales of the Jedi, Clone Wars and Ahsoka.  Could it also be seen in The Acolyte?

EPISODE VII - First Order Troop Carrier - Never made before

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I don't know what to make of it all.  And there are a lot of factors that work for and against a number of these.

[Rob]

To be honest there is a bunch of stuff I'd like them to make, including the rebel transport, but I don't want it to be a $450 version.  A $150-$200 version would be just fine for the rebel transport, a Ahsoka's T-6, First Order troop carrier, Fondor Haulcraft, etc. 

I thought the Mandalorian N-1 was perfect.  Something mid-sized where reasonable compromises are made to keep it affordable.

In fact I'm not sure there is anything on this list that feels like I would want to spend $450 for and have it take up a giant shelf.  Even if they did the cantina I would hope they could find a way to create value without making it too expensive and elaborate (e.g. I don't need piles of Instagram worthy pillows, etc.).

Same.  I don't need everything to be enormous.  I wish they'd use Haslab for more esoteric or risky items even if they're regular sized things.