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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2019, 12:55 PM »
'It may be available all over the world' sure makes it sound like they're going to make a lot of them.

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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2019, 08:36 PM »
Don't expect it to last long on HasbroPulse based on other recent exclusive sales though...

The last 3.75" 3-pack convention exclusive was Doctor Aphra and her Droids and that featured a new sculpt, a new Build-a-Droid Astromech, and a black C-3PO repaint - the latter two, according to Hasbro will never be re-released - and that set was EASY to get on Hasbro Toy Shop.

While I get it that Aphra was released on a Vintage cardback a little bit afterwards, I find it hard to believe that this Luke 3-pack of resculpts will be in any more demand than the Aphra set was. I know it's Luke, and I know it's OT, but a new character is a new character and I'll take a new character any day over another rendition of Luke in his X-Wing Pilot gear - and if Hasbro is going to give that to me, then I want it on a numbered The Vintage Collection cardback - I don't want it in this three-pack format. I'm honestly surprised they packaged this set this way instead of like how they're doing those skiff guards. If the Lukes were individually carded The Vintage Collection figures in a single package like the Skiff Guards, then yeah, I agree with you 100%.

The set itself is strange anyway, why isn't it three versions of Luke from ANH? Like Tatooine, Stormtrooper & X-Wing Pilot or a version of Luke from each OT  movie? Why is it two versions of Luke from ANH and one from ROTJ? Or did someone at Hasbro think that that X-Wing Pilot Luke was "close enough" for him in ESB?

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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2019, 09:01 PM »
I'm hoping it's Hasbro rebooting the Evolutions sets.
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2019, 02:55 PM »
I'm hoping it's Hasbro rebooting the Evolutions sets.

If only!  I'd love to see a Han Solo evolutions set, and make it go from Solo through to TFA.
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2019, 04:16 PM »
Available to purchase on HasbroPulse on Sept. 10
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2019, 04:36 PM »
Available to purchase on HasbroPulse on Sept. 10

Is the price for this $39.99?
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2019, 04:41 PM »
$49.99

STAR WARS THE VINTAGE COLLECTION
3.75" LUKE SKYWALKER JEDI DESTINY Figure Set
(Ages 4 & up/Approx. Retail Price: $49.99/Available at Booth #3329 at Comic-Con International in San Diego)

Seems odd to charge $50 for this when the skiff guards 3-pack of carded figures is $10 less, but I guess that's the difference between a 3-pack with two repacks in it and a three pack with new figures?
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2019, 05:39 PM »
Ugh that will likely make this a pass.
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2019, 06:05 PM »
$50?  Wow.  That's some serious sticker shock.  Granted, it's the same price as the Dr. Aphra 3-pack that was offered last year.  And the upcoming Skiff Guard set is priced at $39.99.

But I was doing some checking, and the 3-packs that were offered during the first run of The Vintage Collection were $19.99 each.  Now almost all of those sets had some repacks, and new figures were somewhat few and far between in those sets.  This price explosion is bordering on gouging.
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2019, 06:21 PM »
I will stay away from this set. At that kind of price and the supposed level of exclusivity, this is another set that I would feel guilty about ripping open. I sold off the figures out of the Jabba's Palace playset for the same reason--I have no use for packaged figures, and that is the only thing about these exclusives that make them exclusive.

I will check these Lukes out again as they are released in the Vintage Collection proper down the road...and if the paint apps work out that time, I may buy them.

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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2019, 09:46 AM »
I can't see them not releasing these Lukes on single cards, but I'll probably just wait to see how much FOMO I feel on Sept 10th.
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #26 on: July 17, 2019, 11:21 PM »
I don't love the $50 price, but I'm not shocked at it either.  The SDCC stuff has steadily been moving up in price and still sells out instantly, so why wouldn't they jack the price up?  Economics 101.
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #27 on: July 17, 2019, 11:27 PM »
Pictures from Preview Night are up now at ToyArk! Including this set!
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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #28 on: July 22, 2019, 01:18 PM »
Got this set at SDCC!

(cost at the booth was actually $54 plus tax!)









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Re: SDCC 2019 TVC Special Action Figure Set - Luke Skywalkers
« Reply #29 on: July 22, 2019, 02:12 PM »
Awesome!!! Can you post a couple pictures of Jedi Luke? And is Luke Stormtrooper shorter than Han?
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