2024 TVC Jabba the Hutt Box Set w/Crumb and 8D8

[Matt_Fury]

I got one.  Pretty smooth compared to other preorders.

[Jeff]

I waffled back and forth, but went ahead and pre-ordered this set last night.

I ordered two of the Jabba Throne Room sets, so I really have no use for yet another dais and more of the same rugs and pillows.  I have so many Crumb and Jabba figures.  Why did I buy this? I guess I just spent $90 to get a new 8D8 figure... that will probably get double-dipped into the basic figure line on a TBOBF cardback anyway. 

I am dumb, basically, is what I'm saying.   

Oh well, I have a year to change my mind and cancel I guess.

[Dave]

I waffled back and forth, but went ahead and pre-ordered this set last night.

I ordered two of the Jabba Throne Room sets, so I really have no use for yet another dais and more of the same rugs and pillows.  I have so many Crumb and Jabba figures.  Why did I buy this? I guess I just spent $90 to get a new 8D8 figure... that will probably get double-dipped into the basic figure line on a TBOBF cardback anyway. 

I am dumb, basically, is what I'm saying.   

Oh well, I have a year to change my mind and cancel I guess.

I'm still waffling, and will probably do the opposite where I wait a year to order this if I think I really need to add a new $90 8D8 figure to my collection.

[Matt_Fury]

Am I the only one here that needs the Jabba???

[Ryan]

Am I the only one here that needs the Jabba???

Nope, I do too. The most recent version I have is the 2004 Saga Ultra version. I had missed both the Black Series TRU set & the Khetanna.

Like Jeff, I’m dumb and ordered two sets… I also figured since this won’t be out for almost a year and a half that I can always just cancel one of them between now & then if Hasbro announces any single carded versions of 8-D8, or other sets with Salacious (not that I really need a new Salacious.)

[Rob]

All this and there's another Jabba in the Sail Barge.  I feel perfectly set on Jabba's, but will continue to collect 'em all until I quit entirely!

[Matt_Fury]

Rob, I speak for the group on this when I say you don't count...you have everything.   

[Jeff]

Right now in my main Jabba's Palace shelf set-up, I'm using the 2010 Walmart dais and Crumb plus the 2004 Saga Ultra Jabba. I stopped displaying the 2010 Walmart Jabba when all the "my Jabba got melty/sticky" stories started going around. 

This set will make a nice upgrade... but I don't really 'need' an upgrade because I'm happy with what I have.  Like I said though, I am dumb and apparently have money to waste on an upgrade I don't really need. 

[Nicklab]

I'm happy to see this Jabba come out (somewhat) on it's own.  The 3.75" Black Series version came out 10 years ago, and the Sail barge version was locked behind a $500 pay wall.  And when I get around to finally displaying my Sail barge, I want that Jabba to stick with the Sail Barge.

I'm in the midst of a significant re-organization of my collection.  And I've got a bin of Jabba's at the moment - the POTF2 ANH bonus scene version, the Episode 1 Jabba glob, the SAGA release, the SOTDS version, and the Kenner Jabba.  It'll be good to retire some of these or at least use them in a scene specific way.

[Mister Skeezler]

I ordered it. The Crumb and 8D8 are two big wants, and Crumb looks like a whole new sculpt so I'm pretty excited about that. The hookah and bowl is a nice upgrade, and I plan to swap out the one I have in my display with this new one. The Jabba looks to have very upgraded paint apps, so I might swap him into the barge if he's better than that one. And the small accessories are always welcome.

[Jeff]

Crumb looks like a whole new sculpt

Yes, Hasbro confirmed in their youtube video that Crumb was an all-new sculpt.

[Dave]

Crumb looks like a whole new sculpt

Yes, Hasbro confirmed in their youtube video that Crumb was an all-new sculpt.

This kind of bugs me when they take their resources and redo something that we already have that is good enough instead of giving us something truly new.  The did an all new sculpt of the Endor Bunker that really was only marginally better than the old one, and Crumb is the same thing.

How about you use those sculpting resources on some all new figures for Andor, BoBF, or Mandalorian?

[Rob]

Putting my throne room onto the shelf between other stuff and I guess what i'm going to do is put the entire Dias down in the BOBF stuff, and leave the slot open for this set to arrive in the fall sometime??  Looks like (and knowing Hasbro) the Dias is the same and will slide under the base of the Throne Room no problem, but it also has the part with his hookah, which the playset doesn't so it feels like a better spot for it.

That makes sense right?!

Are any of you thinking about splitting it up that way?

[Jeff]

Are any of you thinking about splitting it up that way?

Yeah, that is my plan -

My new plan is to display this the way Hasbro did at SDCC this past year - use the bulk of the playset with the 2024 Jabba/dais for a ROTJ set-up and then pull the included dais/throne out for a separate "Boba murders Bib Fatuna" scene.

You can see in the Hasbro SDCC pic I have linked there that the dais in this Jabba set is the same sculpt as the Throne Room playset dais, but it is a better color-match to the playset.  Really feel like they did that on purpose, but what do I know.

So yeah.  Right there with you on the plan.  I was thinking about using the 2010 Walmart Jabba/dais in the playset until the new one is ready but I've heard the old 2010 version is too big for the playset.  (Again, pretty sure that is on purpose to help guide you to buying this $90 Jabba set. )

[Rob]

Nice.  I guess I wasn’t paying that level of attention to all this until now that I’m looking at the real thing and working it into these shelves.

Regarding the Dias… Yep, I can confirm that.  The Walmart Dias is too tall to slide under the base of the new set. 

What a weird series of decisions this whole thing has been on Hasbro’s end.