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Good grief they can't give them away.

It's really kind of surprising given the supposed demand for him. I get the $24.99 "Deluxe" price point being too high for people, but at these low clearance prices, I just don't get it. I bought 5 of him total (1 carded, 1 to display loose w/ helmet on, 1 loose w/ helmet off, and 2 extra loose figures for customs or alternate scenes).

He must have been waaaaay overproduced, if not it could be a but of a worrying sign for the line's health.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 TVC Wave 1 (New TVC Wave 40)
« on: January 12, 2025, 03:01 AM »
My Luke's arrived from Amazon today as well. What a long-needed improvement to one of the most important characters/outfits/figures in all of Star Wars. I'm very happy with him, glad I ordered a few. I can't remember the last time I liked a new Luke so much.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Vintage Collection Rumors
« on: January 1, 2025, 04:07 PM »
Merrin is exciting, I definitely want more besides Cal Kestis & troopers from the EA Jedi games. The other named rumors all make sense. It is interesting to see so many other Rebels figures on that list. I guess the 10th anniversary was in October and they want to give us us more figures to go with the Ghost (for those of us who Hasbro has shipped it to yet)

I'm hoping the figure selection in '25 is a bit better than overall selection in '24.

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Disney Parks Droid Factory / Re: 2024 Droid Factory Advent Calendar
« on: December 31, 2024, 02:17 AM »
Update: after another few emails I was able to get Disney to give me a $15.99 (20%) refund on the original full purchase price. Still a bit annoying, but it is outside the standard 30-day window and I still got something so I'll take it. I looked on eBay and found one of the chopper units to bid on, it was a really low starting bid, hopefully it doesn't end up going much over $20.

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Disney Parks Droid Factory / Re: 2024 Droid Factory Advent Calendar
« on: December 23, 2024, 01:46 PM »
So far they gave me a $5.00 promo code, and allowed me to return the entire calendar for a full refund, because apparently, it is now out of stock and they don't have spare parts to send.

I may try to ask if they can credit me down to the sale price, but don't have hope for much on that front.

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Disney Parks Droid Factory / Re: 2024 Droid Factory Advent Calendar
« on: December 22, 2024, 06:23 PM »
Got my advent calendar set today.  After what happened to me last time, I'm going to likely just rip it all open this weekend and skip the daily advent opening thing. :P

And I should have listened to Jeff...

Everything was going great, until today when I decided to open the last few days since we are going out of town over the holiday. The piece on the 25th ended up being an error. My calendar has two of the Milk Bar pieces and was missing the final head for the Mickey Chopper unit.  >:(

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It's interesting to see the differences in opinions of the crowd here vs in the YouTube comments on Bossk's Bounty video. There are overwhelming positive responses over there, including several "This is the best release of year!" type responses. This makes sense given that the average commenter on those videos seem to be newer collectors.

My opinion on the set is fairly mixed as well. I do like all of the figures and think they are well done, but this set as a whole would have been very low on my wishlist.

I think the ROTS/World-Between-World Anakin looks great and is a much-needed resculpt of a main character. I'm happy to get him... but we know they are going to put him on a regular card at some point soon. The CW version is nice and all, I like the added cape and scar, but really did not need this version so soon after the basic version. And then there's the Emperor's Wrath Vader, it's a great base figure and is technically an improvement on VC115... but not at all one that we needed or I particularly wanted. I get that Vader is always going to be a staple in the line, but 5 versions of this figure in 2.5 years feels like a lot.

I think I'll probably still pick it up, but I'll wait for clearance for any extras.

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I am shooketh. I was just looking at my old TLC & POTF2 Thrawns yesterday and was considering swapping the Ysalamiri out to put on the new figure. Despite BS getting these, I had pretty much given up hope for this kind of classic EU stuff in TVC. What a cool set, especially considering only 1 of 3 figures is fully new, (not counting it's accessories. Both the figures and the cardbacks look great. Count me in for two sets. :)

I second the notion for a follow up set w/ Luke, Mara Jade, & Talon Karde!

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: December 6, 2024, 02:35 AM »
Sorry to hear that Matt, even at that age it is always sad. But it sounds like she had a great run.

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Just bought a (supposedly new, mint in box) "Chewbacca & AT-ST" off eBay for only $39.99, w/ free shipping.

The seller supposedly has multiple and appears to be a wholeseller.  None of their other items are Star Wars or toy-related, and it is quite an odd assortment...  :-X

We will see what I end up getting but I thought I's share the link here in case anyone had skipped this one and wanted to try and the lower eBay price.

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Disney Parks Droid Factory / Re: 2024 Droid Factory Advent Calendar
« on: December 3, 2024, 02:28 PM »

I just cracked mine open too, although I thought the order in which they gave you parts is odd, so I opened the first five or so bags that got me the whole droid.  Starting with a leg and some accessories worried me that I'd lose these somehow.  I guess I've got a few days before I can open my next droid.

Agree on the order, I would have thought the torsos would have been the first piece you should open for a new droid so that you could then plug in all the subsequent parts over the next few days. It seemed odd to start with the bar accessory.

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Disney Parks Droid Factory / Re: 2024 Droid Factory Advent Calendar
« on: December 3, 2024, 12:43 PM »
I ended up deciding to open these gradually. Looks like the Gingerbread R2 is up first. It has been fun so far only pulling a piece out at a time, it takes me back to the TLC BAD days where you'd have to wait to assemble the droid until you found each figure at retail.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: December 3, 2024, 03:25 AM »
Got another "Ready to Ship" email. Make sure to update your address before EOD Thursday if you need to!

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TV-9D9 / Re: Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (SPOILERS possible)
« on: December 3, 2024, 03:23 AM »
I'm pleasantly surprised after the first two episodes, but I had pretty low expectations going in. I dug the pirate station aesthetics, lots of cool aliens and some great set design.

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They look great! This was at the top of my Season 3 wishlist, so I'm glad to get this one. I also went through the JD Amazon links, with any luck they will go on sale like Cobb Vanth sometime before they release and we will get this for close to regular figure price. I still think this would have fit on a standard card (even if it was at the higher price), but it looks nice. I wonder if ProTech or any other company is going to start making large star cases for these new deluxe figures?

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