2023 HasLab - TVC The Ghost

[Nicklab]

Waiting for the first outlets to start posting their Q&A sessions on YouTube so we can get the information directly from the source. 

[Jeff]

New size promo pics from Hasbro.  The fact that The Ghost is going to be bigger than the BMF really blows my mind.  It is so much bigger than most people realize, I think.

[Rob]

When this thing arrives my wife is going to roll her eyes at me so bad they're going to get stuck facing her brain.

[Nicklab]

Holy ****!  Where am I going to put this??

[Jeff]

Waiting for the first outlets to start posting their Q&A sessions on YouTube so we can get the information directly from the source.

Here is the BanthaSkull Q&A - 9:38 mark is when Chris talks about the Sabine/Chopper on Mural cards in this particular Q&A session.

There is some other good info in here too.

[Mister Skeezler]

When this thing arrives my wife is going to roll her eyes at me so bad they're going to get stuck facing her brain.

This is exactly what my experience will be.

[Jeff]

9158 as of this morning.  Things have slowed, but still growing...

9478 after two weeks... still moving in the right direction.  806+ hours left.

10079 after three weeks.  635+ hours left.

10792 after four+ weeks.  ~396 hours left.

11392 after five weeks.  ~299.5 hours left.

Tier needs:
2608 to unlock Kanan
5608 to unlock Zeb

I am still pretty confident we can get to Zeb.  I guess we just wait and see...

[Rob]

I'll probably do my part and buy a second one to sell later.  For the cause.

[Mister Skeezler]

I feel like the hourly rate has jumped up a bit over the past week or so, but maybe I'm just paying more attention.

[Matt_Fury]

Holy ****!  Where am I going to put this??

Exactly my thought after seeing those pics.

[Ryan]

I didn't look this AM before the live stream, but hopefully, the backer-count jumps up significantly after tonight after Ahsoka and working people catch up on the stream and daily news. It was good to get additional confirmation on Rebels Mural Chopper & Sabine (less good that they are going to be an extra purchase on top of everything else...) Hopefully that all snowballs a bit and gets us to the next Tier in the next day or two.

[Rob]

I’m not holding my breath.  Three episodes in and the ship hasn’t even shown up in the show.

Best case scenario now is that it makes an appearance one day before the campaign ends.

What a joke.

[Ryan]

I’m not holding my breath.  Three episodes in and the ship hasn’t even shown up in the show.

Best case scenario now is that it makes an appearance one day before the campaign ends.

What a joke.

Oooff. I was honestly a bit surprised by that. It seems like LFL could have worked with them to time that a little better.

[Nicklab]

Oh, the ship IS in the show.  It's in the hangar in the first episode when Ahsoka's T-6 shuttle lands in the Home One docking bay.  But it just hasn't been in any meaningful action outside of the Phantom II in the chase above Correllia.

I think that the timing has been challenging for a number of factors:
-Lucasfilm's promotional rollout for Ahsoka largely started at SDCC.  And it was the natural time for Hasbro to launch the Haslab campaign
-When was Disney+ going to launch the Ahsoka series?  That's something that Hasbro could not influence
-Tying the campaign to when the ship appears in the Ahsoka series probably would not have the big splash that it did at SDCC
-Haslab campaigns have largely been limited to a 45 day backing window.  This is problematic since it doesn't sufficiently overlap with the appearance of the Ghost in the show.

Possible solutions?
-Extend the backing window to 60 days.  That will probably overlap with the Ghost being heavily featured in the series
-Could this have been launched at Toy Fair?  Toy Fair is now happening in September.  But would that be as good a time as SDCC to launch a Haslab campaign?

[Rob]

Yeah a few background shots ain’t going to convince people on the fence to buy it.

I’ve been watching and didn’t even notice it but once, and it was so far in the background I wasn’t convinced it was the Ghost at all.