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TV-9D9 / Re: The Book of Boba Fett
« on: January 13, 2022, 01:10 PM »
Quote from: Nicklab on January 13, 2022, 07:05 AM
Some quick notes?

-Cyborgs and people with replacement limbs aren't exactly new to Star Wars - see Anakin / Darth Vader, Grievous, Luke, etc.  I seem to recall a cyborg bounty hunter from the comics whose name eludes me.  People doing this by choice seems like something that might happen if that technology is available.


I doubt anyone has a problem with the cyborg element. Its more that these are lame hipsters shoved into hack sci-fi writing that could have been spewed out of any crappy IP. Its definitely a fail that there isn't a single non-human in the gang and I need toys of none of them.

I was giving the schmaltzy majordomo a pass until all this garbage happened all at once

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TV-9D9 / Re: The Book of Boba Fett
« on: January 13, 2022, 12:30 AM »
Quote from: Rob on January 12, 2022, 11:23 PM
Quote from: Matt_Fury on January 12, 2022, 10:44 PM
Not my favorite episode but it wasn't the worst thing I've seen.

That’s where I’m netting out.  But the biker gang kids with their robot implants are absurdly dumb…

Yeah. The hipster cyborg gang on space vespas were underwhelming. I need to be whelmed. The 15 mile an hour chase wasn't helping anything either.

I'm starting to wonder if Favreau was hospitalized during production and Disney just went nuts.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2020 TVC Haslab Razor Crest
« on: January 3, 2022, 06:04 PM »
I'm kind of surprised to see styrofoam in the package.

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Other Collectibles / Re: Endor The Little Rebels Artist Series ARTFX Statue
« on: December 13, 2021, 01:04 AM »
Quote from: GrandMoffNick on September 23, 2021, 09:22 PM
Quote from: StBrianOfMinneapolis on September 23, 2021, 12:14 PM
Quote from: GrandMoffNick on September 22, 2021, 05:14 PM
I pre ordered mine from Sideshow and it's not on sale, but if you use their payment plan it's far less hard to swallow the price pill.

Cool, can you chime in here when it arrives? It would be nice to hear when it actually arrives given who things are going with shipping.

I'm still going to wait and see on this one.

Will do

Is this thing shipping any time soon?

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Target 2021 TVC Droids Carded Figures
« on: December 12, 2021, 03:45 PM »
My TVC Droids Threepio arrived in a nice big box, but with a totally mangled card. It looks like the card has a new accordion action feature. I guess he is the opener.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Walmart 2022 TVC Mando/Grogu (Maldo Kreis)
« on: December 8, 2021, 03:40 PM »
Wasn't the original posting of the Walmart TVC mando pack similar to this? I feel like it didn't post until around 4pm central time even though it was announced for noon central time.

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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: 2021 HasLab Black Series Rancor
« on: December 7, 2021, 06:25 PM »
I would wager this is a display scene issue over a scale issue. Plus the pricing issues...

The barge, Unicron, the Razorcrest, the Sentinel, Galactus, and the Sky Striker all lend themselves to big display scenes with a lot of dynamic visuals. I will always love rancors in star wars, and even though they exist outside of Jabba's palace the story of a rancor is limited to the interaction with Oola, Luke, a Gammorrean and Mallakilli. I don't really have a desire to display a rancor with tons of characters around it the way I might with the Barge, Unicron, Galactus or a Sentinel. Those items all feel like a centerpiece to me in the way a rancor does not.

Plus I have had a rancor since 1984. I love my old school rancor, but the beast itself as a concept isn't a grail item in the way these other haslab projects are.

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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: 2021 HasLab Black Series Rancor
« on: December 7, 2021, 02:33 PM »
Quote from: Jeff on December  7, 2021, 02:18 PM
Quote from: Nicklab on December  7, 2021, 06:58 AM
8 - POOR MARKETING  Hasbro had plenty of opportunities to promote this campaign, but their efforts fell flat.  They seemed uninspired and that no doubt affected fans

Hasbro GI Joe team really driving this point home...   Final HasLab Campaign day:

- The Rancor/Star Wars team = nothing

- Skystriker/GI Joe team - first they drop a fun new video on social channels featuring the Skystriker ejection seat parachutes, then they announce an instagram live event with Emily and Lenny at 2pm ET.

Yeah, they probably knew the Rancor was doomed though.

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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: 2021 HasLab Black Series Rancor
« on: December 7, 2021, 12:09 PM »
I've been wondering how former Rancor backers might impact the remining projects. In the 12 hours since the Rancor was crushed the Skystriker picked up 1000 backers and the Proton Pack picked up around 150.

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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: 2021 HasLab Black Series Rancor
« on: December 7, 2021, 12:18 AM »
I was sure they were going to fudge it. Now Rancor and cookie monster can live together in haslab purgatory.

Long live the 3 & 3/4" scale!

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The Vintage Collection / Re: TVC Blue Leader's X-Wing with General Merrick
« on: November 12, 2021, 05:31 PM »
Quote from: Dave on November 10, 2021, 01:32 PM
I watched Rogue One again the other day and boy do we need all the Blue Sqaudron pilots.  I hope Hasbro/Disney makes this the next troop builder 4-pack or starts to work these guys in to the Vintage lineup.  They should be able to kitbash these guys pretty good with new heads, helmets, and paint on existing body tooling.

Yeah, I would have much rather had a blue squadron pack then the rebel fleet troopers. Hopefully blue squadron is next.

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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: 2021 HasLab Black Series Rancor
« on: November 5, 2021, 04:00 PM »
After rewatching the video it's pretty clear this rancor would choke to death on a TBS gammorean.

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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: 2021 HasLab Black Series Rancor
« on: November 5, 2021, 12:31 PM »
Quote from: Dave on November  5, 2021, 11:32 AM
Quote from: Jeff on November  5, 2021, 11:20 AM
Fan First Friday reveals....

- A look at the very first "work-in-progress" hardcopy/model
- Announced Unlock #1 - 6" Gamorrean Guard on POTF card w/appropriately scaled-coin

Wow.  A repack on a new card with a coin.   They're really going all out to pull us in.   ::)

It looks like an easy $100 sale to me. If I do buy this for my TVC collection it will make it an easier decision if I can unload a bunch of TBS extras.

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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: 2021 HasLab Black Series Rancor
« on: November 3, 2021, 04:57 PM »
I don't buy TBS, but I'm considering backing this for use as a TVC item. It's not grossly out of proportion. If anything it's maybe 4-5 inches too tall for TVC but I could manage to see it as a bigger than average Rancor.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2020 TVC Haslab Razor Crest
« on: November 3, 2021, 10:23 AM »
Regarding the shipping date being bumped to early 2022… I don’t know why I never considered the impact of holiday shipping. If Hasbro/Haslab is still shipping out Sentinels, then clearly all the bugs aren’t worked out in order in the supply chain, which we already know. If you add Holiday shipping delays into the mix Hasbro was facing the choice of delivering all the Razorcrests before Thanksgiving or risk it all and possibly have the worst roll out yet of Haslab project delivery.

Waiting until the new year is pretty wise decision given the gundark’s nest of problems with shipping these days.

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