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The Vintage Collection / Re: Vintage Collection Pricing - Sales, Discounts, Price Hikes!
« Last post by Rob on Today at 03:31 PM »Are you saying the factory was just taking orders directly from EE?
EE just canceled my order for these, they said the manufacturer has informed them they won't be producing them.
Years ago I asked one of them about it T some convention and she said she love to have an action figure made of her. The other one had already died I think.
I asked the actress that was signing autographs what the deal was with the rights and all that stuff.
She said that it was never true for her, but that the OTHER actress was witholding rights to the likeness. She also said that she'd gone to the Hasbro guys the day before to let them know that they had permission to make the figure in her likeness. She implied that they all but told her that they were going to go ahead and try to make ONE figure - then everyone could buy two.
Is there an echo in here, Rob?!
As for the bar, yeah, the Hasbro rep I chatted with at their booth confirmed that the U-shaped portion will be coming (as part of an overall 3-piece Cantina set), and that the distillery would definitely be included too, which was great to hear. He said the sets were essentially ready to go, and that they were just waiting for a retailer to pick them up as an exclusive. They wouldn't elaborate on any of the figure choices for inclusion though, and made it sound like that part of the set may still be up in the air right now. I obviously pointed out that the Tonnika sister would be an obvious choice, since that where she was standing in the movie. Though I'd prefer it if she was single carded instead.
One staff member from another site said that his friend had already seen these items back in Asia, so it sounds like they're very much already finished, and just sitting around waiting...
That would also seem to mesh timing-wise with what the Hasbro guys told me last year at Comic Con, which was that the rest of the bar was definitely on the way at some point soon... So just a question of being patient and waiting it out.
I also pushed the obvious Hem Dazon/Arcona idea on them, and they said that it was indeed an obvious choice, and would unquestionably be coming sooner or later. So no worries on that figure either, other than your patience level.
in private at the booth they sure did a LOT of hinting that the Tonnkia Twins may have something to do with the upcoming Distillery and U-Shaped bar pieces...
Here is a weird one - EE is once again taking pre-orders for the original Walmart exclusive version of the VC231 Stormtrooper at the original $15 price.
So you can get the VC231 original card (with warning on the Hildebrandt logo) for $14.99 each -> https://ee.toys/GSYLT0
Or the new cardback with the relocated warning box for $16.99 each -> https://ee.toys/H60ZR2
The shipping dates are not even that different (June vs July of 2024). If you're looking to bulk purchase Stormtroopers, free shipping starts at 6 of the $15 version at EE.
Well, I haven’t had any luck with the FB groups but I have sold a few things on eBay.
I have had two people now reach out to me trying to get me to sell them all my Legos outside of eBay. This seems shady to me and I know eBay frowns on it, so I have rebuffed these kinds of questions so far. Even though it would be nice to forego the 15% seller fees, I feel like this would be opening myself up to more risk as well.
I’ve never had this happen in many years of selling other stuff, so I guess it must be a Lego thing?