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Collectibles => Kenner Retro Collection => Topic started by: Rob on July 23, 2022, 11:38 PM
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I just saw someone on RS say the Retro 6-pack is $94.99.
Is that true?
$15.83 plus tax and shipping for 5-POA figures??
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I just saw someone on RS say the Retro 6-pack is $94.99.
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STAR WARS RETRO COLLECTION STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE COLLECTIBLE MULTIPACK
(HASBRO/Age 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $94.99/Available: Spring 2023)
A big jump fom the $69 they charged for the last one - repacks vs all-new figures I guess is their excuse?
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There’s no excuse. It’s highway robbery for retro to cost the same thing as TVC. Hell, that’s actually almost a dollar more each than the three super-articulated TVC preorders yesterday.
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STAR WARS RETRO COLLECTION STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE COLLECTIBLE MULTIPACK
(HASBRO/Age 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $94.99/Available: Spring 2023)
When do these go up?
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STAR WARS RETRO COLLECTION STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE COLLECTIBLE MULTIPACK
(HASBRO/Age 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $94.99/Available: Spring 2023)
When do these go up?
They said they will announce the order date at a later time.
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There’s no excuse. It’s highway robbery for retro to cost the same thing as TVC. Hell, that’s actually almost a dollar more each than the three super-articulated TVC preorders yesterday.
It's Super7 pricing without the Super7 quirky lineup. I would much rather pay premium for unrealized Kenner OT figures than a Death Squad Commando they can't sell in a store because of the name pill.
Artoo and Threepio could be released in huge numbers in 2-packs or whatever to pay for those molds. And then Hasbro could turn around and make any number of other droids off the molds (see Stan Solo.)
Jawas and Sand People in 2-packs/Mandalorian cards would also be easy sales.
There is no reason for these figures to not have a plan in place to amortize the molds.
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STAR WARS RETRO COLLECTION STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE COLLECTIBLE MULTIPACK
(HASBRO/Age 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $94.99/Available: Spring 2023)
When do these go up?
They said they will announce the order date at a later time.
Thanks!
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There’s no excuse. It’s highway robbery for retro to cost the same thing as TVC. Hell, that’s actually almost a dollar more each than the three super-articulated TVC preorders yesterday.
I thought the Highway Robbery was Hasbro offering Slave One yet again in 2023 when they had just offered it in 2020, for $50 more, and now with a pack-in figure.
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It’s both. Between that, the $16.99 repaints and the $27 “deluxe” Fett. I’m worried that Hasbro is testing what they can get away with and finding that they can get away with a lot.
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It's Super7 pricing without the Super7 quirky lineup.
Over the course of like 4 years, Super 7 went from $9.99 with Funko, to $14.99 by themselves, to $18, and I read the other day that some of the new preorders are showing up at $19.50.
At $18, I quit and never looked back. I love that line... but with tax and shipping I was paying $23+ for a single figure from them, they don't have sales, or clubs, or free shipping with purchases over X... they are just expensive.
It seems to have worked for them, but at some point the value just wasn't there for what you get. For me at least...
Now with Hasbro in a similar span, 5-POA went from like $6.99 or $7.99 with Solo, to $9.99 for Retro, and now they're seemingly randomly pried between $10.99 and about $16 each for these guys.
I could be wrong, but at the speed this stuff is jumping, it just feels like gouging and greed more than necessary costs due to supply chain issues and Covid
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It's the two vac-metalized figures. They're jacking the price up on this so when it doesn't sell well, they will use that data to justify not doing a modern vac-metalized C-3P0.
*edit*
Another, more plausible, reason is that Hasbro is charging this ridiculous price because they know most people will pay it.
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Now with Hasbro in a similar span, 5-POA went from like $6.99 or $7.99 with Solo, to $9.99 for Retro, and now they're seemingly randomly pried between $10.99 and about $16 each for these guys.
I think Retro is sort of fun at $10 or less, but pretty stupid at prices much above that.
I would much, much rather have all new 5POA figures with full paint applications and modern style sculpts than Retro figures. I'd even be willing to pay somewhat more for new 5POA figures ($13?) than Retro figures. There are so many 5POA from Mando, Solo, etc. that I'd love to see made before more Retro figures, new or old.
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I think Retro is sort of fun at $10 or less, but pretty stupid at prices much above that.
I would much, much rather have all new 5POA figures with full paint applications and modern style sculpts than Retro figures. I'd even be willing to pay somewhat more for new 5POA figures ($13?) than Retro figures. There are so many 5POA from Mando, Solo, etc. that I'd love to see made before more Retro figures, new or old.
Agreed 100%...remakes of the Kenner figures at prices close to what loose real Kenner figures sell for are nuts.
I miss the modern 5POAs as well...Hasbro botched assortments there for a few years, and retail lost confidence in them, but I sure wish Hasbro could figure out a way to give us a "background weirdo" line in some capacity...it's what made Star Wars figures great back in the day.
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...it's what made Star Wars figures great back in the day.
Amen.
I know times have changed, but as a kid in the vintage days I don't think I would have bought any repack/repaint figure because it was ever so slightly different. My one ANH Darth Vader was all I needed for the whole trilogy of adventures. But I did buy every cantina alien and bounty hunter with 2 seconds of screen time because they were new, weird, and awesome.
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Agreed 100%...remakes of the Kenner figures at prices close to what loose real Kenner figures sell for are nuts.
I definitely think this is aimed more at carded collectors than loose collectors. They really haven't hit of those really HTF vintage figures yet.
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Not many nice Kenner era figures can be had for $15 these days.
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I definitely think this is aimed more at carded collectors than loose collectors. They really haven't hit of those really HTF vintage figures yet.
You're definitely right in that assessment. These releases are aimed at carded collectors first and foremost. I have 5% or so of my collection on card, and that is mostly because of lack of inertia when I got the figure, so I tend to lose sight of the carded collector.
Not many nice Kenner era figures can be had for $15 these days.
I must be blessed, there is a vintage toy store near me that has an 4-foot tall R2-D2 cooler full of loose Star Wars figures for sale that I regularly dig through. Lots of modern, but lots of vintage too. Last year I wanted to get the Kenner bounty hunters again so I dug through and scored 4 of 6 all looking really good. I have always had really good luck there, and have rarely needed to look elsewhere when I get an itch for a specific loose Kenner figure.
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It’s less the figures than the accessories. There are so many fakes now that the real ones have big value. There are finished eBay auctions for the black A-Wing pilot’s blaster that are finishing at $300 to $350. Regular common ones that are authentic are getting $25… $35… even more.
It’s bananas.
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It’s less the figures than the accessories. There are so many fakes now that the real ones have big value. There are finished eBay auctions for the black A-Wing pilot’s blaster that are finishing at $300 to $350. Regular common ones that are authentic are getting $25… $35… even more.
It’s bananas.
Oh the accessories, yes. Last year I needed a Bespin Gown Leia to do a photo shoot of the Dining Room Playset I built, and the same store wanted $80 for the loose complete figure (I needed a nice cape, could've cared less about the gun) they had in stock. When I choked on that, they explained it was $65 for the gun alone, and they wouldn't break up the set.
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SW Celebration panel said this 6-pack would finally be going up for order on May 4th pre-order -
1pm ET (noon CT) on Thursday, May 4th at ShopDisney.
edit: pre-order time corrected to 11am ET (5/4/23)
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SW Celebration panel said this 6-pack would finally be going up for order on May 4th pre-order - 1pm ET (noon CT) on Thursday, May 4th at ShopDisney.
Hasbro has issued a correction this morning. This pack will now be going up for pre-order at 11:00 am ET today, not at 1pm. Info says both Hasbro Pulse and Shop Disney.
They are trying to stagger things a little bit so folks are not trying to pre-order from Target, Walmart, Disney, etc all at the same time.
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I actually appreciate that. It’s a whirlwind to do them all at once and given how bad Target is, they’re who I start with. Then you’re stuck hoping other places haven’t sold out.
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It was up a few minutes early. I thought I'd read they were charging like $90 or $100 for this and it was listed at $69.99. So that's nice I guess.
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It was up a few minutes early. I thought I'd read they were charging like $90 or $100 for this and it was listed at $69.99. So that's nice I guess.
Disney has it up for $89.99... so when I saw this, I went to Pulse.
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It was up a few minutes early. I thought I'd read they were charging like $90 or $100 for this and it was listed at $69.99. So that's nice I guess.
Disney has it up for $89.99... so when I saw this, I went to Pulse.
The original PR release said $95 for this set so that $70 Pulse price seems really out of whack, especially if it's $90 at Disney. I won't be surprised if the price changes at Pulse when Hasbro catches the error.
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As long as they don't change my existing order!
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I got a shipping notice and tracking number already via Hasbro Pulse. Temporary charge currently on my CC. No estimated arrival date yet.
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I got a shipping notice and tracking number already via Hasbro Pulse. Temporary charge currently on my CC. No estimated arrival date yet.
Same here.
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Mine just got here. Nice enough set, essentially just what I expected.
I'm glad it wasn't $90.