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Adam Pawlus from EE says orders are processing now, and the set shows up as In Stock on their website. I guess get 'em while the getting's good!

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The consensus (such as it is) is that there will be a TVC Deluxe figure revealed. (People are leaning toward Wrecker or Savage Opress.)

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The Vintage Collection / Re: New York Comic Con 2025 Reveals
« on: October 9, 2025, 10:04 PM »
The Stan Solo Garindan is so much better than this one.

How so? I was about to get exited about this but maybe I shouldn’t be?

I would say the Stan Solo Garindan looks like a figure from 1978/79 should look, vinyl cape and all.

The Retro figure looks more like a 1985 POTF after-the-fact version, if that makes sense. His sculpted-on cape (under the weird shawl thing) has very '84 Emperor vibes.

Very different approaches.

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Lt. Callahan has gone back to regular price ( at least in my Amazon app.) So they must have sold through sale designated quantities?

In any case, it motivated me to stop watching and buy the stuff I wanted. ( Tusken 4pk and the ReAction Big Bird/Snuffy 2pk.)

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Star Wars Anthology / Re: The Mandalorian & Grogu - May 22, 2026
« on: September 23, 2025, 03:00 PM »
It is going to be a movie more or less because Disney realized they were not going to be able to make money from adding streaming content, but a movie might, so the scripts for Season 4 were cannibalized into a movie instead. It's about trying to make money with the IP.

I have always felt the show was aiming for after-school cartoon quality like GIJoe or Transformers, so I am already anticipating the movie to be like those franchises' 80's movie efforts. Not expecting much.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: New York Comic Con 2025 Reveals
« on: September 19, 2025, 09:05 PM »

Still having a terrible time finding the Jabba's Denizen 4-pack under $200.

If this is something you are truly looking for, I could get you one shipped for $100. Feel free to PM me and we can discuss it.

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Wow, 2× again the amount you spent in the first third of September almost exactly!!

This is why I don't do preorders, I guess...

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The Gunship, Landspeeder, Bantha, and Shocktroopers/Han/Chewie total $760 and we're only a third of the way into the month.  Ouch.

I hope you don't have $1,500 in preorders still outstanding at this point! Hang in there, brother!

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 TVC HasLab Republic LAAT/i Gunship
« on: September 9, 2025, 10:29 PM »
Do we have any sense of what their margins are generally like?  I'm curious about how much of that ~$4.5m is actual profit after all the development, production, overseas shipping, domestic shipping...

Typically they run with a profit margin between 10%-20%. I'd lean toward the higher side on a HasLab since they bypass the retailers and collect the MSRP themselves. So call it a million or so in profit?

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 TVC HasLab Republic LAAT/i Gunship
« on: September 9, 2025, 12:13 AM »
Coleman Trebor is on the phone with the State of Florida right now: "I need 225 more votes!!"

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 TVC HasLab Republic LAAT/i Gunship
« on: September 8, 2025, 07:45 PM »
It funded!

Then jumped 50+ backers and climbing.

This is where the fun begins!

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 TVC HasLab Republic LAAT/i Gunship
« on: September 4, 2025, 09:07 PM »
I really think they have trapped themselves with this one a year model. After several years of successful campaigns boosting the profits, the shareholders would not be happy to take a less profitable year and have it explained away because HasLabs are experimental. They don't care, they want to see profits grow year over year.

But more importantly for our side,  it seems they must use the HasLab profits to help budget the TVC line. I think they are counting on the Gunship to fund, otherwise they won't be able to budget fun new items for the big 50th Anniversary that they will be preparing next year ( for the following year.)

No Gunship could mean a lot of 50th Anniversary repacks!

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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 TVC HasLab Republic LAAT/i Gunship
« on: September 3, 2025, 11:12 PM »
Counterpoint: if there aren't even 10k people interested in backing the Gunship, Hasbro has enough data to decide to skip making these figures that they think go with it in the even larger quantities needed for a mainstream release.

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Star Wars Dioramas and Displays / Re: Cardboard Galaxy
« on: August 30, 2025, 02:49 PM »
Thanks, Scott. I don't do much promotion of CBG here because I don't want to shill where I hang out...and I don't have a reliable method to post photos, so who wants to read descriptions and click links? Not me!

But the business is still alive and doing better than ever as I head into my 10th year at it!

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I can confirm I saw singles of them at Target that I assumed came in with the big loose stock boxes and not by the case, with no corresponding shelf tag or peg allocated to them. Those have since disappeared without me ever seeing them on clearance, and the Targets by me are onto the next deluxe figure: the trooper guy from Mando Season 3, who does seem to be arriving by the case to a waiting peg and price sticker.

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