If it is the one I have seen in stores, it is 50-75% to scale for 3.75". Kinda small.

These are the kooky collectors though, the ones that collect this kind of one-off "boutique brands." He makes hundreds of each, not several thousands.

Still, Hasbro has the Retro artoo and threepio molds now. Maybe Adam Pawlus will get them to do more EE droid packs. Hmph. That could be our best chance.

If I had any of those droids or figures, I would be really tempted to be selling now, that is a pretty sizable return.

He's like the Howard Hughes of the Star Wars bootlegger set. I guess Dagobah Luke will be his Spruce Goose.

Here the business just hit another level of notoriety in the last week with the panic sell outs of all the astromechs, and rather than being thrilled and trying to parlay that into more sales and lining up future stuff, he is out because fans aren't supporting his war against a goofoff youtuber?

Which, by the way, has to be more than coincidence. Getting roasted by the guy brought a whole bunch more eyeballs to his stuff, period. No such thing as bad publicity.

Oh well, maybe someone else will be spurred on to pick up where he left off. Or the other personality will surface tomorrow and reverse it.

I wound up redeeming the points for a new set of Apple AirPods.  Otherwise they were going to expire.  So no Slave I for me!

No Slave I for anybody, this release is Boba Fett's Starship! 

Anecdotally I would say we can be assured that there are way less figures produced today than 10 or 20 years ago. Even if every peg at every Target and WalMart were full, you can't deny there used to be 6 pegs versus today's one or two pegs. And that's not even considering the loss of pegs at TRU, KMart, Kaybee...there are less figures around these days.

Figure sell through because collectors need one full case each (or two cases if they collect loose and carded) and automated inventory systems seem to not replenish when the case is sold, but rather on a set interval unless there is inventory on hand. So a case hits, gets bought in its entirety, and then the store gets another case or two 6-8 weeks later. It is a really slow drip process that looks like empty pegs 95% of the time, unless something like 3xLando happens.

He quit before, which is what wound up giving The Fans Strike Back control of their Bantha project and the legacy of quality that Smith Lord Creations used to have that persuaded people to prepay for the 13 figure set that has never been completed.

But it's like with the way his droids just dried up: he has said he can't rerun them because he had to switch factories and lost the tooling, but also he is (rightly so) very reluctant to do second runs of any of the figures, because he doesn't see that the market will buy a full second run and he would be losing money in the transaction. Can't ask him to do that, but it seems to me there are plenty of reasons for him to consider tooling that astromech up again at the new factory and continuing to do smaller runs of those and of course getting to new, different, unique ones.

And then the caveat, if Hasbro lets the flood gates open up on their Retro collection now that they've done the Artoo, too, he's out of business on it anyway. I know he took a hit last year tooling up Retro Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood figures. He only got the the Marion out just ahead of Hasbro's announcement and scrapped his Indy release plans...that's an a lost investment that would probably make me second-guess decisions in the future too.

He reached out to me a couple weeks back wondering if I would do a trade of some of his figures for some Cardboard Galaxy stuff, so I took him up on it (it will get my stuff exposure to his fans, so why not?)

I will be receiving a Baby Wampa and a Toothface (J'Quille) soon, I will let you know what I think of them when they arrive. If the new wave had been announced when we did the deal I probably would have made different choices.

His figures definitely have their own style which is a bit askew from what I see as the Kenner aesthetic, but if he does a Kenner style Muftak down the road I don't think I would be able to resist it, no matter the style.