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The Vintage Collection / Re: San Diego Comic Con 2023 Reveals
« on: July 21, 2023, 11:08 AM »
Yeah, I'm going to back it, and then start planning a multi-tiered big ship shelf that I've been thinking about for a few years.
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This Han is on Amazon now… I could be mistaken but that’s the first time I’ve seen it there.
I wonder if Vader shows up soon…
I got my first set today. No black brow line.
I’m hoping the running change is to add it and I can just wait a month or two and order a second one to get both versions.
Mine has the black lines on the helmets, Rob. I bet if you bought another set now it would have the change.
My set from Pulse that I ordered last week just arrived today, I also got the no brow line version. Date stamp is 30321.
It's weird, I still have yet to see the plain white Andor version so this is my first in-person experience with the new clone body. Overall it feels like a bit of a let-down. The body sculpt is GREAT, and I'm really happy with it. The helmet really just kills it. I think it is slightly better in person than the images I've seen, but it is still squished and the paint apps are off. Specific to the 212th set, the paint applications on my helmets is a bit sloppy. I've also noticed that the white doesn't match between the various casted and painted armor pieces.
These sets are a great concept, I just don't think the Hasbro team fully recognizes or understands their Amry building potential. Waxer would have made a great repaint on a single card, but he feels like a wasted slot in the set. If Hasbro had gotten the helmet and deco right here and swapped Waxer for a more generic clone like a 212th airborne trooper (like Matt suggested), a more generic unnamed squad leader, or even just a 4th grunt this set would have been out of the park and I'd have wanted multiples. My old 212th clones are all yellowing and dated. I wouldn't have minded replacing a bunch of them. As is, I'll probably will stick to one set, and maybe pick up a second to try and get the black line variant.
Someone in the TVC Facebook group was able to ID an earlier version of the 212th trooper 4-pack that didn't have the brow line. And the later production run (from April IIRC) DID have the brow line. I haven't ordered this set yet, and I might wait a little longer in the hopes of getting the version with the brow line.
As for the helmet? For all of the advances we've seen in sculpting, and the push for a figure that's based on an actor in the physical costume, it's stunning that the removable helmets just don't look good on a figure in 2023.
Normally, I order two of these packs, but I'm only getting one of these, mainly for these reasons:
1. The price is too high in my opinion.
2. Having the Lt in this makes it tough to army build with.
3. I already have a bunch of the 212th Battalion in my collection.
Just came here to post that... for $30 I bought another one. Every time they go less than the currently lowest I'll buy another one.
Hooray. All that and the happy ending was a thirty dollar Luke / Grogu 2-pack.
My next guess was maybe they'd do it right at the expected time but a day late, but now that doesn't seem to be the case either.