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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #45 on: July 30, 2019, 02:55 PM »
Someone posted in a reddit thread that the Vader is supposed to show up in stores this weekend

Someone posted in this thread that Vader is supposed to show up in stores this weekend -

Also in-store starting Aug 2

I'm planning to swing by Target on Friday morning with the DPCI (087-16-0870) to check things out.

Of course they did... sorry Jeff, I can't keep it all straight these days. 

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #46 on: July 30, 2019, 05:16 PM »
For what it's worth...

I had to go to Target this afternoon so I inquired about Vader using the DPCI and they said they had 0 in stock. When they tried to check nearby stores it came up flagged as online only.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #47 on: July 30, 2019, 11:54 PM »
It should be fewer than that if they don't allow for the same color to be in adjacent spots.

If we assume the rules from above (one part color#1, one part color#2, one part color#3, one part color#4, one part color#5, two parts color#6) and add a rule that parts that touch can't have the same color we'd reduce 4320 by 1/6th to 3600.

Example -
Torso - six possible colors
r arm - five possible colors
l arm - four possible colors
r leg - three possible colors
l leg = two possible colors
head - one possible color
saber - five possible colors (can't match r arm)

6*5*4*3*2*1*5=3600

This is it - well done! I totally forgot the fact that if it's say, a Red right arm, then you're definitely NOT going to get a Red Lightsaber blade in the figure. So yeah - for each Right Arm, there are only a total of five possible blade colors.

Ok - so still - with 3600 possible permutations - how on Earth, if ordered two did I end up with two identical ones?!?!!? That's not cool!  >:(

The best reasoning I can think of for that to happen is that if these come in cases of six, like the Retro Collection Wave 1 figures did, each case contains 6 x of one permutation and there were a total of 3600 cases produced. That would then mean, there are a grand total of 3600 x 6 = 21,600 of these made - that seems low, but I guess in today's collecting market, that might actually be the right number.

Needless to say, I'm going to do exactly what Jeff is planning on doing, check the Target App on Friday morning, see if my store is showing as having them in stock and head over there in an attempt to score one more so I can at least have a 2nd variant and if by some miracle they show up again online in the Target app/website, I might order it again for a possible 3rd variant, but that would be it.
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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #48 on: July 31, 2019, 10:00 AM »
The Super Target near me has reset the toy dept. No sign of a peg for this.
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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #49 on: July 31, 2019, 01:54 PM »
I wonder which knucklehead is going to try to be the first to collect all 3,600 variants of this.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #50 on: July 31, 2019, 04:09 PM »
I would've put my money on you far that one, Rob!
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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #51 on: July 31, 2019, 09:18 PM »
My money’s on Pete!  ;D
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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #52 on: July 31, 2019, 09:41 PM »
I would've put my money on you far that one, Rob!

If it was 36, maybe.

3,600... that’s probably how many figures I have total... imagine a second room entirely full of Vader’s... shudder.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #53 on: August 1, 2019, 06:59 AM »
I would be happy if I can manage to snag one carded and one to open.  I'm glad I have stopped collecting for the most part.  It is much easier to keep up with the action figure cover comics than trying to find actual action figures these days.  At least I got the retro wave case from EE so I don't have to look for them any more.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #54 on: August 1, 2019, 10:04 AM »

If it was 36, maybe.

3,600... that’s probably how many figures I have total... imagine a second room entirely full of Vader’s... shudder.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #55 on: August 1, 2019, 07:37 PM »
The packaging should also be a test shot, just random cardboard lying around the factory.

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #56 on: August 1, 2019, 07:42 PM »
If there really are still any true completists left, this ended their run.
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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #57 on: August 1, 2019, 09:27 PM »
If there really are still any true completists left, this ended their run.

I’m probably about as close as anyone gets these days (I try), but what killed my perfect streak was the Disney BAD.  Just too expensive for how tough it was to try to figure out what constituted a full set of those. 

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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #58 on: August 2, 2019, 10:45 AM »
My money’s on Pete!  ;D

Nope, I'm crazy, but not THAT crazy, haha!

I was hoping to score somewhere between 2 and 4 variants, but that was it. I am also perfectly happy just having one.
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Re: SDCC 2019 Retro Collection Amazing Technicolor Vader
« Reply #59 on: August 2, 2019, 01:51 PM »
I wonder which knucklehead is going to try to be the first to collect all 3,600 variants of this.

There's a guy here in LA who I bet might try that. He's got the money to burn.
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