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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Wave 5 (New TVC Wave 37)
« on: March 27, 2024, 01:28 PM »
Used the Amazon links. I hope these add up for you, Jeff!
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He's Dexter Jettster with lightsabers.
Oh man, yet another opportunity for a Hasbro double-dip / parts re-use. No wonder they planted votes to get him into the final two.
-The OT generation is aging out as a cohort
-Hasbro has had almost 30 years to cover the OT through the years, and they've covered an exhaustive number of characters. So who's left?
-What OT characters would be truly new in the 3.75" scale? And can you rally people behind that character to support them? To me this is a big one.
I feel like the future of OT deep cut figures is going to be the Pulse exclusive carded multi-packs. Stuff like the Skiff Guard 3-pack (tied to the Barge) and the Jabba Goons 4-pack (tied to the Jabba playset). Both those sets delivered all-new OT characters to our collections.
Old man OT collectors can afford a $70-80 hit for a carded 4-pack of stuff that has no chance at basic retail - something like:
- Baniss Keeg/Tzizvvt/Hammerhead/Wuher
- Fozec/Shasa Tiel/Yotts Oren/Gallid
Feels like something like that, where they can charge a little more ($20 each) and control the volume as an open pre-order on Pulse, has a much more realistic chance of getting all-new OT characters made.
If Hasbro can't find TVC slots for characters that already got BS6" figures like Baze, Bohdi, Luthen, Bix, Dedra, 5th Brother, Tala, etc., then how are they ever going to find a TVC slot for dudes like Fozec or Tzizvvt?
Baylan and Shin it is I suppose. What incredibly obvious choices.
Got Finn and Cassian today.
Hooray.
By my count, this Finn is the first sequel trilogy figure since I moved into my house, which is just under three years ago.
Hasbro really hates those movies.
Edit… also just got shipping notices from Amazon and Pulse on the Clone and Dooku.
How's the Finn head? I didn't order him but I might if he's a decent enough improvement.
Super rough though...there's so few actual scenes you can even set up with the ST stuff. I actually took them out of my display shelves until they eventually make some connective tissue there, scene-wise. Poe's orange x-wing is such an awesome ship too, so it's a shame.
No idea why, but R2-D2 is now down to $9.97 this morning... hooray for Amazon pre-order guarantee so I don't have to do the 'cancel and re-order' thing.
I ordered a second this morning because hey, why not for less than $10.
2024 VC149 Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2)
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