2024 Disney Star Tours Starspeeder 3000

[Nicklab]

I was STUNNED by how big this thing is!  Truly stunned.  As big as the Razor Crest?!?!?  REALLY?!?!?

I really thought I wanted this.  But between the size and what people are getting for it on the secondary market?  I decided to put mine up for sale.  Ironically, the funds will go towards the Disney vacation that I've been planning for my kid's 12th birthday!

I think I will keep searching for a *REASONABLY* priced Starspeeder 1000 on the secondary market - AFTER the Disney trip, of course.

[Matt_Fury]

If you’re going to WDW Nick, let me know when you’ll be here.  We have APs and would love to meet up if possible!

[Matt_Fury]

My Starspeeder showed up today.  It is very cool.

Also huge!


Update:  Made a review video.

[Rob]

I managed to buy the R2-D2 today... by all accounts it's the same as the old Droid Factory R2, but I don't think I ever had that because I didn't consider the droids you can cobble together out of parts as actual figures I was going to buy.

So now that one's secured... I at least have the option of just buying an RX-24, or buying the whole thing depending on how things shake out over the next few weeks and months.

[Matt_Fury]

I'd be patient if I were you Rob.  Disney is going to release a park version of this...most likely without any of the bells and whistles this thing comes with (and the numbered carded RX-24.)

I saw the carded figure alone on ebay for the price of the entire StarSpeeder!  That's just as ridiculous as people listing this thing for 6 times the retail price.

[Rob]

Yeah that’s my plan right now.  The R2 was very reasonably priced all things considered.  I’m not going to end a complete collection over an expensive Rex, but I’m going to let it play out for awhile.  I don’t NEED the Starspeeder, space is limited, but if I can’t get the Rex for less than half of the current market I might as well wait and see if I can get an entire ship later. 

[Nicklab]

If you’re going to WDW Nick, let me know when you’ll be here.  We have APs and would love to meet up if possible!

Cool!  Most of our time in Orlando will be mid-week, so I don't know how convenient that might be for you.  We're going to be staying at the resort, so I was not planning on renting a car.  WDW's ground transportation is pretty extensive.

[Jeff]

According to the DisneyParks Instagram page, the Star Speeder 3000 is coming to Disney Parks' Tatooine Traders store on September 13th (limit 2 per person). 

It isn't clear if this is more of the "limited to 3000" version or if this is a new/different edition for the parks...  wait and see I guess.

[Rob]

Oh good, that should drive the prices way down.  Glad I waited on getting a RX-24.

EDIT:  On Rebelscum they're speculating that this will just be left-over stock from D-23 and not actually a consistently carried in-stock item for the parks...

[Jeff]

EDIT:  On Rebelscum they're speculating that this will just be left-over stock from D-23 and not actually a consistently carried in-stock item for the parks...

Seems like a lot of needless overhead to save an allotment specifically to ship across the country for the Florida Tatooine Traders store after already selling out at two other times but maybe that was the plan all along so FL Disney didn't feel left out of the buzz.

[Rob]

Yeah I hope it's not like that and this will just be available now... if there was extra, I'd have thought they'd just put it on the website with all the rest that they sold out of that first hour.

[Muftak]

I really hope this is the start of open stock / beyond the 3000, but I am worried this was an allotment set aside for WDW from the beginning. From everything I have seen, there were only 700 set aside for the online sales, and those were staged in two different shipping spots (east coast and west coast) prior to D23, so it makes sense to me that there could have been a whole separate allotment for Orlando.

Entirely selfishly, I will be in Orlando in a couple weeks and if there should be Starspeeders available at that time it will really really tempting. So I am praying to the toy gods tonight!

[Nicklab]

Jake from 4Lom To Zuckuss is saying that what's landing at Tatooine Traders will be the last of the 3000 units.  If this is in fact the case?  Then I suspect that this could be a supply that was on hand in the event that people received their Starspeeder damaged, there were shipping issues, etc.

However, I still find it to be completely absurd that Disney would invest so much capital into this new Starspeeder vehicle / playset to limit the production run to 3000 pieces globally.  I think it's entirely possible that a pared down version that has fewer features might be offered for sale at the Disney Parks.  That could mean possibly without the base, or with just one RX pilot droid, etc.

[Matt_Fury]

I'm going to DHS next week and will do a scouting report....if they're still available.

[Matt_Fury]

I went to Disney Hollywood Studios and checked out Tatooine Traders today.  They had 31 of these all over the store with a limit of two per customer.

Almost criminal what Shop Disney did to people who can't make it to the parks.