Fantasia was released in 1940.

Quote from: Rob on September  6, 2022, 11:10 PM

does this mean they’ve hit US parks and might keep getting cheaper?

According to Jayson/Yakface, yes this has started hitting parks in the USA - not sure which coast though.

For sure I know a collector who was able to pick it up in Disneyland, so at least CA. I haven't heard anything about FL yet.

I had cancelled my original preorder for the E-Web set when they recently went up as an in-stock preorder due t oShip Sept 4th. I had a change of address and this was the easiest way to go about it, plus I was *hoping* they were being factual about the Sept 4th shipping commitment.

I haven't received any updates from them either way, but looking today it shows it has been delayed. 

We have a bunch of Migs figs here, too. But we also got the Koska cases, and she is selling less well than Migs does. His peg is half full, hers is full with a couple keeping Lando and Reeva company on the regular TVC peg.

I feel like it will definitely be a 4pack, but plussed up with expanding packaging that becomes a stage, like the Emperor's Throne Room from last year. And it will be a $100 Pulse exclusive.

I'd love to see a Cantina in the spirit of the Boba Fett Throne Room, though.

(And for the record, Jayson is strongly implying the next playset will be an Endor Bunker.)

I will never foget my disappointment as a 5 year old kid finally finding a Jawa figure at the local Toys R Us and completing my Star Wars collection (of 12 figures!) only to find it was wearing that cloth robe. I hated that they had changed it, and I never saw a vinyl robed one as a kid. Last year when I got the repro it was like a tiny scar on my psyche had finally been repaired.

In my 20s and 30s I wasn't worried about collecting the actual Kenner figures, I had pretty much had them all as a kid (even Blue Snags, who I believe is still in my parents backyard, buried where my sandbox used to be!) and wasn't looking to recollect them. Then I thought, well I'll get good copies of the Original 12, and okay the first 21...plus the bounty hunters, of course...and now I use them in advertising and sales (and accordingly write off the purchases as business expenses!) so I find myself justifying any figure that works for a Death Star scene, or Cloud City characters, or the Hoth figures...so yeah, I am falling back into collecting the Kenner stuff as I near 50, and trying to do so on a budget with no real concern about whether they are repro or not -- I seem to find lots of originals in good condition (weapons be damned!) for far less than the Stan Solos cost, but the likes of an Imperial Gunner might need to be from him.

As far as all the straight-up Repros, a couple of the first figures he did were the Blue Snag and Yak Face, and the violently anti-repro people were so up in arms about it and being really brutal and nasty to him. So his response was basically "Screw you, I'm going to make a point of it to repro the entire Last 17 just because you are being such idiots." But he has always said his real passion in it was getting to the never-before-made-figures which he seems to be getting back to now.

Even there, look no further than the fact that once he did General Lando from the Last 17, he also made a version of him in movie-accurate colors. And he repurposed Amanaman with Darth Maul-like red and black Sith tattoos to an original character he calls Amaulaman. And as you said, he made Force Ghost Ben and Yoda in the matching style of the Kenner Anakin once that figure came up. So even as he took his revenge detour, he was still using it to make new stuff and not just repros.

He has done lots of astromechs and protocol droids, though the protocol droids have mostly dried up now. And he has a really nice looking Droids cartoon version of R5-D4, if you are into the Droids line.

And at the end of the day Hasbro could be cranking any of this stuff out for $10-$15 a pop and totally eat his lunch but they don't and most of us are resigned to the fact that they never will.

We do...Jayson says so.  I was really weighing those eBay listings though, too.

Where is the Chicago to Georgia info coming from?  For what it is worth, my items shipped from PA.  I believe the main guy from the site is from PA.  From what I have been able to gather, it seems this is a business run out of the home and probably just him and maybe one or two other people who are shipping items out via USPS twice a week.

They had a call-in show featuring the guy who runs TFSB and the guy who sculpted the Bantha on Retroblasting's channel right after said channel lambasted the product in a review. In it they talked about their "factory" and when pressed said that it was located in the Chicago area.

Chris, the main guy, lives in Pennsylvania, and he handles all the non-Bantha orders. Then there's Kevin, the guy who sculpted the Bantha and took over that project when things stalled out with the Chinese factories and Chris had decided that he was just going to scrap it. At that point it became kind of its own entity under TFSB and they ship out from him in Georgia.