bull****.  The first Boba Fell cost four proof of purchases from other figures plus shipping and handling.  Arguably the most expensive figure of the time!

You paid for proof of purchases?!? Those came free with my figures. I literally had a dozen of them laying around by the time the Boba Fett offer came up--my 2 brothers and I each got a free figure!

(And they didn't charge S&H in 1979!)

 

Our Macy's was like that also. Still a lit of current Hasbro in the mix, I saw new Transformers and Spiderman stuff, but no Star Wars. The interesting thing I noticed on a trip last weekend was all the Toys r Us signage that was there when they set it up is now gone, replaced with some generic Christmas signs instead. I guess that partnership ended fast!

After being disappointed with the value proposition of the Deluxe offerings from last week (excepting the Cannon set, which I found to be acceptable) this Boba Fett figure is the straw that broke the camel's back.

I love the look of the figure, the GI Joe joint structure fits this design perfectly (as compared to Lobot, for example, who looks horrible to me with all the joint cuts.)

I also applaud them for making a Boba Fett figure that will ship in its own solid cases as opposed to being the chase figure in an assortment.

But I'm not gonna pay double what was already a high buy-in to get this one. I'm not even interested in purchasing this Boba Fett at this point, and it might just have cured me from wanting to chase these modern figures at all.

Again I ask--if we've got a $27 TVC pricepoint how come we can't get a TVC Bluurg out at long last???

I find it incredibly tone deaf that they created a Deluxe TVC line, er I mean "expression," focused on the Mandalorian, and didn't make it the venue to release a Bluurg.

I do want the cannon. I want them to figure out how to get a Speeder Bike and Scout in this expression. But what I REALLY want to see is a Darktrooper with charging station, a Ferry Droid with Boat, you know, something new that they can throw on a TVC card later.

I would be super excited to back a Ghost. My son used to use my BMF as the Ghost when he would play Rebels with the figures he had, to have one finally get produced would be a big deal in our house.

I would also back a Twilight in a second should it reappear and become relevant at some point.

Currently 5,054 Backers.

I have to say they are all in love with the toy they produced, they seemed very proud of it in the livestream. And the Gammorean and rancor pictures were fun.

The Salacious reveal was very telling, they wanted to do that because they did the TVC version for SDCC years ago. They are either paying homage to themselves in some weird echo chamber, or have no idea what they are doing so they have to cheat off their neighbors' (or previous teams') test papers.

If Luke was going to be a stretch goal he should have been the first tier. It's not like he is going to be exclusive to this packaging. He'll be in Mandalorian packaging, he'll be in 40th ROTJ packaging, he'll be in Archive packaging someday.

Malakili should've been here. I finally realized what figure they could share his torso with--a Gammorean Gladiator from Mando! Too little, too late though...

And, as a cardboard conoisseur, I have to say that giant test print they showed for the backdrop was entirely too glossy to be of much use to action figure photographers. You can get away with the gloss on smaller pieces but stuff that big is just gonna be all reflected light. Boo.

I agree with the Muftak competition issue as well. Cardboard Galaxy is a fun Instagram follow! It would be extremely petty for Hasbro/Disney to start cutting into his business.

I have no worries about them trying to really do cardboard stuff--the market is too small and they usually screw it up somehow. Like, the Emperor's Throne room fold-out box they did really should have had legs on the sides...mine collapsed under its own weight after 12 hours on display. Also, see their Solo Playsets. (I saw a bunch of Kessel Mines playsets at Ollie's the other day. I might buy some more to convert into !new! Mandalorian Covert Playsets like I did last year converting it  into an Echo Base playset...)

Yesterday was a sobering day to read comments though. There are a lot of folk out there who really really hate cardboard.

They have got to do a Malkili figure as a stretch goal, it will be a poor seller at retail but would also be horribly missing from the line if the Rancor gets funded. Figure out a way to reuse the torso on an alien figure or somebody large who wears a coat or something, but get the Rancor Keeper in the Rancor box. Oola is not as big a deal, she would sell on the pegs and from the looks of the Boba Fett trailer, those parts will be reusable soon enough.