6" Black Series Store Finds and Recent Purchases

[Diddly]

Revans are being found at Best Buy of all places. The kicker is that Best Buy is splitting up the figures from the wave and sending 2 random figures to every store. I saw the Snowtrooper over the weekend at the store closest to me, but I'm not really up for searching each and every Best Buy in town. Might be worth checking though!

[Nicklab]

Revans are being found at Best Buy of all places. The kicker is that Best Buy is splitting up the figures from the wave and sending 2 random figures to every store. I saw the Snowtrooper over the weekend at the store closest to me, but I'm not really up for searching each and every Best Buy in town. Might be worth checking though!

I read about that and checked a local Best Buy store.  There was about 16' of shelf space near the DVD/Blu Ray section, and that display had assorted Star Wars and Marvel collectibles, and barely any of it was Hasbro.  And the little Hasbro merch I did find was Marvel stuff:  12" Marvel Legends, electronic Iron Man helmets, etc.  I saw Star Wars R/C speeder bikes, X-wings and TIE's, but nothing from Hasbro.

[Diddly]

My store had that same section, and then another "collectible" section closer to the video games that had the Black Series shelf sticker, and also had a bunch of Funko POP Vinyls, and the other new ripoff lines (Dorbz, the metal figurines, etc)

[McMetal]

The SWB 6" Jyn Erso figure is marked down to $4.97 at GameStop. I've grabbed a bunch for trades, customs, etc. I think that's the lowest store price I've seen yet on a BS figure. Not bad at all!

[JediJman]

That's a great deal.  I feel that was one of the more well done 6" figures as well.

[Nicklab]

40AC 6" figures are showing up at TRU. I spotted Luke, Leia and Obi-Wan today. I picked up Leia because of the resculpt.

[JediJman]

Is R2 in this case and just selling out that quickly?  I haven't seen him in person with any of the others, nor in anyone's reports.

[Nicklab]

R2 is in the first wave, but short-packed from what I've read.

[JediJman]

R2 is in the first wave, but short-packed from what I've read.

Thanks for confirming.  Well, that makes a lot of sense.  With most of the other figures out in black boxes recently, why not short pack the R2?   

[GrandMoffNick]

I've yet to see R2. I've only seen Han at Game Stop.

Why would they not multi case pack the figure from wave 1 and the other figure from the orange black series packaging?

Obnoxious move

[GrandMoffNick]

And of course I'm the sucker who will hunt the R2 I already have because of the cardback

[Diddly]

R2 is in the first wave, but short-packed from what I've read.

Thanks for confirming.  Well, that makes a lot of sense.  With most of the other figures out in black boxes recently, why not short pack the R2?   

Rumor is it's because Leia, Luke and Obi-Wan are already in production due to the recent Black Series releases, whereas Han and R2 have been out of production for 3-4 years now.

[GrandMoffNick]

Someone school me please if need be, but aren't they running new production on Han and R2 now?

[JediJman]

Someone school me please if need be, but aren't they running new production on Han and R2 now?

Yeah, don't they all need to run through production to be on the new cards?  If anything I would think that you'd short pack the items already in another package versus producing twice as many of them.  If they have to produce Han and R2 anyway, I would think shorter runs would hurt the profit per item on these.  But of course that argument is all based on logic and common sense.

[Qui-Gon Jim]

Luke and Obi-Wan are easily findable for less than retail.

R2-D2 and Han Solo, while out of production for a couple years now, were clearanced out at the time when they were in stores.  This may be why they were wary to pack these heavily.  But the alternative is to pack another item heavier that is currently clogging distribution.  What a mess.

Leia is easily available but this one is slightly different.

That means that they will sell
R2
Han

Leia





Luke
Obi-Wan