Brick and mortar for Vintage Collection is effectively dead in Chicago.

Toys R Us is gone, Target only carries Epic Heroes and Black Series.  There’s like one Game Stop left, and there are no Walmarts unless you drive out to the suburbs - and there’s no point in that when Pulse or Amazon will drop them off at my door.  The days of in store purchases are basically over for the foreseeable future here.

Evazan comparison photos for anyone who's interested... the new one is on the right.  They are very similar, but do have some differences.  The stuff that stands out to me is the hair, and the bump/texture on the shirt.  The skin tone is slightly different too.

At any rate, all this new old stock appears to be coming out of that original, good factory. I would be surprised if it was a new run and not just getting rid of everything that was made circa 2020.

Yeah, as cool as it would be for everyone to be able to buy this stuff, with what I spent this week I’ll be fine with it if it ends up being limited old stock.

I doubt it, Stan Solo is the gold standard as far as I'm concerned.

But, most of these are the fabled "13" that Krahn was producing before his business went belly up and everyone lost their money.  So there's something interesting about being able to own them.  I've spent a small fortune this week on Space Man, Aunt Beru, White Pauldron Sandtrooper, Holo Leia, Biggs, Wedge, Admiral Motti, Antilles, and R4-M9. 

It's all very stupid, but I don't know if these are a few samples this factory had and found and this is a buy-em-now-or-regret-it-later thing, or if they've got a ton of them and will slowly trickle them out for an extended period of time.  So I went for it.

I'll report back when the first ones show up.

I got a shipping notice last night.  So yeah, this one's on the way from Pulse.

I have a $44.xx charge from Pulse on my credit card, I'm almost positive it's for this.

Mechs!  The Mechs themselves will promptly be going into storage...






And here are 3 of the 4 Vaders, with a new TVC Vader... I can't remember where in the collection the first Epic Heroes Vader went, so it's not pictured... the Scale on the Vaders isn't ridiculously large, if anything they're the same or slightly smaller than the TVC ones, so that's interesting...

Dammit.