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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2024 TVC Troop Builder X-Wing Pilot 4-Pack
« on: March 25, 2025, 04:46 PM »
Nice, I'll take another. Especially w/ Carson Teva coming out soon.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 TVC Landspeeder
« on: March 20, 2025, 07:36 PM »I could definitely see the potential for a double dip on the V344 Luke. The landspeeder comes with his rifle. But then I think about the TVC release from around 2011, and there was no pack-in figure.
It feels like the carded pack-ins w/ repacks or retools have become the norm now though w/ vehicles and beasts. It seems like an easy way for Hasbro to justify raising the cost of the base item and it gets "carded completionist" collectors who wouldn't normally buy a vehicle to purchase one, and the "loose & carded completionists" to buy two. And with the rumored higher pricepoint on the Landspeeder, I think we can fully expect one.
Honestly I'd be good with any of the suggestions so far. If it does end up being a Sandtrooper, I'd want it to be the officer and then they can issue the grunts as a basic figure.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: Vintage Collection Rumors
« on: March 13, 2025, 12:51 PM »
No complaints with anything on there. Those have all been high on my wants list for awhile.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: Who Is Left From The Cantina?
« on: March 13, 2025, 12:48 PM »
What a great list Jeff! A lot of the characters on here are the kind of repaints/retools that I can get really get behind. I'd happily buy pretty much every one of these, even someone like Mhyr Rho who looks like he came straight out of 'Cats'...
Any plans to add characters from "The Mandalorian" cantina appearance?
Any plans to add characters from "The Mandalorian" cantina appearance?
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 Hasbro Pulse Fan Stream Reveals
« on: March 5, 2025, 05:36 PM »Hasbro gave the landspeeder a new feature -- a cloaking device. I can't find it by any search criteria.
It was just pipelined - there's no preorder for it yet as far as I was aware.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 Hasbro Pulse Fan Stream Reveals
« on: March 5, 2025, 02:20 PM »
I did EE for everything to get the free shipping and not give Amazon as much money, but I still added two extra Commandos on Amazon in case they drop in price.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: Willrow Hood
« on: March 4, 2025, 05:44 PM »
Fantastic description. Also, how dare they not know who OCB is? 
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 Deluxe VC358 IG-12, Grogu, & Anzellan
« on: March 3, 2025, 02:20 PM »And on a related note, the tracking within the Amazon app is crazy. Has it been like this for awhile? I could see where the delivery truck was and how many stops away it was, and it was super accurate.
I guess its good if you're ordering expensive stuff or have to deal with porch pirates (this was neither).
Bezos also has to track the drivers in realtime to make sure they aren't stopping to pee anywhere.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 Hasbro Pulse Fan Stream Reveals
« on: February 28, 2025, 04:39 PM »Nice to get confirmation on the landspeeder. Hopefully that is not going to cost more than the Speeder Bikes (without a pack-in I feel that is still reasonable even with today's prices). I can't image wanting to spend to much more that than on a small vehicle...
Sounds like the Landspeeder will end up in the $60-80 range... more details to come.
Ooooffff.
I would not be surprised to see the Landspeeder offered in that price range. There's also the mystery of another vehicle in the works for TVC. And I think there could be some possibilities with this if it's slated to be part of the Return to Tatooine theme:
-The Imperial Troop Transport - Sure, it was originally released by Kenner in the 1978/79 line. And then it turned up in The Mandalorian, eventually being released in TVC. The Kenner box art always made it look like it belonged on Tatooine.
-T-16 Skyhopper - It amounted to a toy and glorified set dressing in ANH. But I'm fairly sure there's one in the ROTJ victory montage as it checks in on Mos Eisley. Could Hasbro go back to the well with this? It was one of those POTF2 vehicles that was a bit of a surprise way back when. I could see the potential for packing in a variation of Farmboy Luke with this.
-Lars family speeder - Again, this was essentially set dressing. It got a repaint for appearances on the streets of Mos Eisley. Plus the same model speeder was worked into the final episode of The Book of Boba Fett. Is it worth Hasbro going there? I don't know.
I still think it could be the "9000 Z001 landspeeder". There was a shadow on the poster outside of the Cantina that looked like it could be the right size, plus it would tie in with both the HasLab & the smaller Mos Eisley Streets playset.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2018 HasLab - TVC Jabba's Sail Barge (The Khetanna)
« on: February 28, 2025, 04:37 PM »
Thanks! It is supposedly new and unopened. I'm really hoping I have better luck with Hasbro's quality control than a lot of you had... but regardless I'll be happy to have it finally.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2018 HasLab - TVC Jabba's Sail Barge (The Khetanna)
« on: February 27, 2025, 07:39 PM »
Welp. I finally did it. I picked up the Barge on eBay, and it was by far the most I've ever spent on a collectible. Most of the Barges I've seen over the last 2-3 months have been listed for $2k+ (a few were as high as $7k). I bid on one that started around $1200 sometime last week but ended up stopping bidding after it got over $1,700 and the seller tried to tell me shipping would be almost $300... That one ended up closing at $1800 (before shipping & tax). I was able to use that number to make an offer to another seller who had one listed for $2,300 and got them to come down to $1,850 ($2,110 total w/ tax & shipping).
It was a large chunk of change, but this is a grail piece for me that has not been getting any cheaper and I just got a bonus at work and had some credit card rewards points to use. Hopefully, if everything goes smoothly with the shipping, I should have it in hand next week.
It was a large chunk of change, but this is a grail piece for me that has not been getting any cheaper and I just got a bonus at work and had some credit card rewards points to use. Hopefully, if everything goes smoothly with the shipping, I should have it in hand next week.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2025 Hasbro Pulse Fan Stream Reveals
« on: February 26, 2025, 12:43 PM »
A bit light on TVC, but Emily hinted there might be more at Toy Fair this weekend.
Nice to get confirmation on the landspeeder. Hopefully that is not going to cost more than the Speeder Bikes (without a pack-in I feel that is still reasonable even with today's prices). I can't image wanting to spend to much more that than on a small vehicle...
Ponda Baba looks fine, he was an obvious rerelease. I'm bummed he didn't get some additional retooling but the updated paint looks like a minor improvement.
The Commando looks fantastic and the accessories all look great, that being said I may have preferred to forgo some of the accessories to get him on a single card. As a deluxe, I likely won't be picking up as many of them and will hope it gets rereleased in either a troop-builder pack or on a basic card.
Hammerhead is everything I was hoping he's be (aside from being a deluxe, but that was definitely expected). They included enough accessories to make it feel like he is worth the deluxe price. Given that he is an "Original 96" figure I wish they would have found a way to get him onto a standard card (even if it was at the Deluxe price), the Hasblab Zeb shows they could have done it with a large figure w/ large accessories. It will be interesting to see how big he actually is once we have him in hand.
Nice to get confirmation on the landspeeder. Hopefully that is not going to cost more than the Speeder Bikes (without a pack-in I feel that is still reasonable even with today's prices). I can't image wanting to spend to much more that than on a small vehicle...
Ponda Baba looks fine, he was an obvious rerelease. I'm bummed he didn't get some additional retooling but the updated paint looks like a minor improvement.
The Commando looks fantastic and the accessories all look great, that being said I may have preferred to forgo some of the accessories to get him on a single card. As a deluxe, I likely won't be picking up as many of them and will hope it gets rereleased in either a troop-builder pack or on a basic card.
Hammerhead is everything I was hoping he's be (aside from being a deluxe, but that was definitely expected). They included enough accessories to make it feel like he is worth the deluxe price. Given that he is an "Original 96" figure I wish they would have found a way to get him onto a standard card (even if it was at the Deluxe price), the Hasblab Zeb shows they could have done it with a large figure w/ large accessories. It will be interesting to see how big he actually is once we have him in hand.
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The Vintage Collection / Re: 2023 HasLab - TVC The Ghost
« on: February 21, 2025, 01:44 AM »
The guitar stand is a great idea. That's a nice little Akbar focus you have there Rob!
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Collector's Tips / Re: Platoon Systems Action Figure Stands
« on: February 19, 2025, 04:10 PM »
I saw them in Anthony's video too and would be curious to try them out. But even as someone with a decent-sized army myself, I don't tend to use a lot of figure stands. I don't care for the way they limit the display options. While those seem reasonably priced, the cost of these definitely adds up when buying in bulk, too. They are a really nice design but I will probably wait to buy any on a large scale unless I have a specific plan for them.
We mostly have the rocker-ankles to thank for that. It seems to drastically limit the amount of negative space in the feet to put a peg hole.
The older figure lines were much better at having standard-sized foot peg holes. TVC is a hot mess.
We mostly have the rocker-ankles to thank for that. It seems to drastically limit the amount of negative space in the feet to put a peg hole.
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Disney Parks Droid Factory / Re: 2025 Droid Factory C1-RN8W (Pride Collection)
« on: February 19, 2025, 04:01 PM »
Nice. The Chopper-unit works well for this one and the colored panels look really clean.