2020 TVC Imperial Troop Transport

[Jeff]

In case you missed it, Hasbro released this thing as a Toy Fair teaser -



STAR WARS: THE VINTAGE COLLECTION IMPERIAL TROOP TRANSPORT Vehicle
(HASBRO/Ages 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $69.99/Available: Spring 2020)
The IMPERIAL TROOP TRANSPORT was used to move the Empire’s soldiers from location to location. This STAR WARS: THE VINTAGE COLLECTION IMPERIAL TROOP TRANSPORT vehicle is inspired by the vehicles seen in THE MANDALORIAN live-action TV series on Disney Plus. With realistic detail including a removable roof, opening doors, fold-down seating, swiveling turret, and blaster storage, this vehicle can be displayed in action figure and vehicle collections.

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Amazon.com - $69.99
Entertainment Earth - $69.99

[Dave]

The paint job looks really sweet, although the functionality seems pretty light for $70 in comparison to the $20 Rebels one we got five years ago.

[Rob]

I'm just happy to see NEW vehicle offerings... I'm in.

[Dave]

I hope this also means they're going to dig in deeper with figures from Mandalorian this summer as well.  Lots of great options from the show.

[P-Siddy]

Saw a picture of this with a trooper next to it.  Sadly, it’s woefully underscaled.  Looks awesome though

[Matt_Fury]

Currently on backorder with EE.

[tmanthegreat]

The new Imperial Troop Transport looks really cool and is something I definitely plan to add to my collection 

However, I’m a tad confused.  I got an email on Tuesday from Entertainment Earth showing the vehicle as in stock and placed an order through the website.  The order has since had a status of “processing”.  The EE site now shows the vehicle as a preorder item, like Matt Fury just noted. Every other retailer, by contrast, seems to be showing the transport for a March release.

Did EE act too soon regarding the in-stock status of the item or was I too late and the initial batch sold out?  Did anyone else successfully order one of these from EE? While I was hoping to have the item in hand in short order, it is really no big deal and I can wait.  It just seemed a little odd for it to have been in stock only then to not be...

[Jesse James]

It’s really not as small as people make it out...  I’m a total scale snob but I’d put it at about the same as the TIE or the atst in terms of compromise.  A Stormtrooper standing is just under the roof of it.  A figure standing is a helmet above the roof...  that doesn’t seem that bad to me really, especially since I can imagine Hasbro didn’t have a lot of footage to go off of for it considering how tight things around the Mando were...  I think it’s pretty awesome.  I don’t plan on having soldiers in the outer pods though either.

[GrandMoffNick]

I got an order in Tuesday when it said instock. Been "processing" since.

Edit-typed at same time as you tman. I'll be a little annoyed if they jumped the gun. Probably woulda done Amazon.

[Jesse James]

My CC was charged.  Were yours?

[tmanthegreat]

Yep, mine was charged as of February 5th.

[Jesse James]

Yep, mine was charged as of February 5th.

I’ve never seen them charge without having something to ship but stranger things have happened.  I added some more so I got free shipping too.  That was nice..... if this pans out.

[GrandMoffNick]

Just got my shipping notice 5 minutes ago

[Jeff]

Did EE act too soon regarding the in-stock status of the item or was I too late and the initial batch sold out? 

As you can see from Nick's shipping note above, there was a very small allotment in-stock so some orders will ship now but the bulk will wait until March.

The paint job looks really sweet, although the functionality seems pretty light for $70 in comparison to the $20 Rebels one we got five years ago.

I should have some press pics up tonight, but the interior is WAY more detailed than that Rebels version. 

[Jesse James]

The Rebels one sat a pilot and a backwards facing dude and was basically hollowed out underneath to avoid making too many parts.  it’s just awful to me.  🤦‍♂️

I’m really enjoying the new one especially more pics I see of it now that it’s in-hand for someone on social media.  Get a better idea.  Part of the roof appears to be at almost helmet level so it’s not as short as some pics seemed even, but it’s literally maybe a Stormtrooper helmet short...  I can live with that.  Little miffed all the doors don’t open behind the “pods” but nothing too major to me.  I can’t wait to have a few and have them packed with stowage like they did with the Rebels ones.

I wanted to make a Rebels one to scale and wasn’t going to till I realized the Mando and Rebels ITTs aren’t really hat similar at all.  Same family but totally different.  Leaves a custom Rebels one on the table for me.