2025 HasLab Mos Eisley Cantina

[Nicklab]

The "paywall", in this context, refers to a specific figure being exclusively available to one Haslab release.  At $400 or $500, that's a potential obstacle that might prevent people from getting a figure that they want.  I don't think it's out of line to call it that among the collecting community.

[Jeff]

Whether you call it a "dick move" or a "paywall", the exclusive pack-in figure tactic has been part of the game for a long time.

I have empathy for collectors who end up in the spot of wanting the tier/pack-in figures but not wanting the Cantina.  Trying to decide whether to invest $500 to get the figures hoping to recoup some of that cost two years later by selling the playset parts is definitely not ideal.

Lucky for me, I'm not in that spot.  I'm fortunate enough to be standing here with $596.05 in hand, ready to buy ($50 Pulse Premium renewal + $499.99 DLX version + plus taxes).  As the wise poet-philosopher Tom Petty once said, "the waiting is the hardest part".  Let's get on with it already, Hasbro!

[GrandMoffNick]

I don't actually think the Tonnikas will be a part of this. So this would then be a unnecessary discussion.

But to me it's too extreme. Of course this tactic has been used forever. But the long term collectors have clamored too long for these figs to have them a part of a $400 item.

Maybe there are other examples and because I either didn't care or bought the item, I'm being unreasonable.

Or maybe I'm over thinking what the Tonnikas mean to people.

[Dave]

I see both sides of this issue where people want the Tonnikas and they should be a semi-normal release.  It'd be great if they made them a general release, but if that were going to happen it would have happened a long time ago.  Its never going to happen.

I think this might be Hasbro's only way to "sneak" the verbotten Tonnikas in to an offering since the cantina is a customer direct HasLab "fan holy grail" item that isn't a normal commercial item. 

Sure it'll stink for figure collectors and carded collectors, but I'm like Jeff in that I'll likely back whatever they offer around the HasLab cantina and if we end up getting a truly exclusive figure (not just a deco/card variant) then I'm okay with that assuming its something controversial like the Tonnikas that we would otherwise never get.

[Rob]

Jayson has a post on IG teasing three all new figures and three unlockable all new figures.

[Jeff]

Jayson has a post on IG teasing three all new figures and three unlockable all new figures.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7kNxOXOf5_/

For those with no instagram -

"HASLAB TVC CANTINA
INCLUDES THREE ALL
NEW FIGURES AND
THREE UNLOCKABLE
FIGURE TIERS"

I have to admit I was hoping for more than just three all-new figures in this HasLab (out of a rumored 6-8 pack-ins) but the fact that there are some resculpts coming is not a surprise if one of Hasbro's goals is to get some ANH Cantina dudes up to TVC card standard (like a TVC-level Wuher).

I guess I hold out hope that there will be some more ALL-NEW Cantina Dudes coming via Hasbro Pulse/Amazon style carded 4-packs or something...

[Dave]

I'm hoping the "three unlockable figure tiers" are three more all new figures as well, so we get a total of six.

[Matt_Fury]

I'm hoping the "three unlockable figure tiers" are three more all new figures as well, so we get a total of six.

That's how I'm reading it.

[Rob]

I'd think so, I don't see how repaints, repacks and resculpts would drive orders.  Tonnika Sisters at the end of the unlocks would guarantee it makes all the goals.
 

[Muftak]

So what Hasbro would do is put one Tonnika in the 3 included figures, and then the second as the third tier, which would de facto be a repaint anyway. Everybody wins?

[Rob]

Imagine the catastrophe if they got to a tier for making one Tonnika Sister and not the other. 

[McMetal]

Imagine if none of them are the Tonnikas!  :'(

[Rob]

Deep down I think you're right.

But I hope you're wrong.

[Jeff]

I'm hoping the "three unlockable figure tiers" are three more all new figures as well, so we get a total of six.

I don't see how repaints, repacks and resculpts would drive orders.

While I would love for all of the HasLab pack-ins to be Cantina Alien weirdos we don't already have, the way Jayson only called out three of the figures to be "all new" leads me to believe that we're getting a combo of all-new, never made before characters and some new resculpts (hopefully for things like Wuher or Hammerhead and not wasting slots on resculpts that would sell in the basic figure line like Old Ben or Farmboy Luke).

I hope I'm wrong and we're getting 6-8 first time cantina dudes, but I'm way too pessimistic to believe that could happen (even in a HasLab).

[Muftak]

On Rebelscum, Jayson further clarified the 6 figures contain no main characters, as well as saying 3 of them are aliens...but not how those 3 break down among included or unlocks.