2024 Disney Star Tours Starspeeder 3000

[Jeff]

https://www.jedinews.com/featured/articles/d23-star-wars-exclusives-revealed-including-new-starspeeder-3000/

D23 exclusive, limited edition of 3000, holds 25 figures plus pilot and R2, $300!

Limited quantities on Disney shop on 8/12

[Rob]

Crap. 

Do we know what time?!

[Muftak]

Crap. 

Do we know what time?!

The D23 stuff is supposed to go live on DisneyStore.com on August 12th at 8am PT.

I love this thing so much...what a toy! But I don't have any ollusion i would be able to jump through the hoops to get this release...I will hold out in the hopes that there will be a more mainstream Disney Store release in the future.

[Rob]

Okay thanks.  I’m going to try to be Johnny on the spot with this one.  I’m more worried about the exclusive figure but if I’m going to pay hundreds of dollars I might as well get the ship too.  It looks huge.

[Nicklab]

I regret not getting the original Starspeeder 1000 Vehicle / Playset back in the day.  It's a really cool offering!  And on the secondary market the price of it has just exploded!

This new version seems like Disney has leveled it up - the electronics, the screen - all of it!  I'm not crazy about the price, but that's still half of what the Starspeeder 1000 will cost you these days.  And now I'm wondering if Disney might also offer an update to th-is box set to have some figures to populate the vehicle?

Star Tours Boarding Party

[Nicklab]

It sounds like this is going to be a little more complicated offering than initially thought.  There's 3,000 of these, total?  And for D23?  THEN, on August 12th the remaining ones get released to the Disney Store online?

Something makes me think that this is an exclusive edition, and a more basic version might be coming to the Disney Parks.  Because I cannot see Disney ONLY making 3000 of these in the course of their production run.  It seems really out of character for them.

[Rob]

Yeah I have no idea but there’s also chatter at Rebelscum that Jayson quoted someone who talked to a rep who said that even for online orders you’ll have to be a D23 member to order one after the event.

I’m actually considering a $100 membership just so I can be sure I get this, which seems absurd… but if it goes aftermarket only they’ll be a lot more than $300 + $100.

[Nicklab]

That just seems completely unreasonable to me.  I've wanted the Starspeeder for A LONG TIME.  But spending $100 on a membership FOR A CHANCE at spending another $300 just seems like too much.

I'm taking my chances that a less intricate, non exclusive version will land in the Disney Parks in the event that this doesn't land in the Disney Store on 8/12.

[Rob]

Yeah I'm probably not going to do that...

I'm actually more concerned about the figure than the vehicle. I don't really consider it canon, and with the invention of Haslab and Hasbro's realization they can sell $200 Slave I's, there are a lot of big vehicles taking up a lot of space right now. 

I'd be smarter to roll the dice on getting one for retail and then just overpaying for the figure if I can't buy the ship the regular way.

[Jedi Idej]

I have the 2nd version, and I'm content with it. This one looks a lot nicer. I would definitely have pulled the trigger if I didn't have a different rendition.

Update:
D'oh.The photo of the back of the box says the ship has an  LCD screen. That just might've turned me.

[Rob]

16 minutes if anyone's thinking about trying this...

[Nicklab]

The virtual queue had me concerned when I went to the Disney Store site.  But I was able to get the Starspeeder as well as R6-D23.  I think the $300 price tag might have deterred a lot of potential buyers.

[Rob]

People on Rebelscum reporting that it's sold out.  I'm still 10,378 in line to get out of the waiting room.

[Nicklab]

It might be worth waiting to see what happens.  Once I was able to get into the Star Wars section of the store I saw the QUICK SHOP buttons.  When I clicked on the QUICK SHOP button for the Starspeeder the pop-up led me to believe it was already sold out. But then I clicked on the full listing and was able to place an order.

[Jeff]

I was mired in queue hell for almost 30 minutes.  Then, no matter what I did, whenever I clicked on the "add to bag" button, I always got the "sorry, this item is out of stock" pop-up.  I gave up after 20 minutes of trying.  I guess it was not meant to be.  I will just have to be happy with the old version.