2024 Droid Factory Advent Calendar

[Jeff]

From a Jayson/Yakface tweet:

New Droid Factory Advent Calendar set.  Link is up on UK Disney site, will be on the US site "soon" (no idea when).

- R2 gingerbread droid
- BB-8 snowman
- Chopper penguin
- Gonk
- D-0 Holiday
- B2EMO present
- R1 holiday bell

Updated picture of the droids -


Another pic from Jayson/Yakface twitter -

[Jeff]

My #1 complaint about the "holiday" BB-units was that they were just boring repaints.  No fun little extra hat or scarf or mistletoe or anything like the astromechs get.  So glad that they finally gave this BB-unit repaint a little something extra this time. 

Also cool to see D-O, B2EMO, and the R1 get into the holiday spirit this time too.

[Ryan]

I like the mix here and will definitely be picking this one up.

As a side note: I'd love to see more of the B2EMO models released in realistic deco. It is such a great droid design and would look great filling in some dioramas.

[Jeff]

Link is up at Disney Store -> https://www.disneystore.com/star-wars-droid-factory-advent-calendar-417133255250.html

$80

[Dave]

$80

Yeah, these aren't cheap, especially for repaints.  The one they did back in 2022 was $70 so I guess we're seeing $10 in gouging inflation.

[Rob]

Good grief.  At least you get a 7th droid for that price.

[Rob]

The link isn’t working and I can’t find them.  Any chance it was listed in error?

[Jeff]

The link isn’t working and I can’t find them.  Any chance it was listed in error?

Jayson said on Twitter that both items went to "Sold Out" on the site before the links stopped working.  Not sure if they went up before they were supposed to or if they did actually sell out. 

I was able to order both the advent set and the tree droid at about 7:30am CT.

[Rob]

I can’t imagine they actually sold out that quick, surely Disney wants to sell them throughout the holiday season to parents and not just collectors.

[Dave]

Sometimes their stuff can sell out kinda quickly, like in a few days, but I don't recall an item like this that is available in their stores selling out in an hour or two.  There is nothing particularly new and exciting about any of this so I can't imagine there was any kind of extra demand.  I would expect that these will be back online at some point.

[P-Siddy]

Maybe there was a pricing issue and they pulled it down?  Didn't that happen last year or the year before?

[Rob]

Could be, but then the question is did they mean to make it $60 or $100.

[P-Siddy]

Could be, but then the question is did they mean to make it $60 or $100.

The one time they did it, I was able to order before they pulled it down.  They raised the price on them.

Now that I think about it, I believe it was the Retro 6-packs and they raised it be $5 or 10.

[Dave]

Jayson is saying on Yakface that these and the single carded droid are going back up on Monday.

[Jeff]

Got my advent calendar set today.  After what happened to me last time, I'm going to likely just rip it all open this weekend and skip the daily advent opening thing.