I'll wait till I see it in the next Inside before I comment.
No need to wait for me!
What's TRULY pathetic, is that the same toy from 20 years ago beats the crap out of the same respective toy released two decades later... That's just wrong. Anyone ever heard of advancement in figure making technology? Nah, I didn't think so...
The Jabba Globs warmed the shelves across the country(s) in thousands upon thousands, ON SALE. I finally said "what the hell" and did my part to help alleviate the problem by buying one of them, at their standard clearance price of a $1.99, which is the only price I ever really saw them at. If Hasbro couldn't get these things to sell for a measely $2, what the hell makes them think a repaint, rail, and a bowl is going to get them to sell for at least 500% more?! Even as an obsessive compulsive completist, I almost never even bought the original Jabba Glob, since I never even considered it to be a part of the regular 4" action figure line. It wasn't even marketed that way the first time around... Seemed more like the random novelty collectible, than something that went with the 4" figures.
This is just an absolute shame. I also don't buy the notion that some people are suggesting, which is that the retailers forced Hasbro into this less than desirable atrocity. I think a well done Jabba with all the fixin's, for anywhere from $20 - $30, would've done just fine at retail and that at least one or more retailers would've taken the chance on it if it had been presented to them in such a manner by Hasbro. From everything I've seen around here, a lot of the beasts have done quite well in the past, including the $30 Deluxe Bantha and Rancor (at least everywhere that I ever went shopping). The Bantha sold out reasonably fast here, and the Rancor did pretty well also. And as far as retail shelf space goes, a Deluxe Jabba would probably take up half of the room that those two monsters took up.
I think this was ultimately Hasbro's call, and they just copped out on Jabba (and us) and went their oft-rehashed route to make a quick buck by trying to take advantage of the collector's huge demand for this particular piece. I would've rather they just rehashed the Vintage mold instead. They do it all the time with the ships, why not with Jabba? That one was much better, and at least a little more to scale. The Jabba Glob is more to scale with the Kubrick line of figures, not the 4" line!
All these years of pent up collecting frustration, years of demand, years of hoping for something incredible, and Hasbro gives us...
Jabba Glob, the Sequel. They should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves. All this incredible work on what appears to be a great figure line for 2004 - finally targeted at the adult collectors again, and the figure by far in the greatest demand gets the absolute worst treatment of all. Hasbro owed it to us to produce a better Jabba after
all that time! (and yes, I fully realize that Hasbro technically doesn't owe us anything!)
No question about it - a nice window boxed, newly sculpted, to-scale Jabba complete with dais, rail, bong, chubas, etc (no pack-in figure necessary) for $24.99 would've flown off the shelves. Hasbro's just plain
LAZY (and/or greedy), and as a result has just seriously tarnished an otherwise great line of figures that are forthcoming next year...
I'll be buying one of these for $10 - $15 when it's released, but I would've bought THREE nicer ones for $25 - $30. Go figure...
I'm going to go vomit now...
