Hasbro has generated over $1,000,000 in backing for the Sail Barge so far. That’s pretty amazing.
International customers are upset that the HasLab Vintage Collection campaign is not open to them. But Canadian collectors near the US border might have a viable option at their disposal. Disqus commenter Michael Turner provided us with some interesting news. Click through for the details.
Okay, we know some of you are sick of hearing about the Sail Barge. We promise to shut up about it if you buy 3,000 of them. But one unfortunate thing about the timing of the announcement was that it was a common school vacation week throughout the country. So if you’re just returning with the kids from Vail or Disney, you might have missed this news. If Hasbro gets a minimum of 5,000 backers, THEY WILL MAKE A VINTAGE COLLECTION SAIL BARGE!!! If this school vacation week situation does describe you, click through for a roll up of this momentous event in the hobby.
For the rest of you, yeah, we’ll have a review up in a couple of hours.
We’ve tried the sentimental arguments. We’ve tried the financial arguments. Now we make the Mark Harmon Argument. Thanks to Family Guy, we can prove that the universe demands you buy the Sail Barge, and you don’t want to make the universe mad.
Disqus user Darth_Rizzen dug deep into the archives and found some details from ROTJ that you may not have known were even there, thanks to the Sail Barge hi-rez visuals.
Hasbro has graced us with 14 never-before-seen ultra high resolutions images of the unpainted Sail Barge prototype. This thing is amazing. Click through for the images, but please read my comments at the top of the next page before jumping into the imagery.
Today we bring you part two in our argument that the Sail Barge is a safe investment for your money. The preview image below is a very unsubtle hint. Click through for our reasoning.
Should you back HasLab’s Sail Barge campaign? If you like money, you’d be a fool not to. Click through for our reasoning.
The Khetanna campaign has surpassed 1,000 buyers. Still a long way to go…
Over the course of the next month and a half, I will be badgering you relentlessly over why you should back Hasbro’s HasLab crowd sourcing campaign for the Sail Barge. Before I crash from the Toy Fair travel I want to share my intial thoughts.
We will probably be talking about this a lot over the next few weeks, but first, here’s something of interest for our readers outside the U.S….