New breaking guru Volkerc has posted pics of the upcoming K-Mart exclusive Ewok Catapult set on his site starwars-figuren.com. Head over to check them out. Not too shabby.
I’m still licking my wounds about the Vintage Collection ending (for now) sooner than I would have hoped. I can’t let go. It’s so…incomplete.
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I should have posted this a few days ago, but I really enjoy not doing stuff (as do my collaborators here apparently). Anyway, Jedi Temple Archives posted their annual Vintage versus Modern report comparing vintage Kenner figures to their modern analogs (if they exist) and detailing which ones just aint good enough yet. It’s a great read, so click through to check it out if you haven’t already.
Some of their choices are (nerd) controversial, so you may have a bone or two to pick with them which makes it all the more fun.
Assuming the Mayans are wrong (or more accurately the crack pots interpreting the Mayan calendar are wrong), you will be able pick up figures from the “middle” waves of 2012 at retail starting in February of 2013. I’m assuming this is brick and mortar retail otherwise this isn’t really news.
For those of you missing out on Ponba Baba, the big news is that…you’re still going to be missing out on Ponda Baba. But take heart! Bom Vimdin gets his 5th crack at a retail assortment which is good news for all of you who missed this figure when it was selling for $1 on Amazon (I kid you not). Also, thankfully that icky Bastila Shan figure isn’t part of this “best of the best” lineup. The last thing we need is more of that awesome and expensive figure on the market.
You may be thinking that my cynical remarks are out of line and that we should be thankful for Hasbro getting these figures to stores, and truth be told getting these cases out to retail is admirable. But what I can’t abide is the spin making it seem like this is an all-star assortment of figures in response to fan demand. Just state what this is. Hasbro negotiated with their retail partners to take some of the back stock, which again is commendable. But that back stock has an ounce or two of that same questionable case assortment issues. As Judge Constance Harm once said, don’t spit on my cupcake and call it frosting (okay that really is too harsh).
Anyway, for the official Hasbro communique, click on that “read more” link which will be coming up in three, two,....
In a sign that we’re inching closer to Wave 16’s arrival, an Ebay seller from California has some of the figures from the online only wave in stock for $24.99 with free shipping.
If you’ve been following the reports, wave 16 (the online only wave) is getting close and closer, and now it appears on Ebay (from Singapore). If you have to have it NOW, $59.90 + $9.90 shipping will get the Emperor’s Royal Guard to your door. Click here to view the seller’s Vintage Collection offerings. The other ones for sale from this seller are the Republic Trooper ($56.90), Ahsoka Tano ($44.90) and Lumat ($39.90).
Or you could just wait for your Amazon pre-order to come through.
It’s official. Like officially official. Yakface.com has the word from Hasbro stating that Wave 16 (formally referred to as Wave 5 2012 by Hasbro) is going to be on-line only. While this was widely believed to be the case, there had been no official comment from Hasbro. For our response to how Hasbro has handled the line in 2012 please
I missed this entry on Sir Steve’s Guide last night. They managed to snap a photo of a print out of tomorrow’s Power Point presentation. It seems to all but confirm that long standing rumor that the Vintage Collection will wrap up this year. As long as I get a Vintage Collection Ree Yees before 2012 closes out, I won’t freak out. Click through to check out what they caught.
I thought nothing could possibly wake me from my non-front page posting slumber. But some literally big news from Volkerc at StarWarsFiguren.com did just that. Click over to check out pics of the upcoming TRU Exclusive Vintage Collection AT-AT with Episode IV box and design. Oh, and the box just so happens to have pics of the all new speeder bike!
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Hasbro indicated that more Target Vintage Collection 3-Packs would be coming our way. Sandroopers provides some visual evidence. Click through to check it out. Thanks to Darth Dre for the tip to this news story in our forums.
The Targets around here haven’t seen a lick past the Phantom Menace wave and it’s been nothing since the Deleted Scene wave for Walmart. It appears brick and mortar is about to fall even further behind. The Tarkin wave is up for sale on Ebay.
We’ve just seen the assortment for what Hasbro is calling Wave 4. But in a familiar trend, we seem to have skipped over a few numbers in the collection.
Our friends at Jedi Temple Archives are starting a grass roots collector movement to try to rescue the situation many of us are facing at brick and mortar retail with respect to the Vintage Collection.
Click through to see how you can participate. This comes as interesting timing for us as we’ve had two forum members declare “no mas” when it comes to collecting in part due to this exact issue.
We’ve received word that wave 3 (officially wave 2) otherwise know as the “Malgus wave” may end up being shorted. Don’t let this be cause for alarm. No need to succumb to Ebay prices. At least four of the five figures in the wave appear to be slated for re-release later in the year, so like a pair of Jedi trapped in a ray shield, patience.
Three of the figures (Vader, Hoth Luke and CW Anakin) will be released in the very next case show here at Big Bad Toy Store.
Unfortunately for many of us, the Malgus and Imperial Navy Commander figures are the most in-demand out of the five, and we’ll have to wait a bit longer. Darth Malgus appears to be slated for the July Grand Moff Tarkin case:
1x 49687 Luke Skywalker (Jedi Origin, Episode VI Deleted Scene)
1x 37508 Darth Vader (Episode IV)
1x 37511 Luke Skywalker (Hoth, Episode V)
1x 37513 Darth Malgus (The Old Republic)
1x 98692 Rebel Pilot Wedge (Episode VI)
1x 98534 Bariss Offee (Episode II)
1x 98536 Bom Vimdin (Episode IV)
1x 37514 Clone Pilot Davijaan (Episode III)
1x 37516 Grand Moff Tarkin (Episode IV)
1x 37517 Nikto Skiff Guard (Episode VI)
1x 37518 Galen Marek (The Force Unleashed II)
1x 37519 Female Bounty Hunter (The Old Republic)
There are rumored fall cases that include the Imperial Navy Commander, so hopefully that will work out as well.
VolkerC, administrator of the German Star Wars site Star Wars Figuren.com (whatever on earth that means), has posted info on what the next three case assortments will contain among other products. They are waves 2, 2.2 (available for pre-order in the US) and 2.5. The case assortment for wave 2 shows that Hasbro and their retail partners learned NOTHING from the retail quagmire they created from late 2010 on.
Click through to check out what the man has to say.
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