ATTENTION HASBRO:  Your Cantina Customers Need Access To These Figures

As we've discussed seemingly every day since the Cantina campaign launched, the backing hasn't been a brisk as we hoped. The reasons are legion. Some are excuses. Some are valid. Some have no realistic solutions. Some do. One reason for the slow, but so far steady, stream of backers is that the target customer for the Vintage Collection Cantina threads a fairly narrow needle. There are two groups that seem to qualify:

1. Customers who have been actively collecting for the past twenty nine years through today, and already have all the necessary figures needed populate the Cantina
2. Customers who are willing to shell out hundreds of dollars on the secondary market to acquire the necessary figures

I feel like the first group amounts to about twenty people. None of my friends with whom I joined the modern collecting hobby in 1995 are still actively collecting. Even the group of users that formed this site in 2008 has dwindled down to only a handful. Off-ramping in this hobby is extremely common, and I feel like it's accelerating, but that's a subject for a different day. I have no idea how to quantify the size of the second group, which are those who are going to retroactively populate the Cantina, but Hasbro can definitely take measures to bolster those ranks.

Hasbro could generate more interest in the Cantina by committing to re-release at least the following four (and a half) Cantina patrons:

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BD35 - Pons Limbic

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BD37 - Trinto Duaba & Dice Ibegon

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BD33 - Hrchek Kal Fas

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BD34 - Leesub Sirln

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Those four figures were already prohibitively expensive on the secondary market prior to the launch of the Cantina, and we featured some of them in our Repack Request series. They alone will set a collector back nearly $400 on the secondary market today. Some fans are unwilling to back the Cantina because of this. They refuse to shell out $500 for the Cantina to then have to turn around and spend at least that on Ebay to fully populate it. Hasbro could greatly increase the potential backers by committing to re-release at least this quartet if the project funds.

Finally, we are not the only ones calling for a re-release of these specific four figures. Our friend Tim from Bossk's Bounty has made this push twice now, and I have seen others do the same. We are all citing these four because out of the litany of Cantina figures, they are the most up to date in terms of sculpting and articulation out of the pre-TVC 1.0 candidates. They would not be out of place in TVC 2.0 at all. Hopefully this chorus of demand for re-releasing them can spur some action on Hasbro's part.

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