Checking In On The Vintage Collection LAAT/i Gunship HasLab

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As of the time of this writing, the campaign sits at just over 3600 backers with 19 days to go. Not great, but it's not causing me to give up hope at all for a couple of reasons. First is the original projections from rivesjunctionite after the first day of the campaign in THIS POST. He wrote:

If the gunship performs like the saber with everyone basically giving up on it, it will do 3700 total backers.

We're clearly going to sail past that mark before Monday. Why is that significant? Reva's Lightsaber is the only Star Wars HasLab that completely flopped on its own. This demonstrates that the Gunship has markedly more interest than that, so we can still hope for a late rally.

It's natural to want to compare the Gunship against the Rancor, the other failed Star Wars HasLab, and be worried because the former is trailing the latter by roughly 1400 backers at this point in the respective campaigns. But I believe that's a false equivalency. The Rancor didn't fail organically. That campaign was from the era when the tier unlocks weren't revealed on day one. They were announced mid-campaign. Fans falsely (and foolishly) assumed that Oola and Malakili would be the stretch goals. When the first tier was announced as a piece of cardboard and some plastic rocks, it sapped much of the enthusiasm. Until that point it looked like the Rancor would back. Then the "No Oola, no moola" counter-campaign kicked in, and it actually lost 160 backers on day 26. So I'm not worried that we're trailing the Rancor since that likely would have backed easily (and almost did) if it were not for the counter-campaigning.

Another reason I'm not fretting is that the Gunship's lows haven't been that low. Its worst day thus far was 21 backers on day 14. In addition to that -160 day, the Rancor also had days of 6 and 3, and still got to over 8500 backers. Giant Man, which went on to unlock two of its three tiers, had a low of 4 backers on day 25. The Ghost, which is the 2nd best performing Star Wars HasLab to date, had a low of 24. The Gunship's worst day is only three off of that. Of course the Ghost's best days heavily outperform the Gunship's, but I'm only analyzing the floors and not the ceilings. The Gunship hasn't bottomed out as badly as some other campaigns (even successful ones), which is another reason I'm staying optimistic. But we need to make sure we're all promoting the campaign on our socials as much as possible. There's a huge grassroots component to HasLabs, and we all need to do our parts.

All of the above stats were furnished by John Miko's Gunship HasLab Tracker.

Lastly, there's some Gunship events coming up. It will he shown at Fan Expo in Toronto this weekend. Hasbro will also be conducting a panel at this event. Will something from the Battle of Geonosis campaign be revealed? Fortunately, one of your friends has you covered. Tannith from the comments will be streaming the panel on his YouTube channel. You can bookmark the stream directly HERE, but we will also be embed it in a post on Saturday.

Then the following weekend, the Gunship's tour comes here to New England:


I will be there to get a first hand impression of the LAAT. I believe, at a minimum, Mister Skeezler from the comments will be there too. If anyone else is going, let us know below.

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