Forecasting The Cost Of A Vintage Collection Blurrg

Even though the 3.75" scale is the longest standing scale in Star Wars history, Vintage Collection fans often feel like middle children stuck between the Black Series older brother and the Mission Fleet annoying baby brother. We're constantly comparing our fortunes to our siblings. If one gets a product, we immediately start the "but Jimmy got a cookie" routine. Of course, the cookie in this case is the Mission Fleet Blurrg:



Vintage Collection fans rightfully want their own Blurrg. We have all the companion pieces, so it would be a great addition to the growing Mandalorian world in our collections. That Mission Fleet Blurrg retails for $15 and comes with a Kuiil figure. What concerns me is that I hear a lot fans arbitrarily doubling that price and assuming a Vintage Collection Blurrg would cost only $30, but there is no basis for this. Jumping from Mission Fleet to Vintage Collection isn't just an increase in scale. There's added paint details, added sculpted details and added articulation. For one quick example, you can bet that a Vintage Collection Blurrg would have a separate saddle as opposed to the one that is sculpted into the Mission Fleet Blurrg. This is among other changes, of course. We need to see if we can determine a truer way to compare Mission Fleet and Vintage Collection.

First lets subtract the included Kuiil figure. The Mission Fleet action figure sets retail for $20 and contain five figures, which equates to $4 per figure. That leaves us with a base Blurrg cost of $11. Next we need to compare something that is newly tooled and exist in both Mission Fleet and Vintage Collection to see if we can come up with an unscientific ratio of costs. Fortunately, we have such an item:



That Mission Fleet Razor Crest retails for $40 and comes with two figures, but one of them is Grogu, so I'm only going to deduct the same $4, giving us a vehicle cost of $36. As we all know, the Vintage Collection Razor Crest sold for $350, and will come with 3 figures, Carbonite blocks, and a stand. Lets count the blocks as a figure, so that's $56 in figures, and let's say the stand is $30 (again, this is just a guesstimation exercise). That leaves us with a vehicle cost of $264. This is the basis of our Mission Fleet to Vintage Collection cost ratio. $264 divided by $36 yields a multiplier of 7.3.

Here's the bad news. When applying that multiplier to the $11 Mission Fleet Blurrg, that results in an $81 Blurrg. But don't flip your wigs just yet. Keep them on your head. There's going to be a massive difference in the number of uniquely tooled parts between the Mission Fleet Razor Crest versus the Vintage Collection one. The Mission Fleet version won't have as many separately tooled pieces, which reduces the costs. You're not going to have that same tooling number disparity comparing Blurrg to Blurrg. Since I can't possibly quantify this, I'm merely going to come up with an arbitrary "25 years of observation" 0.5-creature-to-vehicle-factor. That would net us a $40.50 Blurrg. That's just the creature. Add in a pack-in figure, and we're pushing $55. And remember, this is the result of my applying that arbitrary 0.5 ratio. It could be worse than this projection.

If a Vintage Collection Blurrg ever comes to light, I'm afraid the community is going to get sticker shock.

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