Three Things I’m Hoping For At Hasbro’s Entertainment Brand Toy Fair 2020 Preview

Posted by Chris on 02/17/20 at 05:46 PM Category: Vintage Collection, New York Toy Fair 2020

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I'm going to take a page out of the horoscope industry and give you my vague hopes for Toy Fair. Then I will allow you to shoehorn them into what is actually shown this weekend so I can look like a predictive genius. So here are three things I'm hoping come true for the Vintage Collection at Toy Fair this weekend.

1. At least two figures from our The Empire Strikes Back poll are announced

When the return of the Vintage Collection was announced at SDCC '17, we published our Top 5 Vintage Collection “Original 92” New Sculpt Wish List. At the following Toy Fair in 2018, 2 of those five were announced (although Klaatu was announced via an Easter Egg). I would love it if we have the same predictive accuracy (i.e. luck) and we also get a 40% hit rate from our recent Readers’ Choice ESB Vintage Collection Poll.

2. Hasbro continues enabling us to world build in the Vintage Collection

The greatness of the 3.75" scale is that it allows collectors to effectively world build. In fact, world building is why the scale was invented in the first place. Unless your line has a Millennium Falcon, you're only impersonating a Star Wars collector.

The outstanding Jabba's Palace Adventure Set was a great step in this world building direction. We hope to not only see this trend continue, but also expand at Toy Fair in ways both big and small.

3. We leave with goose bumps like we did after Toy Fair 2018

Toy Fair 2019 was great with the announcements of the Skiff, the aforementioned Jabba's Adventure Set, and the first ever Vedain figure, but it was nothing like the monumentous announcement of the HasLab Sail Barge. I'm honestly not sure where HasLab stands with respect to Star Wars right now. It seems like the next Star Wars project is already overdue. So I'm both expecting an announcement soon, and also worried that the Sail Barge was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I do hope to get that sense of limitless possibilities in the Vintage Collection that HasLab once promised, one more time.