Do You Remember Bubblegate?

Posted by Chris on 03/23/18 at 11:15 AM Category: Vintage Collection

Our friends at Jedi Temple Archives are reporting that wave 1 of the Vintage Collection is being shipped with bubble seal failure and tape holding the bubbles on. According to JTA:

We have obtained an exclusive image of the TVC First Order Stormtrooper that has CLEAR EVIDENCE of the bubble separating from the card.

This is my nightmare. This can't happen with the Vintage Collection where the packaged product is not only a critical part of the collecting experience, but it is also what hopes to move weak repacks like Jyn Erso and Jakku Rey. If preserving those figures "MOMC" is impossible due to packaging defects, they will never sell. Those figures are already going to have a tough go of it at retail. I have a box of figures labeled "Black Series: Bubble Failure". This poor Commander Neyo is from that box. The issue simply has to be resolved ASAP.