What Will Yak Be Worth?

As you all hopefully know by now, the HasLab Vintage Collection Sail Barge will ship with a Vintage Collection Yak Face figure on an exclusive POTF '85 Canadian bilingual card. The figure itself will be sold in stores on the standard Episode VI card, but the "Power of the Force" card is exclusive to the Sail Barge campaign. If you want to know why this beautiful English and French card is so special, you can read all about it HERE. That 1985 Power of the Force Yak Face card is to Star Wars enthusiasts what the T206 Wagner is to baseball card collectors.



I felt pretty confident this figure would have an immediate secondary market value of $200 to $250. Come February 2019, if I see the HasLab Yak Face figures going for much less than that on Ebay, I'll be a buyer. I'm that confident in that valuation. On Thursday via the Hasbro Q&A, we got a big clarification that allows us to put a much sharper point on the estimated value. Unless the campaign overshoots the 5,000 threshold by a wide margin, this POTF Yak Face figure will be in even less supply than SDCC exclusives. This gives us an instant "comp" to ballpark the secondary market value of this figure.

In 2010, Hasbro released the SDCC Death Star set which included 2 unique figures. The mini-carded Salacious Crumb and Mouse Droid figures. That VC66 Salacious Crumb figure recently sold for over $300. Of course when trying to come up with a comparable sale, you cannot simply evaluate one factor, such as the production level, to determine the appropriate anticipated sales price.

Those two mini-figures had one huge collectability factor in their favor. They are part of the Vintage Collection numbered series. Therefore no one can have a complete set without acquiring them. However, that's where the positives end. They are essentially carded accessories on miniature cards; and re-releases at that. The "figures" themselves are not unique. They are more gimmick than action figure, yet the collectability is high.

While this Yak Face figure does not have the benefit of being part of the numbered mainline (to the best of our knowledge), the gravitas, prestige, and pedigree far outweighs the aforementioned mini-figures. Once this figure lands in a collection, it will stick there. Collectors will have an emotional bond to this holy grail, and will not part with it. Unlike those 2010 exclusives, it will also come with a unique accessory, via the coin. This is completely subjective, but I strongly feel the collectability will far exceed the two SDCC mini-figures, which are gaining their own "legendary" status.

So where does this lead? I spoke to one online store on the condition of anonymity. I asked what the one-year-out value of the HasLab POTF Yak Face would be. The person I spoke to didn't have a ready estimate so I offered "$500?" in the form of a question. The reply: "You're probably not too far off."

If this figure does not appeal to you and the manner in which you collect, you're in the catbird seat. You could sell your POTF Yak Face and immediately recover a good portion of the Barge's purchase price. If it does appeal to you, DON'T MISS OUT!

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