Previous Thread >>11556382HasLab TVC LAAT Gunship has been funded!Tier 1 - Coleman Trebor was unlocked -https://www.hasbropulse.com/product/star-wars-the-vintage-collection-laati-gunship/G25385L00>New/Latest Pre-ordersThe Vintage Collection:-LAAT Gunship HasLab - Pulse-Darth Vader’s Tie Advanced - Pulse-Snowtrooper Army Builder 4pk - Pulse-Gamorreon Guard (Reissue) - Target-Bom Vimdin (Reissue) - Target-Bib Fortuna (Reissue) - Target-Stormtroopers of the Empire 3pk - Pulse-Cantina Adventure 4pk - Pulse-Ben Kenobi (ANH)-Stormtrooper (ANH reissue)-Bantha w/ Tusken Raider - PulseThe Black Series:-Anakin Skywalker (ROTS)-Obi-Wan Kenobi (ROTS)-Jango Fett- Asajj Ventress (Bounty Hunter)-Anakin Skywalker and Captain Rex 2pk - Pulse/Disney-Vader vs Luke Bespin Duel 2pk - Pulse/Disney-The Stranger -Aayla Secura (ROTS Anv) - Walmart-Magnaguard (ROTS Anv) - Walmart-Shoretrooper & Deathtrooper 2pk-Clone Lt. GalleImports/Other lines:-SHF Mace Windu (ROTS)-SHF Darth Vader (ANH reissue)-SHF Stormtrooper (ANH reissue)-SHF General Grievous (ROTS)-SHF Obi-Wan Kenobi (ROTS Reissue)-Mafex Darth Vader (Kenobi)-SHF Ben Kenobi-SHF Yoda (ROTS)________________________________________________________________________>Upcoming/Pipeline RevealsThe Black Series:-Mace Windu vs Palpatine Duel set - Fall Con ExclusiveThe Vintage Collection:-Padmé Amidala (AOTC)-Shaak Ti (AOTC)- Jedi Spirits 3pk - Fall Con ExclusiveReminder this is a thread about toys. Don't fall for bait or feed the trolls.
>>11559715What a fucking shitshow sham of a Haslab.
>>11559715calling it now, there's gonna be a balcony playset that's gonna come with dooku and you'll be able to display him with windu, jango or...*drum roll* coleman trebor!
I’m not buying a boring ass sandcrawler or a retarded Death Star dollhouseJust give it a rest for a year and give us a balanced line with retail presence you faggots
>>11559733Yeah Haslabs every year is not sustainable desu. Maybe every 2 years. Not that Lucasfilm or Hasbro Star Wars has 2 more years
>>11559750B-b-but muh Mando movie! That'll be a billion dollar event like no other! Grogo! ATATs!!!
>>11559728I think I'd rather see a balcony come with Rune Haako since he's still missing and is up there with Gunray. Dooku should be repacked with his speeder instead.
>>11559780a small vehicle? in THIS economy?
>>11559809I'm hoping we get a few. The BARC speeder is all but confirmed pretty much. Mr. Stevie also hinted at possibly an AT-RT that'll be tied to the Mando movie because he said something about multiple vehicles fitting into the Gunship and, "some we can't quite talk about yet" which would make sense considering there still has been zero footage of the movie made public yet. Dooku's speeder would be a good contender for the actual Battle of Geonosis theme though and isn't something that's too complicated tooling wise.
Anyone know when the Snowtrooper Army Builder 4 pack is supposed to ship?
>>11559871It used to say september 15th, but last I looked it had no scheduled date at all, so it might be delayed or it might just be yet another website bug on pulse that the date disappeared and it's still gonna ship on the 15th.
>>11559715soo glad this Haslab is over, insane amount of man babies in the Facebook TVC groups ecosystem attacking anyone that criticized it. Fucking sad.Also I hope they will have the Gamorreon Guard's at Target itself since I missed it online.
>TVC Gammorean Guard reissueI'LL TAKE 20
>>11559969>he thinks they're going to make it to stores
>>11559838>he said something about multiple vehicles fitting into the GunshipI don't know what he's talking about because we already saw that a BARC speeder doesn't fit
Thread question: does Hasbro hate money? Black Series PHASE 1 Clone Trooper helmet when?!?!
Saw these at Ross a couple days ago, if anyone's looking
>>11560197Fucking idiot
>>11560199Nice. I hope the ROTJ one will show up there too.
>>11560197Mine too. Star Wars is a failure
Having a lot of fun with the new Han Solo. Might pick up another just for shits and giggles It would be cool if they re-released the BMF and packed in this Han but gave him the headset and swappable hands with the flight gloves.
>>11560336>Star Wars is a failureBecause some discount store bought overstock of TVC? If anything, it's because TVC is so fucking overpriced now. The MSRP on that set is 79.99. Honestly, who would pay that? The AT-ST can't even stand well without support. I own the Black Series version and it's a bitch to get standing and has to be propped up.
>>11560455Not to mention that set is like 5+ years old at this point. It's not like it's a new wave that went and completely died at retail a month after it was put out.
>>11560482You mean Acolyte...Skeleton Crew...Andor...etc
>want this fucker more than almost anything else in TVC>it only got a TBS release>and that figure is currently bottomed out to $15 super clearance on amazon>so it's probably never coming to TVC despite needing almost no new toolingI hate this timeline so fucking much
i want my MGS TIE Defender already reeeeeeeeeee
>>11560574why do you want this so bad
>>11560574just dye a Morak Din Djarin black with RIT and stick an AT-ST driver helmet on it
>>11560539Maybe for Black Series but none of that really affected TVC sales. Many people bought Sol for custom Jedi fodder. Same with OSHA being a good female Rebel trooper body. I think it was only Mae that was the real stinker. We never got anything for Skeleton Crew besides Jod. And the only Andor season 2 figure we got was K-2SO.
>>11560614TVC? So Andor, Skeleton Crew, Mando, etc...TVC is a travesty of mismanagement.
>>11560588I really like Imperial army-builder figures, and it's the most recent glaring omission from the army-building scale. I'm not hating on TBS or whatever by saying that, and it's not a price issue since obviously the TBS figure is currently cheaper than a TVC release would be, I just want it in-scale with the rest of my 3.75" stuff, a large part of which doesn't exist in 6" and never will.>>11560600The AT-ST helmet isn't the same as this, and even if it was, where am I gonna get a pile of spare AT-ST helmets, ignoring the cost of getting a bunch of din/migs juggernaut pilots and gambling on being able to paint/dye them competently?
>>11560626>he didn't load up on clearance AT-ST drivers and Morak Dinsngmi
>>11560616More like a travesty of budgeting. There's not enough to go around to do creatures, playsets, and new tooling for every new character in new pieces of media while bringing old stuff up to the new standard
>>11559874Thank you kind anon.
>>11560631I got morak dins for cheap, but I wanna keep them as 'generic' juggernaut pilots. I did miss the $2 walmart AT-ST drivers though, and yeah that shit fills me with regret every time I think about it.
Like I'm glad we did at least get aldhani andor, which lets me have a pile of that version of the imperial army trooper, but the black version with the mudtrooper helmet is so clearly the better design, I cannot comprehend how it didn't make it to TVC. Granted, I also cannot comprehend how a sandtrooper 4-pack wasn't put up for preorder before cantinas started arriving, so maybe I should be better accustomed to disappointment in this regard.
>>11560761It's the fan favorite Axe Woves?Personally I don't want any until they can retool the lower half of that mold and fix those awful knees. But also at this point I'm not going to pay $18 for something that doesn't have rocker ankles either unless it's an extremely unique character that I was unable to get in the past and won't ever be remade.
>>11559715>another glup shitto with 20 seconds of screentime and instantly diesits not even like this guy was in filoniwars to justify it like all the other ones
>>11561263That's exactly why he should be part of an exclusive crowdfunding campaign then.
>>11560761>I also cannot comprehend how a sandtrooper 4-pack wasn't put up for preorderThey failed so hard with the sandtrooper>oversized backpack>terrible paint apps>inaccurate belt and armor>no retooled ball jointed hips>locked behind a 3 pack with a shitty ship of theseus scout trooper and snowtrooper commander that you won't need that many ofI'm really surprised there was no dewback release which they could have used to cost out a definitive sandtrooper. And then repack it as many times as they want with all the pauldron colors.
>>11561111I feel the exact opposite way in this case, I'd rather have slightly suboptimal articulation than another scout trooper situation, that figure looks so fucking bad and alongside the b1 droid it's completely killed my trust in new partial-retools. Plus, retooling the legs would just be inviting them to re-release every trooper that uses them, and I am absolutely not re-buying all my shoretroopers, aldhani troopers, and juggernaut pilots - although admittedly I would buy new combat assault tank pilots to add to what I have, because dear fuck the aftermarket price of those guys is terrible. Regardless, I don't want the ferrix trooper on different legs from the rest, I want them to hurry up and make it and the other things that use these legs (most notably the mudtrooper) before we hit yet another price hike that will ruin their ability to put out "older" articulation like this, and then if they wanna update the legs and re-release all these dudes a few years later, more power to 'em.>>11561305I don't care about the hips because like you said the scout trooper is horrible and I'd rather hasbro just leave the stormtrooper body alone than fuck it up in that way, and I know the backpack has issues and the belt is wrong, but what's this about terrible paint apps? How bad are we talking, here? I have two sets on preorder that haven't shipped yet, was already planning to throw the scouts at eBay but if the sandtrooper's paint is shitty on top of the other issues, I might be better served just buying two loose snowtrooper commanders off eBay instead of buying the set at all.
>>11561359I don't mean the paint is bad as in QC issues (which it could have as well, I don’t know.) I meant it looks bad because they just put 3 brown splotches on there instead of more realistic looking weathering. The 6 inch looks better in that regard but still worse than older sand troopers from before they started cheapening out on paint
>>11561359Eh I feel like the Scout Trooper is a unique case because it was already a bad base to begin with. They've retooled other figures and it's been fine, like both the brown armor and beskar versions of Mando. Besides the Aldhani trooper was inaccurate anyways. They don't wear the armor on their shins like the other troopers do so that alone is enough to warrant a redo for me, especially when they got it right for the Black Series one. And I want my Shoretroopers to be able to kneel. Those god awful knees make that near impossible.
>>11561367Ah yeah I thought you meant QC issues, I agree the weathering isn't ideal but I've been mad about that specific problem ever since the running change that removed the good weathering on the 2008 animated clone troopers, and it's basically never improved since then, so I'm mostly resigned to it at this point.>>11561373The '06 scout is absolutely not a bad base, obviously the articulation is outdated but they absolutely nailed it visually, and it's my 'definitive' scout until they do an actual all-new one that doesn't look like garbage; that aside, though, I think the biggest issue lies in that they tried to mate new tooling to a 20+ year old initial design, which is just completely stupid when they're not even using the same methodology as back then. Theoretically, retools of the shoretrooper legs and the stormtrooper hips should go better, since those are more recent initial designs, but after the stormtrooper lost range of motion in the knees in exchange for rocker ankles, I still really don't trust that to work out well either.>the Aldhani trooper was inaccurateTechnically true but also technically false, from what I've heard they were originally supposed to have the leg armor but then it got broken in shipping to where they filmed aldhani, so they dropped it, so while they're inaccurate to aldhani specifically, they're probably accurate to how they're supposed to look, and how they'll look if the trooper's ever seen anywhere else. Regardless, they're never gonna kneel super well with the long shirt, but they pose well aside from that, so I'd still really rather just hurry up and get the ferrix troopers and mudtroopers with these legs. I hope for your sake they eventually put out a better-articulated shoretrooper, but I really don't think I'd personally buy into that, especially at current/future pricing versus what I paid for getting a bunch of the previous 4-packs.
gamestop has B1G1 all clearancei grabbed another master sol and a mae cos that was all mine had. would have preferred another sol or osha but i can use the mae for something
>>11561422>I think the biggest issue lies in that they tried to mate new tooling to a 20+ year old initial design when they're not even using the same methodology as back thenThat's what I meant by it being a bad base, not really that the original figure itself was. It's like trying to drive American trucks on old European roads.>Technically true but also technically false, from what I've heard they were originally supposed to have the leg armor but then it got broken in shipping to where they filmed aldhani, so they dropped itInteresting, I never knew that. But still, I want things to reflect how they appear on screen above all else. Just like how they should have given the figure the correct blaster too. If they want to show other Imperial army troopers with them then that's fine, I'll already have that figure for when that happens and can save some cash.
What a healthy brand
>>11561454>DISNEY TOYS ROTTING ON SHELVES>HERE'S MY 1,527TH VIDEO ABOUT IT
>>11561454Where’s Lando
>>11561454>Jod Na NawoodWhat a dumb name.
>>11561467>NawoodMore like Norwood am I right
>>11561469kek I never thought of thatalmost as bad as when they called the Asian guy in Jedi Knight’s species the ‘Epicanthix’
>>11561450Oh, sorry I misunderstood, yeah I agree completely with your statement on the scout then. Also strongly agree on the blaster, really sucks we didn't get the unique rifle they use, the marauder gunrunners E11 with the stock folded out is a close-ish match, but not perfect.
Dash looks a lot better in person. Glad I got him
Blokees Mando line10cm scale (1/18)Blind BoxFully articulated, swappable/compatible partsMaybe 6usd each
>>11561658Those look horrible, God
>>11561658Not an amazing first impression, but at $6 I'd pick up a stormtrooper just to experience it, but I'm sure being blind boxed means the stormtrooper will cost me more than $6 if people care about these. Lot of questions from this, though, like>what is happening to the incinerator trooper's left shoulder?>why can't the stormtrooper 2-hand the blaster better than that?>are all the colors extra-saturated or is this just a weird photo?>do all the blasters forego proper-looking handles for cylinder pegs? why?and of course the obvious one of >why are we starting with mandoverse instead of the OT mainsbut I already know the answer to that one and it just makes me sad
>>11561658Wow, at least Ahsoka doesn't have the ghoulish Rosario Dawson gorilla manface.
>>11561658Who are Blokees even for? Kids? Adults? Kidults? I genuinely don't get the appeal of these fake Legos.
>>11561658these remind me of the Shodo Super figures for sentai stuff
Why are there so many loose ankles and limbs on Black Series now?
>>11561903chris needs more cocks
>>11561903Who’s figures specifically?
>>11561903I noticed that too. Got Neel from Ross and his ankles are so loose he can't stand
>>11561454What once was can never be recaptured.
>>11562022Could be worse...er...
>>11562023All of those Finns and Roses ended up in landfills, didn't they? I find it impossible to believe that even Ollie's could sell that shit off.
bunch of stormtroopers for msrp on amazon and bbts right now if interested
It's over Aushtin Phowers!
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>>11562095It's funny to think how not a single thing from the Sequels is culturally relevant in any way, shape, or form.
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>>11562109It was all the equivalent of bad junk food that got consumed, shat out, and forgotten about. It really is a shame how much Disney produced that's all totally culturally irrelevant. Baby Yoda was a novelty character but that's it.
>>11562109Rey, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 became culturally relevant
>>11562137Not a single person would recognize anything you just named.
Spent the afternoon painting this head print. Wish there were more generic female jedi bodies out there.
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>>11562161
>>11562160>>11562161>>11562163No one cares about the figs you goon to
>>11562160>>11562161>>11562163Is she wearing a choker? Wtf?
>>11562160What head?
>>11562160That's a man
>>11562167It was listed as Casca from Berserk
why couldn't they have at least tried to make bly and galle look even remotely similar to each other>yeah ok let's give them different helmets because one is detachable and the other isn't>oh and btw the galle phase II detachable helmet is not only different from the non-detachable phase II headsculpts, but even other detachable phase II helmets>also lets give them different limbs>lets also do weathering on their armor differently>oh and to top it all off, lets just give them two completely different shades of yellow for their markingsI guess I shouldn't really be complaining though, galle is pretty kewl
>>11562223all clones look the same to me
>>11562226except for all the ones that don't. Thanks again filloni.
>>11562160what's the deal with that cool backdrop setting? Looks awesome.Also what do you mean by "Head print" you commissioned a custom head to someone?should post on the 1:18 thread btw, these sw retards have shit taste.
>>11562223Yeah I noticed it in a video, it does look kind og jarring to have them side by side. Maybe if you put more Galles around them Bly would blend in better but idk. They should update him on the new body and match Galle's colors
>>11562270Thanks! It's my Daily Planet office display shelf. There are mirrors on the walls of the shelf to infinitely extend it. I'm still working on Themyscira and need to finish Gotham but I'm drifting away from DC and want to make a Star Wars dio.
>>11562291>>11562270Oh and it's just a printed resin head.
>>11562291>>11562292Leave your trip on so I don't have to see your posts.
How much will it cost the senate vs mace on ebay?
>>11562160>>11562161>>11562163Pretty good. >>11562294Honest question man, why do you hate him?
Is a new Slave Leia just a never ever at this point?
>>11562369I would army build a harem of slave warriors.
>>11562369I don't really see the Star Wars line continuing much longer.
>>11562375I thought the same thing about NECA but they’re still around, so you never know
>>11562375I actually think it's remarkable that it's lasted so long. Even if the ST were a big success with kids I'd still think that.
>>11562369*huttsleia
>>11562388Except there's no reason to have ever thought that about NECA.
Star Wars has paypigs for another 30 years at leastGen X is only in their 50s
>>11562375Absolutely crazy that Disney took one of the biggest toyline empires in the world- including an unprecedented uninterrupted 20 year run of market success even when a film wasn't even on the horizon- and completely killed it in under 10 years.
>>11562270>should post on the 1:18 thread btw, these sw retards have shit tasteWhy? He's posting 6" figures
damn there was a Legends Con this weekend? should have gone as Kyp Durron and tried to smash some Jaina cosplayers
>>11562408I think we'd be seeing some decline anyway. Not as much as we have--we all saw the uptick in merchandise sales when The Mandalorian was a hit--but relative to what things were like in the 1990s or 2000s. We're never getting back there. I don't think even Transformers could get back there even with another movie as successful as Bay's were we to get one. The industry just ain't what it used to be.So the fact things are a little dire right now doesn't come as a surprise to me. I think we'd see doomsaying even in my ideal alternate 2025. For as much as we can blame Disney for killing it, the fact they've been spamming content the way they have may be the only thing keeping the toylines around at all. It's hard to say, but it's not like Star Wars was in a beautiful place in 2012.
>>11562420Anon that was never going to happen.
>>11562424Hell, even after Mando was a hit they couldn't STOP themselves from digging in and making it worse and worse and worse. Poor Hasbro couldn't catch up and the series still has barely any representation.
>>11562427I’ve banged chicks at cons before what’s stopping me now?
>>11562434
>Go to Ross hoping to find some of the $5 TVC Jod Na Nawoods >All they have for Star Wars is half a dozen Black Series Oshas Man, I feel like I never score anything there for TVC but I always see people posting their finds. I just wanted some cheap fodder for custom Cantina characters
>>11562435dont post that faggot here
>>11562403There is though, it was a well known fact for a while that they had shoddy QC.
>>11562443My ROSS stores just have that dumb black girl from Crapolyte
Why the hell are Black Series RotJ Vader and Luke so expensive?
>>11562443people always post absolutely insane finds, like walking into a target and finding 17 count dookus, and then my local walmart has had like 5 landos and two different blandsnores forever.The singular change to their lineup in the past year was the addition of that one chinese darth vader dude from the Obi Wan show. I care so little for this character that I won't even give him the dignity of looking up his name.
>>11562454A fact that you pulled out of your ass. So again there was never a reason to think something that stupid.
>>11562481All the broken figures I’ve seen online say otherwise.
>>11562482Which there aren't that many, but okay. You're still an idiot for ever thinking that.
>>11562424Gotta hard disagree with you there. Sure, there's a chance it could have faced any number of declines, but in 2012 Clone Wars was popular (and became even more popular in the years after it) and played a major role in "fixing/saving/improving" the prequels. Plus it was jam packed with great designs and all sorts of those things- even obscure ones- were getting toys. And those toys were very well made and selling well. It wasn't until Disney took over and changed everything that things started to go to shit, and I don't just mean narratively, you can see a direct shift in the merchandising and it started to tank almost immediately. Prior to Disney the people involved with the toys knew what to make to make it cool and to make it sell.
>>11562494The Clone Wars toys themselves were so fucking good. And we got SO many different characters and aliens and things. Granted a lot of them were in battle packs, but still.Still mad we never got Ziro.
>>11562468Because you didn't get them 2 years ago when they were in production
>>11562509This actually points out a pretty big problem with Star Wars too. You can't get new collectors because most of it's impossible to get now. And they don't even try to keep anything in rotation.
>>11562494There's nothing that Lucasfilm or Hasbro could do that would have reversed entire trends. TCW was on its way out anyway; everyone knew it had run its course even if its immediate cancellation was quite stupid. Another five years of it or whatever was not in the cards. Star Wars was stagnant, Lucasfilm as a whole was in decline. It's not an accident that Lucas sold when he did.So that brings us to two hypotheticals here: a world where Disney still bought Lucasfilm but did a much better job revitalizing the brand, and a world where things continued as they had after ROTS. In the former scenario I think things could have been significantly better today. Hasbro themselves admitted that TFA merch did pretty well for them but that TLJ under-performed, and I already mentioned how The Mandalorian was a sign of what could have been. But it would never have been 1999 or 2005 again. Period. That's over. Dusted. And without a big media injection I don't think we'd have gotten what we have. TVC sure as fuck wouldn't have been revived.
>>11562526It's also worth remembering that Hasbro said TCW figures weren't selling that well anymore towards the end, which was a factor in the last few waves having seriously decreased articulation and why the line basically went out with a whimper. The decision to move to 5POA figures also happened before the Disney deal.
>>11562527Star Wars dying would have been better than what we've ended up with, without question.
that dumb angry birds crossover also happened before disney
>>11562523You can't keep everything in production all the time. They tried with Vader and Mando and now everyone cries about them pegwarming
>>11562541Angry Birds was a gigantic money maker.And they crossed over with M&Ms before that and those were cool figures.
>>11562494The Star Wars team we've been stuck with actively hate Star Wars, so that hasn't helped.
>>11562160>>11562161>>11562163>>11562292cool stuff
