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HasLab 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-orders

The 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 - Pulse


The 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. Galle


Imports/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 Reveals

The Black Series:
-Mace Windu vs Palpatine Duel set - Fall Con Exclusive

The Vintage Collection:
-Padmé Amidala (AOTC)
-Shaak Ti (AOTC)
- Jedi Spirits 3pk - Fall Con Exclusive

Reminder this is a thread about toys. Don't fall for bait or feed the trolls.

>>11559715 (OP)
What a fucking shitshow sham of a Haslab.

>>11559715 (OP)
calling 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 dollhouse
Just give it a rest for a year and give us a balanced line with retail presence you faggots

>>11559733
Yeah Haslabs every year is not sustainable desu. Maybe every 2 years. Not that Lucasfilm or Hasbro Star Wars has 2 more years

>>11559750
B-b-but muh Mando movie! That'll be a billion dollar event like no other! Grogo! ATATs!!!

>>11559728
I 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.

>>11559780
a small vehicle? in THIS economy?

>>11559809
I'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?

>>11559871
It 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.

>>11559715 (OP)
soo 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 reissue

I'LL TAKE 20

>>11559969
>he thinks they're going to make it to stores

>>11559838
>he said something about multiple vehicles fitting into the Gunship
I 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

>>11560197
Fucking idiot

>>11560199
Nice. I hope the ROTJ one will show up there too.

>>11560197
Mine 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 failure
Because 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.

>>11560455
Not 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.

>>11560482
You 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 tooling
I hate this timeline so fucking much

i want my MGS TIE Defender already reeeeeeeeeee

>>11560574
why do you want this so bad

>>11560574
just dye a Morak Din Djarin black with RIT and stick an AT-ST driver helmet on it

>>11560539
Maybe 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.

>>11560614
TVC? So Andor, Skeleton Crew, Mando, etc...

TVC is a travesty of mismanagement.

>>11560588
I 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.

>>11560600
The 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 Dins
ngmi

>>11560616
More 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

>>11559874
Thank you kind anon.

>>11560631
I 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.

>>11560761
It'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 (OP)
>another glup shitto with 20 seconds of screentime and instantly dies
its not even like this guy was in filoniwars to justify it like all the other ones

>>11561263
That'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 preorder
They 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 of

I'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.

>>11561111
I 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.

>>11561305
I 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.

>>11561359
I 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

>>11561359
Eh 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.

>>11561367
Ah 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.

>>11561373
The '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 inaccurate
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 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 clearance
i 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 then
That'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 it
Interesting, 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

>>11561454
Where’s Lando

>>11561454
>Jod Na Nawood
What a dumb name.

>>11561467
>Nawood
More like Norwood am I right

>>11561469
kek I never thought of that
almost as bad as when they called the Asian guy in Jedi Knight’s species the ‘Epicanthix’

>>11561450
Oh, 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 line

10cm scale (1/18)
Blind Box
Fully articulated, swappable/compatible parts
Maybe 6usd each

>>11561658
Those look horrible, God

>>11561658
Not 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 mains
but I already know the answer to that one and it just makes me sad

>>11561658
Wow, at least Ahsoka doesn't have the ghoulish Rosario Dawson gorilla manface.

>>11561658
Who are Blokees even for? Kids? Adults? Kidults? I genuinely don't get the appeal of these fake Legos.

>>11561658
these remind me of the Shodo Super figures for sentai stuff

Why are there so many loose ankles and limbs on Black Series now?

>>11561903
chris needs more cocks

>>11561903
Who’s figures specifically?

>>11561903
I noticed that too. Got Neel from Ross and his ankles are so loose he can't stand

>>11561454
What once was can never be recaptured.

>>11562022
Could be worse...er...

>>11562023
All 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!

>>11562095
It's funny to think how not a single thing from the Sequels is culturally relevant in any way, shape, or form.

>>11562109
It 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.

>>11562109
Rey, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 became culturally relevant

>>11562137
Not 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.

>>11562160
>>11562161
>>11562163
No one cares about the figs you goon to

>>11562160
>>11562161
>>11562163
Is she wearing a choker? Wtf?

>>11562160
What head?

>>11562160
That's a man

>>11562167
It 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 markings
I guess I shouldn't really be complaining though, galle is pretty kewl

>>11562223
all clones look the same to me

>>11562226
except for all the ones that don't. Thanks again filloni.

>>11562160
what'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.

>>11562223
Yeah 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

>>11562270
Thanks! 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
>>11562270
Oh and it's just a printed resin head.

>>11562291
>>11562292
Leave 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
>>11562163
Pretty good.
>>11562294
Honest question man, why do you hate him?

Is a new Slave Leia just a never ever at this point?

>>11562369
I would army build a harem of slave warriors.

>>11562369
I don't really see the Star Wars line continuing much longer.

>>11562375
I thought the same thing about NECA but they’re still around, so you never know

>>11562375
I 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

>>11562388
Except there's no reason to have ever thought that about NECA.

Star Wars has paypigs for another 30 years at least
Gen X is only in their 50s

>>11562375
Absolutely 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 taste
Why? 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

>>11562408
I 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.

>>11562420
Anon that was never going to happen.

>>11562424
Hell, 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.

>>11562427
I’ve banged chicks at cons before what’s stopping me now?

>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

>>11562435
dont post that faggot here

>>11562403
There is though, it was a well known fact for a while that they had shoddy QC.

>>11562443
My ROSS stores just have that dumb black girl from Crapolyte

Why the hell are Black Series RotJ Vader and Luke so expensive?

>>11562443
people 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.

>>11562454
A fact that you pulled out of your ass. So again there was never a reason to think something that stupid.

>>11562481
All the broken figures I’ve seen online say otherwise.

>>11562482
Which there aren't that many, but okay. You're still an idiot for ever thinking that.

>>11562424
Gotta 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.

>>11562494
The 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.

>>11562468
Because you didn't get them 2 years ago when they were in production

>>11562509
This 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.

>>11562494
There'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.

>>11562526
It'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.

>>11562527
Star Wars dying would have been better than what we've ended up with, without question.

that dumb angry birds crossover also happened before disney

>>11562523
You can't keep everything in production all the time. They tried with Vader and Mando and now everyone cries about them pegwarming

>>11562541
Angry Birds was a gigantic money maker.

And they crossed over with M&Ms before that and those were cool figures.

>>11562494
The Star Wars team we've been stuck with actively hate Star Wars, so that hasn't helped.

>>11562160
>>11562161
>>11562163
>>11562292
cool stuff

>>11562562
Ah yes, Chris Reiff only spent 20+ years involved in Star Wars publishing before working at Hasbro and built his own prop replicas, including a working R2, because he hates the brand so much.

>>11562641
Look what a "good" job he's done. The line has never been weaker because of him and the other fakers.

>>11562641
Why is he so incompetent then?

imagine you're just trying to do your job and all day mouthbreathers come up to you shouting shit like
>WHY DIDNT YUO GIVE GLUP SHITTO ROCKER NIPPLES REEEEEEEEEE NOT SCREEN ACCURATE NOT SCREEN ACCURATE
their fan outreach is cringe though and they should fucking stop

>>11562718
>>11562763
"i don't understand business" award

Do they ever make OC figures or is it always something from a movie, show, game, comic, etc? Instead of making slave leia why not make generic slaves or a bunch of hot bounty hunters? Making some mandalorians that aren't blue would be cool, too.

>>11562909
>doing bad is doing business!

>>11562909
>>11562927
lole

>>11562911
The holiday figures are oc. Also some EU figures that don't have live action references could be considered somewhat oc as they are Hasbro's interpretation of the characters

didnt follow the recent events but do we know when the shaak ti vintage will drop?

>>11562981
Did you miss the walmart exclusive 2 years ago?

>>11562911
i would love some generic ayy figures
i don't care what they are (as long as they aren't nuwars ayys), just give me random dudes
jedi, sith, bounty hunter, trooper, i don't care

>>11563020
They sure aren't doing anything good with it

>>11563055
ok, i'll play devils advocate
how can they improve the line?

>>11562981
No. All we got shown was the cardback. We don't even know what the figure looks like or even when it's going to be actually revealed.

>>11562989
Shaak Ti was not a part of that wave at all. It was Aayla Secura, Barriss Offee, Luminara, the 2 ARC Troopers, and the Battle Droid.

>>11563089
More characters with bare midriffs. Sexy rebels and stormtroopers. They keep saying the Force is female but the only female jedi you can buy is ancient ass Trinity's buck.

It's simple, just stop making gay faggot decisions and Star Wars will print money again.

>>11563208
ah i see, you're retarded
yeah that's totally a call the designers can make, good point champ!

>>11563208
Imagine if Star Wars was a Japanese IP. The kino would be through the roof

>>11563089
No more clones

>>11563089
Star wars toys used to have a ratio of roughly 3 out of 4 figures being aliens or helmeted characters or robots- a mix of Jedi and sith, troopers and bounty hunters, etc. Then the remaining were usually main characters, with a handful of pilots and half mask troopers.

This way almost everything was inherently cool.

Since Disney took over there was a massive shift to characters large and small that are unhelmeted humans in usually brownish earth tones clothing. Boring, boring boring. Now it's more like 3 out of 5 figures are something cool, with the rest being boring humans, and even then the troopers we do get are often samey- a fair amount of clone troopers/Storm troopers and mandalorians with little variety. There's been a clear increase of things people don't like or care about and a dwindling of things people do.

>>11563208
this

>>11563249
What, you don't like full waves of The Acolyte, Mandalorian, and Book of Boba Fat figures?

just got charged for the stormtrooper 3 pack from pulse

>>11563288
Yep, both that and the cantina 4-pack charged for me, snowtrooper 4-pack hasn't yet though so it might be genuinely delayed.

>>11563288
>>11563364
Same here. Jesus Pulse, can I have a break please?

>>11563371
It's a truly baffling decision to push out multiple preorders in the same billing statement as a haslab, I had to cancel several and I'm sure I'm not the only one that did, just wait a month at least and this wouldn't be such a mess.

>>11563377
And it happens every year too. That's what's annoying. Like I have a budget for this stuff and try to stay on top of all my preorders, but Pulse's constant delays and emails about changes that you don't know what they mean because the new ship dates are already past by the time the email is sent just makes it nearly impossible to keep up with sometimes. I gotta admit I was pretty pissed when they sent those emails about the Landspeeder and Bantha both being delayed, only to then immediately charge for them and ship them out. They need to fix their shit on several levels

>>11561880
Blokee's = cheap with lots of articulation.

Hasbro Epic Series = cheap, 5POA
Hasbro TVC = expensive, mulitple POA
Hasbro BS = getting expensive, size large enough to fit in a man's sweaty palm

How come nobody ever posts their collection here? Like I don’t think I’ve seen a single picture of someone’s cantina in here yet.

>>11563407
I post my setup elsewhere and don’t want to be doxxed

>>11563409
I highly doubt that would happen, I mean this is /toy/

>>11563407
Basically same as this Anon >>11563409. I started being more active in some of the FB Groups because discussion here is so bad most of the time and there were times where it felt like it was only me and like two other people posting our toys regularly in these threads. It just isn't worth the risk anymore.

Also I haven't even been able to open my Cantina yet because I have nowhere to put it at the moment.

>>11563405
Epic has already moved to being 9POA and is still cheap. Plus it has vehicles that can pull double duty with TVC.

>>11563149
damn that sucks but since the black series of her was really good i feel like they cant fuck her up

>>11563409
Why would anyone doxx you over /toy/ photos? I semi regally post image of my desktop with toys and nothing happens. I am also a freak and I don't have any social media (literally for like 15 years). So, meh.. maybe I answered my own question. Most of the people on /toy/ are nice and I personally have sold a lot of stuff on /BST/.

>>11563500
>Most of the people on /toy/ are nice
lol. lmao. It's like you haven't been paying attention.

>>11563500
Some of the more vocal users on this board are just plane insane. I regularly use the Marvel thread and for literal years, whenever I posted a picture this sperg would recognize my background and absolutely lose his marbles. Now, the background was just a diorama backdrop so he couldn't really get anything from it, but he kept on like this for years. He's stopped as of lately maybe he finally got over it or died, but holy shit I can see how it would dissuade anyone else from posting.

Also, the board has been overrun the last year or two with broke, third worlders that can't afford to buy toys themselves and they get jealous of those who do. It's why the entire board has seemingly been in a perpetual crash out state for the past several months, since the teriff situation got bad. The last avenues of cheap collecting have seemingly been wiped out and these guys are having a meltdown because they've been priced out. It sucks for them, but they don't need to take it out on the rest of us.

Amazon apparently decided to surprise me with the new TVC shock trooper on top of everything pulse is shipping out right now, not quite sure how I feel about it compared to the bootleg, expected to have a stronger preference for the official one but it's not quite right in a bunch of little ways that the bootleg didn't screw up as badly.
Pros to the official one:
>better helmet size/shape, of course
>slightly more precise paint overall
>more accurate red chin detail shape
>the more widely-preferred wrist directions (even though I think most two-hand blaster poses come out more natural-looking with the flipped wrists, and the flipped wrists let the figure correctly use the helmet commlink with the left hand)
Cons to the official one:
>the stripes above the visor are just blatantly wrong, too tall and they don't extend fully to the sides (the bootleg stripes are also too tall, but they at least go all the way to the gray part)
>white is very slightly yellowish, compared to the bootleg which looks brighter/very slightly bluish, bootleg is a more accurate white as far as I can tell
>red color is both too dark for RotS accuracy and too bright for TCW animated accuracy, the bootleg's red matches RotS better
>the faux-weathering kinda sucks, it's not enough scratching to look accurate to either source, and the shoulders look defective moreso than weathered
>the whole figure, especially the red, is way way way too shiny, which is again not accurate to either source, where the white armor was much more matte and the red paint doubly so
Neither of them have perfect-looking visors, at least not the ones I got, and both of them have the mouth painted ever-so-slightly off from where it's sculpted, so I can't really put those issues in the pros/cons here. Overall, objectively, assuming the prices are the same, which they currently basically are, the official one wins out, as you'd expect, but not by a whole lot, which I really didn't expect.

>>11563742
Subjectively, though, the bootleg wins out for me, in part because I got it before the tariffs so it was $11 instead of $17, but also because it has other shock trooper variants that match it, which don't match the official one. Again, for the general/average collector, if you own zero shock troopers on the new clone body, the official one is more worthwhile almost by virtue of the helmet alone; but if you, like me, bought the bootlegs when they were cheap, the official one is not so much better that you'll feel bad about not replacing your $11 figures with $17 ones. The better colors, matte paint finish instead of extra shiny paint finish, and absence of bad weathering don't fully offset the value of the non-removable helmet when price is equal, but at $6 less, it absolutely evens out in my opinion.

A cheapo 3-pack of plastic craft sheets from Walmart works great as Cantina flooring. Gonna try out lighting next.

kind of want to make a custom hand when my shock trooper gets here and turn it into the 'shocker trooper'

>>11563771
Wow that’s beautiful anon, including your display in the back too.
What is the exact name of the stuff you used for the floor?

>>11563249
>Since Disney took over there was a massive shift to characters large and small that are unhelmeted humans in usually brownish earth tones clothing. Boring, boring boring.
for me I don't mind that so much, love having lots of TVC quality heads I can use for customs in my other areas of collecting, and oftentimes they're actors who appear in other projects that will never get 3.75 representation
the thing that gets me though is the Disney design is just so ugly and non Star Warsy. Cassian basically wearing fucking Jordans for one, and then the ugly af semi-medieval look for Mae/Shin/Baylan... chainmail in space, good one LFL bluehairs

>>11563771
Nice that's what I got for the flooring too. I've got these puck lights coming to use for the tables. I figured the remote would make it much easier to turn them on and off and they should fit just right underneath.

>>11563799
Thanks man. I think online it's [Janlynn 7 Count Clear Plastic Canvas Sheets , Set of 3] but if you poke around an actual Walmart store in person you can find it with the embroidery stuff. Mesh plastic sheets, it's like $3.47.

>>11563815
I tried cheapo electronic tealight candles but they weren't bright enough and I think I want to be able to plug them into the wall rather than mess around with batteries going forward. Probably will get a string of "fairy lights" and have them poked up through the flooring beneath each of the tables. Will make the setup very static, but that's the price you have to pay for the convenience of being able to just have them plugged in.

>>11563208
I know that redhead.
I have her figure.

>>11563573
Seeing that shit in the Marvel threads is exactly why I stopped posting pics here because I also used a very consistent background. And considering we had that whacko in here during the HasLab made it clear that was the right choice.

>>11563799
Granny gate.
will also help you when requesting.

>>11563771
I want to see a cat knock all of that over.

>>11563771
This is incredible, any chance we could get more pics?

>>11563967
Sure man. I'm not exactly a photographer though

>>11563995
>Teek
BASED

>>11563995
Who’s this fella?

>>11563999
Teek from the second Ewok movie, was released in a now super expensive Star Tours multipack

>>11564041
Boy howdy that's the truth. I sold mine off recently cause I needed cash. Disney fucking Star Wars up so badly has made all the stuff we can't have now go up sky high.

>>11564046
i paid through the nose for Kneesaa from the Ewok battle pack right before they announced the reissue on animated cardback, was so fucking pissed

>>11559715 (OP)
Got black series Galle. The old clone helmets are so shitty and the paints were inconsistent, some were filled in and some not enough or were misaligned. Left two in pic related are the same sculpts of the old version for example but different levels of paint applied and very messily. Black series is so shit with this. Only complaint I have though is they made the new one a bit too box-like at the top like its a stormtrooper helmet. Unfortunately 2 out of the 327th I ordered were good, the other two had misaligned paint apps on the helmet. Shit is bad for people that are kind of ocd about that stuff. I'm starting to consider just dropping collecting these because their paint quality is always a hit or miss and it misses a lot.

>>11564088
Another pic, the pauldron is making the helmet push up a bit and you can see his chin.

>>11563573
I can see that. The only bad experience I have ever had was related to an annoying person on /BST/ who made up lies and exaggerations when we were communicating through email. He posted his grievances on /BST/ with his "side of the story", "warning" the thread.. even though he was being a pompous asshole the whole time we were talking. I was even extra nice to him and apologized for wasting his time. I didn't feel the need to explain to him what was going in my life at the moment (my father was dying) and that was why I had bad communication. I sadly had to address this dumb drama in the thread and thankfully many people came to my defense. I really try to be kind to people on /toy/ and /BST/.

love what this dude has done with custom TVC sandtroopers
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lW9emTY6lok

>>11564207
Looks awesome. I never realized there were so many variations of their backpack. Would be nice if the eventual Sandtrooper 4pack has some of those included

>>11564099
The TVC version has the same issue with the pauldron pushing the helmet up and exposing the chin. They have versions in TVC where the helmet doesn't come off that look better. I resorted to turning the trooper's head backwards under the helmet so the chin doesn't stick out.

>>11564057
We need an ewoks subline for TVC. I want some live action style Duloks and alien raiders from the Battle for Endor.

>>11564727
>>11564733
Looks awesome Anon. The warm lights for the tables gives it a real cozy atmosphere

>>11564775
>>11564777
Sorry I should clarify those weren’t my pics, just a lot of people have been posting cantinas in the Facebook groups and felt like sharing some of the better looking ones

>>11564777
Try looking away from the mirror then

>>11563742
Damn I thought these wouldn't be yellowish white. They're not as yellow as the Andor clones are they?

Presale on ebay of the palps windu pack hitted $170 its already gone now when the fuck is that con?

>>11564943
October 9-12

>>11564951
Thanks

>>11564943
Imagine paying $170 for this

>>11564920
Sorry, I don't have any of the andor clone to compare it to, all my blank Phase IIs are the 4-pack ones. I dunno exactly what color the andor clone is, but the official shock trooper is more yellow than both the bootleg and the 4-pack blank, and the blank is a very tiny bit more yellow than the bootleg. Worth noting, though, that in this case the bootleg might be slightly too bluish, rather than the blank being too yellowish, but it's a small enough difference to functionally be subjective.

>>11564992
Nobody is really going to want this set anyway

>>11563995
That looks really uneven

i can't believe hasbro passed up the easy money opportunity of doing the classic tpm jedi saber colours for the anniversary
blue mace windu, red adi gallia, yellow plo koon, etc
would've been cool

>>11563771
What was it called?

Is it about time to see some new reveals?

When is the single release of TVC Greedo coming?

>>11565533
Everyone is just assuming that will happen. I don't remember them ever explicitly saying he would get a single carded release. If he does it'll probably be in 2027.

>>11565468
it'd be nice
there's nothing in the pipeline since they decided they weren't doing those anymore
well i guess there's padme and shaak ti to look forward to since they panic-revealed those
i really hope there's more ANH stuff coming, because 'Return to Tatooine' was a fucking joke

>>11565542
The line will be dead before then

>>11565555
>the heritage scale, haslab moneymaker will be dead before the biggest anniversary the franchise has ever seen (and will ever see while still relevant to a demographic with significant purchasing power)

Welp I guess my Stormtroopers of the Empire 3-pack is getting cancelled since Pulse can't charge my perfectly fine credit card

>>11565559
>heritage scale
>the scale that Hasnro hates supporting because it has lower profit margins
>and for which Haslabs are barely funding and not meeting Hasbro's desired backer amounts
>the biggest anniversary that no one cares about and that there will be no product for because the brand is dead and TVC profits are too low for it to be worth putting anything out
When will TVC collectors come back to reality?

>>11565598
when will 6iggers stop grasping at straws and praying for our line's demise? it's not going anywhere

>>11565612
>grasping at straws
>black series literally has higher profit margins compared to TVC and thus Hasbro will always favor it
They already killed TVC once, they can do it again at any time if it's not making them as much money as they want. I collect both btw but I despise TVC fags like you that are perpetually seething about 6 inch. Grow up and get over it

>>11565670
relax, guy

>>11565670
You're the one sperging out about TVC.
If the brand is dead and you hate Star Wars so much, maybe move on instead of collecting two lines (though I doubt you actually do) for a property you despise.

Mounting blast shield!

>>11565765
*Ka-chunk*

>>11565766
BLASTER SHIELD DEPLOYED, GET BEHIND ME!

>>11565767
Suppressing clankers!

>First Official Image from Shawn Levy's 'Star Wars: Starfighter' Starring Ryan Gosling & Flynn Gray
This shit is actually happening?

If you hate the thin arms and wonky elbow cuts that look worse than a Mafex figure on your Dash you're in luck! For bare arms if you're into that new look the GI Joe classified Tomax is the exact same skin tone. You'll need to create a ball on the end of the peg either by melting the end of the peg into like a little mushroom cap or adding some super glue around it.

If you want to recreate the sleeved look from the vintage toy then the Black series Miggs at Ollie's that comes with all the guns is a plug and play option without modding the shoulder (just needs paint). With any arms you choose you will have to cut some of the forearms off and glue the cuffs on. The articulation is contained in the wrists by themselves so don't worry about gluing the cuff straight to the arm just make sure it lines up well.

>>11565849
I haven't decided which look I like better. I'm kind of leaning toward the bear arms from Tomax if I'm keeping the original head and not giving him a like the Shadows of the Empire fig. But with sleeves he does look like more of a space suit kind of guy.

>>11565857
Tomax arms are buff, fit better in the sockets (when you mod the leg ends) and you could even stick with Tomax's own hands/cuffs and have hands that can hold larger weapons.

>>11565801
Oh wow this is totally recognizable as Star Wars! Let me guess written and directed by Tony Gilroy?

>>11565801
Is someone going to force you to watch this? If not, please be quiet.

>>11565801
>>11565869
>>11565874
Waterworld remake looks cool

>>11565801
Whether the movie is good or bad, I'm just excited to get a 3.75" figure of my guy there.

>>11565880
Go away

>>11564992
What makes it $170.00?

>>11565953
>3.75"
who's gonna tell him

>>11565953
Lol, you aren't getting shit

>>11566020
Just like we weren't getting the Gunship, hm?

I hope the titular ‘Starfighter’ is a cool design. Can’t wait to get it in TVC!

>>11566027
Yeah you piece of shit, just like that.

>>11566034
It'll probably be another sovlless brick that doesn't get any toys

>>11561469
>More like Norwood
ha beat me to it

>>11565670
brainlet take
the reason they killed SA 3.75 to begin with was to push collectors to Black Series
when it didn't work as well as they hoped, they came crawling back

>>11566076
But it did work? It is objectively more popular and more profitable, I don't know why I have to keep saying this. It's not, crawling back, more like enough people made noise and they figured they could get a little extra money from them. But at this point to Hasbro black series is the primary line, everything else is secondary. It is so so obvious and thinking otherwise is delusion.

Noticed this on ToyArk's site today. Had a little kek

>>11566088
Star Wars really is dead

>>11566088
>Black Series
>Ultra Whitening
Pick one

I wonder what plot twist will it be on Ahsoka S2 for getting her and Sabine out of that planet? Any ideas?

>>11566215
they meet an astral wolf and go into the world between worlds and time travel onto the star destroyer ezra's on

>>11566215
>Ahsoka S2
The twist is that nobody wanted that

>>11566226
I did. It ended just as it was getting interesting

>>11566215
Can't wait to watch more characters stare off into the distance for so long it kills their actors.

>>11566220
Oh I like that
(writes it down on the S2 script)

>>11566220
Yes to world between worlds, but instead travelling to key points in time and pulling great heroes from the star wars and forming an ultimate team to defeat the Empire Remnants before returning them back to their proper times.

>>11566215
They fly into a space whale which then conveniently takes them back to their galaxy and exactly where they need to go. I know that sounds stupid... but it's already happened once. I don't know why anyone would expect Ahsoka to have a different exit plan than the method she used to get there in the first place

>>11566215
Ahsoka is going to stay in the Peridea Galaxy for the next 30 years in order to explain why she wasn't in the sequel trilogy.

Anakin is coming early from Amazon. I hope Obi-Wan is not too far behind. I think sandtrooper got delayed though

But I'm gonna pissed if they suddenly announce another run of the Mustafar duel set in the next couple weeks…

>>11566912
My Anakin and Sandtrooper are being shipped together on Amazon soon. I received update emails back to back.

>>11566613
Horrible show

>>11567007
Oh. Well I preordered the trooper just a few days ago so they must not have gotten enough and I'll have to wait for the next shipment :(

>>11567037
Man everyone wants that sand trooper personally I'll stick to the backpack one released recently what was its name?

>>11567046
The reissue Jedha patrol trooper? I almost got it the first time around but I didn't like how clean it was. I like the weathering on the sandtrooper. I think in general I prefer troopers to come weathered because I’m not a customizer or army builder and I think it makes them look cooler

got Ben Kenobi from Amazon this morning
Walrusman is FUCKED

>>11566824
then she'll help Rey Skywalker build the New Jedi Order yassss boss bitches

>>11567197
It's all so tiresome

>>11567195
Hell yea Anon. Mine should be here tomorrow. I've gotten so much shit in the last week, it's kind of overwhelming

>>11567352
It shows how slapdash Hasbro Star Wars is right now. It's pretty bad.

My cantina FINALLY shipped today I don't understand what the hell took it so long. If I remember correctly I backed it the first day it went up.

>>11567581
Mine didn't ship till earlier this week. It should arrive today.

cant believe some people are still waiting
ive had my cantinas for weeks but haven't opened them due to lack of space... i lost my toy room to a baby

>>11567624
You let a baby kick you out of your toy room? Babies aren't even that strong I could beat the fuck out of a baby

>>11567624
They kinda fucked up whatever's going on with the shipping. I got mine in. Jesus the box is fucking huge.

Yet another 3.75" aliexpress update, some named 501st commanders that led the legion post-empire in pre-disney comics. Seems like mostly an excuse to tool up the parts needed for the 327th star corps, but on a more popular legion first, which is fine by me as long as we actually get the 327th later. The new parts are great, the kamas are a bit stiff but don't fully prohibit a kneeling pose, and the pauldron seems to be based off a recast of the old RotS-era official one, except it fits well on this body, and the chest strap goes all the way down and plugs into the belt instead of just stopping midair in the middle of the torso, which is awesome. Had to fidget with the heads a bit to make the chin not stick out under the helmet, which is still not ideal and still gonna be a hassle for as long as the helmets are removable, but it's a hassle I'm willing to tolerate for how good these guys look.

>>11568698
Whoops, I didn't really show how the chest strap works at those angles, lemme do a better job of that this time.

does anyone have the STLs for the 3.75" TIE variants that used to be free but then the guy paywalled them?

>>11565849
>>11565857
>>11565867
Thanks for this!
I'm curious if anyone found a better looking face for him too. He looks great except that the face doesn't look quite right to me. He needed his stubble beard and a slightly different hair style imo. Either way, its wild to have a Dash Rendar figure in 2025

>>11565849
I don't think anyone asked you