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>>9443779 >New/Latest Pre-orders The Vintage Collection:
-Death Watch Mandalorian
-Ahsoka (The Mandalorian)
-Mandalorian and Grogu Maldo Kreis build-up pack (Pre-order date TBD• Walmart Exclusive)
-Young Anakin Skywalker
-Mace Windu
-Obi-Wan Kenobi
-Ahsoka Tano
-Rebel Fleet trooper pack (Pulse • ShopDisney)
-Nevarro Cantina playset
-The Emperor's Throne Room Pulse Con exclusive (Hasbro Pulse)
The Black Series:
-Cobb Vanth Deluxe
-Miggs Mayfeld Trooper Disguise (Pre-order date TBD)
-Boba Fett Nomad (Pre-order date TBD)
-Mandalorian and Grogu Maldo Kreis build-up pack (Pre-order date TBD)
-First Order Pack (Galaxy’s Edge • ShopDisney)
-Droid Depot Pack (Galaxy’s Edge • ShopDisney)
-Creature Pack (Galaxy’s Edge • ShopDisney)
-Trapper Wolf Pulse Con Exclusive (Hasbro Pulse)
-Cantina Showdown Pulse Con Exclusive (Hasbro Pulse)
HasLab Black Series Rancor (9000 backers needed by 12/6/21)
>https://hasbropulse.com/collections/haslab/products/star-wars-the-black-series-rancor Bring Home the Bounty - New reveals every Tuesday until 12/28
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>Upcoming/Pipeline Reveals The Black Series
-Death Watch Mandalorian Trooper
-Ahsoka Tano (The Mandalorian)
-The Client
-Bib Fortuna
-Jedha Patrol Stormtrooper
-Bad Batch Omega
-Bad Batch Echo
-New Republic Security Droid
-Figrin Dan
-Leia Organa (Ewok Village outfit)
-The Emperor (Archive Series)
-Lando Calrissian Skiff Guard Disguise (Archive Series)
-C-3PO (Archive Series)
-Dengar (Archive Series)
-Fennec Shand
The Vintage Collection:
-ARC Trooper Jesse
-332 Ahsoka Clone Trooper
-Mandalorian Super Commando Captain
-The Mandalorian (Trooper Disguise)
-Yoda (repack)
-501st Clone Trooper (repack)
-Figrin D’an
Update: TVC Razor Crest delayed until Early 2022
Imports:
>SHF Moff Gideon >SHF Luke Skywalker (The Mandalorian) ******************************************************************************************************
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>why couldn't I work on the Marvel team? >they always have snacks over there >they don't smell weird like these guys do >I don't even like Star Wars
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Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
Wasting a Haslab on a Black Series Rancor... what were they thinking? They probably wasted so much money already on this project.
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>>9458145 The whole idea of Haslab is to gauge interest in big projects with almost zero risk. 3D modeling and 3D printing a prototype costs basically nothing for a company like hasbro.
People that think this is some disaster for Hasbro are fucking stupid and don't understand the expensive part of making toys is production and distribution.
Haslabs failing is going to happen and should happen.
Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
>>9458166 I'm sure Hasbro doesn't like to waste money regardless. Brian Flynn of Super7 quoted that he personally spent $18,000 just to make a paint master for his TMNT Party Wagon that he's working on. They have to have spent money and man hours making prototypes.
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4channel & toys
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Don't know anything about this Rancor. Is the main complaint the price? What scale is it meant for? The larger star wars figures?
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>>9458184 Oh look, Crimson Commander bringing up Super7. What a surprise.
Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
>>9458195 Why wouldn't I bring up things I collect and what toy manufacturers have said in a discussion on whether or not Hasbro sunk any money into this already?
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>>9458166 I think the big take away if the Rancor fails (and it truly is looking like it might..) is Hasbro's ego. I don't think any of the Haslabs have failed, correct? How they can't get backing, for an iconic design in the OT is kind of pathetic. All they had to do was include Oola and Malakili for their stretch goals. That's it. Everyone knows it, but Hasbro. It doesn't help the actual Racon's paint apps look really crappy and charging 350 for everything is just daft
Anonymous
>>9458201 You mean the place you've been trying to get a job at and get noticed by with your Youtube vids, Scott?
Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
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>>9458208 >I don't think any of the Haslabs have failed, correct? Only Cookie Monster so far. And Cookie seemed to fail due to bad timing, and people were at first mad about it, his announcement, because they wanted an action figure related Haslab, like how Star Wars had just previously had one. Then right after the backlash they announced Unicron, which had settled people down some, who didn't expect there to be two different Haslabs, which then sort of competed against one another, with most people backing Unicron instead.
At least that's what I recall of the situation.
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>>9458215 I'm not Scott. I hope this solves this riddle for you.
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>>9458218 We all know you are.
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>>9458094 man this looks like shit jesus christ its not even the right shade of brown nevermind how sloppy the shading looks
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Let’s all laugh at BLACKED series cucks getting what they deserve.
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>>9458184 Scott, you will NEVER get hired bu Super7, stop shilling them
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>>9458218 >I'm not Scott. >I-I'm n-not Scott guys, ha ha, s-s-seriously! Oh look, Retroblasting! Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
>>9458242 By you're reasoning and logic you must be Scott or Retroblasting, since you brought them up. Anyway, why are you trolling? I'm not OP so it doesn't really serve a purpose.
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>>9458264 Nice try Scott. But you've never been good at hiding your bullshit.
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>>9458264 >I'm not OP Well that's sus
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>>9458184 Third quarter 2021 Hasbro made almost 2 billion revenue. Comparing Super 7 to Hasbro is fucking stupid.
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Oh my god shut up about brand wars and youtubers, holy fuck.
Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
>>9458269 >Third quarter 2021 Hasbro made almost 2 billion revenue. And? It doesn't mean they still didn't potentially piss away over $18,000 or more on a Rancor prototype. They had to logically speaking have paid employees and sculptors to have made those prototypes.
>Comparing Super 7 to Hasbro is fucking stupid. Why? Hasbro's marketing team has said they can't afford to make brand new figures in TVC, why can't a comparison on costs be brought into a discussion? The only difference is that Hasbro's a big enough company that it's less of a big deal for them than a small company to spend that sort of money.
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>>9458094 It unironically looked better unpainted
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>>9458094 Crashing this project with no survivors.
Anonymous
>>9458305 If it doesn't get funded, we need edits of the door coming down on the rancor killing it.
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Why is Hasbro so retarded?
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>>9458319 Patrick cursed it by revealing things too early. It threw the whole project off.
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If this thing doesn’t get funded will they stop doing this crowd funding shit? Surely it will be embarrassing for them.
Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
>>9458338 They should crowd fund things I wont. I honestly have no need or want for any of the current 3 Haslabs. Did Black Series fans really want and demand a Rancor? I know Joe fans didn't want and demand the o-ring only Skystriker.
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>>9458338 I honestly hope at least one of the three fails so they realize there is only so much money they can ask for so quickly.
Anonymous
The only way this could be better is if it had been a Sequel shit thing trying to get funded.
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>>9458365 Oh boy, I can't wait for the alien manatee, for alien blue milk action!
With enough backers it comes with Luke's milk glass, 1/12 scale, and a tossed lightsaber hilt! Maybe repackage Luke and Rey if the extended goals are met.
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>>9458373 Single carded and officially numbered porg!
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>>9458338 I have a feeling they'll just relaunch it with some minor changes enough to get it backed.
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>>9458193 It's for the 6" Black Series figures. The problems are a combination of everything:
>Price (yes it's big but it costs significantly more than it should) >Paint looks like basic shit despite them boasting it has over 900 paint ops (which goes into the price, it should look as good as a Sideshow/Hot Toys figure) >Stretch goals are completely tone deaf by not being new figures of the two most wanted characters associated with the Rancor that probably couldn't be sold outside of this context; Oola and Malakili >Salacious Crumb being a tier unlock on his own makes no sense since he's largely irrelevant to the Rancor and you can just get him in the Galaxy's Edge pack now >Luke being a new figure is neat and expected but it's not as if they weren't going make it anyway and use the tooling to release as The Mandalorian version >Packing figures on yet another style of vintage card which just encourages them to not even be opened >Cardboard backdrop and random skulls and bones should just be included to begin with Anonymous
>>9458094 The shade of the plastic makes it look like it is made out of chocolate. The eyes are just plain silver, with no pupils, as if the rancor was blind. The shading is abysmally sloppy, how does this thing have 900 paint decos? Where? This doesn't look like a 350$ figure, it looks cheap.
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>>9458402 Ok, yeah, I see. If it was that expensive, I'd expect them to include a working giant metal fence door thing from the get go.
While not as bad, it reminds me how the Victory Saber Haslab was mostly accesories the toy should have gotten from the start. He first tier was an weapon that would leave the toy incomplete. None of the reveals were anything impressive or things that could only be sold with that toy in Haslab and nowhere else.
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>>9458314 Afterwards the page just redirects to a YT vid of Malakili sobbing.
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>>9458416 Exactly. I know the one in my pic on the left is a $1200 limited run statue, but that's the level of detail I expected it to have after they made a big deal about OVER 9000 ops. And this is most likely a hand painted prototype they're showing off so the actual production one is going to be worse. Look at that mouth, it's like someone just took some red and used the fill tool in MS Paint. They could have at least used a matte finish on the skin and then a glossy in the mouth to make it seem like a different surface. Fuck even the G.I. Joe Classified Snake Eyes used that to separate parts of his suit so even though he's completely black, you can pick out areas of detail within him since armor areas are glossy and undersuit/fabric areas are less so.
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>>9458094 It's down to 4,873
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>>9458355 >Did Black Series fans really want and demand a Rancor? this is what I do not understand. If you want to collect big monsters (as well as ships and stuff) isn't that what the 3.75 scale is for? Makes way more sense for setting up displays or playing with when you can do it with an easier to manage scale. I mean that scale goes back to the seventies and the reason they made them that small in the first place was so they could make manageable X-Wings and stuff for them. If they had cancelled the traditional line and only did BS then it would make more sense but it just seems so pointless to do it in this line when they have TVC.
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>>9458355 >Did Black Series fans really want and demand a Rancor? Not really no. No one really knows why this is not TVC, with a proper diorama.
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>>9458437 Take a look at the paint job on this $60 toy that you can just waltz into any target and buy right now. To top it off, it has an action feature of being able to eat stuff!
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>>9458471 Not to mention they just did the sail barge. Why not go all on in Jabba related stuff for the line that it is more appropriate for? Further proof that they can’t handle two lines without cannibalizing them both.
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>>9458437 Even the the 2005 legacy collection one is better painted. Fucking embarrassing.
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I’m not sure what I hate more. Patrick or the poopcor
Crimson Commander !!uoqqXVkn8aK
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>>9458622 Patrick for me. I seethe whenever he's in videos revealing things. He seems so disingenuous, and he was the dude that tried to force on us those gold repaints of 5POA Star Wars figures that nobody wanted the first time, and he had repacked them multiple times in multiple different ways. And then when he revived TVC he just repacked all the same shit that wasn't selling in the Walmart 3.75 Black Series-- but on a TVC card, which he figured people like Paul from JTA would eat up. And they end doing solid case repacks of characters such as Jyn, which they thought was a hot character everyone wanted. The solid cases later turned up at Ollie's which is how people found out that they did this.
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>>9458094 Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up getting fully funded at the end because of people with FOMO
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>>9458476 >>9458668 Just label it as a mutated rancor and save a fuckton of money.
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>>9458380 What minor changes could they make though? Anything that's going to be enough to win people back are going to have to be major changes. At this point the only thing that would convince me to go in is either knocking off $100+ or a livestream within the next few weeks where they announce some ROTJ anniversary reveals that include Oola and Malakili to make backing this project worth it.
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Bare minimum. Better paint job and a Malakili
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How could this happen to me? I made my mistakes, got nowhere to run! The night goes on as I'm fading away...
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This wouldn't have happened if it were a TVC rancor
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>>9458437 Left has better studio lighting, haslab looks like something any anon on these threads would shot.
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>>9458691 When Unicron was failing, they added a ton of things to mitigate complaints. So they'll probably fix whatever they can. Paint, include something extra that people asked for, etc...
Unicron got all this added at the last minute:
-Posable fingers (originally just the hand opened up, fingers fused together, embarrassing when they could do this with smaller figures and the old Unicron).
-Detachable head and stands (Hasbro outright told people in a presentation that the current figure didn't support a detachable head)
-Mini ships with a stand for them
-Swappable pieces for the chin for more animation accuracy
Anonymous
>>9458748 Biggest toy company in the world and they can't afford some studio lighting?
Even if they could it would still be the wrong fucking color anyway.
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>>9458742 Well no, they'd just reuse 15 year old molds instead and charge more for them.
Anonymous
will the Blacked series Rancor have floppy knees?
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>>9458748 >>9458752 OR they know more lighting would be worse for it
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>>9458800 They confirmed ratchet joints
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>>9458471 I think even with new and improved articulation, a TVC Rancor would probably be a hard sell as a Haslab, given that as recently as 2015 you could get it in a set that included Jabba and some other figures for $130. If they tried doing a TVC-scaled one for Haslab and tried to charge $250-300 for it I still don't think people would bite, especially if the add-ons are as shitty as what they're doing now.
Though Paul from JTA would be cheerleading the fuck out of it if the tier unlocks were stuff like Malakili on a vintage card. The only reason he's not sucking Hasbro's cock over this one is because he hates TBS and it infuriates him when TBS gets vintage cardbacks for figures that don't yet have them in TVC. Even if the unlocks were literally the same ones we're seeing now but in TVC scale he'd be posting article after article professing how amazing the project is and demanding that everyone buy several just to ensure that they hit those numbers to unlock them all.
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Star Cucks are still gonna back this garbage in the end.
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>>9458881 Yeah, probably. There's going to be a last minute surge, but we'll see how many unlocks it actually gets though. I'd love for this to fail just so Hasbro can take notice that they can't just half-ass this shit and still expect sales, but knowing them they'll learn the wrong lesson from its failure anyway.
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>>9458881 >BLACKED Series Cucks are still gonna back this garbage in the end. FTFY
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>>9458860 Hell one of Paul's suggestions was completing the remaining Ninety Six as a substitute Haslab project, which would be scummy as all hell but he doesn't give a shit as long as he's personally catered to
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Well I for one am tired of being mad about the Rancor. Decided to play with toys instead and made a Fallen Order scene. Wish I would have grabbed more Scouts
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>>9459045 Part of me wants it to be funded, just because I think Paul will find something to get about regarding it, if it does succeed.
>>9458886 Probably gets backed, but just barely. Don't expect it to hit any of the goals.
>>9458860 It should have been a TVC Ebon Hawk. That thing would have been funded long ago if so. Or even a TVC Outrider with a new Dash Rendar. These are both things we'd never be able to get outside of a Haslab.
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>>9459045 Part of me wants it to be funded, just because I think Paul will find something to get mad about regarding it, if it does succeed.
>>9458886 Probably gets backed, but just barely. Don't expect it to hit any of the goals.
>>9458860 It should have been a TVC Ebon Hawk. That thing would have been funded long ago if so. Or even a TVC Outrider with a new Dash Rendar. These are both things we'd never be able to get outside of a Haslab.
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>>9459059 >Fallen Order Yuck, sequel shit
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>>9459098 Thank you Anon
>>9459099 Thanks man, I love your pic too. Here's the last in my little sequence.
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>>9459102 >set after E3 and 15 years before E4 >sequel shit You can't be this fucking stupid, anon.
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>>9459105 Pretty sure you can find the baton troopers on ebay pretty easily. Currently waiting on my Stormtroopers as well as some new weapons and a baton set for my other Purge Trooper.
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>>9458811 Looked better in the livestream.
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>>9459110 I guess they're actually in stock on GameStop's website right now. Must be getting more in for the holidays or something. I'll need to get some pauldrons so I can make a commander like yours. This is what I have so far to represent the enemies in the game. I have the rotary gun to make the heavy assault trooper but haven't painted it yet.
I'm also working on a custom Haxion Brood hunter.
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>>9459123 >HELP! RAAAAAAPE! Anonymous
>>9459095 Disney has to sign off on anything they make and you can be damn sure they don't want to even acknowledge any EU stuff.
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>>9459173 But they've been acknowledging EU stuff for years, we literally had Thrawn as a major character in Rebels
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>>9459174 Better paintjob than the Haslab one
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>>9459123 It's better under that lighting, but that's still not a $350 paintjob. Even if the final product actually does have great paint apps and this one was just a rush job they did for the sake of the livestream, why the hell would you look at that and think it's good enough to show off to the people you're trying to sell it to?
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>>9459123 They're rubbing the magic lucky Rancor of Failure
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>>9458283 For s7 did the 18k include employee time spent on the project?
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>>9459349 PATRICK ON SUICIDE WATCH
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Why do they pretend Oola doesn't exist? they realize anyone can just go watch rotj right now and see her in it right?
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>>9459352 I don't think it's that, same as I don't think it's THE SJW AGENDA. I think it's far, far, far more likely thaf they simply didn't think they needed to try. They wanted as little effort and as little new moulds as possible would still sell. Why bother making Oola and the handler when you could save tooling costs by simply rereleasing old shit on new cards? That's all those SW losers care about, the nostalgia on their cardbacks, right?
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>>9459352 Honestly I don't think this is even a case of Oola erasure or whatever, the most obvious character to include with the Rancor is the fucking Rancor Keeper and they still didn't do that. I think even without getting into the subject of whether or not they'd do Oola, they clearly didn't want to do any new tooling for the bonus figures. The only brand new figure is Luke and you know they're not going to keep him exclusive to this set.
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>>9459357 >>9459358 It's this. They cheaped the fuck out and thought we'd all be excited to get rehashes on new cards.
By the way it's down to 4,855 now.
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>>9459363 Cookie is waiting. He’s been lonely in the Haslab Graveyard.
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>>9459278 anon rebels ended ages ago, the latest show resistance was ass, doubt eu stuff will show up again like that
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>>9458437 >>9458094 that paint job is trash!
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>>9459095 You are so obsessed with people on "the industry" it's not even funny. I'm actually beginning to think you're actually Scott.
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>>9458881 Even Robo, the biggest 6 inch star wars fanboy this side of the twin suns, is considering canceling if it doesn't get enough stretch goals.
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>>9459370 desu I rather get this now than the rancor.
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>>9459472 Because he is Scott. He talks the same way on his videos. He thinks he's a big deal still. He's got a grudge against Pixel Dan too.
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>>9459106 It has Starkiller Base. It's sequel shit.
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>>9459352 I think hasbro just gets their jollies by trying to erase the acting performance of women of color
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>>9459580 never seen a project actually lose backers consistently. Has it happened before?
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>>9459653 It's normal to lose a few as people reevaluate their needs and budget, but THIS is bad.
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>>9459358 I know this line has less reuse than marvel legends but both their haslabs gave two characters who were fringe unlikely picks to ever get retail releases, something they really should have replicated here. They really just thought star wars could just do no wrong but they forgot how long fans have been getting fucked over by the brand these days.
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>>9459357 >I don't think it's THE SJW AGENDA then you’re a dipshit
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>>9459363 Yeah all this.
>>9459709 I don't know, there may be a little bit of it that was probably brought up as a reason not to make her. They obviously talked about her considering they included her skull in the project (which I don't know if that makes things worse or better). It's not like they don't aknowledge her though, as she has her own entry on the Star Wars website:
https://www.starwars.com/databank/oola Anonymous
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>>9459728 they aren’t going to erase her for existence but they are cowards who are afraid of feminists who act like puritans. Also they are cheap skates but that wouldn’t explain Oola. It explains Malakilli though. The Rancor Keeper from 1983 was basically the original peg warmer, that’s why he is still one of the most affordable carded figures from the vintage line. I remember the POTF2 one warming the pegs forever too. So they probably don’t want to make him because they know he isn’t worth repacking as a regular figure later. But they know Oola will sell, the only reason they wouldn’t want to make her is for similar reasons as to why they don’t want to do slave Leia anymore. As has been pointed out they also have no problem making a new Luke for this because they know they can reuse him later.
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This shit is literally losing backers every time I refresh the page now, KEK
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>>9459653 I think the KS Spawn lost a bunch during some of the reveals and it showed Todd didn’t listen to feedback he was going to look at. At that point though, it was so successful it didn’t matter if it lost thousands of backers.
Wasn’t Patrick’s slip up “when we ship the Rancor” ? Kek. He’s fucked himself. I can’t see them extending it to rework the stretch goals. His excuse could be “ “hey guys we know you want the Keeper and Oola but we were saving them for the ROTJ Anniversary cardback series. So please back now since we have now given an early in the pipeline reveal”.
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4827! Holy fuck!! How do you fuck up a giant monster this badly??? Star Wars is so doomed.
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>>9459792 >Oola but we were saving them for the ROTJ Anniversary cardback series. Oola is banned. She cannot be produced.
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>>9459867 That pink twi'lek is George's daughter, right? Been thinking about picking her up.
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>>9458094 I wish I could photoshop hunks of corn onto the shitcor’s teeth.
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>>9459756 I wouldn't be surprised if they were already planning a new Jedi Luke as a Mandalorian release and just designed him with a removable belt so he could also be used for ROTJ.
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>>9459888 The main difference between the Walmart release and the Mandalorian look is literally the belt and glove. I've been tempted to give my Jedi Like a painted hand and steal the belt off of another figure. What figure has Luke's belt from rotj though aside from that first release of him way back when?
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>>9459906 >What figure has Luke's belt from rotj though aside from that first release of him way back when? TLJ Luke has the same belt, just with a pouch. It's sculpted onto his tunic though so you'd have to cut it out.
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>>9459906 >The main difference between the Walmart release and the Mandalorian look is literally the belt and glove His tunic is way different in The Mandalorian. It's closer to what prequel Jedi had.
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The Luke is a red herring. Anyone with any taste is getting the shf mando Luke. Fuck off hasblo
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>>9459939 I don't know what gave you the impression that people are jumping to get this Luke that's currently only available with the Rancor that's losing backers every day
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>>9459939 The average person can't afford to spend so much on one toy. That's why Hasbro thrives with cheapo Black series and ML.
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>>9459939 Why would anyone even be excited for that Luke, they've already shown they are eager to immediately resell these haslab figures in the retail line with yakface.
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>>9459939 I'd be more interested in it if the face wasn't the in the same uncanny valley territory as it was in the show. I mean I get that it's screen accurate but I'd much rather they make it look actually like Mark Hamill. Plus I already have the Black Series Walmart Jedi Luke. I don't feel like the upgrade would be worth the price imo.
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>>9459990 The face looks like shit sure. I'm hoping itll be compatible with the old rotj luke as it otherwise looks like an upgrade.
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>>9459756 >they are cheap skates but that wouldn’t explain Oola That explains it perfectly as they didn't want to make any new tooling for anything for this project. If they go through the effort of making this "new" Luke, they can still sell him at retail and make a bang. Malakilli and Oola would both shelfwarm and needed to be included, but that would've taken effort and investment, two things they refused. They made one of the stretch goals a fucking piece of cardboard, anon. If you think they thought of anything other than budget, you have these retards living rent free in your head. Especially when they included her skull, or rather a human skull wearing her headband, cause they couldn't even be fucking assed to make a unique Twi'lek skull.
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>>9459872 The chubby purple one from the sports bar/night club in AOTC is.
Hasbro actually did make the orange gal behind her.
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>>9459996 >Oola >shelfwarm Really? Seems like a lot of people would want them for dioramas or customs.
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>>9459998 I want to army build female twi'leks so bad.
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>>9460001 More like for hot glue
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>>9460001 She'd probably do better than Malakilli who can't move without an in-scale Rancor, but she ain't gonna do as well as the various Clones and main characters and army builder stuff that's been disappearing instantly whenever it goes up for preorders. Doesn't help that there's basically nothing in-scale to put her next to because none of Jabba's court is readily available, except I guess Crumb now.
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>>9460001 She would probably shelfwarm then spike up immensely on the secondary market once she finally sold out.
I have no doubts Disney does not want a figure like Oola on shelves though and that probably factors into why Hasbro didn't want to make her for this haslab; they won't be able to easily resell her and any other figure capable of reusing any of her half-naked body like slave Leia is similarly not going to make it to retail shelves.
Anonymous
Wait why are people thinking Oola wouldn't sell? Tons of horny men would buy them up like crazy and tons of scalpers would buy them up to later sell to horny men on ebay for ridiculous prices.
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>>9460020 They'd be able to reuse the body instantly by making the other slave girls, but once again, that'd require new tooling. They're not even willing to make 100% fresh tooling on stuff like the new Deathwatch Mando which will get scalped to fuck and back, why would they do it on a slave girl that's only known and remembered for being eaten by the Rancor without a Rancor?
Anonymous
>>9460028 You'd think so but this same logic failed Slave Leia, who pegwarmed massively when she was out.
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>>9460028 You seem to be forgetting how ugly the average hasbro half naked female body is. Their slave leia is not good coomerbait and the only reason it goes for the prices it does is due to it likely being the last figure we'll ever get of it.
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>>9460047 >>9460040 It was 95% the face
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>>9460058 I had forgotten how fucking ugly this thing is overall, holy fuck.
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>>9460004 -Walmart Jabba Pack in Oola.
-TVC Aayla Secura
-Lyn Me from Jabba's Dancers box set
-Darth Talon from the Comic Packs
-Ayy Vida single carded AOTC run
-Shakka from Watto's Box Episode 1 box set
-Hera Syndulla from 5poa Rebels Mission Series 2 pack
I don't think they made any more female twi'leks than that.
I'd love George Lucas' daughter, Sebulba's masseuse, a new Darth Talon, the dancers from TCW with the hutt masks, and a properly articulated Hera.
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>>9458402 >despite them boasting it has over 900 paint ops ( I think they were trying to tell a half-truth and meant in total, including the three other action figures. Even then, I'm not seeing 900+.
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I feel like they should have just done a Jabba's Palace figure set instead. For all the money that went into engineering and making a Rancor, I'd imagine we could have gotten a few unique figures out of that. Would be nice to get a Ree Yees, Yakface, Tessek, any of the Niktos, etc. A mix of unique sculpts but also parts and pieces they could reuse to make other background characters or kitbashed Rebel troopers for Gaming Greats. It seems like they have an aversion to not doing lesser characters in Black Series scale and this would be the perfect avenue to give them to the collectors that want them without risking retail loss.
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>>9460144 I'm trying to be charitable and assume that the finished product is supposed to have a ton of well applied paint and what they showed us was an intern slapping on some paint onto the prototype so they could put it on the livestream. I mean that's me being charitable, but given that they thought we'd all go nuts for Salacious Crumb and another Jedi Luke it's entirely possible they think the paint job they showed off is genuinely good.
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>>9460150 Maybe not as a Haslab, but I think a new Jabba set with a dais would be in order. Even the SDCC exclusive one that came with the rail and bowl/pipe didn't actually have the dais. Just re-use that same SDCC set, but include the dais and throw in an extra figure like a photoreal Slave Leia or even just a Jawa with a fan.
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>>9460169 >>9460150 Feels even more needed, or at least more court members, now that they got a new Bib coming soon. Especially since he looks fantastic.
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>>9460169 I could see that working as like an Amazon exclusive or something.
I can't really think of anything that would justify a Black Series Haslab, though. It's a line that just doesn't lend itself as well to large items like TVC does and most of the stuff that you could put put for it are either vehicles (which are awkward at this scale) or large creatures (which are usually very scene-specific and not really crucial to the collection). Look at what Marvel has, Galactus and the Sentinel are both large characters with long histories within Marvel, hell the Sentinel is easily the centerpiece of an X-Men collection because of how often they fought these things. The rancor isn't as big a part of the Star Wars universe, it has one scene and dies. It's neat to have but your collection doesn't feel empty without it.
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>>9460187 The only thing I could think I'd want at this scale in terms of big vehicles and the like is a 1/12 AT-ST. Probably just because it'd be one of the only things that could fit in any kind of detolf or similar sized display, and I'd love an excuse to just have a pilot figure to go with it. Just a question of what the fuck would you stretch goal with it, since we already have everything from Endor. Maybe just a collection of various trooper weapons like the heavy blaster cannon with a batter pack?
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>>9460208 >since we already have everything from Endor But do we have them... ON VINTAGE CARDS? BACK THIS PROJECT NOW!
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>>9460004 More like harem-build.
>>9460119 On the subject of alien rarities, were there ever any Sith Pureblood figures (male or female?)
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>>9460218 >were there ever any Sith Pureblood figures (male or female?) Nope.
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>>9460119 Dont forget the giant bouncy titty twilek that was in that one brief scene in revenge of the sith..
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>>9460187 That's why I think they need to just do figure sets instead. I would wager that most Black Series collectors might not be into getting big stuff like vehicles or giant creatures as big as a Rancor because of space/display issues, but a lot of people would certainly be into more eclectic assortments of aliens that aren't major characters. Like what's the point of getting the Cantina set if we only have a couple of figures to populate around it? A lot of people want all of those characters present in the scene but Hasbro will never get around to throwing them into normal waves and retailers might not want the risk of being stuck with them.
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>>9460187 >It's neat to have but your collection doesn't feel empty without it. I feel like for this reason the Rancor was always going to be a hard sell even without the shit tiers. Even before they revealed any tiers the backers were really slow. Malakili and Oola would've helped but I still think it would've been a slow crawl to completion and possibly not even reach all of its tiers.
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>>9460208 >Just a question of what the fuck would you stretch goal with it First things that I could think of:
>Lights for the interior/gun barrels >Swappable battle damaged panels >Swappable weapons for the sides like a mortar launcher >Some repainted/retooled Ewoks to harass it >A different deco option to make it into the one from The Mandalorian Anonymous
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>>9460262 Lighted interior would actually be sick as shit, same as swappable battle damage. Could actually justify it being over $200 if you sold it with the ability to take off all the armor panels from the cockpit block and just have metal armature underneath it. Just do something like an MG Gundam kit, but with only 4 panels plus the top/hatch. Could easily work that into the partially assembled one from whichever of the sequel movies that's in too.
Kind of upset that this shit ain't gonna happen at all now.
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>>9459939 Everything involving the Mandolorian is trash. If it weren’t for the toys, it would have been lost to history.
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>>9460058 What is it with hasbro and making Luke and Leia look horrific?
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>>9460163 I mean, I was also being charitable and assumed that the 900+ apps they bragged about was an actual number and trying to figure out where they went, rather than assume they were lying.
But yeah, the fourth Salacious Crumb they've made... that somehow they'll be surprised he isn't a bigger deal.
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>>9460323 Dude's gotta be shitting himself right now
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>>9460187 If this fails I wouldn't even be mad if they never did another TBS HasLab. I really can't think of anything I'd want in that scale that I'd be willing to pay that much for.
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>>9460323 Too bad nothing will happen to him. At worst he just gets sent to be the brand manager for another line and will fuck that one up for those fans.
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>>9460290 Seeing this man coping every single thread really does make my day.
>>9460344 Considering this is the company that hired a human trafficker to run Transformers for a few years, and continue to let several absolute retards who bombed the line into the ground with FoC and PotP continue to be the lead, I wouldn't hold your breath. Dude probably got into his spot by sucking cock for several years, and you can't oust someone like that over a single failure.
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>>9459996 >unique Twi'lek skull Do Twi'leks have unique skulls? It's not like there are bones in the lekku.
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>>9460225 Yes, her, and the AWOL Clone's wife.
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>>9460399 >Considering this is the company that hired a human trafficker to run Transformers for a few years, uh... what?
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>>9460419 How is that the outfit of A Farmer's Wife
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>>9460428 Twileks are built for sex
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>>9460425 Rik Alvarez was known for being involved in human trafficking, and was the brand lead during the FoC years when the toyline was so bad most people considered stopping collecting entirely. He basically got the job writing a fanbook while buying/selling women in asia.
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>>9460436 >buying/selling women in asia. Living the dream
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>>9460119 ther was also an X-wing pilot female and Hera with pilot headgear that came with an A-wing
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>>9460416 >Do Twi'leks have unique skulls? It's not like there are bones in the lekku. Considering the lekku are prehensile, I would expect two holes in the back of the head for the muscle anchors like how an elephant trunk connects to the skull.
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>>9460058 Sooner or later there will be a 3rd party release like most things. Might not have the right face but BS has enough new print tech head sculpts.
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>>9460323 >The fans are alert to our Haslab. Patrick let it slip too far from its reveal... >H-He felt surprise was wiser... >He is as clumsy as he is stupid! Anonymous
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>>9460399 >Everyone that doesn’t like The Mandolorian is the same person You’re mentally ill, even for a Disney shill.
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>>9460323 >>9460530 So they're going to have to address this sometime this week, right?
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>>9460543 That'd be hilarious. Another stream and they're all sweating profusely. No props, no SW shirts. All of them afraid to talk.
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>>9460419 >Rianna never ever Anonymous
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>>9460446 >elephant Silly, anon, that's clearly a cyclops skull.
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>>9460597 Good, that game was shit
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>>9460290 do you live in the real world?
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>>9460530 >4,828 now Huh. Did 3 more people get somehow get convinced by the stretch goals or is it some scalper counting on flipping the thing?
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>>9460597 I think you're the only one besides me who remembers this character, anon.
And yes, hopefully they notice she's a pretty simple aayla repaint and she gets made.
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>>9460616 Yes. No-one talks about the Mandolorian anymore aside from deranged OTfags that think KK will be resigning in two weeks, and toy collectors.
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>>9460629 Anon, can you please stop shitting up this thread?
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>>9460617 likely it's the Razorcrest again, where people cancel it for the lulz/memes, but this one on a grander level.
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Can someone explain to me how a fanbase is such a hivemind that it's literally going in reverse due to the reveal and not one person liked what they revealed?
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>>9460646 >the only reason people are cancelling their rancors/not pledging in the first place is because hivemind ????
All Haslabs go the same, anon. People hold back pledging until they see all the tiers, and then there's a huge push in the last days of the thing. Star Saber barely got funded until the last 4 days or so and then jumped to all tiers. It achieved this by making all the tiers shit that would make the figure useless if it didn't get them. Rancor on the other hand is disgustingly overpriced, and didn't come with anything that people would want. Early pledgers assumed, rightfully, that it'd come with Oola and Malakilli since they're iconic characters that couldn't survive retail, and would have to come with the Rancor. When they revealed goal after goal of useless shit that people already had BUT ON A NEW CARD, they cancelled.
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>>9460058 >>9460305 >>9460449 if they do a haslab on SL shit will get 50,000 backers easy
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>>9460648 If Jar Jar can get made for retail I don't see how Malakilli and Oola can't. He's a net negative, they're net "who?"s at best
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>>9460651 Not with the original face
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>>9460638 Of course I’m okay. I’m just statin the truth. Take /tv/ as an example, they talk about the Prequels, OT, and Sequels on an almost daily basis, yet no-one talks about The Soidolorian. They only talk about when bringing up Pedro’s Twitter or Carano’s idiocy. Just goes to show you how soulless, made by committee, and forgettable that garbage is. I don’t count the discussions we have about it here because we’re deeper into SW.
>>9460639 I’m just stating the truth.
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>>9460657 >Oola something something not wanting to depict slavery
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If the Rancor fails, the influencers will just blame toxic fans again.
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>>9460657 There are alot of really really fucking stupid retards between 23 and 29 who have positive memories of this fucking creature and will defend the movie and his inclusion. People in these goddamn threads will defend E1 and that retard.
>>9460666 The influencers are the ones leading the charge to tell hasbro to go fuck themselves, dude.
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Need Executive Replicas/Loose collector to make some unlicensed Twileks called "alien dancer girls" or something
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>>9460674 >There are a lot of really really fucking stupid retards between 23 and 29 who have positive memories of this fucking creature and will defend the movie and his inclusion. While I do not like Jar Jar, I don't think the PT films are honestly that bad. I just re watched them a few months ago. I would take them any day of the week, over the ST. I have only seen the ST twice (once in theaters, once recently) and I'll never touch them again
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>>9460682 We've done this song and dance numerous times, but you will never convince me that any of the movies made after the OT are anything but complete and utter trash who only served to add more trooper variants for us to buy. Literally every piece of media made outside of the movies is better than both ST and PT.
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>>9460657 JarJar is a main character though. Even if he is negatively viewed, he was important to the movie. And he got clearanced heavily anyway. They just seem to not want to make minor characters ever. I'm actually surprised we have all of the ESB bounty hunters, but it still took until this year to get a few more characters from the cantina scene since Greedo in the very first wave. Only time they seem to make anyone else is shit that can be made of easy reuse like Imperial officers. I think they're scared of another Zuvio situation.
Oola and Malakili would just be tough sells at retail because of Oola's "problematic" design with her sexualized outfit and Malakili is just a minor character that doesn't have much context (unless he shows up in Book of Boba or something). I think they would be perfect for fan channel exclusives though, especially if the Rancor does get funded. I was thinking that if they were to go to retail, they'd be single packed and that could become a huge pain the ass. Oola would instantly be scalped and piss every collector off and Malakili could either get scalped as well or wind up pegwarming next to all the Landos and Greef Kargas.
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>>9460646 If the entire fanbase were a hivemind then the number of backers would be 0 right now. 1000 or however many people that canceled does not really constitute that the fanbase is a hivemind.
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>>9460665 I was thinking more "scantily-clad hot glue magnet" but Slave Leia just had that spectacularly derpy face that repulsed people so watch Oola be the worst of both worlds. Parents get angry at the titty slave and collectors dismayed at a cringe face.
But time will tell I suppose.
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>just learned about the 2003 clone wars figures
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>>9460665 Anakin is a slave
Discuss
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>>9460716 TVC or Black Series? Whatever your poison of choice is, you're all out of luck
>>9460701 Fair enough, you are entitled to your opinion. I think for me, the Clone Wars fixes a lot of the issues I had with the PT. It's really a fun time frame that is very fleshed out
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>>9460704 >If the entire fanbase were a hivemind then the number of backers would be 0 right now. Give people time to learn about the reveals, its still going down, kek
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>>9460716 They're about to start showing up in Wal-Mart stores since the containers have showed up in the US now. I'm sure Yakface or other sites will report when people start finding them.
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>>9460731 Good to know. I haven't messed around with Star Wars figures yet, only Transformers at the moment.
>Wal-Mart exclusive I hate Hasbro.
Hopefully I can snag that Grievous, he looks so good in pure white. If not, I'll take that Battle Droid, because I love those little bastards.
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>>9460702 >I think they're scared of another Zuvio situation. There's an easy solution, only make characters who appeared on screen (and aren't dressed in potato sacks).
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>>9460726 He's a person and his name is Anakin!
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>>9460747 He technically showed up on screen in The Mandalorian. Or at least someone that looks just like him but with a visor. Surprised they haven't made that a figure to throw out with all the reuse they've been doing lately
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>>9460682 I loved Ventress' later arc in TCW, but I always prefer the original EU Ventress design to the cgi one. Did anyone say what the plans were for her post ROTS?
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>>9460774 TCW version looked closer to the EU version that first appeared in the Republic comics than it did to the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon with no face tattoos or pupils.
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>>9460747 In fairness to Hasbro they didn't know he'd be cut. Disney told them so little they didn't even know Zuvio would be a minor character with a single brief scene.
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>>9460774 In the EU? Nope. She just left and never looked back and they just left it at that.
The Dark Disciple novel continues the TCW continuity. She dies.
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>>9460716 ebay for rape prices
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>>9460801 Nah, they’re still pretty cheap,
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>>9460597 nobody and i mean nobody even remebers her game at all. thats a big miracle anon if she gets a figure, and for the record her game was ok not great just ok
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Do you enjoy the little bit of spice the Rancor has added to SW gen or do you long for the more lazy days of peace and joy
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>>9460622 >>9460806 Yes that's why I said never ever
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>>9460810 More spice. Otherwise it's just torrents of Mando, clones, and shit.
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>>9460810 i would want a kryat dragon instead of a rancor and a lot more eu and clone wars era stuff
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>>9460810 It's certainly better than the CCP schizo shitting up the thread
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>>9460810 Better than Athena shitting up the thread and that one psycho who writes essays on RLM.
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I wish Hasbro would stop using melted down rubber bands to make accessories with. I have to have a mass boiling of blasters to get them all straightened out
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>>9460784 >>9460774 >>9460682 are there any good classic ventress figures
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>>9460666 Yep. They're going to blame the fans that demanded Oola, and accuse them of mysoginy or racism, and then Disney will actually officially unperson Oola
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If Hasbro wanted to make lazy tiers for a Haslab Black Series project, I don't know why they just didn't do Luke's x-wing.>Tier 1: ESB pilot Luke with some Dagobah weathering on an ESB cardback. >Tier 2: Fauna and shit to throw over the x-wing to make it look like it's crashed on Dagobah. >Tier 3: Dagobah R2-D2 (with with weathering on both sides) on an ESB cardback. >Tier 4: ESB Yoda with the campsite accessories on an ESB cardback.
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>>9461042 I hate to say it, but I doubt it's happening. The Force Awakens special forces TIE Fighter shelf warmed at the price range it sold out. I imagine the X-WING would be double the price. I actually bought the TIE Fighter at a discount priced and it's pretty great. The issue is, the retail space it takes up is insane
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>>9461042 If made to scale it'd take up more space than the BMF. Not sure how many people would be willing to have something that big.
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>>9461057 Never bank on sequel shit
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>>9461032 i always liked the 2003 realistic Clone Wars figure of her
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>>9460810 I'm enjoying the suffering brought on by people working on Star Wars that shouldn't be working on Star Wars. They want to dish out crap? This is us throwing it in their faces. I hope Patrick can't sleep at night.
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>>9461032 I don't know about good, but I like the one on the left.
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>Go to see how much the rancor would cost as a Canadian >mostly just curious >29.99 shipping >Close to $50 in taxes(wtf???) >Grand total converted to around $545Cad
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>>9461458 I always think of her first appearance which was in the comics as her classic appearance (which is what the one on the right in that pic is based on), which is actually closer to her TCW appearance than her 2003 CW cartoon look like on the left in that pic. Maybe i’m just an autismo.
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>>9460428 That's why they nerfed it in bad batch.
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>>9461458 >>9461511 Boy what I would give to get a Black Series figure based on this appearance instead of the one we got.
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I stopped watching Rebels I think at the end of Season 2. Is it worth finishing it through the rest of the seasons? I enjoyed it mostly, just lost some interest and petered out.
>>9461545 >If only you knew how bad things really are Anonymous
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>>9461579 It dropped another 20 since this morning? That's incredibly bad. This is more than cold feet on a project.
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>>9461545 What a fucking tool
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>>9461557 Yes, if you enjoyed some of the early seasons stuff then its definitely worth watching through.
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>>9460715 Why are parents such prudeniggers?
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>>9461557 You stopped just before it got good. Definitely finish it
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>>9461668 >Disney shit >good Anonymous
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>>9461579 Will it make it back to 0 by the end of the 14 days? kek
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>>9461625 Parents have always complained about stuff like this. Its childless millennials getting in power and agreeing with them that's the real problem.
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Just dropped below 4800, KEKW
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>>9461419 What led to such hate for a talking head on a livestream?
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All it would of taken would of been an Oola stretch goal. I'm sure it would of been backed already if that was the case.
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>>9461507 Wouldn't you expect high taxes as a Canadian? Gotta pay for the fact that you actually get moral healthcare unlike those of us in Burgertown somehow.
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>>9461545 He reminds me of an automaton in this image.
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Hasbro fears Twitter mobs more than a project failing.
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>>9459059 >>9459079 Would you recommend this game? EA Battlefront 2 was a disappointment in the online category, but I liked the story mode.
Squadrons is so boring that I havent progressed too far. Stopped playing it when I picked up some other games for cheap.
Those are the two most recent SW games i've played. KotoR 1 and 2 are sitting in my steam library untouched
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Should've just done a 6 inch X-wing or something
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>>9461813 If you like action games, can deal with a bit of jankiness, and the idea of a dark souls light sounds appealing, it's worth playing. All in all, it is a fun experience and, as far as star wars games go, fairly good.
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>>9460665 Too sexy for todays toy aisle, her only hope is getting a shf or 3rd party toy.
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>>9461834 Eh, I think they could away with Oola as she is a fairly obscure character and doesn't have nearly the same public focus that 'hutt slayer' Leia does. If anything HasLab would be the best way to release her as those products are never going to hit store shelves and are almost exclusively marketed to adult collectors. Guess we will never know if her not being a part of the rancor package was hasbro being incompetent/tone deaf, Disney being puritans, or a combination of both.
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>>9460665 By the way, did anyone in the Hasbro panel or during the campaign even mention Oola or the Rancor keeper? I think it'd be funnier if they never acknowledge them.
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>>9461834 it made sense for them to do stuff that is going to get repackaged. RotJ 40th is coming up, so it would be smart to have backer goals of things they are going to sell us later.... they were dumb for thinking we would want it though.
It's Interesting how the Snowspeeder was $200, came with a figure repack (new head mold, but still), and everyone was fine with it. No Haslab, no special pre-order, just buy it on Amazon.
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I'd like to know whether they considered the Rancor Keeper or Oola. I assume the tooling is already being done for the existing stretch goals and thus they cant change them now
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>>9461813 It's pretty good yea. If you like Souls style action and Uncharted style exploration/platforming then you'll have a good time. It's got a bit of jankiness here and there but nothing too bad. The story is engaging enough to keep you invested in what you're doing and there's definitely some very cool set pieces and events that you get to experience. It's easily the best story experience out of all the Disney era games we've gotten so far.
One tip I will give is that the combat is all about parrying/guard breaking, so get good at that but keep in mind the game has long animations for Cal. So every move you make has to be somewhat deliberate and it can get frustrating at times when you can't cancel an animation that leads you into getting fucked up by multiple enemies.
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>>9461867 The real question is why they didn't actually go forward with both of them. There is literally no way they didn't consider them as you can't re-create a proper rancor scene without the Oola, the keeper, and Luke. I'd really like to know what sort of mental gymnastics they had to use to justify including fucking Salacious crumb of all characters.
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>>9461926 I love this expression of the character
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>>9461920 There's some sort of budget shenanigans going on with this project. I'm sure they'll say they didnt make those two because they'd be all new sculpts and add too much to the cost of the project. It doesnt explain why the base project costs so much already though.
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>>9461867 >>9461920 My guess is they did consider them but engineering and tooling for the Rancor got to be more expensive than they thought and they didn't want to exceed a certain price point for just the Rancor itself, otherwise no one would go for it. Only reason they're tooling for that new Luke is because it was most likely already in the pipeline for the ROTJ anniversary and to throw out as The Mandalorian version too.
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>>9461807 They take that put of our paycheck separate from taxes. We also then get taxed around 40% and don't really have any benefits from it at all. Euros got that shit on lock but it's a shitty knockoff up here. T- man hwo has nearly bled out twice while waiting 4 hours behind people who stubbed their toe or had a tummy ache in the ER because everyone goes there if they're too lazy/stupid to get a GP.
It's one of the reasons everyone I know up here skipped Unicron. Shipping and taxes and exchange plus a severely weakened dollar meant I would be paying around 700 to get him. Star Saber ended up running me $270 and god knows that ain't gonna be worth it.
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>>9462023 Habro on suicide watch
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>>9461557 I would suggest finishing it. It really does keep getting better and better like the other Anons said. First season isn't a great representation of the series as a whole. If you are interested in the over all cannon, it's also sort of must since its part of the groundwork being laid by Mando
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>>9461983 It includes shipping so that is 50 bucks right there. Thanks shipping crisis
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>>9461807 Because I'm paying an American company to ship from an American address. I don't pay sales tax on normal imports from Japan or bbts or whatever.
Why the fuck are they entitled to my Province's sales tax? Who's pocket is that money even going into?
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>>9462128 Us murikans didnt have to get sales taxes for awhile from online transactions but guess what? The tax man always comes knockin and the laws caught up with the internet. It may be happening in Canada now too
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>>9462167 It's wild how long this went on for actually. My state finally got hit by it a few years ago. I wasn't even been charged tax by Amazon
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Hasbro SW brand manager just comes into the office like normal and a couple other brand managers make a joke about how his haslab is going backwards instead of forwards. He was off for the weekend so he didnt know kek
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>>9461557 Rebels got better after the first season.
It got to out there and lost me once the talking wolves running through the interdimensional/time space.
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Hasbro the honker.
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>>9462418 Oh alright, don't spend it all in one place.
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>>9461926 >>9461965 That’s the scene after Agent Smith assimilates the Oracle, right?
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>>9462023 >4,774 This is literally bleeding out slowly.
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>>9461819 shouldn't it be the flip and he' trying to go for 9k?
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>4,777
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>>9462720 Hopeless positivity
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>>9462720 They saw Oink Swinewalker and were convinced.
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>>9462720 Someone absolutely saw that people are being mean on the internet and said to themselves that they needed to be a beacon of hope and positivity.
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How crazy would it be if the Rancor is somehow still funded after all this? Would your hope in humanity be lost?
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>>9462765 excuse me I'm a hassis
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>>9462778 I think the only way it could get funded now is if a bunch of people decided to scalp them. Regardless of how shitty and not worth it this thing is, there are absolutely going to be some retards who will crack if they have a chance to own one on a whim after it releases. Same as people will actually pay upwards of a grand for a Unicron or the Kickstarter Spawn just because it can be delivered in a week instead of a year.
Just a question of it those people can actually make that fucking many sales to get it funded.
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>>9462778 I don't think it's that crazy, these things always have a last minute push of people who are afraid of missing out. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it makes its initial goal, but I would be shocked and dismayed if it hit all tiers
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>>9460323 I haven't been following the drama, what did he do? Is this about the dud of a Rancor?
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>>9462778 Who cares at this point, I've already lost faith this country and its people. It doesn't matter if it gets funded or not, the product is shit and only shit people will end up buying it
Anonymous
Targets are already putting this wave out
Anonymous
>>9462882 Cool, which country? State?
I'm looking forward to the Jedha Stormtrooper and Migs.
Anonymous
So they announce any new EU Sith recently or is the Black Series still a bunch of shit nobody wants?
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>>9462951 There is the Apprentice Darth Maul, but thats about it for now. Starkiller, Darth Bane, or Darth Malak would be cool. I feel like we'll get Darth Malak soon to promote KotoR ports.
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>>9462902 Using my creepy stalker skills, I read the receipt.
Eugene, Oregon
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>>9462902 Oregon apparently
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>>9460674 >The influencers are the ones leading the charge to tell hasbro to go fuck themselves, dude. Weird seeing even Pixel Dan doing it, they all seem offended by it
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>>9462882 Up close on Mulan's face?
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>>9463205 I get it!
Because boobies, right?
Because boobies?
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>>9463235 Because of the easy access to the boobs.
You know, for milking.
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If Hasbro likes making Mandalorians so much why can’t we get these two? Both significant characters that lead the planet at one point and both look like they were designed with action figures in mind. Hell, Almec was a pretty significant recurring character long before he got the armor.
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>>9462778 The only way it is getting funded is if Hasbro pads the numbers or drastically drops the backer goal.
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>>9462778 I wouldn't be surprised if it gets funded right at the end but hitting the stretch goals is what will be ridiculous. If that happens then I'm just going to assume there's going to be a lot of Rancors going for super cheap in the next few years when no one can get rid of them.
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>>9461774 Well then why are millennials who were raised on the internet a bunch of easily offended puritan faggots now?
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>>9463451 I appreciated that Almec was actually willing to throw down, and was not just a behind the scenes schemer.
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>>9463798 Me too, I was so surprised when he actually wiped a pistol out and they didn’t go the easy route and have him run away like a coward. Even if he was easily subdued he actually had a backbone. That was legitimately good writing. Thought for sure Filoni would have him run away or get down on his knees like a weasel.
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>>9463757 I guess it entirely depends on where you are and what circles you associate with but I’m a millennial in my mid thirties and everyone my age that I know, men and women, aren’t like that at all and seem to be under the impression it is people younger than us demanding censorship and finding offense in everything. I don’t think it’s a generational thing at all.
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>>9463881 I think it depends on their individual beliefs. You've got the "won't somebody think of the children!?" group, the "omg, you're objectifying womyn" group, and the relatively silent majority who just want to live their lives in peace.
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>>9463779 I for one am enjoying this game of limbo.
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO
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>>9463888 Yeah, that sounds right to me
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>>9461920 >I'd really like to know what sort of mental gymnastics they had to use to justify including fucking Salacious crumb of all characters. >currently in production in the correct paint scheme and in the correct scale >molds, paints, etc ready to go, 0 dollars needed >star wars fags don't open their toys anyway right? Just put it on a new card and they'll eat it up >no effort, maximum gains! >wait why didn't that work? Isn't he in that scene? Anonymous
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>>9462807 He accidentally slipped up and mentioned the upcoming haslab rancor a week or two before the official announcement, and everyone is blaming him for killing the (unlikely but presumed by marketing) hype/buying frenzy that would have ensued had he not said anything.
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>>9462167 Yeah, but you probably don't get taxed on stuff you are buying out-of-country unless you get hit with customs(which is rare).
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Just set up a second browser window with a chrome auto-refresh extension to automatically keep me updated on the haslab shitshow that is the Rancor. It's really fun watching the numbers drop!
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>>9462882 139 dollars for human shaped plastic. More and more I understand why the next generations are not getting into this hobby
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>>9463116 That was the only picture posted but you can see up close pics of her on Isaac Wong's pages.
Anonymous
I wonder what version we're going to get first from Hasbro. Re-Armored Fett from The Mandalorian or his new Book of Boba look.
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>>9464046 It's crazy that before each prequel movie and before TCW 2008 we had entire lines ready to go and on store shelves for weeks before they premiered and nowadays Hasbro doesn't even have a Boba Fett ready for the launch of his tv show and they are only getting to a toy of him from the Mandalorian an entire year after he appeared on it.
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>>9464055 True. Though I think part of that is due to Disney being uncooperative about sharing assets with Hasbro because they're paranoid about leaks. Lucas seemed to be more transparent with them about stuff because merchandise was how he made his money so he wanted to capitalize as early as he could on the hype.
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>>9464064 that makes sense I guess
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>>9463888 People are so fucking thin skinned.
And they over react at the most lame things.
Facebook home of toxic political memes and beheadings just gave me a 4 day band after someone in a film group posted the Manchurian Candidate and then a pic of the Queen of Hearts card costume and I posted.
"I dunno man.. this might explain mt desire to shoot presidents after I finish a game of solitaire on my computer"
Ya it's Dad-jokey but it's not uttering specific threats to anyone.
it's fucking satire.
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>>9463964 Boss Fight over valued and cheaped on the shipping so Sam and Max cost me $50 more.
(as opposed to the $80 each at the Silver Snail in Toronto - wf? )
total bullshit.
I have always bought their stuff from 3rd parties before where I might pay a dollar or two extra for the figure but they don't straight up fuck me up the ass with postage.
I've run into one customs check on my BBTS orders (several) and never on Dorkside.
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>>9464064 Previously, most licensors did a pretty good job keeping details locked up until they were actually in stores.
Don't know why they can't do the same thing nowadays. It's especially odd, since there's a ton of leaks for Disney's stuff that just happens from their own people, so it wouldn't really hurt them too badly to let the toy guys know what they should make.
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>>9464015 why is his nose so big
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>>9464207 Yea it would be nice. I think part of it too is that designs seem to change a lot more often now into filming something these days, especially with CGI assets. So to save themselves money and headaches, the Hasbro SW team just waits until things are released so they can get screen accurate details instead of going off concept art that may be outdated and Disney doesn't tell them about changes until the molds have already been made. I can kind of appreciate that because I hate getting figures of shit that's inaccurate and triggers my autism. That's partly why I stopped buying MCU based Marvel Legends. And it also saves from having to buy multiple versions of the same character.
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>>9464298 A good example of this is how the early Grievous toys he had a white cape and some other minor differences because they were not done with his CGI for ROTS. Hell, thats why he was so different in the 03 CW cartoon since he really wasn't fleshed out for he movie yet.
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Still tho'. I don;t mind waiting for merch so I can still be surprised.
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>>9464046 >Re-Armored Fett from The Mandalorian or his new Book of Boba look. What’s the difference in these designs?
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>>9464530 Re-Armored has the clean paint and robes hanging in the front
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>>9464591 I really do love this design. Old Boba is great, but there's something distinctly bounty hunter about the minimal armour overtop of the desert robes, especially when he's on tatooine. Honestly been considering getting the conversion kit of soft goods stuff and the belt and converting my ROTJ one.
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If anyone is curious, Amazon is now shipping the restocked Mustard Trooper if you pre ordered it. You still can, but I assume this exclusive figure will be shipping out in waves at a time
>>9464177 Not him, but why are you on facebook in the first place (or any social media for that matter)? It's designed to make you endlessly engage and hate others. It doesn't mater where you stand on the political spectrum, it's poison.
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>>9464520 it was kind of respectable that they didn’t have toys of him ready to cash in on but at the same time it lead to them overestimating how many they needed to make later on.
>>9464591 that’s the best version imo
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Potential leak of new/reworked figures coming in fellas. Probably seeing these two at some point in BoBF
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>>9465329 THat's so badly photoshopped, come on dude
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>>9465388 NEW THREAD
>>9465388 NEW THREAD
