star wars "saga"

[anarky]

I'm not sure when the last SW figure I bought was. (I know who it was, but not when.) I haven't even looked in almost two weeks. And you know what? I don't really care. For the few figures I might actually want, I figure that I'd have to be at the store immediately after they're put out, since they're the only ones anyone will want. Plus, folks from the stores will hoard them. So why waste time, gas, and effort looking for them? And at the same time, why spend more than retail to get them online because the folks at Hasbro are fucking morons and the company would be bankrupt if it wasn't for fucktards spending money on that bastardization of the Transformers.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

RS says that the final voting for the last wave of legends is now up, but I don't see it. They also say that the Bespin Guard won't have any ethnic changes and VOTC Han has been replaced by R3-A2.

Whatever.

[jjreason]

Concept Grievous now available for preorder, only $16.49 per figure (plusmotherfuckingtaxesandapplicableshippingcharges). Fuck. That.

[anarky]

I was considering that, given I have all the other concept figures so far. But the concept isn't too different from reality, and it's not as interesting as the others.

[jjreason]

It looks (at least upon my quick perusal) quite a bit like my son's animated CW Grievous (at least the head). It took me less than 5 seconds to pass on it.

[kidhuman]

I aint getting that shit, its a load of crap, it doesnt fit the line of OT McFigures, so its a POS.

[Ran]

I stopped at a Target before I went to school tonight. They had one of the new cantina aliens and I ended up not getting it. They had some legends. As I looked on the pegs, I saw 3 figures in the back with a battledroid on the corner of the card. KH told me a while back he was still looking for the battledroid. So, I reached for it, but it was the C-3PO. What the hell. Didn't they just re-release that figure last year?

[anarky]

Yep. This is two years straight (and three years total) pegwarming for him. Leia Boushh is on her third consecutive pegwarming year. Hasbro just ain't bright.

I have the PT concept figures from a few years ago. But the concept Grievous isn't concept enough. If he looked like one of the early paintings, I'd get him. But he's just a realistic version of CW Grievous. Not worth $20+.

[Ran]

Is Hasbro talking with Sideshow about doing playsets/environments for the 3.75" line just their way of making money without taking any risk? Basically they're just selling the right to make SW stuff to that scale since they don't want to do it themselves.

[anarky]

Who knows?

What concerns me is where the line is drawn. The moisture vaporator, for instance, could be seen as a playset (albeit a tiny one). So could the Queen's Starship or the Falcon. Are they?

[Ran]

It's Hasbro's license. They probably can do whatever they want, but didn't they say in one of the Q&As that they are losing money on the large accessories? There was some answer in one of the Q&As that made it sound like they were not going to be putting that many more large accessories in with regular figures.

[mabudon]

I bet they lost money on accessories like Custom Choppers to be certain

Speaking of which, I find it kinda funny how "losing money" can also be used to describe situations where they weren't making as much as they could be making by simply letting the product become crappy- I know from seing some of the recent shit in the store, they MUST be saving money on pigment by making most of their figs semi-translucent- you could fucking READ through that Ceremony lukes shitty see-through face- seing the things in person finally made me realize just how blind SW collectors sem to have become overall

[Ran]

Ceremonial Luke is one of the many figures I've bought this year that lead to my decision to quit collecting. When I got home and opened it, I really wish I skipped it. His body is ok, but he's screwed from the neck up.

[kidhuman]

What gets me about this whole losing money thing:

They say they raised prices over the years due to high oil prices and such, but yet havent changed MSRP in ten years(according to Q&A). How the hell does that make sense?

Secondly, they are losing money because of this...

They could have sold that same Luke for 7 bucks without the MV, granted no one would have bought it. They could have sold the MV's for 7 bucks a pop also and gotten money on it. They could have sold us the 2 cantina aliens sans the curved sections and made another BP with 3 repacks and include the curved sections there and made money that way. Thats my philosophy on how they lost money

[anarky]

I skipped that Luke, since the one I got in '98 (or whenever) actually looks better!

I think it's funny that, from a big business perspective, "losing money" doesn't actually mean "losing money" in the sense you or I would use it. We'd think, "I spent $1000 to make these toys, and only got $400 back in sales. This line lost $600." They think, "We spent $1000 to make these, and we only got back $1300 when our projections said $2000 in returns. We lost $700."