More like advertising they open at 11:00 but actually opening at 1:17 with 33 customers waiting...and selling out at 1:23
I'm not sure how much of it is reused. The legs and feet are obviously different, and a new head, different belt, but take a look at his gauntlets- maybe it's just the angle, lighting, and paint, but there appear to be some sculpting differences there too. The shoulder pad looks rounder at the top. Even the rocket on the jet pack looks different- thicker, more blunted at the tip, and less angled.
It would seem to make sense to use the Tatooine version with just a couple tweaks, but it oddly looks like it might be a mostly different figure. It will be interesting when both are in hand to see if that's so.
Yeah, I want display options for my Slave I. Sometimes I may want ESB. Maybe later I'll switch out and make it a BOBF scene. Later, maybe a Mando scene.
Considering the shape of things action figure related it wouldn't surprise me, you got to do what you can to increase sales and it's not like this practice has never been done before by a company, you just don't hear about it. In fact we often don't hear about a lot of things from the so-called news outlets who are more in favor of pushing other news. In fact some people think that Disney is creating artificial demand for their AP's by not offering them, you know kind of like the Vault for Movies? Then when you to offer them again people buy them up like crazy before they go back into the vault.
I'm not sure how much of it is reused. The legs and feet are obviously different, and a new head, different belt, but take a look at his gauntlets- maybe it's just the angle, lighting, and paint, but there appear to be some sculpting differences there too. The shoulder pad looks rounder at the top. Even the rocket on the jet pack looks different- thicker, more blunted at the tip, and less angled.
It would seem to make sense to use the Tatooine version with just a couple tweaks, but it oddly looks like it might be a mostly different figure. It will be interesting when both are in hand to see if that's so.
Price on this is nuts, but I bought it only because it was Bobs and they likely won't release it again, certainly not soon.
Have you not seen the six versions they made of Din? And they ain't done there. Surely they'll reissue Fett again at some point as they will certainly need new repack candidates they can justify the new price points on, because figures from 10+ years ago aren't worth $15-20.
At that point isn't it cheaper to import them?
Well, the figures are cheaper in the US, but then I'd have to pay sales tax here (19% in Germany) as well as the shipping costs, which I'm not sure what they'd be. Due to the USPS the post office here has stopped allowing what they called a large letter because the USPS wants anything that isn't documents to be a package, so the cost of any package from Germany to the US costs around $60 postage, but it can be up to a pound or so. My mom sends things once on a while and she pays a pretty hefty price for postage from the US.
They seem mislabeled.
The other negative is that if too many collectors here import everything, then it'll kill off the hone market for SW figures and that would be the end of my collecting days.
The past 5 years or so have seen a massive increase in online reselling (aka scalping). I don't know if people really use bots or not, but somehow people are making successful businesses from buying anything perceived as "collectible" and reselling it (or PRE-selling it) online for 2x or more. Speaking with our wallets doesn't really go far with Hasbro or Target, but we've got to stop inflating prices on eBay because we've "gotta have it!" Then, that scapler, um seller, adds another $5-10 on their next listing, and the next guy adds $5-10 to that to see if they can pull it. Next thing you know, a mass-produced, if in lesser quantities, Boba Fett figure is fetching $50 on the secondary market because end-buyers couldn't actually purchase them from the original source. A lot of people are looking to make easy money online with the poor global economy, but I can't "respect the grind". I ground all day for this figure, on and off F5ing, and couldn't catch it.
RESORTING IS SUPPORTING!!!
Maybe when I visit Germany again, I should load up my suitcase with figures for you...lol.
Probably,.. also lets not forget the massive losses on the Snake-Eyes movies. yet somehow GiJoe is getting a return to the O-ring as an entire line of figures.... seems the Star Wars division is picking up the tab for some bad financial losses.
The Tython version of Boba Fett is probably gonna cost even more. That's a lot of paint deco..
