R2-D2 - 40th Anniversary

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Please use this thread to talk about the R2-D2 figure issued in the 40th Anniversary vintage packaging line.

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Thoughts on this Vintage release?
 
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Really excited to see this released again. Now my 3PO can have his buddy with him. He was peg warming like crazy before and I passed on it
 
Seems it will be once again hard to find, Hasbro is short packing some of the figures. Stupid, but not surprising I suppose, it's Hasbro and they are afraid of people buying their toys :rolleyes: Look at this message from this UK retailer page:


PRE-SOLD OUT. ONLY AVAILABLE IN A FULL SET.

TYPICAL OF HASBRO. One of the most sort after 6 inch figures around, and they short pack it. We will attempt to get more R2s, but it is unclear whether he will be available separately.
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Just got my preorder in for R2 on Amazon. He's the only 6" figure I've never gotten, because the secondary market prices have been insane. I'm pumped that I'll finally be able to have him in my collection!
 
Sturm86 said:
Seems it will be once again hard to find, Hasbro is short packing some of the figures. Stupid, but not surprising I suppose, it's Hasbro and they are afraid of people buying their toys :rolleyes: Look at this message from this UK retailer page:
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If you look under the full wave 1 from the same retailer there is more bashing to read :)
 
Here is the full text from that retailer

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Sorry, but once again pre-order have only lasted a few hours! This is 100% down to the way Hasbro force retailers to buy figures that they cannot sell.Because Hasbro deceided now would be a good time to switch to 8 figure cases, we now have hundreds of spare Luke, Leia's and Ben's. Had they stuck with 6 figure cases, offered the 5 figures and a double packed R2-D2, everyone would have got all they wanted, and we would have maybe had a few spare R2-D2's which history shows would sell through quite quickly. As it is, R2-D2 will be rarer than rocking horse ****, and we have had to stop selling sets after just a few hours, because we cannot justify being stuck with many more hundreds of figures that hasbro have already released in the past few months!I will not post exact figures, but we will say that the full sets outside single purchases of Luke by 13-1, Leia by 17-1 and Obi Wan by 35-1. So for every 35 sets we sold, we sold one Ben Kenobi on his own. Or in other words, for every set we sold, we nearly have a spare Luke, Leia and Ben. What makes is even worse, is for the couple of minutes R2-D2 was online, he outsold the sets by 2-1, Hasbro could not have got this more wrong, if they had tried.Because of the frankly stupid case assortment, we have hundred of spare Lukes, Leia's and Ben's, which will sell in time, but will take months, maybe a year to shift. We sold out in 4 hours. We could have sold 3 or 4 times more that we did, but we can't because it would mean having to buy more and more Luke, Leia and Ben's to sit on the shelf. Now this stock is in big multiplies store language, is peg warmers, or in other big chain talk, CLEARANCE stock. When these peg warm and block the pegs for wave 2, someone at Hasbro will be standing there scratching their ****, wondering what went wrong. SO if Hasbro had a smallest idea what they were doing, a small site like us would have probably at least doubled our order.As it is, we have ordered only 55% of the stock we would have had on day one, had Hasbro not been so careless with case assortments. We know we are just a small drop in a vast ocean, so multiply this across the world, and Hasbro are missing out on so many sales of these figures, and wonder why people constantly slag them off. Again, this is not hindsight. Anyone who knows the line could have picked better assortments than this. Our sales is proof Hasbro have badly got it wrong..... again. Darth Revan any one? Scarif Stormtrooper anyone...... It's mistake after mistake as far as Hasbro is concerned. Why do they continue to force stock on retailers, that does not sell!!My heart sank this morning when I saw they had switched to 8 figure cases for this assortment. I knew straight away it would not work. Hasbro couldn't get it right with 4 figure cases, and now every mistake they make, and its one or two mistakes a wave now, will be amplified across the wave, making certain figures even harder to find, as retailers will be cutting back on what they can afford to buy, or more importantly forced to buy and not sell. So from my point of view, sales have HAD to stop after a few hours, because I cannot justify having nearly half the stock I order, become slow moving shelf fillers. Bravo Hasbro, Bravo!!Hasbro in my opinion single handedly destroyed the 3.75 inch collectors figures, with there treatment of the Vintage collection a few years ago, but packing so many poorly chosen repacks wave after wave after wave that they hung around on the pegs for years. Whoever is in charge of the line there now, seems to be doing their level best to destroy the 6 inch line as well. After all, who else other than Hasbro case assortment picker would have put Jyn Erso, Cassian and the Death Trooper in 3 out of 4 assortments, and plan to do the same with Krennic. There is only so long the big multiplies will continue to keep clearing out this line at below cost!! They did start to get it right by offering solid cases, but these sold out far to quickly so they knocked that idea on the head straight away. And from the lists I have seen, repacks are set to ramp up with Episdoe 8 assortments..... wave 3 Hasbro? Are you for real?Anyone that missed out, we share your frustration. In fact we share them hundreds of times over!!
 
Although from their business standpoint Hasbro has really screwed the pooch, R2 is still available on Amazon as a preorder for anyone that lost out


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More retailers need to stand up to Hasbro like the above. That's what will get Hasbro's attention more, not fan site complaints unfortunnately. They will/have dismissed us but they can't afford to dismiss retail partners if enough say enough is enough.
 
Well end consumers really aren't Hasbro's customers if you think about it. We don't buy from Hasbro, the retailers do. If Hasbro's actions make it incredibly hard for their customers (retailers) to sell and make money off their product then that is the first chink in the armor that hurts us all. They should really start listen to their customers and do what's best for them which in turn is best for us


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R2 and Han? Nah they're only the oldest most desired out of this wave. One per case is good.

Wondering how many of these are being produced, have the feeling Hasbro is pulling a perceived scarcity with this stuff.
 
I'm going to post this here even though I already posted something similar in the general thread:

I'm sure part of it, that the retailer who wrote that rant isn't taking into account, is that Hasbro already had a bunch of Obiwan and Luke and Leia already produced that they just had to put on a new cardback. The Han and R2s cost Hasbro a lot more because they had to actually produce them and not just repackage them. (Leia they just had to produce a new head).

You would think that all of us consumers and online retailers would realize this...
 
^ that seems reasonable however it also seems to assume Hasbro has countless barrella of likes, bend and leias
 
I'm happy with the original version I purchased, nice for those that missed out or need a 2nd. Hasbro should've packed the cases more evenly.
 
I missed these on the Hasbro Toy Shop site and went with Amazon.
Because of the old card style, I pre-ordered two, one to save and one to open.
I'll be happy to get one.
 
Hutt said:
I'm going to post this here even though I already posted something similar in the general thread:

I'm sure part of it, that the retailer who wrote that rant isn't taking into account, is that Hasbro already had a bunch of Obiwan and Luke and Leia already produced that they just had to put on a new cardback. The Han and R2s cost Hasbro a lot more because they had to actually produce them and not just repackage them. (Leia they just had to produce a new head).

You would think that all of us consumers and online retailers would realize this...
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They still have the molds. Or do you think they had loose obi, Luke, and Leia unpackaged???


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Oofa said:
Here is the full text from that retailer

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Sorry, but once again pre-order have only lasted a few hours! This is 100% down to the way Hasbro force retailers to buy figures that they cannot sell.Because Hasbro deceided now would be a good time to switch to 8 figure cases, we now have hundreds of spare Luke, Leia's and Ben's. Had they stuck with 6 figure cases, offered the 5 figures and a double packed R2-D2, everyone would have got all they wanted, and we would have maybe had a few spare R2-D2's which history shows would sell through quite quickly. As it is, R2-D2 will be rarer than rocking horse ****, and we have had to stop selling sets after just a few hours, because we cannot justify being stuck with many more hundreds of figures that hasbro have already released in the past few months!I will not post exact figures, but we will say that the full sets outside single purchases of Luke by 13-1, Leia by 17-1 and Obi Wan by 35-1. So for every 35 sets we sold, we sold one Ben Kenobi on his own. Or in other words, for every set we sold, we nearly have a spare Luke, Leia and Ben. What makes is even worse, is for the couple of minutes R2-D2 was online, he outsold the sets by 2-1, Hasbro could not have got this more wrong, if they had tried.Because of the frankly stupid case assortment, we have hundred of spare Lukes, Leia's and Ben's, which will sell in time, but will take months, maybe a year to shift. We sold out in 4 hours. We could have sold 3 or 4 times more that we did, but we can't because it would mean having to buy more and more Luke, Leia and Ben's to sit on the shelf. Now this stock is in big multiplies store language, is peg warmers, or in other big chain talk, CLEARANCE stock. When these peg warm and block the pegs for wave 2, someone at Hasbro will be standing there scratching their ****, wondering what went wrong. SO if Hasbro had a smallest idea what they were doing, a small site like us would have probably at least doubled our order.As it is, we have ordered only 55% of the stock we would have had on day one, had Hasbro not been so careless with case assortments. We know we are just a small drop in a vast ocean, so multiply this across the world, and Hasbro are missing out on so many sales of these figures, and wonder why people constantly slag them off. Again, this is not hindsight. Anyone who knows the line could have picked better assortments than this. Our sales is proof Hasbro have badly got it wrong..... again. Darth Revan any one? Scarif Stormtrooper anyone...... It's mistake after mistake as far as Hasbro is concerned. Why do they continue to force stock on retailers, that does not sell!!My heart sank this morning when I saw they had switched to 8 figure cases for this assortment. I knew straight away it would not work. Hasbro couldn't get it right with 4 figure cases, and now every mistake they make, and its one or two mistakes a wave now, will be amplified across the wave, making certain figures even harder to find, as retailers will be cutting back on what they can afford to buy, or more importantly forced to buy and not sell. So from my point of view, sales have HAD to stop after a few hours, because I cannot justify having nearly half the stock I order, become slow moving shelf fillers. Bravo Hasbro, Bravo!!Hasbro in my opinion single handedly destroyed the 3.75 inch collectors figures, with there treatment of the Vintage collection a few years ago, but packing so many poorly chosen repacks wave after wave after wave that they hung around on the pegs for years. Whoever is in charge of the line there now, seems to be doing their level best to destroy the 6 inch line as well. After all, who else other than Hasbro case assortment picker would have put Jyn Erso, Cassian and the Death Trooper in 3 out of 4 assortments, and plan to do the same with Krennic. There is only so long the big multiplies will continue to keep clearing out this line at below cost!! They did start to get it right by offering solid cases, but these sold out far to quickly so they knocked that idea on the head straight away. And from the lists I have seen, repacks are set to ramp up with Episdoe 8 assortments..... wave 3 Hasbro? Are you for real?Anyone that missed out, we share your frustration. In fact we share them hundreds of times over!!
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Bravo and well said. I've collected since I was 5 or 6 and in 1995 there were 5poa or better for the 3.75" line and then in early 2010s we got the awesome Legacy wave and vintage collection, but once Disney took over it was 5poa again.

Now with black series the force awakens and rogue one launches were laughable (same point about Jyn and cassian flooding shelves) and here we have obi in his third pack in less than a year!

I'm at the point I'd rather have Hasbro leave stores and switch to print to order type runs for figures or some market polling to figure out which figure(s) are most wanted (I.e. Revan or trooper building)


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Hutt said:
I'm going to post this here even though I already posted something similar in the general thread:

I'm sure part of it, that the retailer who wrote that rant isn't taking into account, is that Hasbro already had a bunch of Obiwan and Luke and Leia already produced that they just had to put on a new cardback. The Han and R2s cost Hasbro a lot more because they had to actually produce them and not just repackage them. (Leia they just had to produce a new head).

You would think that all of us consumers and online retailers would realize this...
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And don't you think it also costs them money to produce Obiwan/Luke/Leia's figures? Having them produced a few months earlier and ready to be packaged won't drastically or magically take away the producing costs. Han and R2 they already have the molds since they've reproduced exactly the same figures they've made in 2013.
 
So the oft criticized underscaled R2 is the unicorn of this set...typical.
 
They should rename this droid to R1/2- D1/2 cause of his scale issue. Aren't you a little short for a ........R2 unit??? LOL.
 
HothHan said:
So the oft criticized underscaled R2 is the unicorn of this set...typical.
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I don't get it. It's a total POS figure that you can't display with other figures in the line without looking completely ridiculous.
 
It really is a ridiculous scale. This comparison shot shows just how bad it is. The Bandai droid in this pic is the accurate scale for the 6" line. I swore I'd never buy this version of Artoo, but dammit, I just couldn't resist the vintage style package. It will be staying carded, and the Bandai, Revo, Mafex, and Figuarts R2-D2 figures will be taking his place in any of my 6" TBS displays.

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Under scaled? Sure. But I'm damn glad that this was the second figure I ever bought in this line. I don't have to worry about the secondary market, inflated prices or having to fight through pre orders to get this guy. The vintage card is cool, but it's not enough to make me want to buy it over again. I don't have the storage space to keep these carded. Even if I did, I'd rather spend the $20.00 on a troop builder.
 
You'd think they would have figured out how to extend the middle leg properly now.
 
To be honest, R2-D2 was a pegwamer during the initial release, and Han Solo too. too many collectors complain about the toy (inaccurate high or whatever), so it was in the pegs for a while. same with Han Solo, you could find him very easy in the initial run on wave 2. however with more collectors on board now, and not starting to buy the toys initially it has become a hard to find figure. I'm pretty sure Hasbro decided to short pack the R2 and Han due to the initial sales. same goes for X-Wing Luke (excellent figure by the way, and the best Luke in the line so far)
 
I'm so glad that I got the 5 pack of the 1st wave from dorkside the pre-order. Since these are non openers all I need is one of these.
 
Espi1001 said:
To be honest, R2-D2 was a pegwamer during the initial release, and Han Solo too. too many collectors complain about the toy (inaccurate high or whatever), so it was in the pegs for a while. same with Han Solo, you could find him very easy in the initial run on wave 2. however with more collectors on board now, and not starting to buy the toys initially it has become a hard to find figure. I'm pretty sure Hasbro decided to short pack the R2 and Han due to the initial sales. same goes for X-Wing Luke (excellent figure by the way, and the best Luke in the line so far)
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ah yes, i remember those days of 'six inch scale sucks, 1:18 forever'. you see less and less of those around now, don't you? they probably switched to collecting stamps.
 
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