Remember, when the razor crest came out and they said that that Mandalorian will be the only one with a fabric cape and said it’s only exclusive to the razor crest…….
Thank you for watching 👍 I’ve ever so slightly softened on my opinion of these as I’ve realised for loose collectors some of them have been needed. I’m extremely happy with the newly announced EWing and astromech droid though🔥
Excellent video. The intro got me straight away. I have to say, I completely agree with practically everything that was said. It is so hard to remain positive when you are being served up the same character or repaints.....basically dross. In all honesty, I have pretty much given up with TVC, except figures from TVC 1.0, any figures from the original Kenner 96 or one that I really like and want. Who is making these dum arsed decisions for Hasbro? How can Chris, Jing, Emily, and Eric stand in front of the camera and be excited for what they are about to reveal? I certainly wouldn't be excited about revealing what they have to reveal.......it's an absolute joke. And people wonder why big companies struggle or go under.
Firstly Stu I’m mightily impressed that you know all their names! 🤣 I didn’t have a clue. 🤣 I’m starting to lose patience with the line to be honest but we will see. No doubt I will be on Star Action figures tonight doing the pre order. 🤦♂️ Thanks as always for the support mate
@alongandlongtimeago , lol, apart from Jing, I met the others at Celebration last year. Oh yeah, I will be pre-ordering tonight, but only the ones I want, and not the whole wave, like I used to.
Must admit I was pleased with the new Axe Woves as they fixed the major problem with the original figure which was an oversized helmet. The new release has an interchangeable head so the scale is so much better, something that the Bo-Katan and Koskia Reeves releases already had.
Absolutely! 'm glad they are getting to fixed all these issues with figures. When we recorded this video it was off the cuff and we hadn't realised some of the retooling etc so it was quite good for loose collectors. Really appreciate you watching 👍👍
I agree. I hadn’t realised at the time it was the definitive Rex. Being a carded collector I have to admit I do miss the retooling from time to time. Thanks for watching 👍👍
They gave us one new figure that's actually a repaint with a new head, other than that it was nothing but a bunch of reissued repacks with new card backs. Also the Sabine and Chopper should have came with the Haslab Ghost. Hasbro is horrible and so is the team that hosted it. Not only did they give us yet another Din Djarin and Grogu but we get a Din Djarin in the pipeline but wait.... he comes with a shiny stolen jet pack and Bo Katana has a brand new pauldron! Pft! Seriously..... Hasbro and that awkward team they assembled need to do better!
😂😂😂 Yeah I think you probably saw from the video that I agree with everything you said! Imagine if you pre ordered the Haslab Ghost but missed out on the 2pack! Crazy! Hopefully 🤞 we will see some better announcements throughout the year. Thanks very much for watching 👍👍
Sadly the Cobb Vanth was announced as a "Deluxe" meaning windowless box, like the Jango Fett announced a little while ago, and that means no cardback 😑
This really sucks! I didn’t realise this until I finished recording the video. One of the plus points from the Hasbro stream turns out not to be plus 🤦♂️ Thanks for watching 👍👍
I get that Hasbro have to get new collectors into the line by keeping the likes of Luke, Mando, Vader etc readily available but maybe space them out a bit more!
I don’t think of myself as a collector, I opened every figure I have ever bough, and actually play around each of it, so I care about articulation a lot, and I always wanted a perfect Mando with new barbell hip and rocker ankle, ever since I saw how good the new black series Mando is, I’ve convince that they’ll use the same file on the new TVC,just the matter of time, but when I see the live stream,and found out that they re-packed the same Mando, I was completely shocked, but I quickly realize that is just how they does things, just do anything as cheap as possible, and some of the cardback collector say “ it is good for those who don’t want to pay $150 for the N1” so they’re happy about this, but if Hasbro really make a brand new Mando then everyone will be happy including the cardback collector!! As a toy company, their only job is literally making people happy, if people happy they’ll pay more!! WHAT SO HARD ABOUT THIS???
I think we are in total agreement my friend. Collecting is becoming too expensive now and when you aren’t necessarily getting anything new it’s harder to part with any of your money. Thanks for watching 👍👍
If Hasbro is re-releasing all these characters so soon, why not re-release ROTJ Boba Fett as a Deluxe figure with updated leg articulation, articulated range finder, better metallic paint apps on the rocket pack and the ability to add flame effects and launch the rocket like Deluxe BOBF Boba, whipcord accessory, flame thrower effects like the upcoming Jango Fett, and call it “VC# Boba Fett (Pit of Carkoon)” And while we’re at it, Hasbro should release and updated sculpt of Empire Strikes Back Boba Fett in the green armor on a single card, they could call it “VC# Boba Fett (Bespin Ambush)” or something if Hasbro is so keen on releasing several Mandos and Grogu’s and re-releasing more obscure characters, why not re-release characters who actually need the update?
I'm a Jango and boba fan before I'm a star wars fan... I will literally never own a BOBF figure... tusken..black skirt before and after re paint... all garbage... the only reason I might buy a Deluxe BOBF is to steal the jetpack off him for the new TVC Jango 2.0 coming out in a few months
@@GixxerJake That’s awesome! I love those characters too. I have certainly got a good sized Boba Fett collection going. Wish I had more Jango’s though. 🤞🏻
@alongandlongtimeago Seriously though, tvc is in pretty rough shape lately. I still need to pick up Krennic, the Imperial Officer 4pack, Skiff Guard 4pack and potentially the Jabba set, probably Dooku too. But other than that, there's really not much on the horizon I'm looking forward to getting. Pulse, at least here in the US, has the "deluxe" tvc Dark Trooper on clearance for $15.74, over a dollar less than the new bare bones carded version will be. Great for primarily loose collectors like myself, but I don't understand their reasoning with that one. Maybe they think pulling those figures out of their boxes & slapping them on a card will move enough units to make it worthwhile. Any idea if the BoBF throne room includes the dais that Jabba comes with? If so, I can probably skip Jabba & use the Black Series 3.75" one instead. Jabba's Palace characters & Imperials are pretty much all I collect now, I gave up on being a completionist a while ago.
This will be our first cloth caped Mando on card, I'm excited for that. Not excited about Luke X-Wing pilot, Axe Woves I agree it's a better card. Any new character is welcome. I feel like Hasbro is dragging their feet though. Where is A New Hope C-3PO with gold paint like the retro one. Where's Hammerhead? For the Mandalorian, Where's the aliens & Droids? Instead of Luke they should have fixed that terrible Jawa. Needs super articulation & cloth goods. I do like the Rebels 2 pack. Thanks for the review! Cheers!
I would love to see a gold paint 3PO! It’s very much overdue. Hammerhead along with many others are a must. Fingers crossed we see better announcements through the years. I also agree that the Rebels 2 pack is a must. Appreciate you watching the video! 👍👍👍
Yeah I picked Bossk and IG-88 from the Saga collection last year. Really good looking figures too. Time for a TVC refresh at some point hopefully. Thanks for watching 👍👍👍
I seek a future where cutting-edge 3D printing is accessible worldwide and we can print the figures we want. You know damn well artistic fans are going to make the digital files more accurate than Hasbro. This future is possible. The old world is dying off.
Its crazy! I know the aftermarket price for that X-Wing Luke can be pricey but there are so many 1.0 figures that are sought after and even more expensive. Thanks for watching Keith 👍👍👍
That would be awesome! There are so many play sets they could do and not just ones that consist of 2 walls making up a corridor ☹️ Thanks for watching! 👍
Hi Justin buddy! Yeah I genuinely think that perhaps The Mandalorians popularity is starting to wain now. So many other characters they could release...
Who literally in their right and sound mind... thinks to themselves... that EITHER... "AXE WOVES WOULD MAKE A GOOD ACTION FIGURE" OR......." I WANT AN AXE WOVES ACTION FIGURE" ... seriously
I can certainly understand your frustrations with the recent Hasbro Star Wars TVC Wave releases. They've really got their money's worth out of so many variations of the Mandalorian and Grogu, and then some. I too am getting burned out on those particular figures, and I don't even collect TVC. I am looking forward to picking up the TVC Luke X-Wing pilot re-release, as I don't have one of those in my modern collection (I don't collect a lot of modern to be honest), but this was one of my favorite looks for Luke. I really love the two Rebels releases, They would be excellent to have had I went in on the TVC Haslab Ghost and had the other figures. But alas, no room for something that big and it's definitely not within my focus. Still, it'll be cool to see all of them together in your collection. I'm not overly excited about the pipeline reveals either, seems like a lot of re-releases for the most part, but again, I'm not a big modern collector. So just another way to save a few bucks. Being a primarily Kenner vintage Star Wars collector, I love many of the retro releases that they put out. Obviously some are better than others, but I still enjoy seeing what they release especially when they tie in so well with the vintage when in displays. I was shocked to see that the episode 2 and episode 3 figures we're going to be packed together in a single box set. I'm really hoping that they'll actually have a box set for both separately, but it doesn't look that way. It's very strange that all the other movies so far have had their own box sets, but this one appears to be bundled together. 🤔🤨 I appreciate your conversation and your takes on this latest Hasbro release livestream. 👍
It’s not been great with Hasbro recently but as collectors we always live in hope! 🤣 They just announced an E-Wing today that comes with an astromech similar in design to the Kenner R2D2 which I will definitely have to pick up. I hadn’t realised how expensive the Luke X-wing was on the secondary market so happy that everyone is able to get hold of one now.. If that is your carded collection I saw a snippet of on your twitter account then all I have to say is……🥹🔥🤤 That is an epic carded collection my friend! 👏 👏 👏 It was also I agree a real shame that episode 2 & 3 only get a shared retro collection box set. Thanks buddy 👍👍👍
@@alongandlongtimeago Thank you - and yes, that is part of my vintage MOC collection. I'm just above 150 at last count. Hoping to snag that Luke X-Wing at some point. 🤞
@@MoparMcNeer That’s incredible. I’ve picked up a few Kenner MOCs over time but your collection is 🤯 You have to come on an episode sometime and talk about your collection!
I'm glad we're getting an updated rex, the fact they haven't updated Axe wolves armour when they already have the mould in the mandalorian fleet commander 🤷🏻♂️, also, cob vanth looks cool...but a deluxe?!?!?
@@alongandlongtimeago Yeah I’m hoping they’ll get their act together SOON cuz we’re needing something brand new NEVER BEEN RELEASED before ……shoot the way I see it they owe us 5 brand new never released before figures 😁
I liked the video, enjoyed the commentary & completely agree with your opinions - I thought it was a horrible presentation by Hasbro. Don't apologize for speaking out about it - you expressed your concerns professionally & thoughtfully and, frankly, Hasbro needs to hear that. Keep it up!
Many thanks for watching! You are completely right they really do need to hear this stuff! I was just a little shocked at how ranting I was as I tend to be overtly positive. They pushed me too far! 😂. Thanks again 👍👍
Yeah, quite a lot of re-issues. I suppose we should come to expect Hasbro's stragety by now! Lol Hopefully, with the money they save from these figures, they can afford to do brand new tooling for other much needed characters or ones that were never made.
I’m not a collector of Black Series so you would be more of an authority on this subject. I do really like Black Series I just can’t do both TVC and Black Series 😥. Thanks for watching 👍👍
Great video guys, was so much fun seeing Martyn that irate. 😂 I found the reveals a very mixed bag, with some highs, lows and what appear to be really patently awful decisions by Hasbro. Firstly, I thought the new Rex looked great - hopefully the definitive version in the Clone Wars/Bad Batch era. Although people are complaining that we’ve had so many Rex’s they have been pretty poor and so we shouldn’t perhaps be upset with this figure for putting it right and giving us the best new articulation and sculpt possible for this key character. X-Wing Luke is another win for me. I wasn’t collecting when he came out in 2019 and haven’t picked him up or spotted him at a reasonable price so I’m glad to be able to add him to my collection. Would I have preferred an all new tooled Rebel pilot going forward, absolutely. Sabine and Chopper - I loved this two pack. They have worked hard on the Sabine figure, she’s barely recognisable as the figure we all received from the Ahsoka show and the new helmet is what we should have had before. Love all the accessories as well. Chopper looks cool in his animated pain application, but would have been a nice pack in to get a rocket effect perhaps instead of the Loth cats. Mandalorian Fleet Commander - I neat looking figure and retool of the various Mando bodes they have. He doesn’t excite me as isn’t a very exciting character in the show, in fact he’s thrown out of his seat so Axe Woves can take all the glory. In the spirit of Kenner doing background figures and to add another variant to the Mando ranks he’s fine. Axe Woves - Some sloppy decisions here to put the exact same figure, albeit with a better scaled helmet, as came out a year ago on a cardback where he’s wearing different armour - terrible research and quality control here and surely they knew this would upset people. Mando and Grogu - I’ve put these together as little to say. I’m not a completist and I won’t be picking these up, but for anyone who didn’t get the Razorcrest, N-1 or Rescue set here he is with a soft goods cloak. I can see something in the argument that these key characters need to be available to causal purchasers/kids etc so they spot recognisable characters on the shelves and not random background people. In the UK, outside of specialist shops, you almost never see Vintage Collection on the shelves anyway and wasn’t this what the new kiddie 4 inch ‘expression’ was for anyway? The pipelines were also a very mixed bag - Delighted we’re finally getting Cobb Vanth and I’m really excited to see what they do with the Amazon 4-pack with the droids; that’s the kind of release that get me excited as probably nobody saw it coming. A bit like Velken and Taym, it gives me hope for the line that they can be imaginative and surprise us sometimes. We definitely need to see Ahsoka the White in the line, time will tell if she is a repaint or there is much new sculpting. The tan and red AK droid - great, but I’d have preferred a 4 pack with a variety of choices, not a mainline figure. Hardly an exciting pipeline… a cheap, if not entirely unwelcome, repaint. Dark Trooper - again, hardly a pipeline, except perhaps for carded collectors, for a figure most of have had since late 2022! The Mando with stolen jet pack and Bo Katan silver pauldron are equally dispiriting pipelines … so we get the same Mando that is coming out in May, but with a different jet pack… ?? Maybe if they had pipelined the Imperial Mando Commando at the same time it would have made more sense. And Bo Katan - the same one that is peg warming on sale in The Entertainer and online sellers, but with a different pauldron…this seems lazy and to be completely uninspired. Not sure what is going on? It seems the date shift of Skeleton Crew may have impacted their planning and forced them to make some quick/easy decisions, pull more out of mothballs for reissue etc. as they have actually spent design and tooling budget o characters none of us are going to see until late 2024, maybe a year after originally planned. When the community are crying out for key characters from both new media (Baylan, Shin) and the OT (the mains), PT (ROTS Anakin for example) these lazy repaints and repacks seem badly timed. Surely, they could have rethought those pipelines and at least given us a bit more and started the year off in a more hopeful way. Pipelines can be a long way off, look how long we waited for the Obi-Wan/Vader two pack, but the excitement was there. They could have also been a bit more transparent about the situation with Skeleton Crew, if there is anything in that and people might, just might, have been a bit more understanding. I’m still trying to be positive and optimistic about the line, but there is a lot of negativity out there and people claiming they are out of collecting, or no longer completionists as a result of this week’s fanstream. I hope Hasbro’s Star Wars team take a hard, honest look at the communities responses this week and consider the release/pipeline planning for these kinds of events and manage the news and release they give us in a better way going forwards. I’m still looking forward to stuff like Dooku, Leia, but hope the pipelines and reveals pick up soon.
Wow Scott! What an epic and thoughtful comment! In retrospect I wish I hadn’t ranted quite so much as I always try to find the positives in everything to do with Star Wars. After living with the announcements for a day or so now I think I have softened (slightly) on some of the decisions. As an on card only collector I sometimes don’t take into consideration the needs and wants of a loose collector. I’m trying to do better 😂. The Rex is a perfect example of this. A number of people have told me this is definitive version of the character and of course because I don’t open them up re tooling and repaints aren’t always obvious to me and I therefore question the need for another figure. X-Wing Luke is another one I’ve softened on because I hadn’t realised how expensive they are on the secondary market. I’m with you on the Sabine/Chopper 2 pack. Can’t wait to get them but the price is a bit much. I think you could tell that Adam and I were mostly excited for that Ahsoka/astromech 4 pack too. We love an astromech and the Clone Wars. Lastly I too have seen all the negativity this week from the livestream and feel a modicum of embarrassment if I’ve fuelled it in anyway. It’s always best to enjoy the good things rather than dwell on the negative. As many, many people have said to me over UA-cam and instagram over the last 2 days I don’t have to buy it all and I can’t argue with the! Thanks as always for your support of the channel Scott!
@@alongandlongtimeago Cheers Martyn. It felt quite therapeutic to put my feelings into writing as like many of us I was feeling conflicted and frustrated by a lot of what I saw in the fan stream as well. It’s true we don’t have to buy what we don’t want, but it’s a bit sad to me that it only looks like I’ll pre-order about half of what I saw. That’s not good for us collectors, certainly not for Hasbro and not for the line we love and makes us feel like kids again. Keep up the great content guys! 👍
Great points on all of the figures guys. I've got no real issue with these figures as such, just a shame they were announced all at the same time. If they'd have said about one or two now, and a few more later in the year, it wouldn't have been too bad. Just all repacks/repaints at once seems a cop out.
It’s the first time I have been really disappointed with most of the run down. If I was a loose collector I probably wouldn’t have thought it wasn’t too bad. That being said really looking forward to the Rebels 2 pack and the Ahsoka/Astromech 4 pack. 😁 Tanks as always Dez 👍👍
should the vintage collection Grogu figure be bigger than that? for some reason, he looks too small? the yoda figure from 1980s was small but not that small, and Grogu isn't that much smaller than regular yoda?
I only buy certain figures in the line, and have various figures from the back collection to still collect. And like yourself I don get wired up over stuff like this, at all. But I tuned in, and was disheartened tbh. I get Mando/Grogu are new popular content so they want some in the cycle, but why not just reissue previous ones? OK, this mando has a cloth cape and is carded. But Bo with 1 shoulder change? ANOTHER Din pipelined? There are so many repacks they could do...apart from mandos and clones. Multiple astromechs from the OT and prequels. They could make a black death star droid from the silver one we have. They could make a Hoth base powerdroid with the sensors on top. They could repack ewoks from TVC 1.0 boxset. Slap Finn's head on a stormtrooper, give us something different even if retools and reclours. Also Cobb will be in a box I think, so i will await the carded... I will pretend this is Mando season 3's waves and hope future ones are better..
It's further proof Hasbro has little care or love for 3.75 inch fans. Where the rest of the Bad Batch? I used to buy every single Star Wars figure since 1977. Now I can't be bothered. The current Hasbro Star Wars team is horrible.
Thanks for watching! Yeah Im also starting to only get what I want now rather than complete waves and when it comes to modern stuff isn’t all that much. 👍
@@alongandlongtimeago I see it and cringe every time. The sadder part is the Star Wars fans see no issue. Just consume product and be happy to consume more product.
@@alongandlongtimeago then the other releases aren’t even accurate ffs. I wish the rogue one stormtrooper helmet in the black series and vintage were more accurate ffs.
@@youtubedeletesmychannels2329 When it comes to TVC that was me I’m afraid to say but after the last couple of years I’ve had to stop because I can’t spend the money on repaints and retools. Especially being a carded collector those things don’t mean too much to me. Having 8 Mandalorians on a card seems a little overkill 🤣😂 Rebuying my childhood Kenner toys is a much funner way to collect these days. 👍👍👍
@@alongandlongtimeago I don’t care too much for Kenner but to each it’s own. I get why for nostalgia reasons but to me it’s just too cartoonish looking. I go for accuracy, I’m not even a collector. At least there’s an upside. But that’s too many damn mandos. It’s ridiculous beyond overkill. I always go for film accuracy. It’s Criminal how they completely forgot to release a black series rogue one vader but they can reuse the same vader body from 2015 and think we wouldn’t notice. That’s another thing that’s annoying. Even pointing it out to fans they take issue
Absolute joke tbh. I only collect certain TVC figures and there are so many characters they can do and what the fans want and yet we get the same old shit with repaints and peg warmers. Do they actually listen? Great video chaps.
Thanks for watching! Yeah it’s reached a ridiculous stage now with the poor releases we’re getting. I fear for the lines future to be honest. They are running it into the ground. 😡
instead of “not negative” or “always positive”, or “always negative” etc why don’t you just be appropriately positive and appropriately negative, when it makes sense, by being sincere?
We did say we try to be positive about these things. That isn’t always possible, so when the time comes, our lesser seen negative side comes out. I’d say that means we’re pretty sincere with our opinions. There’s just so many channels that have become popular from only putting out negative reviews on things and we try to distance ourselves from that. Thanks for watching though! Really appreciate the view! 💪🏼👍🏻
@@alongandlongtimeago my point is, why are you “trying” to be positive? It’s equally inappropriate to “try” to be positive, as it is to “try” to be negative (as the channels you try to distance yourself from), sincerity and honest will hash out to what degree you will be positive and to what degree you will be negative, without any extra “trying” on your part. Just speak sincerely even *If that’s negative (or positive).
Thanks for watching. I think our big concern is why do they keep releasing so many versions of the same figure and what makes it any different? As we said (and others in the comments have said), there are so many more characters that they could release. Feels like it borders on laziness and/or money saving from Hasbro.
@@alongandlongtimeago man me to as a collector I understand your point, there si so mch I would want (especially never done before figures) but Hasbro is a company. If their sales stats tells them that Mando and Grogu sells well it s norml for them to keep releasing them. we as collectors maybe do not need the 6 or 7nth version of the same figure but newcomers yes. And asbro do not want us to sell double to newcomers, as they did not want us to sell ours Ahsoka or Starkiller, Shae Vizla or Republic Trooper. they re released all of those becaue we were making money over their potential profit. That is how it works man, just keep cllecting what you really really want and stop looking at the overall picture, we will see at least 2 Din Djarrin a few Ahsoka a year for now on because they sell well
You are 100% correct. We don’t usually talk about this sort of stuff but the disappointment of the last few years releases finally got to me 😂 I snapped 😂. We all have our different goals as collectors and as a fan from the beginning of the TVC line I have seen a real decline in what we’re offered. Saying that of course I will be pre ordering most of it later today. 🙄🤦♂️😂 Once again thanks for watching and thanks for giving us your point of view! Keep on collecting buddy 👍
@@alongandlongtimeago sure man! just discovered your channel, I ll keep on looking your videos ! I understand frustration, you are completely entitled to that - just thought that with my 2 cent I could spread some love! Thanks guys and keep up the great work
It's good to be positive! But the recent releases have been lackluster. I'm tired of all the Mandolorian figures. I still like the clone troopers they put out. I would love it if they did some AOTC & ROTS Jedi, Bounty hunters, and some sith characters from the old republic besides Darth Revan. That Grogu and Mandolorian will probably be on clearance at Entertainment Earth. around Black Friday and Christmas.
I would love to see some more Ep 2 & 3 releases. There are so many great characters from Kotor and kotor 2. Darth Malak and Sion would be amazing. Unfortunately I can’t see it happening but we can live in hope. Appreciate you watching 👍👍
We’ve been having issues lately with audio on the program we use to do this and we rushed the video out forgetting to put the audio across both channels. Thanks for watching though!
You tvc peeps are a bit of a weird lot,I just don't understand keeping a fig on card thing???? I can understand if is original kenner or palitoy or others, tvc collectors remind me of one of those people that just collect with a hopeful profit on figs lol kinda snobby & weird, just my opinion though lol
I collect for fun, a different scale then tvc, but I collect for fun, if the fun stops & becomes something I don't like then that is the time to outski right,I love my neca, black series, macfarlane,etc stuff,i pick & choose what I want in my collection & that is the buzz for me, i am a reluctant collector,I buy figs like I buy blu rays or vinlye records,it is a hard copy or a fig is a representation of something i love & reminds me of it
Thanks for the view and comments, all of them have made this our most successful video 👍. I’ve collected all my life and can honestly and sincerely say collecting for profit has never entered my mind. To explain my TVC card collecting I guess firstly it would be the nostalgia of seeing those vintage designed cards again taking me back to my childhood when I first had them and secondly I certainly can’t afford to buy vintage Kenner/Palitoy figures so this provides an excellent alternative. If that makes me weird, snobby or even a little crazy I’m happy to live with that. I think people should be allowed to collect what they enjoy, just my opinion though.
@@alongandlongtimeago me when I was a kid in the 80,s I ripped them card backs to get to the fig lol the art was the fig for me but I understand your nostalgia for moc figs,we all collect different ways & I like that, i collect to have a 3 dimensional prop of a character on my shelf from horror to sci-fi & fantasy movies I love, we all collect different ways & that makes it fun
Really non interesting boring stupid assortment. I don't care Hasbro brings amongst anymore there's so many characters they're passing up un. You look up STAR WARS action figures Google you'll find many old previous assortments Hasbro did back 19-16-15 yrs ago. Those characters need more recognition than Disney's bland garbage crap. Really I'm tired of Mando & grogu already. Tired ahsoka, this garbage nobody wants. Wills. Have. They have epic heroes star wars assortment with more characters nobody wants. Needs. Mando being one of them. Grogu again, Sabine again, ahsoka again! Darth Vader & Luke n stormtrooper I can get by. Mando is interesting he's never been made into 5poa action figure since sequel trilogy happened. New media sucks. Old media needs it more than new media. Old star wars media that's star wars!, They do now media that's not star wars. That's garbage.
Remember, when the razor crest came out and they said that that Mandalorian will be the only one with a fabric cape and said it’s only exclusive to the razor crest…….
Whoever got the Ghost should’ve gotten a voucher to get Sabine and Chopper for free or atleast a discount. The Ghost was soo expensive!
100% For a 2 pack I think £50 is crazy expensive! With the Ghost on top of that 🤯 Appreciate you watching!
Thanks for the video. It is great hearing your opinions on these figures.
Thank you for watching 👍 I’ve ever so slightly softened on my opinion of these as I’ve realised for loose collectors some of them have been needed. I’m extremely happy with the newly announced EWing and astromech droid though🔥
The mando captain looks to have the same body as Axe…………maybe it’ll have a oversized helmet too 😂😂
Excellent video. The intro got me straight away.
I have to say, I completely agree with practically everything that was said. It is so hard to remain positive when you are being served up the same character or repaints.....basically dross.
In all honesty, I have pretty much given up with TVC, except figures from TVC 1.0, any figures from the original Kenner 96 or one that I really like and want.
Who is making these dum arsed decisions for Hasbro? How can Chris, Jing, Emily, and Eric stand in front of the camera and be excited for what they are about to reveal? I certainly wouldn't be excited about revealing what they have to reveal.......it's an absolute joke.
And people wonder why big companies struggle or go under.
Firstly Stu I’m mightily impressed that you know all their names! 🤣 I didn’t have a clue. 🤣 I’m starting to lose patience with the line to be honest but we will see. No doubt I will be on Star Action figures tonight doing the pre order. 🤦♂️ Thanks as always for the support mate
@alongandlongtimeago , lol, apart from Jing, I met the others at Celebration last year.
Oh yeah, I will be pre-ordering tonight, but only the ones I want, and not the whole wave, like I used to.
Must admit I was pleased with the new Axe Woves as they fixed the major problem with the original figure which was an oversized helmet. The new release has an interchangeable head so the scale is so much better, something that the Bo-Katan and Koskia Reeves releases already had.
Absolutely! 'm glad they are getting to fixed all these issues with figures. When we recorded this video it was off the cuff and we hadn't realised some of the retooling etc so it was quite good for loose collectors. Really appreciate you watching 👍👍
It’s an all new Rex Using the new clone model, I think it looks good
I agree. I hadn’t realised at the time it was the definitive Rex. Being a carded collector I have to admit I do miss the retooling from time to time. Thanks for watching 👍👍
They gave us one new figure that's actually a repaint with a new head, other than that it was nothing but a bunch of reissued repacks with new card backs. Also the Sabine and Chopper should have came with the Haslab Ghost. Hasbro is horrible and so is the team that hosted it. Not only did they give us yet another Din Djarin and Grogu but we get a Din Djarin in the pipeline but wait.... he comes with a shiny stolen jet pack and Bo Katana has a brand new pauldron! Pft! Seriously..... Hasbro and that awkward team they assembled need to do better!
😂😂😂 Yeah I think you probably saw from the video that I agree with everything you said! Imagine if you pre ordered the Haslab Ghost but missed out on the 2pack! Crazy! Hopefully 🤞 we will see some better announcements throughout the year. Thanks very much for watching 👍👍
It comes with the colored hair. (Nonsense)
I was going to order that 2 pack from Hasbro until I went to check out and Hasbro wanted $60 for it………
@briandeluca4318 $60 for 2 carded TVC is just ridiculous!
Sadly the Cobb Vanth was announced as a "Deluxe" meaning windowless box, like the Jango Fett announced a little while ago, and that means no cardback 😑
This really sucks! I didn’t realise this until I finished recording the video. One of the plus points from the Hasbro stream turns out not to be plus 🤦♂️ Thanks for watching 👍👍
I get that Hasbro have to get new collectors into the line by keeping the likes of Luke, Mando, Vader etc readily available but maybe space them out a bit more!
Can’t disagree with common sense statements like that my friend! Appreciate you watching!
I don’t think of myself as a collector, I opened every figure I have ever bough, and actually play around each of it, so I care about articulation a lot, and I always wanted a perfect Mando with new barbell hip and rocker ankle, ever since I saw how good the new black series Mando is, I’ve convince that they’ll use the same file on the new TVC,just the matter of time, but when I see the live stream,and found out that they re-packed the same Mando, I was completely shocked, but I quickly realize that is just how they does things, just do anything as cheap as possible, and some of the cardback collector say “ it is good for those who don’t want to pay $150 for the N1” so they’re happy about this, but if Hasbro really make a brand new Mando then everyone will be happy including the cardback collector!!
As a toy company, their only job is literally making people happy, if people happy they’ll pay more!!
WHAT SO HARD ABOUT THIS???
I think we are in total agreement my friend. Collecting is becoming too expensive now and when you aren’t necessarily getting anything new it’s harder to part with any of your money. Thanks for watching 👍👍
If Hasbro is re-releasing all these characters so soon, why not re-release ROTJ Boba Fett as a Deluxe figure with updated leg articulation, articulated range finder, better metallic paint apps on the rocket pack and the ability to add flame effects and launch the rocket like Deluxe BOBF Boba, whipcord accessory, flame thrower effects like the upcoming Jango Fett, and call it “VC# Boba Fett (Pit of Carkoon)”
And while we’re at it, Hasbro should release and updated sculpt of Empire Strikes Back Boba Fett in the green armor on a single card, they could call it “VC# Boba Fett (Bespin Ambush)” or something
if Hasbro is so keen on releasing several Mandos and Grogu’s and re-releasing more obscure characters, why not re-release characters who actually need the update?
Well I don’t think I could have said it any better my friend! Thanks for checking out the video! I will try to rant less in the next one 😂👍
I'm a Jango and boba fan before I'm a star wars fan... I will literally never own a BOBF figure... tusken..black skirt before and after re paint... all garbage... the only reason I might buy a Deluxe BOBF is to steal the jetpack off him for the new TVC Jango 2.0 coming out in a few months
@@GixxerJake That’s awesome! I love those characters too. I have certainly got a good sized Boba Fett collection going. Wish I had more Jango’s though. 🤞🏻
It seems Peli Motto would be made already. I'm mad as hell about the 2 pack, for $50!
Couldn’t agree more my friend! Ridiculously expensive! Appreciate you watching! 👍
Can't wait for the inevitable "Din Grogu" name pill version & "Din Djarin (Stay at Home Dad)" 😅
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@@alongandlongtimeago 😆
@alongandlongtimeago Seriously though, tvc is in pretty rough shape lately. I still need to pick up Krennic, the Imperial Officer 4pack, Skiff Guard 4pack and potentially the Jabba set, probably Dooku too. But other than that, there's really not much on the horizon I'm looking forward to getting.
Pulse, at least here in the US, has the "deluxe" tvc Dark Trooper on clearance for $15.74, over a dollar less than the new bare bones carded version will be. Great for primarily loose collectors like myself, but I don't understand their reasoning with that one. Maybe they think pulling those figures out of their boxes & slapping them on a card will move enough units to make it worthwhile.
Any idea if the BoBF throne room includes the dais that Jabba comes with? If so, I can probably skip Jabba & use the Black Series 3.75" one instead. Jabba's Palace characters & Imperials are pretty much all I collect now, I gave up on being a completionist a while ago.
This will be our first cloth caped Mando on card, I'm excited for that. Not excited about Luke X-Wing pilot, Axe Woves I agree it's a better card. Any new character is welcome. I feel like Hasbro is dragging their feet though. Where is A New Hope C-3PO with gold paint like the retro one. Where's Hammerhead? For the Mandalorian, Where's the aliens & Droids? Instead of Luke they should have fixed that terrible Jawa. Needs super articulation & cloth goods. I do like the Rebels 2 pack. Thanks for the review! Cheers!
I would love to see a gold paint 3PO! It’s very much overdue. Hammerhead along with many others are a must. Fingers crossed we see better announcements through the years. I also agree that the Rebels 2 pack is a must. Appreciate you watching the video! 👍👍👍
The retro 3po was vac metal not gold painted.
You are absolutely right 🤦♂️ It was a late night 😂
46 years.. umpteen million 3.5 inch figure variations... 300+vintage collection... and we still can't fill the G-D cantina with aliens... 😶
🤣🤣 That’s so true and quite depressing!! Thanks for watching 👍👍
Bossk was released in TVSC back in 2007.
Yeah I picked Bossk and IG-88 from the Saga collection last year. Really good looking figures too. Time for a TVC refresh at some point hopefully. Thanks for watching 👍👍👍
I seek a future where cutting-edge 3D printing is accessible worldwide and we can print the figures we want. You know damn well artistic fans are going to make the digital files more accurate than Hasbro. This future is possible. The old world is dying off.
As long as we can add the figures to cards and bubbles I have no issues with this. Appreciate you watching!
they could have given us the space pirates instead that were attacking Nevarro
Absolutely! Something new is all I wanted. Not same old same old. Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻
I totally agree guys why the frack would they start to re-release 2.0!!! 🤯🤯
Its crazy! I know the aftermarket price for that X-Wing Luke can be pricey but there are so many 1.0 figures that are sought after and even more expensive. Thanks for watching Keith 👍👍👍
Nice rant guys. Vanth is the only fig I’m interested in.
Cheers Matt. Yeah Cobb is one of the only shining light from the bunch. Where are Balen and Shin? Crazy! 👍👍
I feel everything you said except I really wanted a better Rex! The 2 previous were hideously lacking!
Thanks for watching! Is this the definitive Rex now? I really liked the image for the card on this one. 👍
Hilarious stuff Martyn! You tell ‘em mate!
Cheers bud! Thanks for watching 👍
I still want a Death Star turbo laser tower. Is that really too much to ask after all these years and the money I've spent since '77?
That would be awesome! There are so many play sets they could do and not just ones that consist of 2 walls making up a corridor ☹️ Thanks for watching! 👍
Another mando this is roughly 9 so far plus a couple of retro ones as well haha 😜 bonkers
Hi Justin buddy! Yeah I genuinely think that perhaps The Mandalorians popularity is starting to wain now. So many other characters they could release...
Who literally in their right and sound mind... thinks to themselves... that EITHER... "AXE WOVES WOULD MAKE A GOOD ACTION FIGURE" OR......." I WANT AN AXE WOVES ACTION FIGURE" ... seriously
🤣 I don’t think you are alone in your thoughts! Appreciate you watching buddy 👍👍
I can certainly understand your frustrations with the recent Hasbro Star Wars TVC Wave releases. They've really got their money's worth out of so many variations of the Mandalorian and Grogu, and then some. I too am getting burned out on those particular figures, and I don't even collect TVC.
I am looking forward to picking up the TVC Luke X-Wing pilot re-release, as I don't have one of those in my modern collection (I don't collect a lot of modern to be honest), but this was one of my favorite looks for Luke.
I really love the two Rebels releases, They would be excellent to have had I went in on the TVC Haslab Ghost and had the other figures. But alas, no room for something that big and it's definitely not within my focus. Still, it'll be cool to see all of them together in your collection.
I'm not overly excited about the pipeline reveals either, seems like a lot of re-releases for the most part, but again, I'm not a big modern collector. So just another way to save a few bucks.
Being a primarily Kenner vintage Star Wars collector, I love many of the retro releases that they put out. Obviously some are better than others, but I still enjoy seeing what they release especially when they tie in so well with the vintage when in displays. I was shocked to see that the episode 2 and episode 3 figures we're going to be packed together in a single box set. I'm really hoping that they'll actually have a box set for both separately, but it doesn't look that way. It's very strange that all the other movies so far have had their own box sets, but this one appears to be bundled together. 🤔🤨
I appreciate your conversation and your takes on this latest Hasbro release livestream. 👍
It’s not been great with Hasbro recently but as collectors we always live in hope! 🤣 They just announced an E-Wing today that comes with an astromech similar in design to the Kenner R2D2 which I will definitely have to pick up.
I hadn’t realised how expensive the Luke X-wing was on the secondary market so happy that everyone is able to get hold of one now..
If that is your carded collection I saw a snippet of on your twitter account then all I have to say is……🥹🔥🤤 That is an epic carded collection my friend! 👏 👏 👏
It was also I agree a real shame that episode 2 & 3 only get a shared retro collection box set. Thanks buddy 👍👍👍
@@alongandlongtimeago Thank you - and yes, that is part of my vintage MOC collection. I'm just above 150 at last count.
Hoping to snag that Luke X-Wing at some point. 🤞
@@MoparMcNeer That’s incredible. I’ve picked up a few Kenner MOCs over time but your collection is 🤯 You have to come on an episode sometime and talk about your collection!
@@alongandlongtimeago Maybe we can make that happen!
I'm glad we're getting an updated rex, the fact they haven't updated Axe wolves armour when they already have the mould in the mandalorian fleet commander 🤷🏻♂️, also, cob vanth looks cool...but a deluxe?!?!?
Can’t disagree with anything you said. I’ve softened on the Rex as it does seem to be a more definitive version. Thanks for watching!
Yeah it seemed like hasbro didn’t have anything new done YET so all they did was re-issue’s
It’s crazy just how many there were and not really anything new. Fingers crossed for later in the year 🤞
@@alongandlongtimeago Yeah I’m hoping they’ll get their act together SOON cuz we’re needing something brand new NEVER BEEN RELEASED before ……shoot the way I see it they owe us 5 brand new never released before figures 😁
I typically pre-order every TVC figures from the OT and Mando show. I'm skipping these Mando figs. Don't need another Mando, Grogu, or Axe Woves.
I think I’m in the same boat. It will be the first time I’ve ever bought individual cards and not the whole wave. Thanks for watching 👍👍
I liked the video, enjoyed the commentary & completely agree with your opinions - I thought it was a horrible presentation by Hasbro. Don't apologize for speaking out about it - you expressed your concerns professionally & thoughtfully and, frankly, Hasbro needs to hear that. Keep it up!
Many thanks for watching! You are completely right they really do need to hear this stuff! I was just a little shocked at how ranting I was as I tend to be overtly positive. They pushed me too far! 😂. Thanks again 👍👍
Same old same old from hasbro, you wonder what does through their heads at the early development meetings.
I guess they just aren’t true Star Wars fans! 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks for watching!
...and now... Relax 👍
Hi feel a little ashamed about how angry I got about this! It’s little plastic figures 😂😂 Back to positivity! Cheers for checking it out Dave 👍👍
Nice video. That Ax Wolves is a poor choice. He pegwarmed real hard in the US here. Just a poor choice
I agree Axe Wolves was probably the most pointless of them all. Thanks for checking out the video 👍👍
Yeah, quite a lot of re-issues. I suppose we should come to expect Hasbro's stragety by now! Lol Hopefully, with the money they save from these figures, they can afford to do brand new tooling for other much needed characters or ones that were never made.
Hopefully 🤞 There are so many characters that I would love to see in TVC. Thanks for checking out the video 👍👍
I don’t understand why black series are becoming so rare
I’m not a collector of Black Series so you would be more of an authority on this subject. I do really like Black Series I just can’t do both TVC and Black Series 😥. Thanks for watching 👍👍
Great video guys, was so much fun seeing Martyn that irate. 😂
I found the reveals a very mixed bag, with some highs, lows and what appear to be really patently awful decisions by Hasbro.
Firstly, I thought the new Rex looked great - hopefully the definitive version in the Clone Wars/Bad Batch era. Although people are complaining that we’ve had so many Rex’s they have been pretty poor and so we shouldn’t perhaps be upset with this figure for putting it right and giving us the best new articulation and sculpt possible for this key character.
X-Wing Luke is another win for me. I wasn’t collecting when he came out in 2019 and haven’t picked him up or spotted him at a reasonable price so I’m glad to be able to add him to my collection. Would I have preferred an all new tooled Rebel pilot going forward, absolutely.
Sabine and Chopper - I loved this two pack. They have worked hard on the Sabine figure, she’s barely recognisable as the figure we all received from the Ahsoka show and the new helmet is what we should have had before. Love all the accessories as well. Chopper looks cool in his animated pain application, but would have been a nice pack in to get a rocket effect perhaps instead of the Loth cats.
Mandalorian Fleet Commander - I neat looking figure and retool of the various Mando bodes they have. He doesn’t excite me as isn’t a very exciting character in the show, in fact he’s thrown out of his seat so Axe Woves can take all the glory. In the spirit of Kenner doing background figures and to add another variant to the Mando ranks he’s fine.
Axe Woves - Some sloppy decisions here to put the exact same figure, albeit with a better scaled helmet, as came out a year ago on a cardback where he’s wearing different armour - terrible research and quality control here and surely they knew this would upset people.
Mando and Grogu - I’ve put these together as little to say. I’m not a completist and I won’t be picking these up, but for anyone who didn’t get the Razorcrest, N-1 or Rescue set here he is with a soft goods cloak. I can see something in the argument that these key characters need to be available to causal purchasers/kids etc so they spot recognisable characters on the shelves and not random background people. In the UK, outside of specialist shops, you almost never see Vintage Collection on the shelves anyway and wasn’t this what the new kiddie 4 inch ‘expression’ was for anyway?
The pipelines were also a very mixed bag - Delighted we’re finally getting Cobb Vanth and I’m really excited to see what they do with the Amazon 4-pack with the droids; that’s the kind of release that get me excited as probably nobody saw it coming. A bit like Velken and Taym, it gives me hope for the line that they can be imaginative and surprise us sometimes.
We definitely need to see Ahsoka the White in the line, time will tell if she is a repaint or there is much new sculpting.
The tan and red AK droid - great, but I’d have preferred a 4 pack with a variety of choices, not a mainline figure. Hardly an exciting pipeline… a cheap, if not entirely unwelcome, repaint.
Dark Trooper - again, hardly a pipeline, except perhaps for carded collectors, for a figure most of have had since late 2022!
The Mando with stolen jet pack and Bo Katan silver pauldron are equally dispiriting pipelines … so we get the same Mando that is coming out in May, but with a different jet pack… ?? Maybe if they had pipelined the Imperial Mando Commando at the same time it would have made more sense. And Bo Katan - the same one that is peg warming on sale in The Entertainer and online sellers, but with a different pauldron…this seems lazy and to be completely uninspired.
Not sure what is going on? It seems the date shift of Skeleton Crew may have impacted their planning and forced them to make some quick/easy decisions, pull more out of mothballs for reissue etc. as they have actually spent design and tooling budget o characters none of us are going to see until late 2024, maybe a year after originally planned.
When the community are crying out for key characters from both new media (Baylan, Shin) and the OT (the mains), PT (ROTS Anakin for example) these lazy repaints and repacks seem badly timed. Surely, they could have rethought those pipelines and at least given us a bit more and started the year off in a more hopeful way. Pipelines can be a long way off, look how long we waited for the Obi-Wan/Vader two pack, but the excitement was there. They could have also been a bit more transparent about the situation with Skeleton Crew, if there is anything in that and people might, just might, have been a bit more understanding.
I’m still trying to be positive and optimistic about the line, but there is a lot of negativity out there and people claiming they are out of collecting, or no longer completionists as a result of this week’s fanstream. I hope Hasbro’s Star Wars team take a hard, honest look at the communities responses this week and consider the release/pipeline planning for these kinds of events and manage the news and release they give us in a better way going forwards. I’m still looking forward to stuff like Dooku, Leia, but hope the pipelines and reveals pick up soon.
Wow Scott! What an epic and thoughtful comment! In retrospect I wish I hadn’t ranted quite so much as I always try to find the positives in everything to do with Star Wars.
After living with the announcements for a day or so now I think I have softened (slightly) on some of the decisions. As an on card only collector I sometimes don’t take into consideration the needs and wants of a loose collector. I’m trying to do better 😂. The Rex is a perfect example of this. A number of people have told me this is definitive version of the character and of course because I don’t open them up re tooling and repaints aren’t always obvious to me and I therefore question the need for another figure.
X-Wing Luke is another one I’ve softened on because I hadn’t realised how expensive they are on the secondary market.
I’m with you on the Sabine/Chopper 2 pack. Can’t wait to get them but the price is a bit much.
I think you could tell that Adam and I were mostly excited for that Ahsoka/astromech 4 pack too. We love an astromech and the Clone Wars.
Lastly I too have seen all the negativity this week from the livestream and feel a modicum of embarrassment if I’ve fuelled it in anyway. It’s always best to enjoy the good things rather than dwell on the negative. As many, many people have said to me over UA-cam and instagram over the last 2 days I don’t have to buy it all and I can’t argue with the!
Thanks as always for your support of the channel Scott!
@@alongandlongtimeago Cheers Martyn. It felt quite therapeutic to put my feelings into writing as like many of us I was feeling conflicted and frustrated by a lot of what I saw in the fan stream as well. It’s true we don’t have to buy what we don’t want, but it’s a bit sad to me that it only looks like I’ll pre-order about half of what I saw. That’s not good for us collectors, certainly not for Hasbro and not for the line we love and makes us feel like kids again. Keep up the great content guys! 👍
Great points on all of the figures guys. I've got no real issue with these figures as such, just a shame they were announced all at the same time. If they'd have said about one or two now, and a few more later in the year, it wouldn't have been too bad. Just all repacks/repaints at once seems a cop out.
It’s the first time I have been really disappointed with most of the run down. If I was a loose collector I probably wouldn’t have thought it wasn’t too bad. That being said really looking forward to the Rebels 2 pack and the Ahsoka/Astromech 4 pack. 😁 Tanks as always Dez 👍👍
should the vintage collection Grogu figure be bigger than that? for some reason, he looks too small? the yoda figure from 1980s was small but not that small, and Grogu isn't that much smaller than regular yoda?
Yeah they have definitely made ‘baby’ Yoda 🤣. I’m pretty sure it’s the same size as the previous Grogu releases.
I only buy certain figures in the line, and have various figures from the back collection to still collect. And like yourself I don get wired up over stuff like this, at all. But I tuned in, and was disheartened tbh. I get Mando/Grogu are new popular content so they want some in the cycle, but why not just reissue previous ones? OK, this mando has a cloth cape and is carded. But Bo with 1 shoulder change? ANOTHER Din pipelined? There are so many repacks they could do...apart from mandos and clones. Multiple astromechs from the OT and prequels. They could make a black death star droid from the silver one we have. They could make a Hoth base powerdroid with the sensors on top. They could repack ewoks from TVC 1.0 boxset. Slap Finn's head on a stormtrooper, give us something different even if retools and reclours. Also Cobb will be in a box I think, so i will await the carded...
I will pretend this is Mando season 3's waves and hope future ones are better..
All we can do is hope the future choices are better… I wouldn’t bet on it though 🙄
It's further proof Hasbro has little care or love for 3.75 inch fans. Where the rest of the Bad Batch? I used to buy every single Star Wars figure since 1977. Now I can't be bothered. The current Hasbro Star Wars team is horrible.
Thanks for watching! Yeah Im also starting to only get what I want now rather than complete waves and when it comes to modern stuff isn’t all that much. 👍
I hate how the clone helmets are not even accurate to make up for being reissues. How can they even pretend to be happy about these releases.
Absolutely! The acting like these are the greatest releases ever during the livestream does grate! Thanks for watching
@@alongandlongtimeago I see it and cringe every time. The sadder part is the Star Wars fans see no issue. Just consume product and be happy to consume more product.
@@alongandlongtimeago then the other releases aren’t even accurate ffs. I wish the rogue one stormtrooper helmet in the black series and vintage were more accurate ffs.
@@youtubedeletesmychannels2329 When it comes to TVC that was me I’m afraid to say but after the last couple of years I’ve had to stop because I can’t spend the money on repaints and retools. Especially being a carded collector those things don’t mean too much to me. Having 8 Mandalorians on a card seems a little overkill 🤣😂 Rebuying my childhood Kenner toys is a much funner way to collect these days. 👍👍👍
@@alongandlongtimeago I don’t care too much for Kenner but to each it’s own. I get why for nostalgia reasons but to me it’s just too cartoonish looking. I go for accuracy, I’m not even a collector. At least there’s an upside. But that’s too many damn mandos. It’s ridiculous beyond overkill. I always go for film accuracy. It’s Criminal how they completely forgot to release a black series rogue one vader but they can reuse the same vader body from 2015 and think we wouldn’t notice. That’s another thing that’s annoying. Even pointing it out to fans they take issue
Absolute joke tbh. I only collect certain TVC figures and there are so many characters they can do and what the fans want and yet we get the same old shit with repaints and peg warmers. Do they actually listen? Great video chaps.
Thanks for watching! Yeah it’s reached a ridiculous stage now with the poor releases we’re getting. I fear for the lines future to be honest. They are running it into the ground. 😡
instead of “not negative” or “always positive”, or “always negative” etc
why don’t you just be appropriately positive and appropriately negative, when it makes sense, by being sincere?
We did say we try to be positive about these things. That isn’t always possible, so when the time comes, our lesser seen negative side comes out. I’d say that means we’re pretty sincere with our opinions.
There’s just so many channels that have become popular from only putting out negative reviews on things and we try to distance ourselves from that.
Thanks for watching though! Really appreciate the view! 💪🏼👍🏻
@@alongandlongtimeago my point is, why are you “trying” to be positive? It’s equally inappropriate to “try” to be positive, as it is to “try” to be negative (as the channels you try to distance yourself from), sincerity and honest will hash out to what degree you will
be positive and to what degree you will be negative, without any extra “trying” on your part. Just speak sincerely even *If that’s negative (or positive).
@@julythrunov I see your point, ‘Do, or do not… there is no try’.
A wave of nothingness to me. Sad. I usually want at least one fig in a wave.
Agreed! Another missed opportunity. Thanks for watching 👍
Guys the Mando is for casual collectors and new potential collectors.
If you do not want it stop being a completist
Thanks for watching. I think our big concern is why do they keep releasing so many versions of the same figure and what makes it any different? As we said (and others in the comments have said), there are so many more characters that they could release. Feels like it borders on laziness and/or money saving from Hasbro.
@@alongandlongtimeago man me to as a collector I understand your point, there si so mch I would want (especially never done before figures) but Hasbro is a company. If their sales stats tells them that Mando and Grogu sells well it s norml for them to keep releasing them.
we as collectors maybe do not need the 6 or 7nth version of the same figure but newcomers yes. And asbro do not want us to sell double to newcomers, as they did not want us to sell ours Ahsoka or Starkiller, Shae Vizla or Republic Trooper. they re released all of those becaue we were making money over their potential profit. That is how it works man, just keep cllecting what you really really want and stop looking at the overall picture, we will see at least 2 Din Djarrin a few Ahsoka a year for now on because they sell well
You are 100% correct. We don’t usually talk about this sort of stuff but the disappointment of the last few years releases finally got to me 😂 I snapped 😂. We all have our different goals as collectors and as a fan from the beginning of the TVC line I have seen a real decline in what we’re offered. Saying that of course I will be pre ordering most of it later today. 🙄🤦♂️😂 Once again thanks for watching and thanks for giving us your point of view! Keep on collecting buddy 👍
@@alongandlongtimeago sure man! just discovered your channel, I ll keep on looking your videos ! I understand frustration, you are completely entitled to that - just thought that with my 2 cent I could spread some love! Thanks guys and keep up the great work
It's good to be positive! But the recent releases have been lackluster. I'm tired of all the Mandolorian figures. I still like the clone troopers they put out. I would love it if they did some AOTC & ROTS Jedi, Bounty hunters, and some sith characters from the old republic besides Darth Revan. That Grogu and Mandolorian will probably be on clearance at Entertainment Earth. around Black Friday and Christmas.
I would love to see some more Ep 2 & 3 releases. There are so many great characters from Kotor and kotor 2. Darth Malak and Sion would be amazing. Unfortunately I can’t see it happening but we can live in hope. Appreciate you watching 👍👍
UGH!
No Vintage Series Baron Notluwiski Papanoida?
YOU DISGUST ME HASBRO!!!!! It's like you don't even listen to the fans!!!!
And you’d think that the fans know best, right!? 🤷🏼♂️
Make your audio 2 channel jeez
We’ve been having issues lately with audio on the program we use to do this and we rushed the video out forgetting to put the audio across both channels. Thanks for watching though!
You tvc peeps are a bit of a weird lot,I just don't understand keeping a fig on card thing???? I can understand if is original kenner or palitoy or others, tvc collectors remind me of one of those people that just collect with a hopeful profit on figs lol kinda snobby & weird, just my opinion though lol
I collect for fun, a different scale then tvc, but I collect for fun, if the fun stops & becomes something I don't like then that is the time to outski right,I love my neca, black series, macfarlane,etc stuff,i pick & choose what I want in my collection & that is the buzz for me, i am a reluctant collector,I buy figs like I buy blu rays or vinlye records,it is a hard copy or a fig is a representation of something i love & reminds me of it
Thanks for the view and comments, all of them have made this our most successful video 👍. I’ve collected all my life and can honestly and sincerely say collecting for profit has never entered my mind. To explain my TVC card collecting I guess firstly it would be the nostalgia of seeing those vintage designed cards again taking me back to my childhood when I first had them and secondly I certainly can’t afford to buy vintage Kenner/Palitoy figures so this provides an excellent alternative. If that makes me weird, snobby or even a little crazy I’m happy to live with that. I think people should be allowed to collect what they enjoy, just my opinion though.
@@alongandlongtimeago me when I was a kid in the 80,s I ripped them card backs to get to the fig lol the art was the fig for me but I understand your nostalgia for moc figs,we all collect different ways & I like that, i collect to have a 3 dimensional prop of a character on my shelf from horror to sci-fi & fantasy movies I love, we all collect different ways & that makes it fun
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Really non interesting boring stupid assortment. I don't care Hasbro brings amongst anymore there's so many characters they're passing up un. You look up STAR WARS action figures Google you'll find many old previous assortments Hasbro did back 19-16-15 yrs ago. Those characters need more recognition than Disney's bland garbage crap. Really I'm tired of Mando & grogu already. Tired ahsoka, this garbage nobody wants. Wills. Have. They have epic heroes star wars assortment with more characters nobody wants. Needs. Mando being one of them. Grogu again, Sabine again, ahsoka again! Darth Vader & Luke n stormtrooper I can get by. Mando is interesting he's never been made into 5poa action figure since sequel trilogy happened. New media sucks. Old media needs it more than new media. Old star wars media that's star wars!, They do now media that's not star wars. That's garbage.
Totally agree. Thanks for watching