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This is the end? (Does Hasbro know something they’re not telling?)
I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but look at the facts.
For years, Hasbro has refused to make an AT-TE, and said one at proper scale is very unlikely. They claim large vehicles don’t sell well. They didn’t even make one as a movie tie-in in 2002 or 2005.
This summer, we’re getting a huge $100+ AT-TE to coincide with a cartoon.
They’ve also refused to make a new Millennium Falcon. They even re-released the old one several times. Again, the large vehicle argument.
Pics have just surfaced of a monstrous, likely $150+ Millennium Falcon. As the cockpit looks to hold four figures comfortably, we’re looking at something bigger than the Naboo Starship from 1999.
Yarna and Wilrow Hood were “bottom of the barrel” for years, considered (along with a Wokling) some of the most unlikely figures to be made.
They’re both scheduled to be released within a year. So’s the Wokling.
Since the initial SOTE line, people have asked for more EU. Hasbro has only occasionally, grudgingly produced anything (usually one or two figures out of context).
Roughly 3/4 of the 2008 line is EU. Most of this is very recent EU. As in “within the last year or two.”
So, are they trying to pull out all the stops before someone in corporate decides the line isn’t profitable and drops the hammer? Or are they being proactive, and anticipating increased collector interest vs kid interest in the coming years?
Based on their utter destruction of the once mega-successful Marvel Legends line within about a year of taking over the license, the skyrocketing costs all around (for us and them), their insistence that things like Unleashed don’t sell despite pretty overwhelming evidence otherwise, etc, I’m thinking the Star Wars line has two more years, tops.
Less if the massive AT-TE’s and Falcons don’t sell. (And, sorry, I’m not buying them.)
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