If you have a look at what different motion determine toylines should give you typically marvel if Star Wars survives on nostalgia and being, properly “Star Wars” alone, however not due to nice merchandise or good worth.
The explanation I’m mentioning all that is the model new GI Joe Labeled HasLab: the Rattler. And while you have a look at it, what it provides, its options and its worth… you start to marvel if Star Wars followers are simply getting ripped off today and with the remaining collectors even deluding themselves into pondering one thing just like the Cantina is a good factor to have. Click through for more!
GI Joe Labeled Rattler, the complete bundle with potential bonus figures
Okay, so what precisely prompted all this?
The GI Joe Rattler HasLab is $329.99. But it surely’s an infinite 6 inch scale airplane, actually, it’s nearly as large as a 6 inch scale X-Wing!
JTA common Oofa was type sufficient to ship me his up to date comparability chart:
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Now Oofa wonders why Star Wars collectors, Black Collection collectors, don’t get any large automobiles anymore. Measurement can’t be it, as a result of, as you’ll be able to see, the model new HasLab Rattler is nearly the scale of an X-Wing.
However we DO know why Hasbro gained’t make any Black Collection automobiles, apart from small ones that work as equipment, actually, in one of many fan Q&A’s from some time again they had been uncharacteristically open about all of it. They flat out stated gross sales are unhealthy, the Snowspeeder specifically was talked about, gross sales weren’t what Hasbro hoped for, so large automobiles had been put to relaxation (for now).
And you then marvel why the GI Joe neighborhood helps 6 inch scale HasLab automobiles. has Star Wars reached a state the place an analogous factor for the Black Collection would stand no likelihood?
The Rattler is nearly funded after not even in the future. 9k are wanted, it’s at the moment at 7,614, with 45 extra days to go. Chances are high it would unlock all tiers, with 18k backers.
And while you have a look at the function record of the Rattler you do increase your eyebrows if you end up a Star Wars fan.
As a result of the Rattler has electronics. It has a lightweight up cockpit show, the gunner turret cockpit lights up and it additionally has touchdown lights!
Precise working lights….
And all that, plus probably one other two figures and a few patches and naturally the equipment for $329.99. Whereas a $399.99 and even $499.99 cantina has… nothing. As in “no play options”, no lights, no sounds, simply plenty of cups and glasses and some figures.
Even the tremendous profitable Razor Crest HasLab has no electronics, no cockpit lights, no engine lights… nothing.
But GI Joe apparently and evidently can have all that. At a less expensive worth.
And to the collector it’s solely irrelevant if Disney is fleecing Hasbro with Star Wars and the license. On the finish of the day one motion determine toyline will get an enormous 85 cm / 33.5 in car with lights for $330. And Star Wars will get a $350 car or a $400 cantina with no lights.
So the query is: are we so used to getting lower than different toylines due to the licensing prices that we had been educated to accept much less? Why will not be extra followers calling out Hasbro for his or her at occasions lazy or a minimum of fairly barebones Star Wars units? Particularly HasLabs just like the Razor Crest, the Ghost or the Cantina would all profit from lights. Apparently Hasbro can simply do this for GI Joe. At a decrease value, once more, that is in fact as a result of Hasbro outright owns GI Joe, whereas Disney will demand a hefty royalty fee for all of the Star Wars toys, however as I stated, to the buyer, the shopper, that is irrelevant, it’s Hasbro’s obligation to make that work.
So I ponder… have all of us been educated to just accept “barebones” as the usual for Star Wars? I additionally marvel how a lot a Black Collection X-Wing, nearly the identical dimension because the Rattler, can be… my guess: it could haven’t any lights, it could value $399.99 and as tiers the pilots you get all use the identical physique, perhaps Porkins can be thrown in as a novel mildew. And it definitely would include fewer equipment.
How do you’re feeling the GI Joe Rattler HasLab compares to the earlier Star Wars HasLabs? And the way do you’re feeling concerning the present Joe HasLab being on observe to get absolutely funded over the weekend, two or three days after launch, whereas the Cantina limped by way of its marketing campaign, unlocking solely shortly earlier than the deadline? And this although the Cantina solely required 8k backers, not 9k just like the Rattler? When Star Wars used to rule supreme and GI Joe is mainly US solely and by no means managed to change into a real worldwide franchise and has no really profitable motion pictures.
Do you suppose collectors ought to let Hasbro know we deserve higher? Is Star Wars solely second tier now, speaking concerning the toys right here, not even the franchise as a complete? Or are you content material to accept much less and to pay extra?
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