3.75" Collecting Thread

[TheDucky]

I could never display my POTF2 TIE again.

Most of my Star Wars vehicles have been in the attic for 10 years but I took it all down recently - the POTF2 TIE was laugh out loud bad. The proportions are just terrible, even worse than I remembered. I also found it had turned all sorts of different colors and is undisplayable anyway.

Yeah, most of my POTF stuff is packed away. A lot of that stuff just didn’t age all that great. Still love that line for what it was and still have some stuff out displayed.

Man I hope that rumor isn't true. Hot Toys and other high-end companies haven't been making a whole lot that's interesting to me, so I've cooled down and got back into collecting 3.75" Star Wars - around when the Sail Barge was first announced.

I think we’ll see the death confirmed this year. Only hope is crowd funded figures ala Has Lab or some unofficial stuff, but Disney would be damn sure to shut that down.

You can’t tell me 3.75 isn’t selling, which I’m sure is the excuse Hasbro will go with. It always did and still is. Still a large large large number of fans buy 3.75 stuff and a lot I’ve talked to said they would pay $20 per figure if it meant TVC quality with new figures. I wish they would just make the stuff crowd funded, online only, open it up to the world. They are making a big mistake abandoning the 3.75” stuff and their quarterly reports prove it.

I'm sort of taking an Ivan Drago approach to it. If it dies, it dies.

I was doing my part. Even after they said **** you, we don't want to sell you a Barge you filthy Irish scum, I've still bought other stuff.

They could have sold twice as many barges if they opened it up. Such a dumb slap in the face decision. I thought some UK retailer was buying a bunch though, albeit through a US address or something? Did any barges make it over to Europe?

Either way, the fact that thing sold that many, in such a short amount of time, only in the US, proves 3.75 has a ton of life. Would have been even more US buyers but the deadline was right before tax refund season.

 

[a-dev]

Yeah, most of my POTF stuff is packed away. A lot of that stuff just didn?t age all that great. Still love that line for what it was and still have some stuff out displayed.

I would say even figures as ugly as those in POTF2 and the vehicles released in that era have merit in a 'history of Star Wars action figures' collection. They mostly don't hold up next to figures of the past decade and feel like 'junk' but if you isolate them into their own section suddenly they have more appeal because of the time they represent. I just don't have the space to do this and much of mine had deteriorated anyway - colour-changes, stickers pealing off, filth and dust build-up, accessories long lost or jumbled up with everything else etc.

They could have sold twice as many barges if they opened it up. Such a dumb slap in the face decision. I thought some UK retailer was buying a bunch though, albeit through a US address or something? Did any barges make it over to Europe?

Either way, the fact that thing sold that many, in such a short amount of time, only in the US, proves 3.75 has a ton of life. Would have been even more US buyers but the deadline was right before tax refund season.

There was a shop in the UK that made an arrangement that they could back the Barge on their customers behalf, obviously with the customers paying up front. I skipped it because Hasbro had been telling us all along that internationals would get a shot later. Then when the time came they put most of us on an exclusion list due to the pathetic number of spare Barges they had for that market.

 

[Khev]

I'm amazed that we really just heard about this and saw initial pics, and now it's in my hands. I have yet to open one, but I hope to do so either tonight or tomorrow. I'll let you know my thoughts when I do.

Hopefully that means more brand new 3.75 vehicles will just randomly appear out of nowhere like the Razor Crest, Sith TIE, Pasaana Skiff, and so on.

 

[chewblacca]

Found these today at Walmart.

 

[Matt S]

awesome. Hit my Walmart and nada. But that's ok. Got my order in via dorkside.

 

[TonTon]

Found these today at Walmart.View attachment 478717

Where you located? Sometimes they have specific street dates and other times they just slowly roll out across the country (or never show up at all).

 

[heon123]

Not related but I've just, after so many times of glancing past it, realised that your profile photo is Elliot Gould, not Kramer TonTon.

 

[TonTon]

Not related but I've just, after so many times of glancing past it, realised that your profile photo is Elliot Gould, not Kramer TonTon.

Yup, from one of my favorites movies. Still order CC & gingers on occasion.

 

[a-dev]

I'm of a generation mainly familiar with him as Ross and Monica's Dad.

And music composed by one John T Williams? Who could that be.....

 

[TonTon]

I'm of a generation mainly familiar with him as Ross and Monica's Dad.

And music composed by one John T Williams? Who could that be.....

I'm probably of that generation too, but he had a few good flicks with Altman -- Mash, Long Goodbye, and California Split. Might be another good movie or two but nothing that really comes to mind at the moment.

 

[bmarz1000]

Let’s not forget him as Ruben in Oceans 11-13.

 

[dukefett]

Found these today at Walmart.View attachment 478717

Those are really big punch outs, I haven't really been collecting newer stuff so I haven't seen newer ones if they're all like that?

Is there a list of total cardbacks? I'd like to have one from each they do. I know of: Ep 1-9, Revenge of the Jedi, Clone Wars, Rogue One, The Mandalorian, and Expanded Universe. Is there anything I'm missing?

 

[Matt S]

all the new ones are unpunched..... that looks about the same as the others.

Just glad they got rid of the French on the name pill

 

[jye4ever]

I own a grand total of thirteen 3.75 collectible pieces lol


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[a-dev]

People like you with your minimalist collections are why this line is dying!

 

[jye4ever]

I might make it 14 by years end lol


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[a-dev]

I'm going to be reducing my collection actually. I've already isolated a lot of stuff that I'll be offloading by one means or another and I think I'll have to add to it. My collection is now in the biggest room that's ever going to be available to it and I can finally get proper display units and shelves - but in the meantime the collection had grown so much that even this big room is probably not big enough anymore - not if I want to display stuff attractively. A purge is necessary. Looking forward to it.

 

[jye4ever]

3.75" Collecting Thread

Downsizing, a necessary evil.

My favorite 3.75 item remains my 2007 TrU exclusive gold squad YWing.

I love how dirty the 2007 version came out.

Yeah I know the bandai model kits are far superior especially with the cockpits but whatever I love me some big chunky hunk of Hasbro plastic taking up precious shelf space lol

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[a-dev]

Yep, I have that one and it's actually the only one of the 3 Y-Wings I have that I'm keeping. The others are the 1999 one (I think) and the Original Trilogy Collection Y-wing in the dark grey, blue and red mix - decided I don't need those anymore.

 

[jye4ever]

Yeah since I only have space for one and the 2007 is the far superior one that is the one I kept.


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