Hot toys Snowspeeder Pilot Luke Skywalker

[Mad Old Lu]

I do the same--pre-order and forget it.

That said, I usually don't jump on a pre-order right away. I'll usually wait til I get a $25 coupon from doing a pre-order or from receiving a figure. And with this one, there's plenty of time and I have 3 or 4 figures due to arrive well before 2022. And if this figure is going to pre-sell out, I don't think it will be until sometime in 2022!

 

[Rzeznikk]

It?s been like 15 Hot Toys ago since BBTS actually bothered to let me know it was arriving soon and that they were about to charge me for it.


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Oh really? Weird.

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[Rzeznikk]

What I meant by forgetting is that as time passes on during a very lengthy PO customers tend to forget about the initial desire they had to own that PO item because they are consistently being bombarded with tons of new reveals that lights a new fire under their ass.

Impulse buying is a real thing and with that comes redistribution of funds.


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I gotcha.

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[TonTon]

If it's an awesome figure I'll pre-order day one. You want to lock it down and send a message to the retailer you favor to order more and to HT as well, but honestly I can't remember how many figures I've done that with lately -- Krennic, Snowspeeder Luke, hard to remember beyond that to be honest.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

If it's an awesome figure I'll pre-order day one. You want to lock it down and send a message to the retailer you favor to order more and to HT as well, but honestly I can't remember how many figures I've done that with lately -- Krennic, Snowspeeder Luke, hard to remember beyond that to be honest.

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[Wor-Gar]

Everything burns.


Except fire.

 

[Mose Harper]

I don't think it was cancellations at AE. I think they put in another order.
Same thing happened with Armored Thanos last year.
They sold out of their first batch, while I was wringing my hands over whether to get it or not.
They secured another dozen, or however many, and I finally ordered when they were down to just a couple left.
It remained "out of stock" for a couple more weeks and then all of a sudden they had another batch for ordering, which I'm sure seemed like a good idea given how quickly the first two allocations sold out.
Units from this third order are still available and in-stock now. For the longest time they were stuck at 9 available. They still have 9.

I'm sure they'll put in an order for a third batch of Lukes, if they can. Especially with the longer than average lead time.

 

[heon123]

Up on Popcultcha.

 

[momaw]

Up on Popcultcha.

Ordered earlier today Had been waiting so I could combine with CW Anakin, use my extra 10% off on the already 10% discounted early bird, and apply the $100 credit from cancelling that joke of a Jawa set. Even with all those discounts applied it still cost me more than my very first Hot Toys purchase with Popcultcha all those years ago - DX07 Bespin Luke.

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

Yep.
Great to see this bad boy finally go up locally!!
I will need 2.
****ing amazing figure!!

 

[TaliBane]

Up on Popcultcha.

I hope they survive the pandemic downturn to deliver the figure in nearly TWO YEARS time.

With everything SO uncertain it is a bit freaky plopping down that much $$$ for something that is scheduled to arrive way, way beyond the timeframe you can file a Paypal dispute within or do a credit card charge back.

 

[davejames]

I don't think it was cancellations at AE. I think they put in another order.
Same thing happened with Armored Thanos last year.
They sold out of their first batch, while I was wringing my hands over whether to get it or not.
They secured another dozen, or however many, and I finally ordered when they were down to just a couple left.
It remained "out of stock" for a couple more weeks and then all of a sudden they had another batch for ordering, which I'm sure seemed like a good idea given how quickly the first two allocations sold out.
Units from this third order are still available and in-stock now. For the longest time they were stuck at 9 available. They still have 9.

I'm sure they'll put in an order for a third batch of Lukes, if they can. Especially with the longer than average lead time.

Yeah I think a lot of these shops are just ordering a little bit at a time now, to avoid having too much stock sitting in their back room that they can't sell. Although you wouldn't think they've be as worried about selling something like Snowspeeder Luke.

 

[jye4ever]

Even Mafex thinks 2 years is hilarious


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[xipotec]

Tears for how awful the sculpt and hair look after all the years they had to perfect it.

It is inevitable....

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[Mose Harper]

Yeah I think a lot of these shops are just ordering a little bit at a time now, to avoid having too much stock sitting in their back room that they can't sell. Although you wouldn't think they've be as worried about selling something like Snowspeeder Luke.

AE has it up again, with 5 available as I type this.

I think they got burned going back to the well so many times with Armored Thanos, so I don't know what metric they'll use to stop re-upping on this.
If these new 5 go relatively fast, they'll probably secure another batch.

But you never know.

 

[TaliBane]

Blew some PC pennies on this and POed but will be sweating on this actually being delivered. If the company goes under due to COVID fallout or whatever, the ship date is well outside the timeframe where Paypal or the CC company will give you your money back.

Really not a fan of this BS near-2 year timeframe for a preorder. Just ridiculous. A couple could have not only one but two babies in that timeframe.

 

[subzro]

I'm waiting HT will not even be counting how many preorders they have for this until next fall.

 

[DarkChocobi]

 

[heon123]

Looks like they brought the SDCC version back.

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

In that last pic,Vader is definitely shaking his fist at whoever posed his son like that!!