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How much would you pay just for Jabba, though?
Sideshow 1/6 Jabba and Throne
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I'd expect to pay $300-ish ... realistically, it'd probably be $399.
This looks pretty awesome. Really looking forward to this. It was way over-priced, but I couldn’t pass this up. Glad it turned out this good.
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...very optimistic.
Let’s be realistic. That’s about $50 more than a regular figure...This giant would be around 450$ realistically and the throne with all the accessories about the same. The 800$ for the set is expensive yes, but on par with the price level today. The prices are (too) high in general and the price on this one, with all it comes with, shouldn’t be much of a surprise honesty.
The price tag is actually reasonable when you calculate it out (versus the one in 2007). Just seems like a lot to part with for basically a single character.
Or you could look at it as: little more than the cost of about 3 HT figures. Given Jabba's size, and the fact that it does come with a 2nd character, that's right on par.
Or you could look at it as: little more than the cost of about 3 HT figures. Given Jabba's size, and the fact that it does come with a 2nd character, that's right on par.
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...very optimistic.
This giant would be around 450$ realistically and the throne with all the accessories about the same. The 800$ for the set is expensive yes, but on par with the price level today. The prices are (too) high in general and the price on this one, with all it comes with, shouldn’t be much of a surprise honesty.
Poseable figures have multiple accessories with cut and sew elements. Lots of manual labor to drive up the price. Figures cost more to manufacture than statues, yet statues have been positioned as a 'premier' collectible, so they are able to fetch a higher price.
After watching the video, it's clear that this Jabba is a solid resin/polystone piece, unlike the hollow vinyl of the previous Jabba. I'd bet dollars to donuts this Jabba has a manufacturing cost similar or less than their Jedi Luke figure.
In any case, my chief complaint is not the price, it's that I would buy this but I'm not going to pay an extra $400 for a second throne. I just want to upgrade my old Jabba.
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I get that. It is a lot of money and I would also like to be able to choose.
I’m just saying that I don’t think that the price is any surprise relative to the general price level.
That's where it easier for me -- I never got the throne in 2007. Just the pale pickle and Salacious Crumb pack. So having a throne at last is a bit of an incentive.
The big drawback for me -- besides parting with near a grand in one fell swoop -- is parting with a grand only to see a superior HT Jabba in a year or two for near $300 less.
The big drawback for me -- besides parting with near a grand in one fell swoop -- is parting with a grand only to see a superior HT Jabba in a year or two for near $300 less.
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Hehe yes, but that won’t happen. Not for $300 less
Those are two really big assumptions, however. One: that HT will even make one; and Two: that if they do make one a couple years from now, with the way HT jacks up their prices, that it won’t be even more expensive than this one.
You guys really think HT would bother to make this figure? Seems very unlikely when you take into account the iconic things they’ve decided not to solicit like the falcon cockpit. I just don’t see where they’d think this was in their wheelhouse. Also, been a while since I handled the old Jabba, but I thought it was polystone, not vinyl. Idk.
I have the whole original set up and am super torn on this one. SS please reissue those random $50 customer appreciation coupons so I don’t feel totally tooled for buying this!
I have the whole original set up and am super torn on this one. SS please reissue those random $50 customer appreciation coupons so I don’t feel totally tooled for buying this!
slikkerias
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Also, I believe that Jabba is best suited for a statue. In fact this idea with interchangeable parts seems to be a very good choice. Has HT ever made a statue? And would they be great at it? How would their pricing be? And if it’s not a statue, would it be made of rubber that won’t last? ...dunno.
Yeah I know... but it still torments me.
You could definitely spend a lot less on a superior paintjob and have an even better Jabba than either as they are.
My guess is that the "V.2" of this Jabba will be available without the throne. Sideshow has to know they are leaving money on the table. And Sideshow does love their V.2 releases.
Makes a whole of sense to release it as the $800 set first, then a more stripped down option later. It's kind of the pattern they've followed with re-releases like IG-88 (minus the light-up stand) and Probe Droid (minus the Hoth snow stand.)
I still think the only plausible explanation for the totally bizarre way this Jabba release has played out is that HT is in development on a Jabba. There's really no other explanation.
Nobody else thinks it's super weird this is actually in-hand exactly ten months after it was first publicly revealed? SSC figures are teased/shown for like six months, then a PO, then it ships the better part of a year after the PO - look at Lando Skiff... announced six months ago, still no PO. And this Jabba is shipping 3-4 MONTHS after it was supposed to.
There have been some other strange releases, like the simultaneous announcement-PO-shipping thing for that last SSC Yoda, but that's nothing like a massive near-$1k release like this being announced in March with a ship date of August the same year...
Makes a whole of sense to release it as the $800 set first, then a more stripped down option later. It's kind of the pattern they've followed with re-releases like IG-88 (minus the light-up stand) and Probe Droid (minus the Hoth snow stand.)
I still think the only plausible explanation for the totally bizarre way this Jabba release has played out is that HT is in development on a Jabba. There's really no other explanation.
Nobody else thinks it's super weird this is actually in-hand exactly ten months after it was first publicly revealed? SSC figures are teased/shown for like six months, then a PO, then it ships the better part of a year after the PO - look at Lando Skiff... announced six months ago, still no PO. And this Jabba is shipping 3-4 MONTHS after it was supposed to.
There have been some other strange releases, like the simultaneous announcement-PO-shipping thing for that last SSC Yoda, but that's nothing like a massive near-$1k release like this being announced in March with a ship date of August the same year...
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If they offered this new version of Jabba WITHOUT THE THRONE or Crumb and priced it around $300.......grumble, grumble. I'd go for it.
Neither do I. That's an awful lot of wishful projection, if you ask me.
Yeah given they haven't touched any of the other SW aliens, I really don't see HT ever making a Jabba.
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