Hasbro's Questions & Answers #91
Date: October 28, 2010 at 12:28 PM ET
Topic: Hasbro


Will Hasbro release older "definitive" action figures in The Vintage Collection? Find out this and more in this round of Hasbro's Q&A!

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Q. The new bounty hunt foil card promotion has stirred up a lot of interest on the collecting trail. But surprisingly the details of this new promotion were not really touched upon during the summer convention presentations. Most of what we do know so far has been garnered from case assortment information available from some online retailers.
 
And from that information we've found that 4 of the 11 figures from the TESB wave are being offered as Bounty Hunt figures. And ALL of the figures from the ROTS wave have Bounty Hunt foil card variants. Back in 2006's Saga Collection only a handful of figures were offered as part of the Ultimate Galactic Hunt on which this new promotion appears to have been modeled..
 
Can you please explain some of the methodology behind the new Bounty Hunt foil card promotion?  And which or how many figures that have been revealed from the upcoming RETURN OF THE JEDI and ATTACK OF THE CLONES waves can collectors expect to be offered in Bounty Hunt foil cards?

A. There are only 12 foil cards this year.  None of the EpII or EpVI figures will get the foil versioning; it was confined to the 12 figures only.  It's true that there wasn't much hype for this one; we chose to downplay it because there was nothing tied to it other than a foil chase version or a mail-in or specific event to commemorate (like 2008's "First Day of Issue" ).  Still, we could have done a better job promoting this one so fans knew what to expect.

Q. The TARGET exclusive 9 pack of figures fills us with joy. And it has made us think about a few things. Since we are in “vintage mode” now, would you be able to repack some of the “older” but nonetheless fantastic figures that were originally available in the original Kenner line as well as some other strikingly cool looking characters? For example, 2001’s FX-7 and 2006’s Chief Chirpa really do not need a revisit. Can you incorporate them into The Vintage Collection at some point so we can have them in vintage packaging? Also, we would love to see Gargan and R1-G4 entered into The Vintage Collection since they were original Kenner concepts back in the day. (And we are sure Gargan would sell much better in vintage packaging.)

Even other figures like Tessek (if you’re not going to redo him at some point), Warok, Romba, Luke Stormtrooper (and why not throw us a vintage styled Han Stormtrooper too), R5-D4, Bib Fortuna, Malakili, Death Star Droid, Ugnaught, AT-AT Driver and Zuckuss are all prime examples of figures that are perfect as is and can now have the honored gift of being placed on a vintage card. It will save you on some tooling costs and make hardcore collectors very happy by getting us closer to getting all modern figures into vintage packaging. .

A. You have asked a very interesting question.  We do indeed feel there are many great figures that we have done prior that do not need to be revisited and that would be great to see on a Vintage card, even if only for the pure package collector who wants to see these figures on this fantastic design.  However, we only have so much item count to be able to work with and doing these package refreshes does come at a price, basically bumping out a new or refreshed character or a character even more worthy of being brought into Vintage.  If Vintage has a very long run, it opens up more chances for these characters to be repacked and it would be fun to see both of these, along with many others, on Vintage cards.


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