Star Wars ESB new Carbon Freezing Chamber

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Yeah, it's really ugly and troubling. A lot of it feels like righteous indignation on his part, ala "I'm trying to save you from this evil company! Why don't you heed my warnings!" Then he gets angry when he is either ignored or mocked for it, and makes another video.

Chris

[palitoy]

^He's definitely not taking the high road. I started watching the video feeling he was actually being pretty fair, despite being obviously angry, and starting off with name-calling. The name-calling increased, and by the end, well, the argument may be valid, but the vitriol he served it with leaves a really bad taste in my mouth...and I have no dogs in this fight. I tried to order that Snake-Eyes deluxe figure for my son again on Saturday, and it sold out instantly. I guess he won't get it, or I'll go to ebay if I deem it worth my money. End of story for me.

I agree there is nothing wrong with not liking Hasbro Pulse and calling out the service for what it is to him. If he's giving voice to a contingent of people that don't want to give Hasbro money, they should see that they probably want to know the why.

It's the "collector-on-collector" thing that i find troubling, I know that when you put content out there, you do put a target on your back in some respects (trust me, I've entertained thoughts of doing videos like this) but it just makes me sad to go down this road.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^He's definitely not taking the high road. I started watching the video feeling he was actually being pretty fair, despite being obviously angry, and starting off with name-calling. The name-calling increased, and by the end, well, the argument may be valid, but the vitriol he served it with leaves a really bad taste in my mouth...and I have no dogs in this fight. I tried to order that Snake-Eyes deluxe figure for my son again on Saturday, and it sold out instantly. I guess he won't get it, or I'll go to ebay if I deem it worth my money. End of story for me.

Chris

[palitoy]

This feels....political.

Labeling is a dangerous practice because it shapes perception actually dismisses any viewpoint but your own. It causes divide, conflict and negativity.

I've seen it in Mego collecting sadly, the terms thrown around are "haters" and "Mego zombies"

People critical of choice, distribution, card art, etc can't be dismissed as "haters", they're mainly people frustrated and some are better than others at expressing disappointment, some people also just like to complain (which is ok) or say "they could do it better'. There are extreme cases where yeah, no matter what Mego or FTC does, they find a reason to hate it but you can usually see there is an agenda there or they're just miserable in general. The mass majority of these people aren't like that, they're people with opinions, that's all.

On the other side, people just happy to collect what Mego puts out aren't mindless "zombies' either, to say something like dismisses a lot of people who just don't fret about toys or are actually content with what's coming out. I buy what I like from who i like and hey, I don't buy everything Mego or FTC makes, there are a lot of guys like me.

Both labels are a bad idea and it horrifies me the thing that united us in the first place, can be used to divide. words are powerful.

*pushes away soap box, goes back to work.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Beating a dead horse, but RetroBlasting is cranky again. Oh boy is he cranky again.

I get his criticisms of Hasbro's Pulse, and even the whole idea of HasLab. The super-limited quantities of Pulse and a multi-billion dollar company like Hasbro asking you to crowd fund toys is all a bit perplexing, and for folks who really, REALLY want this stuff, very frustrating.

I don't appreciate that he infers if you buy any of these products you are some kind of mindless sheep who won't be able to sit at the smart kids' table.

I also get why he's perturbed that folks are singling him out and spreading rumors that he is secretly buying the stuff he's against.

BUT, he painted a huge target on his back with previous videos, where he came out swinging at not just the company, but their audience. So the audience is angry too.

I don't know how I would feel if I were Pixel Dan or Dan Larson from Toy Galaxy either. He kind of compliments them, but also infers that they are finally doing their civic duty, speaking out against "the machine", and that their resistance to do so in the past is some kind of public shame they should apologize for.

Man, he really needs a PR department.

And with everything else going on to worry about...why get so worked up about toys?

Chris

[Bruce Banner]

Looks good. With several stormtroopers and rebel fleet troopers, it would make a great display/diorama.

[ODBJBG]

New playset looks great.

[drquest]

From a play value my original Kenner Death Star was played with a ton, trash compactor and trash monster included. I still have it and it was always a favorite, but it would be so costly today to make I think. I didn't know about the cardboard Palitoy version until much later and think that's a cool one too, and would be something they could produce fairly cheap I think.

[RonnyG]

What scenes do you think Hasbro should offer as play sets? The first one that comes to mind is the trash compactor.

I would rather they re-release some of the classic old play sets instead of making those new boring ones. Apparently, Kenner did make a trash compactor (with foam garbage) as part of the Death Star Space Station play set back in the day. I never had that one, but I do remember making my own homemade trash compactor with a shoe box now that I think about it. That was a great scene in the movie.
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[Myoldtoys]

I clicked the link and saw the tantive hallway. First reaction was, that is a pretty accurate rendition of the hallway. That lasted for about 5 seconds and then the next thought was, what would I do with it? Honest answer...nothing. I am a vintage Star Wars collector. They never made the rebel soldiers. I could put Leia, C3PO, and R2D2 in there as a display. But why? The Freezing chamber takes up too much room and that scene without the background and orange lighted stairs is kind of boring.

What scenes do you think Hasbro should offer as play sets? The first one that comes to mind is the trash compactor.

[Nostalgiabuff]

well said and very true. these things are not sold for kids to play with. what parent would spend that much for a boring playset for their kid to lose interest in 5 seconds after opening it

[Werewolf]

Let's be honest here we need to blame adult SW collectors this. Because they demand realism over fun. Something like a Kenner card board Cloud City playset and a wildly inaccurate Kenner Darth Vader Star Destroyer playset would now be met with howls of rage. That's why we get expensive hallways for playsets and a $150 Slave 1 and a $400 Millennium Falcon for vehicles. I miss the simple under scaled Kenner vehicles and playsets. They weren't in scale or have accurate movie details but they were fun, dammit.

[Nostalgiabuff]

next we'll get the cloud city dining room playset so you can reenact your favorite characters having dinner with Darth Vader.

[RonnyG]

Yikes! The MSRP for that hallway "playset" is $49.99. Times have changed. I remember I had the Sears exclusive Cantina playset as a kid, mainly because my Mother worked at Sears at the time. It was basically just a backdrop made out of cardboard, but it did come with 4 figures.

[sprytel]

I gotta disagree. I actually think the hallway is a pretty cool diorama of an iconic Star Wars scene. And unlike the carbon freezing chamber, one playset is perfectly sufficient to recreate the scene... so the interlocking playsets thing is truly a feature here and not a backhanded requirement to purchase multiple.