Micro Galaxy Squadron

My sons collection is strange like that. He has a lot of Clone War era stuff (that's his favorite), but also has two U-Wings, The Falcon, an Imperial Shuttle...
 
docsilence said:
Actually, I really, really, really want an A Wing because it's my favorite fighter from ROTJ. But I can never find one reasonably priced.
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You may have to get unreasonable about it. If it's your favorite, then, you know?

Slave One is cool... definitely... but I'd still love a version with screen-accurate interior, of any scale really.
DarthDre758 said:
My sons collection is strange like that. He has a lot of Clone War era stuff (that's his favorite), but also has two U-Wings, The Falcon, an Imperial Shuttle...
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I almost tried to get a U-Wing after Andor ended, but yeah... then I'd need a Falcon, and probably the Ghost, and so on.

I guess what I have now is kinda like my die cast ship collection when I was a kid. I had Slave One, the Star Destroyer, Y-Wing, and the Falcon.
 
I have the Ghost (the one that came with the two attachable Y-wings), the Marauder, and the Tydirian so far, all bought super cheap on sale. They're all amazing but I think it'll be nice to have one "desk appropriate" one like Obi-Wan's fighter. And yeah, now I'm going to splurge on an A wing for sure. I was waiting for a deep discount but even at full price the small ships are a good price.
 
I found a Rare Micro Galaxy ship at retail today. It's of Mace Windu and a Jedi Starfighter. i already had Mace and his Purple Jedi Interceptor, but this ship looked cool, and it was a Rare, so I picked it up.

i hardly ever see the Rare or Chase stickered ships at retail. i think I've only ever seen 4 or 5 in the wild. Never ones I REALLY want lol.
 
I've barely ever seen these at retail. Though it was retail that got me started (the U wing because I of course will buy anything involving Cassian Andor). I wonder what this line would've been like if we still had that magical place that was Toys R Us out there as an impulse buy epicenter.
 
docsilence said:
I've barely ever seen these at retail. Though it was retail that got me started (the U wing because I of course will buy anything involving Cassian Andor). I wonder what this line would've been like if we still had that magical place that was Toys R Us out there as an impulse buy epicenter.
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Don't go calling out TRU as a magical place until you see how they are faring around the world, and especially their pricing in Canada.

TRU never gets much from Micro Galaxy, and nothing new in quite a while. Same with Walmart and even Amazon to a degree. The only place that has been reasonably consistent is EBGames. They at least get a lot of the newer stuff in somewhat regularly.

I am kind of glad the line didn't make it to full retail up here after wave 1 because I would have been in too deep and yet another line. haha
 
canprime said:
Don't go calling out TRU as a magical place until you see how they are faring around the world, and especially their pricing in Canada.

TRU never gets much from Micro Galaxy, and nothing new in quite a while. Same with Walmart and even Amazon to a degree. The only place that has been reasonably consistent is EBGames. They at least get a lot of the newer stuff in somewhat regularly.

I am kind of glad the line didn't make it to full retail up here after wave 1 because I would have been in too deep and yet another line. haha
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I forget they didn't go bankrupt elsewhere in the world. Venture capital shut them down here and they were the last toy store standing - we haven't had a dedicated toy store franchise ever since, so I have some nostalgia of actually having ANYTHING better than the one aisle in Target with toys I collect anymore. On the flipside, I just order and have anything I want shipped to the house now so I never have to interact with humans when shopping for toys, so I suppose that's a plus.
 
I don't know about a lot of TRUs but I visited a store near the border in Canada (St. Catherines, Ont.) a month or so ago and thing it most reminded me of was a business that is really, really struggling. Felt like the end days of TRU in the U.S., to be honest.

They've added like a record store section to the store (I think someone on here or back on the Fwoosh said that the new owner had a chain of music/media stores in Canada, can't remember the store )— anyway, that takes up a lot of space where the action figures and such used to be. All those lines were crammed into a much smaller section and it looked like they hadn't received anything new in a while. Or maybe it just gets snatched up quick.

I think I spent about 3 minutes in the store just walking around shaking my head and left. Don't have much desire to go back and it's somewhere my family and I used to always stop by when we were in Canada and they usually had a lot of stuff to at least look at, especially online or store exclusives on this side of the border — and it was usually just looking, their prices ...

And to be fair, I often walk through the aisles at Target and Walmart on this side of the border in disappointment as well.
 
Yeah, the so-called "Toys R Us" section in Macy's is.... nothing special. It's basically just a glorified Macy's toy section. We do have a dedicated Toys R Us store near me at the American Dream mall over in Jersey, but it's...... also not great. A glorified closeout store that's wearing the skin of a dead TRU. When I popped in before a concert a month or two ago, their Star Wars section was a wall of Black Series Archive Force Awakens Han for $30, and their Marvel section was various Eternals figures- mostly Druig and Phastos- for the same price. Considering we used to have the giant TRU in Times Square that, while overpriced, was at least pretty magical and always well stocked, it makes me so sad to see how they've massacred my boy.
 
I know everything and everyone is hurting, but man, thinking back to being a kid and having KayBee in the mall, those cramped, weirdly carpeted little confections of of capitalism, and then Toys R Us and Child World in spaces that were big enough that Kohls or other department stores now occupy some of them... The last Toys R Us to go under in my area is now a some kind of Golfer's World and if there isn't a my symbolic soul death...
 
I miss Toys R Us so much here in the States. And that "Macys Toys R Us Pop Up" shop nonsense is an insult to the Legacy of one of the greatest stores of all time.

I went in Toys R Us probably twice a month. The nearest one was 45 minutes away and that's the one I usually visited. However, 2 hours away I had access to about 5 or 6 different Toys RUs' in Columbus, Ohio. And when I got up that way it was a blast because I visited all of them. It was like a Toys R Us World Tour.

I wish so much we still had it here in the US.

I've been seeing a lot more Star Wars Micro Galaxy ships in Wal-Marts lately. It seems every Wal-Mart in the US is just full of the Ghost and Ahsoka's ship. But now I'm finally starting to see the shelves consistently filled with the smaller ships and even the blind boxes.

I hope we see some new stuff shown by Jazwares at SDCC. One of the very few new things I know is still coming is the Bespin Cloud Car. Which I have pre ordered on Amazon. Beyond that, what is still to come?
 
Got Obi-Wan's fighter today. It's adorably tiny. I actually got some sort of defect where the two halves of the ring for his hyperdrive are the same so one won't plug in, but for the money, I think I'd rather just shave down the nub to get it to fit than try to return it.
 
There are nine TRU in the general Montreal area about 45 minute north of me. I've told my wife many time we were going to do a day trip and just hit Toys R Us stores.
 
Hehe, just got cancelation notice on that "skiff for six dollars" deal. I wasn't through the roof psyched to get it so it's no big deal, but kinda funny. Wonder if it was a third-party scam. When I saw a cancelation notice I was like "BETTER NOT BE A CLASSIFIED FIGURE" so this just made me laugh.
 
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