Star Wars: The Retro Collection - Hasbro 2019

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Michael returns to modern Star Wars to assess and review Hasbro's Retro Collection.

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[Ashrudel]

I wish we lived in a time where figures sold for 5 bucks again.

[JohnKelly-rzqi]

I also agree with you on Hasbros failure to make the hands or weapons correctly. Why is it that a huge corporation like Hasbro misses the mark but Smith Lord Creations can hit the mark dead on?

[Gootie]

If Hasbro continues the line I hope they produce some figures we never got back in the day like Biggs, Wedge, Rebel Troopers, more cantina aliens and such

[michaelfontaine]

Great post and love your channel! Growing up we collected all the vintage Star Wars figures, and some of the vehicles (we could afford). My parents also bought us the vintage Fisher Price figures and those vehicles, and we would often use things from that line to bolster our Star Wars toys. For the figures, we would use the roll up sleeping bags that you could roll up and they would slide up the figure's legs and be positioned on their legs. They worked great with both the Hoth and Bespin Luke and Han Solo figures (as well as others). We could store the weapons by sliding them in on the side of the backpack. When it came to holding the guns our mom would use her glue gun to put a glue "dot" on the inside of their hands to hold the gun. Not a perfect solution but it worked. We also used the Fisher Price green 6-wheeled ATV or Jeep or whatever it was. It was used to carry other equipment that we had from other toy sets. Truly awesome times in the 70's with those figures!

[vagtav]

Vader with filmnations ghostbusters command center at the background!! We demand a review!

[JohnKelly-rzqi]

Great review. I have heard rumors about the figures not holding the weapons. I am so glad you addressed this. Thank you!!!!

[somarriba]

I might get the Chewbacca figure only because my wife's childhood Chewbacca figure survived into adulthood only to get chewed up by her mom's dog. I would get a new one for her. We still have the chewed up Chewey.

[TheDylandProductions]

Why couldn't it have been called Batman & Robin FOURever? ;)


Great video. Glad you compared these new "retro" figures with Hasbro's earlier 90's attempt, and even the original figures themselves. Very informative. Thank you.

[Mattytime]

In a way a stormtrooper that can't hold his gun straight is sort of accurate.... heh heh

[WilliamTheMovieFan]

$10 per figure?!? I remember buying the originals in 1978 for $1.50 !!

[dhorseo]

Bought some retro figures - completely agree with your review - the worn out card backings are just cheesy and I can’t understand how in 2019 Hasbro can’t seem to manufacture a figure that can hold a blaster.
Also, thanks for the review, I promise, no more requests until after Robotech! You guys rock!

[matthewnewland]

Thank you for sharing! I wanted to reach out and share my experience with Star Wars vintage collecting. I couldn't find the right video to post my experience, so forgive me for posting here. Collecting Star Wars is fun for me. It was never about about investing. And now that I'm much older, I'm grateful for the many, many newer figures from Hasbro and vintage figures I find usually on eBay. I am also grateful for reproduction weapons for vintage Kenner figures because now I have the luxury of "replenishing" my vintage figures from when I was 8-10 years old. Just to share, I was 7 when Star Wars first came out in 1977. For the holidays in 1977 and my birthday, January, 1978, there were no figures. But my Dad bought me a black t-shirt with a Darth Vader iron on on front and R2 and C-3P0 on back. And my birthday cake had R2 and C-3P0 decorated on it. I was thrilled! He also bought the Star Wars soundtrack which contained a beautiful, classic Star Wars poster that I put on my bedroom wall. And I remember vividly seeing Star Wars action figures for the first time in a mall in the summer of 1978. I immediately bought Darth Vader, Chewbacca, and 2 Storm Troopers. (I chose very early on to focus on mainly the primary characters and build troops, meaning a later total of 5 stormtroopers.) One month later, I bough a Luke Skywalker in K-mart. Each figure was US $1.99, a dream for an 8 year old boy. My grandfather had given my sisters and I about $10 each to buy toys at that time. My memory and happiness then and now are priceless. Most Sincerely, Matt

[eightbit]

As someone who had these figures when they were new and no longer has them, I love these. I hear you that the weapons do not stay put...but I wouldn't know as I am keeping them in the package. These are the closest I can get to new carded "retro" (I hate that word personally) Star Wars figures without putting my house and car up for sale. They are new, unopened, and as far as my eyes look just like what I had when I was a kid. And for $10 each (well, at the time I picked them up). That works for me.

[darthbrolo]

IMO these are great. I remember a time when people said they wanted these and now everyone on the hater-wagon. I got mine on release day for 10 a piece and I regret nothing lol I also don’t plan on taking them out of the packages, so the guns falling out means nothing to me. They look good on the wall in the man-cave lol 🍻

[rockabillyskydiverbear]

Congrats for actually getting a hold of these

[surrealcereal]

Mike, I can't thank you enough for doing this for me. Thanks, man. This was very helpful for innumerable reasons.

[markjscottfilms]

I'm just buying the Retro collection for the memories they rekindle as I lost my Star Wars figures as a child.

[brandonkeisler]

Hahahaha "Tell me why a bootleg from China...!" Lmao 😂

[QSSWC]

$5 a figure? Well, that would be a charm! Here in Germany you pay 160$ (140€) for all 6 figures. That's 26$ per piece. With such prices it would be almost worth it to fly to the USA, to buy a little more and to put the difference into the ticket :D.
Anyway, what I don't like is that the cardbacks are in a used look. So the cards look like they shouldn't look like.
What you said about the hands and the weapons shows once again how little Hasbro thinks about such things.
That doesn't affect me as much, because I won't unpack the figures either.
As always, a very nice contribution from you about "Star Wars" ... and what they could have done better. :D

[indy]

Oh boy have I wanted to get this off my chest, when these came out, as a retro loving college student who doesn’t like to spend twenty bucks or more for a figure line (black series) that I can’t even find in stores ever, these were a perfect idea for me, I’ve always wanted the retro figures and now affordable reproductions would come to store, but surprise surprise, I should have known with my black series experience. I have not seen a single one of these retro figures in stores at all, ever, I figured hey atleast like the black series they might have some pegwarmer figures I can get but no... not a single figure and these have been out for what like three years now? I wanted to give hasbro my money, for the first time I actually wanted to army build, but alas I guess I never learn with hasbro distribution or whatever causes this