Star Wars Black Action Figures . . . Greedo and Leia Love Pegs

I recently ran across another batch of 6-inch Star Wars Black action figures (Amazon.com search*) at HEB, our local grocery store chain, and surprise of surprises saw a Boba Fett in the wild. There was also a Han Solo, three Greedos, and two Princess Leia’s, but there was a Boba Fett so this was an especially impressive sighting.

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But it wasn’t the only recent encounter with too many Greedo and Leia action figures. You may remember I encountered a mass of those two at Target at the end of last year (posted here), and now Jon at Double Dumb Ass on You has located eight Leia and eight Greedo figures in a single ToysRUs. (Mentioned yesterday.) Check the pics, and then try and figure out how Hasbro will correct this problem.

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13 thoughts on “Star Wars Black Action Figures . . . Greedo and Leia Love Pegs

  1. Seems like there may be an issue here for Hasbro … and a Boba Fett in the wild? I still need to track one down.

  2. I don’t understand how Greedo had become a peg warmer. He’s easily one of the best swb figures! He’s much better than Fett. Heck, he’s almost better than the sandtrooper!

      1. You should! He’s fantastic! He’s my favorite wave 2 figure!
        The 5poa saga legends has a killer wave assortment coming up…fett, stormtrooper, cody, & rex. I wish swb6 was doing assortments like that!

  3. Sometimes I think you *want* the line to die, Phil, just to prove you were right 🙂 Every toyline has pegwarmers. What bugs me here, honestly, is that this seems to be fulfilling the age-old maxims that female action figures and obscure characters don’t sell. We should be more bummed out by that.

    That said, I think a more iconic Leia in the white gown would have sold better.

    As for Greedo, it does need to be pointed out that he’s a great action figure, regardless of his sales status.

    1. @Poe – Not so much I want the line to die as I want Hasbro to solve the problem. Their character selection has been a little odd, and their case pack choices . . . well, I think you and I are both scratching our heads on that one.

      And yeah, Leia in ANH white would have likely sold better. But by packing equal numbers of each figure in the cases I think Hasbro is the source of the problems we’re seeing. I would have done 3 Boba Fetts, 2 Han Solos, 2 Greedos, and 1 Leia in each case to start.

  4. Haven’t seen these on pegs. They’ disappear super quick from stores up here in the Twin Cities. Maul and R2 are choking the shelves…

  5. Have we ever seen a Slave Leia pegwarm? The 1/18th figures usually disappear in a heartbeat. I think the issue is that this just isn’t a very good figure. She’s easily the weakest figure in this line so far. Greedo’s awesome, though, no explanation for him warming other than people just being idiots.

    The case packs definitely needed to be rethought, though. I love this line, but I really have the feeling that it’ll either really catch on by the Fall or the line will just simply fade away. Build a figures/ droids/ whatever really would help this line.

  6. ^Phil – The case packs, as I understand it, are four figures per case. If it’s a four-figure wave, that’s one figure per spot. (Of course, evidently they’re switching to three-figure waves and, if rumors are true, the first two carry-overs are, bafflingly, Han Solo and prequel Kenobi). But anyway, they’d have to increase the case size to add more Fetts or Stormtroopers…although why they wouldn’t make Stormtroopers or Fetts the carry-over figures are beyond me, unless the Stormtrooper molds are currently being used for the rumored Sandtrooper revisits (with new pauldrons – white and black – and perhaps no sand-blasting paint apps) and the Fett mold is being used for either an ROTJ Fett or maybe a Jodo Kast SDCC exclusive or something.

    I have a question for you – why do you think Han and Kenobi are the carry-overs, and who do you think is making that decision? Hasbro or retailers?

    ^Barbecue17 – I really don’t know what they could have done differently to make Slave Leia a hot seller. Less articulation and the articulation junkies would have avoided her. I don’t think a stronger likeness would have helped *that* much.

    Actually, I DO know what they could have done – they should have given her a really good accessory, like a diorama part or Salacious Crumb. Crumb would have been perfect, especially if they’re planning on releasing the rumored Jabba the Hutt set. It helps her sales, it’s a character-appropriate accessory, and it saves them some money on the price of a Jabba set by selling Crumb separate.

    1. Salacious crumb would have been a fantastic idea. I also think including the alternate lower body in a better sitting position (like the 1/18th figure that was released a couple of years ago) might have been nice. A better skirt, too, because that thing was fraying from day one.

  7. I have seen plenty of Han peg warming because the qc on their eyes just sucks. I’ve only seen 1 decent Leia. Her eyes are always bad.

  8. A shelf full of Lei and Greedo is all too familiar to me. It’s all I’ve been seeing at most local Targets. Keep in mind I have not been actively hunting this line, just mostly stopping in at a Target as my travel schedule allows me to. Once just before Christmas I did spot a solo Han-Solo amongst a sea of Leias. I did run into some luck last Sunday though, when on a whim I stopped in at a Target near the end of the day and found a Boba staring at me right, first figure on the peg!

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