1/6 Hot Toys - TMS 021 - The Clone Wars: Ahsoka Tano Collectible Figure

[RandomHero]

You wont get it before june I bet

If they charged me in March and don’t ship until June you better believe I will be telling them to **** themselves.

 

[noheddardstark]

If they charged me in March and don’t ship until June you better believe I will be telling them to **** themselves.

Good luck with that. They charged me a month ago for Boba Fett/Tusken Boba and haven't shipped yet. They'll gladly offer you a refund but I'm not sure how that helps you get the figure.

 

[choombaz]

To be fair, I don't think they've ever needed to make a body with seemless shoulders and jointed elbows before. And while HT doesn't always make specific bodies for a character, they do it pretty often, especially for female characters: Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, TCW Ashoka, WandaVision Scarlet Witch all come to mind pretty quickly.

Yeah isn’t that what “newly developed body” means? If you look at the notes on the figures, most of them say that. Unless that just means “yeah we stuffed some fat padding into this one “.

 

[RandomHero]

Good luck with that. They charged me a month ago for Boba Fett/Tusken Boba and haven't shipped yet. They'll gladly offer you a refund but I'm not sure how that helps you get the figure.

Are they hurting for money or something? I can understand a like week or two delay but over a month is just unethical for them to do.

 

[noheddardstark]

Are they hurting for money or something? I can understand a like week or two delay but over a month is just unethical for them to do.

Probably. With the supply chain delays, I'm sure they aren't shipping as much product. But the reality is they just haven't adapted their policies. They used to charge based on when they thought they'd have the item in the warehouse, and the were usually right within 24-48 hours. Now their estimates are off wildly, but they're still charging anyway.

And based on my conversations with their CS, they have no plans to change.

 

[RandomHero]

Probably. With the supply chain delays, I'm sure they aren't shipping as much product. But the reality is they just haven't adapted their policies. They used to charge based on when they thought they'd have the item in the warehouse, and the were usually right within 24-48 hours. Now their estimates are off wildly, but they're still charging anyway.

And based on my conversations with their CS, they have no plans to change.

Ridiculous. Thankfully, outside of Ahsoka, I only have Bo-Katan, Batman and Yelena on order with them. I guess I'll use the rewards points from those figures on one last order and then I'm done with them. Enough is enough. It's incredible how they get less and less consumer friendly every few months over the last 2-3 years.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

C'mon Sideshow, where's my Hot Toys dolly?!?

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[guyver1]

All the YouTube in reviews on her I’ve seen have her in nice dynamic poses except that nobody seems to want to bend her arms

 

[TheeWanderer]

Are they hurting for money or something? I can understand a like week or two delay but over a month is just unethical for them to do.

It's all automated lol. Maybe these conspiracy theories make it more interesting for ya'll but it's just a matter of them processing final charges when they receive their invoices. NOT necessarily when they have the product in-hand.

 

[choombaz]

All the YouTube in reviews on her I’ve seen have her in nice dynamic poses except that nobody seems to want to bend her arms

There is nothing wrong with bending her arms for photos etc. Just don’t leave it like that for long periods of time. I’ve got a ton of figures with seamless bodies and the only one with damage is Sarah Connor and I bought it already with damage because it was cheaper.

 

[guyver1]

There is nothing wrong with bending her arms for photos etc. Just don’t leave it like that for long periods of time. I’ve got a ton of figures with seamless bodies and the only one with damage is Sarah Connor and I bought it already with damage because it was cheaper.

Of course there is nothing wrong with bending them but everyone is scared to do it on Youtube

 

[Angelo2113]

I still have April 5th for the final payment but it could very well change if they're still having transportation issues from the dock.

 

[Hando]

I still have April 5th for the final payment but it could very well change if they're still having transportation issues from the dock.

The lego game comes out on the 5th no?

 

[MyenShi]

Are they hurting for money or something? I can understand a like week or two delay but over a month is just unethical for them to do.

It's all automated lol. Maybe these conspiracy theories make it more interesting for ya'll but it's just a matter of them processing final charges when they receive their invoices. NOT necessarily when they have the product in-hand.

I agree the delay is too long for the customer, but I don’t think it’s about the money nor is it anything nefarious.

All the orders for in-stock figures I’ve placed in the last few months have shipped pretty much the next day.

They’ve said the system they have in place for new products starts processing orders when the shipments are supposed to be headed to their facility.

The shipping delays have just thrown a wrench into that, unfortunately.

No one should have to wait a month+ between being charged and getting their item shipped, but they probably see any alternative as potentially causing even more delays at this point. And it’s temporary in the long run so not worth changing the whole system for it.

Just the reality we live in at the moment. Hopefully everyone gets their preorders sooner than later.

 

[jedijim3002]

Saw this 60 minutes segment on why the supply chain is so slow at the ports of Long Beach and LA. Seems pretty legit. Worth the watch.

I work as a longshoreman on the east coast at the Port of Virginia so I can’t speak to the issues they are facing but it seems very similar to what’s happening here but on a smaller scale.

The last reports I saw showed they are backed up with ships waiting to come into port in the high double digits. That’s really bad. In a normal year you might have one or up to 3 waiting to come in but 60, 70, or 80 ships waiting? That’s crazy.

The ports are so overloaded to capacity that nothing is moving. It’s a perfect storm of a traffic jam.

 

[jedijim3002]

 

[pixletwin]

Saw this 60 minutes segment on why the supply chain is so slow at the ports of Long Beach and LA. Seems pretty legit. Worth the watch.

I work as a longshoreman on the east coast at the Port of Virginia so I can’t speak to the issues they are facing but it seems very similar to what’s happening here but on a smaller scale.

The last reports I saw showed they are backed up with ships waiting to come into port in the high double digits. That’s really bad. In a normal year you might have one or up to 3 waiting to come in but 60, 70, or 80 ships waiting? That’s crazy.

The ports are so overloaded to capacity that nothing is moving. It’s a perfect storm of a traffic jam.

That is crazy. Thanks for chiming in on the subject.

 

[noheddardstark]

Saw this 60 minutes segment on why the supply chain is so slow at the ports of Long Beach and LA. Seems pretty legit. Worth the watch.

I work as a longshoreman on the east coast at the Port of Virginia so I can’t speak to the issues they are facing but it seems very similar to what’s happening here but on a smaller scale.

The last reports I saw showed they are backed up with ships waiting to come into port in the high double digits. That’s really bad. In a normal year you might have one or up to 3 waiting to come in but 60, 70, or 80 ships waiting? That’s crazy.

The ports are so overloaded to capacity that nothing is moving. It’s a perfect storm of a traffic jam.

Thanks for sharing. Yeah, I live here in LA and heard on the news there are at least 50 ships waiting at present. The situation is supposedly "improving", but I'm not sure what that means, exactly.

 

[potatoes212]

Thank you @jedijim3002 for posting this, I totally missed this prior to Christmas. I can imagine all our figures somewhere in that mess just sitting there waiting for someone to release/pick up and distribute. What a mess. I want my figures badly, but we have to also be patient. A lot more going on here than a lot of us realized.

 

[pixletwin]

My Ahsoka has shipped. ETA is April 5.