Hasbro’s Star Wars Auction Debacle

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@vegasgone07-dh4lb 5 ай бұрын

In '99 Star Wars Midnight Madness took minutes to clear entire aisles of Phantom Menace figures. After that Toy's R Us employees just dumped them in kiddie pools and people where diving for Darth Mauls. 😂🤣

@RickSFfan 5 ай бұрын

I avoided eBay for years afterwards watching a beefy college kid elbowing an 8 year old for one of thos Darth Mauls. I also remember taking a Death Star Cinema Scene with Chewie because some college age kids were talking about how much they could get for it on eBay, and Luke and Hantroopers and walking around the Toys R Us with it I saw a mom looking at the figures, and she cried when I gave her the package. She said her son really wanted this and she had gone to 14 stores looking for it. As for the JMPs, I never knew about that auction thing until today, so thanks for sharing that with us, Junkman!

@Sammy_Boy_Smith 5 ай бұрын

And now they're in thrown into the trash. A lot of those poor collector's probably ruined their NIB item by cutting a hole in the package, thinking it'd be totally worth it for the Jedi points gifts. Now they're completely worthless.

@keithprofitt3717 5 ай бұрын

I’m so glad you did this on the Jedi Points. I never knew the story about them till today. I was one of those that had over a thousand points and until today I never knew what was to be done with them. Never knew about the auction site only because we didn’t have the internet. I kept waiting for some advertisement to be on an action figure for the points to send off for another action figure. Kinda like Kenner did with the Proofs of Purchase back during the Vintage year’s. I finally threw all my points away probably about 10 or more years ago. What a waste 😡🤬

@michaelmcfarland1716 5 ай бұрын

Remember folks, kenner had the mail-ins during the original run as well available by cutting out part of the package.

@LandspeederLuke 5 ай бұрын

You just answered a question I’ve had for 20 years

@jedi69outcast 5 ай бұрын

GI Joe had flag points and you used them for good toys, it’s not like Hasbro didn’t have a example to work from

@tonyjackson4078 5 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Flag Points from G I Joe. Big difference was Cobra Commander was almost immediately offered in 82, and every year after they'd offer discontinued figures or vehicles, or exclusives. It was a great promotion. Sgt. Slaughter, Super Trooper, Fridge, it was great.

@raulzavala9061 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I don't know how Hasbro botched this it up this time.

@MrAvenger1975 18 күн бұрын

I used SO MANY Flag Points back then. It was great how much free stuff I used to get! The downside was that you had to wait 6-8 weeks for delivery. An eternity for a child.

@3Storms 5 ай бұрын

I had forgotten about this. It was a terrible idea, and was an effort to get people to blow through those five years of built-up points for stuff that wasn't worth it.

@morgangallowglass8668 5 ай бұрын

Something that both Marlboro and Camel cigs figured out perfectly... "Stoopid" is right!

@chuckdawg1999 5 ай бұрын

What's funny is that 20 years before Hasbro knew what to do since GI Joe and Transformers had a points program that did very well. Even better, a few years after this they did a mail away certificate promotion for the GI Joe 25th anniversary line to get Doc.

@ciscodeer9094 5 ай бұрын

I have never paid any mind to those dumb Jedi points, I think it was Hasbro's way of cash cowing it.

@stevegallo8483 5 ай бұрын

Hasbro should have had a plan in place when they put the Jedi Master Points on the Star Wars toys, but that would have meant planning ahead.

@mgshock 5 ай бұрын

Paid no attention to the points at all and I had no idea about the auctions. Another oddball (though more consumer friendly) use of points was the GI Joe 25th mailaway Doc figure where they accepted points from the vintage line.

@hankmessaros6700 5 ай бұрын

Junkman you ROCK

@Barada73 5 ай бұрын

This is why I'm glad I never saved the Jedi Master Points.

@ScottAskins-t3n 5 ай бұрын

Hello Junkman! Hasbro seems to be low on my list of collectibles. I never was a fan of the points offer in the 2000's, I prefer Original Kenner Star Wars 1977-1985😉.

@fredmeyer1044 5 ай бұрын

as someone who didn't start getting figures until The Original Trilogy Collection in '04, I never knew what these Jedi Master Points were when I would buy Power Of The Jedi at toy stores years down the line

@Sci-Fi-Mike 5 ай бұрын

I never cut the points out. I didn't want to butcher the cardbacks and didn't hear about the auctions, anyway.

@tperson8347 5 ай бұрын

I wish I'd kept my cards intact, but I that kind o' girl. :)

@omegasupreme1970 5 ай бұрын

Hasbro did the same with robo points and the transformers

@wadehinden5940 5 ай бұрын

Hasbro probably wanted to continue the tradition of the original 12. But like you said it never happened. Most of the toys are available for sale on eBay that you showed for the promotion. Thanks for the information. May The Force be with you

@thetexastreasurehunters8381 5 ай бұрын

This wasn't like flag points with Joe's. Save up x points...look at a catalog and choose. Send in your points and voila...a new joe.

@tperson8347 5 ай бұрын

This REALLY pissed me off. I'm the kind o' guy that keeps the cardbacks to all my figures. I didn't appreciate cutting into all those cards and boxes and then having NO way to use those points net or no net. This was the same crap they were selling in store, I didn't even bother with it. I was very disappointed. What a f**kin' waste! This was definitely a Hasbro thing, Kenner wouldn't do this crap. I've still got my points somewhere. Thanks for the video

@sithviper77 5 ай бұрын

They brought this idea over to GI Joe too in the form of Battle Points. I don't remember if they were used for any promos, but they made the Battle Points available to be used on that auction site. I never bothered with any of the auctions.

@MrAvenger1975 18 күн бұрын

Flag Points were amazing! I got so much free stuff using them. The 6-8 weeks delivery time wait was brutal to a child, though.

@spankynater4242 5 ай бұрын

I was overlooking this video, because the title didn't interest me. It was actually a very interesting video.

@ThatJunkman 5 ай бұрын

Always click. I’ll make boring story good :)

@NintendoSuperstar93 5 ай бұрын

25 years of Phantom Menace just like that, the very movie that got me into the franchise at 6 years old, hard to believe it’s been that long. I also think I might have a few of the figures sealed that have the Jedi Master Points on them, I’d have to go check, but I’d have to dig through one of my storage bins in my closet to see. Of course Hasbro is gonna Hasbro when it comes to the whole auction situation, they really fumbled the ball on that one.

@sunwentai1 5 ай бұрын

I never even realized there were points until I saw this video.

@tperson8347 5 ай бұрын

I was able to buy that exclusive X-wing George Lucas figure from my dealer for a 20 dollar bill. No confusion, no regrets.

@RWhettstone 5 ай бұрын

I also bought one on Ebay still sealed and in a protective clamshell case for about $20.

@tperson8347 5 ай бұрын

@@RWhettstone Same. Sealed and in clamshell case. :)

@MrAvenger1975 18 күн бұрын

Same. He was extremely easy to obtain after Celebration.

@PontiacPower79 5 ай бұрын

Congrats on 40k subscribers! No giveaway this time?

@ThatJunkman 5 ай бұрын

Yes

@sampoernaquatrain1710 5 ай бұрын

Great video; we are still laughing at Hasbro today. I can explain the praying mantis figure--there was a Wal-Mart exclusive line of Cantina figure re-packs, that each included a section of the bar. They sold so poorly that Wal-Mart passed on Series 2 after they were already made! So Hasbro was up a creek...until they invented the K-Mart 3-packs (like you showed) the following year, which were NOTORIOUSLY hard to get, and got rid of them that way!

@palpatine775 5 ай бұрын

Junkman. If I send you enough Jedi Master Points, can I be a Guest Co-Host on your channel some day?

@ThatJunkman 5 ай бұрын

1138 points

@michaelrussom6463 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad I avoided this. The last figures I bought around that time were from POF2. I didn't buy figures again until the concept art figures, then a few black series. I dodged this completely, it sounds like Hasbro screwed it up completely.

@richcreed4564 5 ай бұрын

Never bothered with them, glad I didn't. Figure ripped off the card, card in the trash.

@benjaminkitaura498 5 ай бұрын

Yeah what about the life size real Life Size tie fighter that you could actually fly to the moon with? If you had one billion Jedi master points you could get?

@micolash3196 5 ай бұрын

hasbro did a lot of silly things

@tunny79 5 ай бұрын

Still got mine…

@stevedenis8292 5 ай бұрын

They missed out on calling them Midiclorian points .

@omegasupreme1970 5 ай бұрын

will you ever do a vid on the old Mego figures? I still have my star trek Marvel and DC ones

@ThatJunkman 5 ай бұрын

well done a lot of mego stuff already

@omegasupreme1970 5 ай бұрын

@@ThatJunkman cool

@kevingallagher188 5 ай бұрын

This could have been fixed so easy by having limited amounts of overstock items available and charging the shipping to the fans.

@lamarravery4094 5 ай бұрын

How about this, for 50 Jedi points you can kick a Hasbro executive's butt.

@PopCultureAnticSS 5 ай бұрын

I worked for toys r us and kaybee and pretty much every figure from the prequels and tons of clones and I have lots still packaged even inside the original shipper boxes.Would they be worth selling now?Since Disney star wars sucks?

@ThatJunkman 5 ай бұрын

if you want about $2 a figure, and that has zero to do with Disney

@harrybehemoth2751 5 ай бұрын

I went to see The Phantom Menace yesterday. It's still bad. I was thinking it would be at least a little better if Lucas had gotten the Henson company to make all the creatures instead of all the goofy cgi.