So, as it turns out, you can get up early, drive to the suburbs, get to Adepticon at 10 after 10, and still not be able to get a ship because all 100 ships to be available that day are gone.

So, limited edition miniatures have come to Xwing. Makes me sad.

So paint one, or commission someone at your local store who is good at painting to do the work.

You now have a unique, mostest-limited edition.

It says convention 2019 - not adepticon - so maybe we will see it again this year

Maybe somewhere outside of the us too...

Sorry to hear you couldn’t get one. Manage to get some good games in, though?

On the upshot, it's not like there's anything in that pack that you can't get from a normal vulture pack. Just a cosmetic change, that mostly is there for fun. Sorry you weren't able to get the mini, but at least it's just a paint job, which can be replicated. I'd be shocked if there aren't people working on recreating it on their normal Vultures right now.

Scalpers are surely gonna try to rake collectors over the coals for these bad boys, which definitely sucks for those of us with a "gotta catch em all" mindset, but that was gonna happen with anything that exists in limited supply. Alt art cards, special tokens, tournament prize range rulers or movement templates, and much more all find their way to Ebay eventually. The frustration with the limited edition-ness of this whole situation is understandable, but at least we haven't gotten to the point that pilots or upgrades are hidden away in limited ed packs that only come out for specific cons.

Since I know you have been waiting for it, are you excited to hear that Epic 2.0 has completed development @Darth Meanie ? No solid details yet, I know, but from what people are saying, it looks like Epic is gonna be focused on scenario's and story rather than just bigger standard games. Sounds neat to me. Hoping for an official announcement on that in the next few months with more info, but hey this is better than being totally in the dark.

Is it the paint-job or the Beanie Baby collectible factor that you were after?

If it's the first, then this paint job looks like it's going to be super easy to pull off. Probably an hour or so of work, if that because there's no dry-brushing or highlighting on it. If it's the second... no dice.

56 minutes ago, SabineKey said:

Sorry to hear you couldn’t get one. Manage to get some good games in, though?

I could only get there because today is my day off. Also, I only got my 2.0 stuff 36 hours ago, so it's all still in the plastic. So sadly, no time to game.

1 hour ago, kris40k said:

So paint one, or commission someone at your local store who is good at painting to do the work.

You now have a unique, mostest-limited edition.

This sounds like a saavy, erudite answer, but it's mostly BS.

I'm not talking about whether I could paint one or not. I'm talking about people going all the way to an event to discover that First Come, First Served is the order of the day.

And also because like @Hippie Moosen points out, this is now a game with collectible miniatures. Now, I know you are going to say that swag has always been a part of the game, but:

This game is not X-Wing Templates.

This game is not X-Wing Dice.

This game is not X-Wing Cards.

This game is X-Wing Miniatures, and I think an unfortunate new line of collectability in a "non-collectible" game has been crossed.

33 minutes ago, ThinkingB said:

Is it the paint-job or the Beanie Baby collectible factor that you were after?

Both??

And obviously I'm not alone, because 100+ other people got their Beanie Baby (or a voucher for tomorrow's release, etc., so why even bother not selling all 400 of them today?} in less than 10 minutes.

I know this has Vulture topic has been beat on before, but these are truly going to be LIMITED EDITION COLLECTIBLES. You can't win one on merit, and you can't drive there to buy one. You're going to need a Golden Ticket, Charlie, or no chocolate for you.

So, if anything, this is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks that these are going to be readily available to any one who wants one; XWM now has Rares.

And for all those who claim "no big deal," well, it is, or I'd be sitting here with one.

I guess it's as big a deal as you make it. The collector in me (I used to collect a lot) wants one. but not for 5x what it cost on the same day of release. i'm fine being without one. But I'd rather have one than not. But not enough to drop that kinda dough on one. It's a big enough deal to some that they are paying that amount. it's not for me.

8 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

I could only get there because today is my day off. Also, I only got my 2.0 stuff 36 hours ago, so it's all still in the plastic. So sadly, no time to game.

This sounds like a saavy, erudite answer, but it's mostly BS.

I'm not talking about whether I could paint one or not. I'm talking about people going all the way to an event to discover that First Come, First Served is the order of the day.

And also because like @Hippie Moosen points out, this is now a game with collectible miniatures. Now, I know you are going to say that swag has always been a part of the game, but:

This game is not X-Wing Templates.

This game is not X-Wing Dice.

This game is not X-Wing Cards.

This game is X-Wing Miniatures, and I think an unfortunate new line of collectability in a "non-collectible" game has been crossed.

Both??

And obviously I'm not alone, because 100+ other people got their Beanie Baby (or a voucher for tomorrow's release, etc., so why even bother not selling all 400 of them today?} in less than 10 minutes.

I know this has Vulture topic has been beat on before, but these are truly going to be LIMITED EDITION COLLECTIBLES. You can't win one on merit, and you can't drive there to buy one. You're going to need a Golden Ticket, Charlie, or no chocolate for you.

So, if anything, this is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks that these are going to be readily available to any one who wants one; XWM now has Rares.

And for all those who claim "no big deal," well, it is, or I'd be sitting here with one.

It seems like you want it solely because it's rare or collectible. Well... congrats, it is rare and collectible and you can buy one too, but you are going to pay the price of it being rare and collectible. It's obviously not the paint because you could make a bunch of identical ones for really easy. In fact, I would expect a better paint job on something with such limited, exclusive quantity. It just seems like kind of a bizarre and minimal thing to become mentally invested in when you could be making your own awesome, one of a kind ships for much cheaper that people will always seek out over these ones when they're put on the table.

Like, I'm not understand how this is a real complaint at all. You're acting as if they put in a super powerful card into this expac as well. This is only a base vulture, the only difference is the paint job. This can be fixed in 1/2 hours by your buddy who paints. I'm comparing it to Beanie Babies because it sounds just like people flipping out over Dark Blue limited edition Peanut the Elephant who does the exact same thing as light blue peanut the elephant.

If FFG put this on the shelves like every other model, would that make you happy?

21 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

...XWM  now  has Rares  . 

Well... I'd say it's more of a shiny.

But yeah it sucks they ran out so quick, only 100 for the whole day? And first come, first serve? I feel like that kind of thing should have been mentioned.

32 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

This game is not X-Wing Templates.

This game is not X-Win  g Dice.

This game is not X-Wing Cards.

This game is X-Wing Miniatures, and I think an unfortunate new line of collectability in a "non-collectib  le" game   has been crossed.

The game IS x-wing templates if you make it about x-wing templates. Lots of people win/buy/sell limited (WAY more limited than this) X-Wing templates. You need templates to play the game officially, did you upgrade your cardboard ones?

Same with the Dice. Dice are ~STILL~ roughly $30/pair. For Regional prize dice. You need dice to play officially. Do you have regional dice of any type?

Same with cards. Do you own any alt arts of any official type? Those are rarer than the ones you get in the standard ship pack you bought to play the game.

There is literally nothing in this pack that you cannot find by a ton of other ways. The collectability of it will entirely be those who didn't open theirs because the packaging is ever so slightly different (2019 CON edition).

Consider me one of the 100 jerks today, I had a friend who was there a lot earlier stand in line to get me one. And its going to be raffled off sometime in late May at a tournament. So for 1 of the 400 or so of these super collectible items, you have another chance to get it (a 1 in 48 chance so pretty good by all the standards thus far) if you simply fly to Denver and play in the CAC.

Edit: 4 have sold on eBay so far. 3 of the 4 went for less than $100. 2 of the 4 went for $65. I suspect that when you factor in your time, you can likely still get one of these for not much more than retail, shipped to your house. Unless of course someone wins worlds with 6 of these gold limited edition droids, not just repaints. Then they become pokemon and the price will go UP UP UP!

43 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

I could only get there because today is my day off. Also, I only got my 2.0 stuff 36 hours ago, so it's all still in the plastic. So sadly, no time to game.

This sounds like a saavy, erudite answer, but it's mostly BS.

I'm not talking about whether I could paint one or not. I'm talking about people going all the way to an event to discover that First Come, First Served is the order of the day.

And also because like @Hippie Moosen points out, this is now a game with collectible miniatures. Now, I know you are going to say that swag has always been a part of the game, but:

This game is not X-Wing Templates.

This game is not X-Wing Dice.

This game is not X-Wing Cards.

This game is X-Wing Miniatures, and I think an unfortunate new line of collectability in a "non-collectible" game has been crossed.

Both??

And obviously I'm not alone, because 100+ other people got their Beanie Baby (or a voucher for tomorrow's release, etc., so why even bother not selling all 400 of them today?} in less than 10 minutes.

I know this has Vulture topic has been beat on before, but these are truly going to be LIMITED EDITION COLLECTIBLES. You can't win one on merit, and you can't drive there to buy one. You're going to need a Golden Ticket, Charlie, or no chocolate for you.

So, if anything, this is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks that these are going to be readily available to any one who wants one; XWM now has Rares.

And for all those who claim "no big deal," well, it is, or I'd be sitting here with one.

Sorry to hear that. Not sure I can agree with your conclusion that this is now a collectible game with rare, but I can sympathize that you didn’t get what you wanted.

50 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

And also because like @Hippie Moosen points out, this is now a game with collectible miniatures.

...Not really?

I mean, a custom one-of-a-kind painted mini done by a talented artist is worth a lot more than some limited run mediocre-mass-produced paint job. Thinking the "collectible" is going to be worth anything is a sucker's game. Besides, WMH has had limited sculpts for Conventions and Minicrate for years and they aren't worth much or destroying the game. They are just fun . Heck, PP re-sold some Con "exclusives" later on at their website. If you think FFG won't reprint them if they can get a few more bucks later on

I mean, I'll echo Sabine in the I'm sorry you weren't able to get something you were apparently excited about, but I don't see the big deal.

43 minutes ago, nitrobenz said:

Well... I'd say it's more of a shiny.

But yeah it sucks they ran out so quick, only 100 for the whole day? And first come, first serve? I feel like that kind of thing should have been mentioned.

Yeah, me too.

And, while I am bummed, mostly I mean this thread as a cautionary tale to those who might be motivated to waste 1/2 a day trying to acquire something that's not really all that accessible.

38 minutes ago, Jyico said:

Consider me one of the 100 jerks today, I had a friend who was there a lot earlier stand in line to get me one. And its going to be raffled off sometime in late May at a tournament. So for 1 of the 400 or so of these super collectible items, you have another chance to get it (a 1 in 48 chance so pretty good by all the standards thus far) if you simply fly to Denver and play in the CAC.

Edit: 4 have sold on eBay so far. 3 of the 4 went for less than $100. 2 of the 4 went for $65. I suspect that when you factor in your time, you can likely still get one of these for not much more than retail, shipped to your house. Unless of course someone wins worlds with 6 of these gold limited edition droids, not just repaints. Then they become pokemon and the price will go UP UP UP!

Yeah, the second part is what pisses me off. DBs who don't actually want the mini, they just want to flip it for a profit.

9 minutes ago, kris40k said:

...Not really?

I mean, a custom one-of-a-kind painted mini done by a talented artist is worth a lot more than some limited run mediocre-mass-produced paint job. Thinking the "collectible" is going to be worth anything is a sucker's game. Besides, WMH has had limited sculpts for Conventions and Minicrate for years and they aren't worth much or destroying the game. They are just fun . Heck, PP re-sold some Con "exclusives" later on at their website. If you think FFG won't reprint them if they can get a few more bucks later on

I mean, I'll echo Sabine in the I'm sorry you weren't able to get something you were apparently excited about, but I don't see the big deal.

Well, I did waste 1/2 a day for nothin'. And I did actually WANT it, to play this game, not to post it on eBay in 15 minutes.

And, like @nitrobenz said, "Supplies Are Limited" would have been a nice thing to know. I was wondering if it would be something like "one to a customer," not, "you lucky bastard."

I could have saved myself a lot of trouble.

But at least I thought "people should know." These minis are not going to be available just because you are at a Con. You'd better get up early, be first in line, and/or be prepared to be disappointed.

So, I've done that. Now time to go read the Epic 2.0 goodness thread!!

Only 100??

Rip off on ebay you will always find, unfortunately. Then if they even made money worth it, is doubtful, considering the time and travel they had to invest.

At least you can get normal vultures expacs. We do not even have these here (Europe). Servants of Strife, Guardians of Republic, Infiltrator, Arc and Jedi Fighter you can buy, but Vultures nowhere to be found, release date unknown. Probably due to the dial misprint.

4 minutes ago, Managarmr said:

Only 100??

Rip off on ebay you will always find, unfortunately. Then if they even made money worth it, is doubtful, considering the time and travel they had to invest.

At least you can get normal vultures expacs. We do not even have these here (Europe). Servants of Strife, Guardians of Republic, Infiltrator, Arc and Jedi Fighter you can buy, but Vultures nowhere to be found, release date unknown. Probably due to the dial misprint.

It was the V-19 torrent that had the misprint, so we got the box sets late in the UK. Not seen or heard of a Vulture pack misprint.

1 hour ago, PanchoX1 said:

I guess it's as big a deal as you make it. The collector in me (I used to collect a lot) wants one. but not for 5x what it cost on the same day of release. i'm fine being without one. But I'd rather have one than not. But not enough to drop that kinda dough on one. It's a big enough deal to some that they are paying that amount. it's not for me.

All this. I'm never gonna buy one resale for someone's else's profit.

But I am very disappointed to put in the effort to get there, only to find out they are limited. Very limited.

2 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:

And obviously I'm not alone, because 100+ other people got their Beanie Baby (or a voucher for tomorrow's release, etc., so why even bother not selling all 400 of them today?} in less than 10 minutes.

And for all those who claim "no big deal," well, it is, or I'd be sitting here with one.

Well, maybe we should rephrase it...

From a gameplay perspective alone, it IS no big deal. It’s the same game pieces, just with a new paint job.

Whether that exclusive mini paint job is a big deal to you or not? That’s subjective. It obviously matters to you, and to others who were there.

Although, I’m not sure how they would handle it any other way but “first come, first served”.

Its unfortunate you didn’t get the mini you wanted. I am sure others are in the same boat.

43 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

Although, I’m not sure how they would handle it any other way but “first come, first served”.

Have plenty to go around??

They were for sale . . .it's not like FFG was doing a give-away--they coulda/shoulda had more stock.

3 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:

XWM now has Rares.

Eh, as long as they're purely cosmetic, it's not that big a deal. Cool to have, but hardly something to get too worked-up over.

I mean, I've played games before where if you didn't have access to certain exclusive or randomly-distributed cards, you may as well just forfeit the game before you start! Compared to that, alt-art is incredibly tame.

I'll sell ya mine

14 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:

All this. I'm never gonna buy one resale for someone's else's profit.

But I am very disappointed to put in the effort to get there, only to find out they are limited. Very limited.

Only as limited as FFG's desire to call someone in China and say, "yeah, push the "GO" button, again."* Its not even an alternate sculpt, so getting more printed is just a matter of someone at FFG wanting more money.

Heck, when I found out there was the Bombardier Bombshell model which was a GenCon exclusive and I missed the window to order one online, I was erked. But then they released them for sale on their website awhile later and now I have one.

13 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:

Have plenty to go around??

They were for sale . . .it's not like FFG was doing a give-away--they coulda/shoulda had more stock.

I think that they should have come up with some sort of "1 per convention badge" process to at least slow down the scalpers.

* Yes, this is a slight exaggeration of the printing process for effect

7 minutes ago, kris40k said:

Only as limited as FFG's desire to call someone in China and say, "yeah, push the "GO" button, again." Its not even an alternate sculpt, so getting more printed is just a matter of someone at FFG wanting more money.

It's possible they under-anticipated demand, but I suspect the point is they are Limited Premiums.

Ya know, I actually would have less of a problem with all of this if they were prizes. Then, at least, ownership would be merit-based and resale would be for those you don't find the model interesting enough to keep.

But a scalper shanking me for $40 because they took my place in a "for sale" line is capitalistic ****. And FFG is partly to blame because they have created the Supply and Demand mismatch on purpose.

12 hours ago, BlueAce said:

I'll sell ya mine

For a "finder's fee" and shipping, I suspect.

Isn't it just a normal Vulture Droid expansion with metallic paint on it?