The Vintage Collection Figures That Survived Christmas

The holiday gift giving season has magical cleansing properties. It purges the pegs of stock the way a controlled brush fire clears dead timber paving the way for new life. So ravenous is the consumerism that even the peg warmers that seem destined for the Island of Misfit Toys manage to find loving homes. Despite this, some poor figures remain unclaimed even during the late panic gift buying hours. This article is their story.

First I need to set the retail landscape for my area. I live in southern New Hampshire close to the Massachusetts border. New Hampshire has no sales tax. Massachusetts has a 6.25% sales tax. This means the stores in my area serve two regions. Massachusetts residents will travel a little extra distance to save that sales tax. On any given weekend during the holidays, the Massachusetts license plates will outnumber the New Hampshire license plates in the parking lots of my Walmart and Target. This is all to say my stores are high volume. They move a lot of inventory. So let's take a quick look at what didn't sell.




As you can see, the survivors are VC262 - Vel Sartha, VC284 - Moff Jerjerrod, and VC285 - Boba Fett (Tusken). The Moff Jerjerrod did sell in the week after Christmas. That Vel has been there since May.



My Target doesn't stock TVC as heavily as my Walmart. After the gift giving rush, they have one straggler from their 2023 stock. As you can see, it's VC295 - Morgan Elsbeth. It was still there as of a few days ago. You may notice a second figure peeking out from behind Ms. Elsbeth. It's not from the 2023 stock. You guessed it. It's VC205 - Lando Calrissian, Christmas Survivor (2nd oakleaf cluster).

This article seeks to make no commentary. It's just observational. Here are the four (really three) 2023 Vintage Collection figures that went unclaimed this gift giving season in my little retail ecosystem.

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