Disney 3.75" Scale First Order Short-Range Evacuation Vehicle Set

[Jeff]

Disney Parks Blog announced a new Droid Factory Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance Vehicle/Playset thingy.

No price yet, but it is set to hit the parks on December 5th (Florida) and January 17th (Disneyland).

[Phrubruh]

Just watch them make the retail price $49.95. The ride video is posted in our Star Wars land thread.

[Rob]

If that's more than $25 or $30, it's crazy.

[Muftak]

Oh, c'mon...$50 is the best case scenario here. It comes with an astro droid, don't those go for $20 by themselves?

[Nicklab]

Considering there are actually 2 vehicles in this set?  I'm thinking it's $59.99 at least.

[Jesse James]

A droid a sled and an escape pod...  I think $40-$60 is likely here unless the vehicle things are exceedingly simple.  That said, I want it.  I want two even. 🤷‍♂️

[Jeff]

The official name for this thing is the First Order Short-Range Evacuation Vehicle with Fleet Transport and First Order R5 Droid. It looks like there are at least four different variations of the droid that comes with the set - Black droid with either white/gray, orange, red, or blue panel colors.

There are some pics in the Rebelscum Forums.   I was surprised to see it was much larger than I was picturing.  Also sounds like it has full electronics - sounds and lights.

Thanks to a Yakface Tweet for the heads up.

[Rob]

Oh wow, I didn't realize there was that much more to it.  Not happy about this four droids business...

[Dave]

Per Yakface - $75

[Rob]

I wonder if people will start selling the droids to offset the vehicle cost.  I'd like to figure out how to get all four without buying 4 sets.

[Jesse James]

I’m probably gonna go for all 4...  be neat to find some kind of way to display them like they’re docked in the ship, and maybe make them a way to display FO troopers I have around them. 🤷‍♂️

[Rob]

If any of you guys want more than one of the vehicles, but don’t care about the droids, I’ll generously subsidize your extras!

[Pete_Fett]

Oh wow, I didn't realize there was that much more to it.  Not happy about this four droids business...

Yeah, I'm not either.

I'm going to have a friend get me the White and Blue highlights droids versions since those are the most different from B-A-Ds we've gotten before, hopefully this item will stick around long enough to allow for me to get the other two, but there's no way I'm going to get four to keep MIB and four to open.

The Galaxy's Edge Build-a-Droid items finally "broke" me it seems - I got the color change droids, but only two of each set and two color change stations, and I've yet to open up any of them, and I probably won't and now with this item, I'll probably never open either of these two sets. 

[Pete_Fett]

Got my White & Blue droid variations today - had my friend ship them opened up. Will probably get one more to keep MIB, but unless this set goes on deep clearance OR by the time we make it to Disney next November, they have them available for purchase with Passholder/DVC Member discount, I doubt I'll get more than that. I would much rather put the $75 towards a large size build-a-droid or extra kyber crystals for the lightsaber I plan on building.

The vehicle is cool - and the trackless vehicle piece fits even 5POA figures VERY well, but having four MIB sticking around in the collection is a tad bit absurd and even worse, having four open and the vehicles hanging around is even more absurd. I might even see if there's a way I can string up one of them to hang from the ceiling just so I don't have to dedicate shelf-space to two of them.

[Darth_Anton]

Another much have. Next time I hit DL, will easily spend more on droids than on a ticket to the park.