A year ago Hasbro launched their “Haslab” crowdfunding project. This is for developing – or not – toys of unusual size and cost that would be financially dangerously risky to develop without crowdfunding. Their first project was the ginormous Jabba’s Sail Barge from “Return of the Jedi;” it was successfully developed and sold to the nearly 6,000 backers for $500 a pop. They’ve come out with a new project: a 27-inch-tall Unicron from “Transformers: The Movie.” A 27-inch-tall figure toy is not that unusual; before Disney screwed the pooch on Star Wars, they were selling Darth Vader and stormtrooper toys bigger than that. But what Hasbro is doing with their Unicron figure it to make it as mind-bogglingly complex as possible. And consequently, the price is a bit much… $574.99. But if you just have to have a giant Unicron that somehow transforms between robot and planet forms, or you want to speculate on what the ebay resale value on these might be (there are a number of Sail Barges on ebay now all with Buy It Now prices of a grand and up), then here ya go. With 46 days left in the crowdfunding campaign, there are currently 920 out of 8,000 backers. Maybe you could buy two and sell one on ebay for twice the price, thus you end up with a free Unicron. Better still, buy three, sell one, send one to me.

Transformers: War For Cybertron Unicron