Sponsor Entertainment Earth has sent out the first look at the upcoming Battle on Crait Home Entertainment pack. It includes Rey (Jedi Apprentice, salt on boots), First Order Snowtrooper, First Order Gunner, and Rose (Crait Poncho) Click on through for high-res images.
Sponsor Entertainment Earth is currently having a sale on their Funko POP! figures and are offering Buy 4, get 1 FREE. Sale lasts until February 13.
Trouble for the embattled Toys “R” Us stores continue as the company announces the closure of more than 180 stores in the US. This is being done in order to “give us the best chance to emerge from our bankruptcy proceedings as a more viable and competitive company”.
You can read the story at the CNNmoney.com
BrickSeek has added a new UPC and DPCI for the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story Flagship/Playset with (3.75″) figure coming in April from Hasbro. The MSRP is $99.99. We added this to the growing Master List of UPCs/DPCIs and Walmart SKUs for 2018.
UPDATE: Pure speculation on my part but the “flagship” may be a prototype star destroyer as we revealed in this post regarding Hot Wheels Starship coming out for Solo.
This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the nominees for this year’s 90th Academy Awards and Star Wars: The Last Jedi gathered 4 nominations:
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score
Best Sound Mixing
Best Sound Editing
Congratulations to Disney, Lucasfilm, ILM, Skywalker Sound and John Williams for their achievement.
Walmart stores are starting to roll back TBS 3.75″ prices again. Let us know if you’re seeing the same thing in your area.
Uh-oh. Entertainment Earth has updated the links for the basic Princess Leia and Rey adventure dolls as well as a Padmé Mission Set to “Cancelled” status. We’re not sure what this means for the continuation of the line, considering the deep, deep clearances at retail. Toy Fair should reveal more regarding the line’s destiny for collectors.
TargetGod sends word that Target will be offering 50% off the full range of Forces of Destiny figures as well as the Force Link BB-8 2-in-1 Mega Playset starting next week and running through Feb 17.
The end begins when Star Wars Rebels returns with its final episodes. Monday, February 19 at 9pm EDT on Disney XD.
According to Deadline.com, Disney XD will air back-to-back 30-minute episodes on February 19 and 26, culminating with another new half-hour and the 90-minute series finale on March 5.
Walmart’s clearances are (always) haphazard around the US, but our friend Scott from Tulsa sends word via Twitter that he’s found them for as little as $16.00 in Oklahoma. You can check Brickseek in your area with SKU 133811432.