Today marks the official availability of the exclusive Luke Skywalker talking figure from the Disney Store. It is available in stores and online for $29.95.
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Episode 15: Hungry Like the Wolfpack
Another week has passed and on this episode of The Realm Recap we discuss all the toy news revealed including Saga Legends, the return of the SDCC Boba Fett w/Carbonite Han, new preorders from Gentle Giant and Sideshow, plus Episode VII, Star Wars Weekends, Star Wars Rebels news and more! Click on through to check out the latest episode and feel free to subscribe to our channel and leave suggestions on what you’d like to see covered on the show.
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Toyguide Update: FA-4 (Droid Factory)
The Yakface Toyguide updates resume with a series of entries covering the Amazon Exclusive Droid Factory Set of Legacy Collection figures. We continue with the addition of FA-4.
PROS: Making good on their intentions, Hasbro found a way to get this figure into collector’s hands. The sculpt is pretty solid as it doesn’t go overboard with unnecessary “super articulation”. It is a build-a-droid compatible figure so you can use its parts to augment other B.A.D. figures like protocol droids and astromechs. Looks really great displayed alongside your favorite Count Dooku figure.
CONS: Being the only all-new figure in the set made some collectors rankle at “needing” to purchase 5 additional figures to get it. If you have OCD (obsessive completionist disorder), you’d be missing out on an official build-a-droid figure (despite it not being advertised as such) if you passed on it.
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Toyguide Update: Black Squadron TIE Pilot (Droid Factory)
The Yakface Toyguide updates resume with a series of entries covering the Amazon Exclusive Droid Factory Set of Legacy Collection figures. We continue with the addition of the Black Squadron TIE Pilot.
PROS: TIE Pilots have always been one of my favorite Imperial figures and whenever Hasbro finds it necessary, I welcome them being slotted back into the line. This version takes the Evolutions figure from 2009 and changes up the deco slightly and gives it a nice vintage throwback blaster. Fits in any TIE Fighter cockpit you have lying around thanks to ample articulation and a slender body. The overall deco is great with a mix of matte and glossy paint treatments to break up an otherwise solid black figure.
CONS: Only way to obtain this figure was to order a set of figures that you may not have necessarily wanted or needed, making it a relatively spendy figure. Still utilizes those weird legs that sometimes bend at the knee in unnatural ways and no ankle joints – but that’s a minor picking of nits.
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Principal Photography Begins for Episode VII
J.J. Abrams production company Bad Robot as posted via twitter a photo that I’m sure many of us never expected to see….
Star Wars Rebels Shirts Now Available
DisneyStore.com is now taking orders for select men, women and children sizes of exclusive Star Wars Rebels shirts. Offer ends May 22nd.
Select Star Wars Rebels Shirts Available Tomorrow Online
For a limited time, DisneyStore.com will have select Star Wars Weekends Star Wars Rebels shirts available for purchase. This limited time offer runs from May 16-22. You can see the other merchandise available exclusively at Star Wars Weekends here.
Wolfpack Clone Trooper Preview
Sideshow updates today with a new 1:6 scale preview – the Wolfpack Clone Trooper “Sinker” from the 104th Battalion. A perfect addition to display alongside Commander Wolffe! Pre-orders start next Thursday.
Toyguide Update: Sandtrooper (Droid Factory)
The Yakface Toyguide updates resume with a series of entries covering the Amazon Exclusive Droid Factory Set of Legacy Collection figures. We start things off with the Sandtrooper.
PROS: Hasbro takes their previous TVC/Lost Line Sandtrooper and gives it a fresh deco/wash and new rank by way of a black pauldron. Plenty of accessories give you a variety of display and play options and the incorporation of the sentry droid into the backpack is a nice feature — albeit not a new one.
CONS: Only way to obtain this figure was to order a set of figures that you may not have necessarily wanted or needed, making it a relatively spendy figure.
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Vinylmation Series 4 Chaser & Variant Revealed
Today marks the official release of the Star Wars Vinylmation Series 4 figures at Star Wars Weekends and the variant and chaser figures have been revealed. Click on through for the details.
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