The current Yakfinities Customizing Challenge runs through Dec 31, so we’ve got just over two weeks remaining for final submissions.
The theme is the Imperial Remnant… meaning any sort of Imperial you want to make a custom that you feel fits into the post-ROTJ timeline is fair game.
Whether it be an official character, or your own fan-fiction Imperial troops, head on over and submit your work in our forums after the jump!
In a small town off the interstate in southern Minnesota you may see a sight rarely seen at many metropolitan stores. Peg after peg of new TVC figures waiting to be liberated from their cardboard and plastic prison. I envision taking a roadtrip tonight.
PS: Hey Walmart, fix your distribution.
Image courtesy of the MNToyPosse FB Group
The holiday tradition is back! Our newest Premier Guild-exclusive holiday collectible is the all-white Boba Fett Prototype Jumbo Action Figure! This web exclusive includes a working rocket-launcher mechanism on his back and a cloth replica of the beach towel cape featured in the 1978 screen test of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back™. He comes packaged on a retro-style card in resealable collector packaging.
Pre-sales open to the Premier Guild starting Friday, December 11th at 9am PST/12pm EST.
The Walt Disney Company released their Investors Day 2020 announcements for current and future media releases for both theatrical and direct-to-consumer (D2C) content.
Highlights relating to Lucasfilm/Star Wars include:
-10+ Star Wars Disney= originals coming in the coming years
– Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic series announced
– Star Wars: Ahsoka series announced – set during The Mandalorian
– Star Wars: Andor production has begun
– Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi – 10 years after ROTS – Hayden Christensen returns as Vader
– Star Wars: Lando limited series announced
– Star Wars: The Acolyte series – set at the end of the High Republic
– Star Wars: The Bad Batch series -set at the end of The Clone Wars
– Star Wars: Rogue Squadron film – by Patty Jenkins
– Untitled Star Wars film by Taika Waititi
For the rundown and descriptions of each, check out StarWars.com.
This Week! in Star Wars has posted a tease for next week’s Mando Monday reveal. The design appears to be the abdomen armor for the 6″ Black Series Death Trooper from Rogue One and The Mandalorian. This supports our previous rumor of the Death Trooper returning to the line in the Archive Collection for 2021.
Jedi Insider is reporting on the potential release of a Jedi Training version of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa from The Rise of Skywalker coming to the Black Series line in 2021. They also report the expansion of the 6″ Credit Collection line and through out a couple figure names from The Mandalorian. Head on over for the info.
Armed with some UPC/EAN info, I ventured into Target today to see I could get a hit on the Black Series figures that we exclusively reported on Monday. Low and behold the info is in Target’s system – and it confirms the code names.
With this info some theories can be proposed:
– The price point is indicative of these being exclusive.
– These are individual DPCIs that are not part of an assortment so could they be another wave of Galaxy’s Edge items??? (These figures are also exclusive to ToysRUs in Canada – the retail partner for GE merch in that country.)
– Walmart received an exclusive wave of figures for The Clone Wars – could this be something similar???
DPCIs have been added to our extensive UPC/DPCI/SKU Master List.
Sponsor DorksideToys is now taking preorders for Case, set and individual figures from the new Black Series Archive Wave 1 for 2021. This assortment includes Han Solo (Hoth – Brown Coat), Luke Skywalker (Hoth), Grand Admiral Thrawn and Clone Commander Cody.
Chapter 14 The Mandalorian officially aired last Friday and it was something my 46 year old brain never thought it would see. This episode paid off in a huge way a tease from Season 1 as well as answers the question of “what happened to Boba Fett after Return of the Jedi” and settles a long standing debate on the heritage of Jango Fett. Maybe they should rename the series “The Mandalorians“. The Tragedy is another glorious addition to the series as well as the entire Star Wars canon.
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Some intel sent to me by an anonymous source reveals 4 new Black Series listings found in a retailer’s system: “Sun”, Snow”, “Wind” and “Rain”. No word who these figures may be or if they may be exclusives.
More info to come when available.
UPDATE: I managed to find pricing info for these this evening – $24.99 – and to me that says “exclusive”.