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Episode 333A & B: Toy Fair Coverage
Episode 333A: Toy Fair 2012 Day 1: Hasbro + Phantom Menace 3-D
Toy Fair 2012 is in full swing, and as always Hasbro presents to fan media one day early showing off the toys of the year, and this year for Star Wars they showed the MTT vehicle, new figures in Vintage and Movie Heroes lines, Fighter Pods, Amp’d vehicles, the Jar Jar in Carbonite SDCC exclusive, and more! On this Star Wars Action News, you can hear the entire Hasbro Star Wars brand presentation, and Arnie and Marjorie run down the highs and lows of the presentation.
Sponsor News: Big Bad Toy Store
Here is a quick update from Big Bad Toy Store about a variety of new pre-orders as well as some cool new arrivals.
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Deleted Scenes Wave Hits eBay
The highly anticipated Deleted Scenes figures have hit eBay, which hopefully means it won’t be long before we see these in stores.
Thanks to forum member Sybeck1 for the heads up!
New Clone Wars Deluxe Hit Retail
Our friends at Jeditemplearchives.com are reporting that the brand spankin new Class I vehicles have been spotted at retail here in the United States – click on the image above for their report!
Forum member Paulskywalker also found these in the UK recently, so hopefully this is a sign of good things to come with the 2012 distribution!
Customizer Spotlight – darthmac
Forum member darthmac has completed his amazing custom diorama of Jabba’s Throne Room – this sucker is breathtaking and will make you envious! Check it out and leave him some feedback for his hard work after the jump!
Target Exclusive 3-pks – Price Hike!
While checking out a clearance endcap at Target today, I saw a vintage 3-pk marked down to $9.98 (or something like that)… I had bought a few of these last week at the same store for this price, and decided to scan this one on the off chance it was marked down to 75% off now… instead, it rang up at $24.99! This was the old, dusty Needa-Dengar-AT-AT Driver set… strange, eh?
And also today, according to our friends at Jedidefender.com, this is a new DPCI number, 087-06-1172 – hopefully soon we’ll find out more details regarding some sets of new figures… though the price increase certainly isn’t welcome!
Confirmed: Yoda Line Look for 2013
Back in December 2011, we received an intercepted transmission that Lucas Licensing was planning on using Yoda as the follow up to the Darth Maul brand look for licensed merchandise in 2013. Today, we can confirm that is in fact true. Click on through for the full reveal…
No Soup for You! Hasbro Nixes Slideshow
We just received word from Hasbro that they will not be distributing the powerpoint presentation shown to attendees at Toy Fair on Saturday.
The “Lost Line” Look
A few people have sent in questions regarding source material for the “lost line” look that Hasbro will be using on 6 of the individual cards included in SDCC Exclusive Carbon Freezing Chamber set (and on Limited Edition chase/variant cards available later at retail).
For the answers, look no further than The Star Wars Collectors Archive web site for illustration images of this abandoned concept to the iconic 1977-1985 Kenner packaging design we know today.
As you’ll see, the new cardbacks are very faithful to the original concept and exude that “70’s” feel.