Today at 5pm ET, we will be taking part in a livestream discussion for the launch of the Vintage Collection Last Figure Standing Fan Event. We will be joining Tim from Bossk’s Bounty, Chris from Bantha Skull, John Miko from the SW The Vintage Collection Facebook Group to discuss our personal top 10 submissions for the poll. I will update this post with the livestream link when available.

Livestream link

Today marks the launch of a new fan site generated figure poll for the Vintage Collection. Read on for the full details.

WHAT IS IT?

Last Figure Standing is a figure poll coordinated across several fan outlets to include, but not limited to:

• Yak Face
• Bossk’s Bounty
• SW The Vintage Collection Facebook Group
• Bantha Skull

Other outlets will be signing on as well.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?

There has always been a major flaw with Hasbro’s Fans’ Choice polling. Let’s look at the most recent Fans’ Choice poll. I can’t find the final results, but to the best of my recollection, Dr. Aphra won with something around 29% of the vote. How can that be called the “Fans’ Choice” when 71% of the fans wanted something else? Moreover, if you look at the broader categories, 36% of the fans wanted a figure from the Original Trilogy, and 35% wanted a figure from animation. Aphra benefited from being the only publishing figure in the top six, and I’m not trying to pick on the most recent official Fans’ Choice poll. This problem has persisted throughout the history of the Fans’ Choice.

Last Figure Standing seeks to correct this by conducting a mock Fans’ Choice in a series of elimination rounds until there are only two (like American Idol!). The theory is that as figures from the same category become eliminated, the votes would go to another figure from that same source. Plus, this will ensure that the winner gets more than 50% of the vote.

HOW WILL IT WORK?

For the old Fans’ Choice polls, Hasbro asked fan sites to submit top 10 lists collected from their readers. We’ll ask you to do the same. You’ll submit your top 10 most wanted figures via Google form HERE. These are unranked. Each figure you name gets one point. From there, we will assemble a community Top 10* list and proceed to the open voting. It will consist of four rounds:

• Round One: You will be allowed to pick up to 5 figures from the community top 10. We will eliminate the bottom four figures.
• Round Two: You will be allowed to pick up to 3 figures from the top 6. We will eliminate the bottom two.
• Round Three: You will be allowed to pick up to 2 figures from the top 4. We will eliminate the bottom two.
• FINALS: Pick your favorite of the final two figures, and the Last Figure Standing will be declared.

We’re planning to make an event out of this, and for each round, we will do a live elimination show where you can see if your favorite made the cut or not. Hopefully we’ll get some special guests to participate in this.

* Starting with a round of 10 is not set in stone. If the data dictates, we may pivot to a top 16, which would necessitate adding a round. The subsequent rounds would be of 8, 4, 2 and 1. The primary reason for doing this would be if the Top 10 becomes too monolithic (i.e., all OT as one example). We really want the open voting to start with figures spanning multiple sources.

IS THIS TRYING TO REPLACE MARCH MADNESS?

Absolutely not. This is meant to compliment that poll. We still want everyone to participate in March Madness (and will be pushing for you to do so). We’re merely trying to take another approach to the data. No one poll is perfect. The way you get closer to perfection is looking at the results from multiple polls. There is bound to be a lot of intersection between the results of Last Man Standing and March Madness. Where that happens, Hasbro should have high confidence in those candidates. Where the polls diverge, it will be a fun topic for debate in the community.

Going forward, we are going to move Last Man Standing back to September to give some space between the fan polling. Unfortunately, due to personal schedules, coordinating this inaugural Last Figure Standing earlier was not possible, and we apologize for asking you to participate in two polls so close together. This less-than-ideal scheduling will be a one-time thing.

Got it? Alright. Please CLICK HERE to submit your Top 10 most wanted figures. We need your help.

Also, make sure you follow the Last Figure Standing Instagram page.

Finally, we will be doing a livestream tomorrow night on the Bossk’s Bounty YouTube channel at 5PM EST to celebrate the launch. I hope you’ll join us. Who knows? We might just be announcing some prizes that randomly selected participants can win.

Only entries on the Google form will be counted, but please feel free to post your Top 10 in the comments for the sake of discussion.

Article reposted from BanthaSkull.com

Hasbro has opened up voting for the 6″ Black Series Archive Fans’ Choice poll on HasbroPulse.com. Choose (wisely) from 10 characters including, Commander Cody, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi (ROTS), Jango Fett, 501st Clone Trooper, Princess Leia (Jabba’s Prisoner), Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars Rebels), Princess Leia (Boushh Disguise), Greedo and Jyn Erso.

StarWars.com has updated today officially announcing Doctor Aphra as the winner of the Hasbro Fans’ Choice poll. Coming in second was Ahsoka (Star Wars Rebels). Congrats to those that voted for Aphra and thank you to all that participated in the survey.

Look for Doctor Aphra to join the 3.75″ Vintage Collection line in 2018.

StarWars.com has updated today, activating the official Hasbro 3.75″ Fans’ Choice Poll! After asking the fans and culling the lists submitted by nearly two dozen participating fan organizations, the following characters have been selected:

Dr. Aphra, Yak Face (Saelt-Marae), Emperor Palpatine, Sim Aloo, Clone Trooper “Fives” and Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars Rebels)

The winner of this poll will be realized in super-articulated form and released on the Vintage Collection card back in 2018. Vote early, vote often.

We’ve been getting a lot of questions via email and social media regarding the status of the official Hasbro’s Fans’ Choice poll for the 3.75″ Vintage Collection. Per Hasbro press release and StarWars.com’s post, the poll was to have started yesterday (April 26) and run until April 30. As of this post, the poll has yet to go live but we’ll announce it as soon as it does.

The votes have been tabulated and we now have your top 6 characters to submit to Hasbro for the 2017 Vintage Fans’ Choice poll! Click on through to check out the list.

Thank you to all who participated (and followed the rules)!

1. Yak Face
2. Sim Aloo
3. Pong Krell
4. Tonnika Sister
5. Dr. Aphra
6. Satele Shan

Note: Legends character Ben Skywalker didn’t crack our top 6 list* of submissions due to a two factors; multiple votes from the same email address and incorrect submission format were discarded.

*The rankings and character selection for the 6 figures above would have been substantially different if the rules were followed exactly. Yak Face still would have won handily though.

Voting is now closed and the counting has begun! We will reveal your “Top 6” on Friday after we submit the selections to Hasbro. May the odds be ever in your favor and thanks to all that participated!

UPDATE: Just a bit of info on the tabulation, if you submitted more than one vote from the same email address or social handle, ALL of your votes are eliminated as you are clearly trying to cheat or skew the results. If you posted anything in subject line of your email other than what was instructed, your vote was not counted because “rules”.

Back by popular demand! Hasbro is once again asking you, the fans and collectors, to help determine the next figure(s) released in the 3.75″ Vintage Collection line. Click on through for details on how to cast your vote for the 2017 Fans’ Choice Poll!

The Rules:

• Any characters from the Star Wars Rebels or Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series would be sculpted in the realistic style of the Star Wars: The Black Series line
• To vote, fans can only submit one (1) character per email address to yakfacenews@comcast.net; subject “TBS Fans’ Choice 2017“.
• We will be accepting submissions until 11:59pm ET on 4/19
• The top six (6) submissions will be sent to Hasbro on April 21 at 12pm ET.
• Similar to last year, the final vote will be held on StarWars.com.