We are only a couple hours away from today’s Hasbro Pulse Star Wars Fanstream! Get your daubers ready and join in on the announcements and reveals with our version of bingo. (Don’t forget to mark the free space). Download your game card before the stream starts on YouTube at 11am ET
Recent shipping data shows that the Walmart exclusive Black Series R4-6D0 (Greef Karga’s Droid) is now arriving in the U.S.. Note: preorders have yet to be offered for this figure.
Recent shipping data shows that the fan channel wave of Vintage Collection figures including Count Dooku, Finn, Cassian Andor and Phase I Clone Trooper is now arriving in the U.S.
Hasbro has confirmed that there will indeed be a Hasbro Pulse Star Wars Fanstream on YouTube next Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 11am ET, revealing new Vintage Collection and Black Series products. Preorders will open starting Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 1pm ET.
Originally pipelined at Hasbro Pulse Con, it sounds like the Black Series Clone Trooper (Phase I) with updated body (code name “Marathon”) will be a fan channel exclusive and available in the same case assortment at the long-awaited Ki-Adi-Mundi. Both figures should be 4x per case, similar to how the Anakin Skywalker (Tatooine) and Padme Amidala (Royal Decoy) are being distributed.
Steve Evans (MrStevie18) has rejoined the Hasbro Star Wars brand team for 2024 and one of his first public contributions is the creation of this great 11″x17″ Retro Collection poster/checklist reminiscent of the original Kenner card backs. It is available for high-res download at his site.
Some collectors have started to receive email notifications from Target requesting payment source updates for their Black Series Clone 2pk preorders. When you select a new, or even current payment source, you are met with an approval to charge the new, corrected price ($44.99 each) – not the original price ($24.99 each). I was also going to be charged shipping despite being over the $35 threshold. I suggest if you received the email, contact Target customer service directly to try to get your order sorted out. Act quickly as the order will auto-cancel if not addressed by the date in your email.
Let us know if you have success in having Target honor your original preorder price.
While hunting around for more 2024 information today I came across a curious listing that seemed to specify that Count Dooku may be making a return to the Black Series line as a possible fan channel exclusive. Dooku was a stellar figure when it was first released, featuring a near perfect likeness to the late Sir Christopher Lee. If accurate, could we see more prequel figures from the past reissued in the mural packaging? Would you like to see such a thing even happen?
It was only a matter of time but Target finally updated the error price ($24.99) of the exclusive Black Series Lieutenant/332nd Ahsoka’s Clone Trooper 2pk to the proper pricepoint ($44.99). Existing preorders should retain their lower price.
My poking about the interweb continues with the possibility of as many as 6 TVC figure preorders for January 24th’s figure drop. As always, info isn’t official until Hasbro says so and the number of TVC preorder numbers may change before then.