StarWars.com kicks of a 9 week Bring Home the Galaxy series of announcements today with the reveal of the Black Series Clone Trooper (Phase II) Helmet. Watch for preorders to open tomorrow and head to the official site for more product announcements.
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The newest exclusives from the Andor series have started to hit retail as the Black Series Shoretrooper has surfaced at Target in Scottsdale, AZ.
UPC: 5010994163501
DPCI: 087-16-2038
TCIN: 84832675
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Initially set to close last Friday, the Vintage Collection Boba’s Fett Throne Room has officially closed for preorders and is listed as “Sold Out”. We now have to wait until late 2023 for this to arrive in our hands. A lot can happen in the world between now and then but thankfully we still have our cash in-hand as, unlike a Haslab campaign, we won’t have to pay for these until September. That said, let’s look at the preorder numbers this generated:
Hasbro Pulse US: 9695 (Max 19750)
Hasbro Pulse UK: 870 (Max 1000)
Hasbro Pulse EU: 529 (Max 1000)
Total: 11094 units preordered (this number may still fluctuate as preorders are cancelled or if/when they reopen.)
What do you think? Based on the numbers sold, it pulled in a little over half of the total allocated product to the 3 Hasbro Pulse stores.
I don’t think I speak out of turn to suggest that this would have had stronger global sales if it was marketed as a Return of the Jedi piece and include Jabba the Hutt — next year is the 40th Anniversary after all.
ShopDisney is now taking orders for their exclusive 6″ Black Series Concept Art Obi-Wan Kenobi and & Darth Vader Set.
The Black Series Concept Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader set will be available for preorder on Monday, Oct 10 at 10am ET on ShopDisney.com. Thanks to GalacticFigures on IG for the alert.
A reminder that preorders* for the Hasbro Pulse exclusive Vintage Collection Boba Fett’s Throne Room will be closing tonight at 11:59:59pm ET. Expected delivery of this set is scheduled for September 2023, preorders may open again as we get closer to that date.
*Preorders won’t be charged until the product is ready to ship.
Hasbro Pulse has been busy recently in processing and shipping preorders and in-stock items. Over the past couple of days, authorizations and shipping notifications have gone out for the Cassian Andor / B2EMO set, TBS Boba Fett (Arena Armor), TVC Jedi Survivor 3pk. and the TVC Phase I Clone Trooper 4pk. TVC R2-SHW (Antoc Merrick’s Astromech) will also be shipping very soon. Keep an eye on your inbox for these and other items arriving soon.
Hasbro’s U.S. Star Wars product release messaging and transparency continue to be as confusing as ever when it comes to preorders and release dates. At SDCC, they stated during their panel that the Halloween Black Series figures wouldn’t be available for preorder and would be “on-shelf” for Halloween season. Preorders did in-fact happen as the Walmart Wookiee went live today, but the kick in the pants of it is it’s expected to arrive a month and a half AFTER Halloween (est. Dec. 10, 2022) and the Target exclusive Clone Trooper is now live (unannounced) for preorder but the release date is open ended. Sure, release dates are continually up in the air still because of Hasbro’s distribution problems (which were prevalent well before the complications of COVID) so orders may arrive sooner (or later) than that, but holiday dates are still a fixed point on the calendar. Fix your production and distribution schedules so retailers can sell your merch in stores and have them for your customers BEFORE the holidays. Last year’s Christmas figures are being recycled for this year because the delivery window was missed and instead of blowing them all out at clearance and discount chains, they pushed them to the 2022 season. Smart, if not ultimately clumsy because they didn’t even acknowledge those holiday figures when they started to surface last year. High prices and piecemeal preorders are tough to navigate as it is, please don’t continue to muddy the waters with unnecessary online release/in-store date confusion.