The winner of Hasbro’s TVC Vote from the Vault figure poll will be offered as an exclusive as confirmed by BanthaSkull in their recent QNA with the Star Wars Brand Team.
Head on over to the Hasbro Pulse Instagram page to vote for your most wanted reissue. Voting closes April 23.
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Hasbro sprung a nice surprise on TVC collectors at today;s Hasbro Fan Fest presentation with the reveal of the TVC General Merrick X-wing Fighter with Antoc Merrick from Rogue One. This will be available exclusively through Target in the US.
ToysRus.ca jumped the gun a bit and has posted images for a couple rumored TVC Gaming Greats figures including the Shadow Stormtrooper from The Force Unleashed and the Heavy Battle Droid from Battlefront II.
As announced at today’s Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest Preview for Hasbro Premium Members, Hasbro will be launching a fans choice poll for one of the five figures above to be reissued from “the vault”. It will be interesting to see who comes out on top.
Over in the Rebelscum Forums on Monday, it was discovered that the VC186 Boba Fett has a running change to the sculpt which corrects the omission of the digital readout details from the first run of figures.
Thanks to MurderBear for sharing with the class.
Updated shipping data shows that cases of 6″ Carnor Jax, 6″ Darth Maul, cases of the mystery Target Exclusive 6″ Black Series “Rain” and “Snow*” figures and the Amazon exclusive 6″ Greedo (Kenner Deco) figure plus the First Order Stormtrooper Electronic Helmet have arrived in the Hasbro Distribution Center in CA. Solid cases Moff Gideon and Kuiil from the Retro Collection have arrived stateside as well.
*Rumored to be Obi-Wan Kenobi
Another mystery listing has shown up on Amazon sites overseas and what is puzzling about this one is that the Australia listing describes it as a Vintage “Cat Toy” item, while the Italian listing has it simply as “Black Series”. Both listings share the same Hasbro SKU number (F2886) and EAN/Barcode. The price for this item is around 60 Euros.
It’s anyone’s guess as to what it may actually be but considering how specific the AU listing is (and how general the IT listing is) I’m putting this in the TVC column.
Thanks to JTPrime for the links.
It’s hard to know what to expect with Hasbro’s upcoming Fan Fest in two weeks, but it looks like there are several preorders coming judging by the 12 listings added to certain vendor’s website. The new listings break evenly between Vintage Collection and Black Series, which is nice, but I believe four of the TVC figures are for the upcoming repack/repaint wave. The two “new” TVC listings feature code names I haven’t seen until now “FOUNTAIN” and “MARKER” – these may line up with the rumored TVC Gaming Greats figures but it’s difficult to know at this point until I find some additional info and with the doubling up of code names now. As for the Black Series figures, these should all be from the next wave and feature Aurra Sing, Tech, Q9-0 and others.
Since we’re still a couple weeks out, details may change so stay tuned.
For some time, we’ve been providing code names via our Master List for upcoming product for the Black Series and Vintage Collection products. Recently we’ve noticed that some figures have started to double up on the code names in order to further mask their identities from prying eyes until they are officially announced. TBS has been doing it and now it appears matters are worse and TVC is employing the tactic as well. Read on for my theory that may impact the number of figures coming for TVC in the near future.
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