In a small town off the interstate in southern Minnesota you may see a sight rarely seen at many metropolitan stores. Peg after peg of new TVC figures waiting to be liberated from their cardboard and plastic prison. I envision taking a roadtrip tonight.
PS: Hey Walmart, fix your distribution.
Image courtesy of the MNToyPosse FB Group
This Week! in Star Wars has posted a tease for next week’s Mando Monday reveal. The design appears to be the abdomen armor for the 6″ Black Series Death Trooper from Rogue One and The Mandalorian. This supports our previous rumor of the Death Trooper returning to the line in the Archive Collection for 2021.
Preorders for TVC Wave 16 are now processing and shipping from sponsor DorksideToys. Check your inbox or order statuses for updates.
Columbia has announced that they will once again be teaming up with Disney/Lucasfilm to produce a range of merchandise for The Mandalorian along the lines of what they had done for The Empire Strikes Back and Rogue One. Be sure to sign up for product alerts if you are interested in acquiring anything from the collection and watch for the official reveal on December 4.
Thanks to Loki89 for the heads up.
Hasbro has uploaded new packaging shots for the upcoming TVC Tantive IV Corridor Playset including a look at the carded Rebel Fleet Trooper from Rogue One.
The newest case assortment (E7763) of the Vintage Collection has started to arrive in Canada warehouses. This assortment contains Clone Commander Wolffe, K-2SO, Power Droid and Luke Skywalker (Stormtrooper).
Entertainment Earth has opened preorders for some of the new reveals shown yesterday during Hasbro Pulse Fan First Monday livestream. Head on over now to preorder your Carbon Freezing Chamber playset(s), TVC Chirrut Imwe, and 40th Anniversary TBS figures and more.
If you were holding out hope for the long rumored TBS Rebels reissues panning out – here’s the proof (including Zeb) as shown by the GameStop system. Also shown TVC Hondo & Fives – thanks to toyshiz and gthec0ollect0r the pics.
Update: GameStop has changed the names of the figures to generic listing using “SW BL #” to correlate with the previously posted list. I have posted above a guide to which figure is which and included the GameStop sku in case you plan on visiting your store and placing a preorder (where applicable).
Update 2: Zeb has now been updated in GameStop’s system to read as “SW BL 1”
Hasbro has released a card mock up today for K-2SO from the Vintage Collection as part of their new Fan First Friday promotion. Each Friday, they will be revealing details, fun facts and videos about products (not limited to Star Wars), artists and even new preorders when applicable. They also officially acknowledged the TVC Wolffe and Power Droid card mock ups revealed recently. Click the image above for a closer look.
Some interesting new rumors have developed tonight via a new list that was published but Jedi Insider. With that info in hand I took a crack finding info for these figures and low and behold I found corroboration for some of those plus others. In all, there are 15 new Black Series figure listings from The Clone Wars, Rogue One, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Mandalorian for your review. Click on through for the “proof” courtesy of Walmart’s app.
Update: The page of figures listed at JediInsider has been removed.
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