It appears that GameStop has bumped the price of the mainline figures (PFP wave and later) and the ROTJ40 figures to $26.99 each. With prices of exclusives already at $28.99, we’ll be offered basic figure repaints for $30+ before the year is over — if they can move the glut of peg warming Gaming Greats that is.
Hasbro has issued a statement regarding future preorders and product releases. I think this is a good thing until release dates, distribution and fulfillment of existing preorders (in the past there have sometimes been near 100 outstanding preorders) can be sorted out.
Hasbro held their first Star Wars fanstream for 2023 and announced several Vintage Collection, Black Series and Retro Collection items as well as Pipeline Reveals. Click on through for the galleries. (No preorders will be offered this week for any of the items).
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Today marks 10 years since the launch of the Black Series by Hasbro. It started out as a classification for both 3.75″ and 6″ collector targeted products, but with the return of the Vintage Collection a few years later, Black Series became the defacto designation for 6″ scale figures, vehicles, and premium role play helmets and lightsabers.
One wonders if Hasbro will do anything official to commemorate this milestone.
Hasbro has announced their next Star Wars Fanstream for new Vintage Collection and Black Series announcements/reveals will be held on February 1 at 11am ET. Word on the holonet is there will be a lot of complaining and pitting the scales against each other.
It has been a while since finding a new wave of Black Series (or anything SW) at retail, but this morning I found a fresh case of Wave 34 at Target. As you are undoubtedly aware, this wave marks the last of the window packaging before the mainline switch to PFP.
We have also come across information for 3 new Target exclusive Black Series figures with code names “Warm”, “Cold, and “Icy”. It is currently unknown who they are or when they’ll be released but given their climate theme, they should all be related from the same source material, and if I had to speculate, they are from The Mandalorian. Each are priced at $27.99.
We’ve added these to the updated 2023 Master List for future reference.
Check your inboxes for notifcation from Walmart regarding the exclusivev Black Series Cassian Andor (Aldhani Mission) figure as they are now filling and shipping preorders.
Sponsor Entertainment Earth is now taking orders for the Black Series Scout Trooper (Holiday Edition) figure (previously exclusive to Walmart).
California retailer ToyHideout has posted in-hand images of the recently announced Vintage Collection Endor Bunker, Deluxe Paz Vizsla and the Black Series Scorch Gaming Greats figure. Hopefully we won’t have to wait 4-5 months for these to be filled through preorders.