March is a big month for sports and it looks like Hasbro will continue to play their game – pitting their champs against one another for collectors’ attention (and money). To recap, March started out with a home run with the launch of preorders for the new 6″ Black Series Wrecker figure and on Monday of this week, we saw them kick a field goal with the preorders for the reworked TVC Endor Leia, Paploo, and AT-ST Driver. It was a relatively easy score — keeping the season ticket holders happy — despite the continued use of that dilapidated Walmart stadium. Nextweek soon I hear we’ll get a pre(order)-game for four new (previously rumored) 6″ Black Series “LFL50” figures: “BASKETBALL”, “FOOTBALL“, “SOCCER” and “BASEBALL” ahead of more new products at the Fan FestHome Opener on April 9.
Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest is a front row seat to engaging brand panels, behind-the-scenes content, product reveals, and exciting interactivity, all in celebration of the people that inspire us to do what we do every day: our Fans. The schedule is filled with exciting brand panels that will offer fans exclusive news and opportunities to secure their favorite products before anyone else*, as well as special guest appearances, product giveaways, and more! This event will be hosted by SYFY Wire on-air correspondent, writer, and producer, Jackie Jennings, and available to watch exclusively on Hasbro Pulse YouTube.
*Hasbro Star Wars items excluded from early access
As we indicated on Tuesday, Hasbro will be reissuing the 6″ Black Series Imperial Jump/Rocket Trooper as a Gaming Greats figure this week – this time with the alternate deco from Battlefront II. Preorders will open tomorrow at 1pm ET exclusively in-store and online at GameStop.com in the U.S. and at EBGames in Canada.
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Sponsor Entertainment Earth has opened preorders for new Black Series items including the First Order Stormtrooper helmet and the Deluxe 6″ Black Series Wrecker from The Bad Batch.
Wrecker! With “The Bad Batch” coming soon, Hasbro will continue building out the quirky crew of Clone Force 99 in Star Wars The Black Series. Wrecker is a wide release & will be available in fall for $29.99. Preorder at Amazon, Best Buy, Big Bad Toy Store & Entertainment Earth! pic.twitter.com/tkbKOiDiNu
You may have caught our tease of this yesterday on Instagram, but today Hasbro officially revealed the 6″ Black Series Deluxe Wrecker figure from The Bad Batch. Thanks to Victoria’s Cantina for the images on Twitter. Watch for preorders tomorrow (Feb. 25) at 1pm ET.
Here is an update to a previous report we shared back in December. It appears that there is some sort of Obi-Wan Kenobi figure (code named “SNOW”) coming to the Black Series line and is (for now) set to be an exclusive to Target in the U.S. From what I can tell, the Hasbro SKU for this figure is unique to this release and is not the Amazon exclusive Kenner deco version nor is it the rumored Obi-Wan Kenobi (ROTS) for the Black Series Archive line.
Again, it is unknown what source material this figure is based on and no time frame for release is known at this time.
