Collectors and fans of Hasbro’s Vintage Collection (TVC) line have launched a Change.org petition to spur them to make more NEW 3.75″ TVC figures. Joining the movement is simple, just take this link and sign to show your support.
#backTVC #fightforTVC #save375
As a follow up to a tease I posted on Instagram back in March, I have now found an accessible link via the Walmart app to a listing for a new Vintage Collection playset to be revealed and released this year. It is not exclusive to Walmart (thank God) and isn’t a reissue of the POTF2 version. It is suspected to be the long-rumored Carbon Freezing Chamber playset from The Empire Strikes Back. Still no word as to how many (if any) figures it will include.
Update: It may include a single Stormtrooper and have electronics.
Fan sites and collectors everywhere are rallying behind the movement to show Hasbro, and more importantly the retailers that carry Hasbro’s product, the demand for The Vintage Collection (TVC) and 3.75″ figures is STILL strong in the collecting community. Hasbro continually looks for metrics to justify the creation of products for this long-running line. By first voting with our wallets in support of products created for TVC, and second by using the power social media, we hope we will be sending a clear message that we want these products and we want stores (both brick and mortar and online) to carry more of them – not just in quantity but in variety, too.
To those who use social media as part of their regular communication with fellow collectors, use the hashtags #backTVC, #fightforTVC and/or #save375 to show Hasbro your passion for the line as there are some great things coming for The Vintage Collection this year and next. To tweak a line from Darth Sidious: we have the power to save the ones we love. And what we love is The Vintage Collection and the 3.75″ action figure format.
Hasbro’s Star Wars Brand Team held a Google Hangout with groups of several fan sites to answer questions regarding their various lines. Below you will find links the questions and answers that some of the sites submitted.
FanthaTracks
JediBusiness
JediNews
StarWarsCollector
From 4-LOM to Zuckuss
FlyGuy/StarWarsBlackSeries (IG)
Imperial Shipyards
Bantha Skull
Starwars-figuren
Update: From 4-LOM to Zuckuss added
Update 2: Flyguy.net/StarWarsBlackSeries, Imperial Shipyard, Bantha Skull, StarWars-Figuren added
Last week I posted word of a handful of potential exclusives coming from Hasbro in late 2020. Today I can publish 10 hints to aid in your speculation.
For this group of 5 exclusives:
None are clone characters
None are Jedi/or former Jedi characters
None are members of The Ghost crew characters
None are PT characters
None are OT characters
None are ST characters
One item is TVC
One figure is an alien
One is a vehicle
Two items have never been released by Hasbro before
All five are related by their source material
As I mentioned in the previous report, it will be interesting to see how these are distributed due to the cancellation/closure of large venues.
Sponsor Entertainment Earth has opened preorders for some of the new products revealed today. Head on over to secure yours.
DorksideToys is now taking preorders for the new TBS Deluxe Luke and Yoda 2pk and the TVC Luke Skywalker (Stormtrooper) figure.
Hasbro held their first Fan First Friday streaming event today on Facebook and revealed/confirmed a few items for later this year.
Black Series
Prototype Boba Fett Helmet
6″ Han Solo in Carbonite (Amazon)
6″ 4-LOM & Zuckuss Set (Amazon)
6″ Carbonized Darth Vader (Amazon)
6″ Deluxe Luke Skywalker & Yoda (Jedi Training)
6″ Kamino Clone Trooper* (preorder on 5/28)
6″ Stormtrooper (Rogue One)* (preorder on 5/28)
Vintage Collection
3.75″ Luke Skywalker (Stormtrooper)
They also reveal the creation of a new fan poll the next wave of Black Series Archive Collection figures.
Click on through for a few images.
*Not available for preorder – only revealed today.
Continue reading Hasbro Fan First Friday RevealsWhile I can’t go into specifics yet, it looks like there will be a few more exclusives revealed soon for the Black Series and TVC lines. Of the 5 I’ve confirmed, they are all reissues/repaints – *one of which has been long requested – and there are possibly 2 more that may fit in well with a certain anniversary line of product out right now*. That all being said, it will be interesting to see how they are distributed considering the closure of large venues right now.
More details as we can provide them.
UPDATE: *Han in Carbonite and **this was 4-LOM and Zuckuss
Tomorrow at 12PM ET, Hasbro Pulse will be livestreaming new product reveals and preorder info for new Black Series and Vintage Collection products. If you’ve been following our rumor reports over the past couple months, there won’t be too many surprises, if any.