Jawa Vintage Figure Keepsake Ornament now available on Hallmark.com for Keepsake Ornament Club members.

SDCCBlog.com has updated with info/image for the Hallmark SDCC exclusive Jawa Vintage Figure Ornament ($30).

It appears there is another snafu with the Vintage Collection numbering system (similar to what happened with Princess Leia Yavin Ceremony VC150/VC164 and Cara Dune VC164) as both the Walmart Exclusive Incinerator Trooper and Din Djarin* Build Up Pack figures share the VC177 designation. Hasbro’s “official” checklist shows the Incinerator Trooper as VC177 so will we see a running change to the Mandalorian or the trooper?

*TVC Din Djarin images courtesy of Bossk’s Bounty.

Over a year ago, we began multiple rounds of fan voting by Yakface readers to help identify just which figures our readers wanted to see Hasbro make the most from The Vintage Collection and The Black Series.

The final numbers are in, and we have posted them in our forums.  I think it’s safe to say that the interest in the Original Trilogy still holds very strong based on these results, and both 3.75″ and 6″ totals came to the same “Most Wanted” figure.

Find out which character that is, and check out the full results at the links below!

THE VINTAGE COLLECTION

THE BLACK SERIES

Hole in the Ground Productions has just over 3 weeks left on the crowdfunding project to help make some of their amazing 3.75″ diorama products for you even better.  Head on over and add a pledge to the campaign by clicking here!

Personal Note:  Anyone who has ordered from Hole in the Ground Pro in the past knows just how much Eric cares about the quality that goes into the product, and how fantastic these pieces are.  If you are on the fence, just remember this next phase of product they are exploring will be even higher quality than their already outstanding line of diorama items!

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Hallmark is now taking orders for their Limited Edition Han Solo and Chewbacca Itty Bittys plush characters presented on a special vintage-style blister cards.

Thanks to Greedo Gus for the alert.

While doing some research over the past couple of days on few new UPCs I found on Brickseek, I came across more as-of-yet unannounced and rumored products for the Black Series and by “more” I can confirm 17.  If you frequent some of the Black Series groups on Facebook, I’ve been “hinting” at some of them, but if not and your curiosity is piqued, click on through and maybe we’ll see some of these confirmed at SDCC this year.

Let’s break these down in to bite-sized chucks of characters, separating them by source material:

“THE PREQUELS”

They’ve been rumored for a while now, but we’re finally seeing some more prequel characters in the likes of Padme Amidala, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan (Padawan), Battle Droid, and General Grievous* and there’s one more, but we’ll get to that in a bit.

*Deluxe/exclusive figure and pricepoint?

“STAR WARS REBELS”

We’ve received some of The Ghost crew with  Kanan, Hera, Sabine but a long requested (near) completion of the team is long overdue. Joining the crew in 2019 we’ll see Ezra and Chopper. Sadly, no word (yet) on Zeb.

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

We’ve done pretty well with characters from Solo: A Star Wars Story in late 2018, but in 2019, look to the horizon for Crimson Dawn leader, Dryden Vos as well as Han Solo in Mudtrooper Armor.*

*Edit: This may be in fact be Han (Vandor) based on the code name that is assigned to this figure.

“EXPANDED UNIVERSE”

Not surprising really, but maybe infuriating for 3.75” Vintage collectors, is that we can expect 6” versions of the 3 characters just released  in the exclusive Dr. Aphra comic set; Dr. Aphra, Triple Zero and BT-1

“THE REISSUES”

Here’s where we get into a bit of murky ground and the potential to both anger and elate some collectors. We touched upon this a couple weeks ago that there are plans to reissue some hard to find / hard to afford Black Series figures from the Orange and Blue line looks. So far, I’ve “confirmed” five of them (think bounty hunters and force wielders) on Amazon via some Jedi mind trickery:  No word yet on how these will be treated to set them apart from their previous run (ex: improved paint apps or how they’re presented).

So there you have it – a sneak peek at 2019.  As with most “rumors”, things are subject to change especially this far out and this doesn’t include the plethora of obligatory exclusives (that will undoubtedly be sprinkled throughout the year) or characters from Episode IX, but I’m pretty confident in what’s laid out here and I’ll post the UPC info for each in good time.

Now, who wants a preview of what to expect for Vintage in 2019???

Just for Comic Con 2018 Gentle Giant is kicking off a brand new scale of collector enamel pins! 

At SDCC we are debuting our 3.75” Collector Scale enamel pins, and what else is 3.75” that we love? Vintage Star Wars figures!  These high quality, cloisonné hard enamel pins are a tribute to the action figures you loved in the 70s and 80s; now they are wearable art to take your fandom with you wherever you roam. Even if you did not collect the toy line, these pins are epic and charming in their historical significance and design.