Amazon is now sending out emails to those that preorderd Hasbro’s upcoming TVC Slave I, with expected arrival dates at your doorstep in late August. Keep an eye on your inbox for your status update, and start making room on your display shelves for this awesome vehicle!
Do you have a Five Below store in your area? If so, it may be worth your while to swing by your local establishment and see if they are receiving TVC figures these days – the local store I’ve hit in the St. Louis area received a heavy shipment of the Malgus/Imperial Navy Commander wave about three weeks ago, and restocked again over this past weekend.
The only problem is, each case contains seven Episode One carry forwards from Wave 1 (unless, of course, you need an infinite army of Qui Gons and Obi Wans!).
UPDATE – Yakface reader Chris H., who is an assistant manager at Five Below, tells us that the stores do not have the power to order these on their own. These cases are distributed throughout the company by how much sells at that particular store.
Did you ever wonder what a ranking list of the best figures from The Vintage Collection would look like? Wonder no more. We have been invited by Jedi Temple Archives to be part of the panel for their “A Digested Look at The Vintage Collection” special report alongside many other fan sites to rank what figures from this collection are the absolute cream of the crop. We also are joined by three special guests from the Hasbro Star Wars team which makes this an unprecedented event. See what figures made the final ranking and compare the panel’s picks and how they differ next to the Hasbro team’s choices. The Special Report also gives warm tribute to The Vintage Collection in a general retrospective manner. There are even some special “gifts” for readers to take away from it. Click through for more.
Starting Sunday, ToysRUs is having a buy 1, get 1 50% off sale on all Star Wars figures, play sets and accessories (excludes clearanced items). Might be a good place to start with new product hitting shelves.
Stephen Hayford has posted some new images of the figures from the upcoming Kmart exclusive sets and he reveals that the Stormtrooper has a new helmet sculpt and belt that features a removable comlink. Is this the ill-fated TK-421 is plastic form? Head on over to Stephen’s Facebook page and you be the judge.
Just as we’re getting geared up for The Black Series figures to start hitting, Five Below now comes through like they did so many times in 2012… this time, with the Darth Malgus wave!
There’s some great figures in this wave, but as we all know, also a ton of TPM figures that Hasbro unfortunately decided they needed to pack into the first three assortments of TVC last year, which crushed distribution for anything past the first few assortments of TVC in 2012.
Anyways – be on the lookout for these if you have a Five Below store in your area and hopefully this means that more waves past this one are on the way!
VolkerC at the StarWars-figuren.com forums has posted images of the upcoming Imperial Scanning Crew 2-packs. That’s right, there are two of them! Check them out after the jump.
UPDATE: YodasNews has posted high-res images of these sets as well.
Amazon is also taking pre-orders for their exclusive TVC TIE Interceptor for $50.00 – shipping on Aug 15. Thanks to Adam at Galactic Hunter and Chuck M. for the tip.
VolkerC from StarWars-Figuren has posted the first look at boxed and loose images of the upcoming Kmart Exclusive Ewok Assault Catapult Set. Head on over to check them out.
Just yesterday, I came across a rare sight – a TVC Darth Malgus at my local Target. After posting this recent find in our forums, Yakface reader Darth Bobo shared a Malgus find as well… but not exactly what he was hoping for. Head on over to the forums for a closer look.
Personal Note – In this instance, the swapper put in a pretty decent B.A.D. figure in the Sith Lord’s stead (perhaps out of some sort of sense of guilt?), but figure swapping isn’t acceptable, regardless of what figure is replaced in the packaging.