If you’re on the hunt for Hasbro’s new Epic Hero figures for your kids this Easter (or as an adult collector of course), hop on over to the Easter gift basket toy bin section at your local Walmart if you’re not seeing the figures having much of a presence in the standard toy aisle.
Live. Die. Repeat. That is the tag line of another franchise, but it’s sadly applicable to today’s mediocre fanstream of retools, repacks, refreshes, or what ever other corpo jargon you’d like to employ here. There were a couple bright spots but with ten preorder annoucements, including only one all new item, this was a weak first fanstream for 2024
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Recent shipping data shows that the Walmart exclusive Black Series R4-6D0 (Greef Karga’s Droid) is now arriving in the U.S.. Note: preorders have yet to be offered for this figure.
It you are into slightly better versions of problematic figures, there is now a running change for both Black Series Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati where they now have orange-ish hued lightsaber blades. The production runs for these figures initially started with red blades. Keep an eye out at Walmart as both red and orange blade variants of these have been found in stores throughout midwest.
If you’re feeling festive, Walmart is starting to receive endcaps/shippers loaded with various Star Wars items including their exclusive Black Series KX Security Droid (Holiday Edition) figure.
Time to check your order status as Walmart is preparing to ship their exclusive Black Series Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Legend) figure. The web page is currently offline but should be back once they are in-stock and ready to be fulfilled.
Today we also get our first look via Comicbook.com at the upcoming Walmart exclusive Black Series R4-6D0 (Greef Karga’s Droid) from The Mandalorian. The astromech utilizes the new, more accurately scaled mold used most recently on R2-D2 and R5-D4. Watch for preorders to open in spring 2024.
Walmart Collector Con has launched and they are now taking preorders for their exclusive Black Series Ahsoka Tano (Holocomm Collection) and Black Series KX Security Droid (Holiday Edition) figures.
It took a while for our tease to payoff from last September (2022) but yesterday’s hint that an announcement was pending all but confirmed today’s reveal of the five Black Series Holocomm Collection exclusive figures. Click on through for the images and additional details.
UPDATE: PREORDERS NOW AVAILABLE
Axe Woves – Amazon
Bo-Katan Kryze – Target (still not available as of 10/13)
Han Solo – Fan Channel
The Mandalorian – Hasbro Pulse
Ahsoka Tano – Walmart
Walmart has started to process and ship preorders for their exclusive Black Series Qui-Gon Jinn (Force Spirit) figure from Obi-Wan Kenobi. Check for movement on your order status or order now.