{"id":12971,"date":"2013-08-04T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=12971"},"modified":"2013-08-04T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T20:51:54","slug":"it-begins-black-series-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/08\/04\/it-begins-black-series-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"It Begins: Black Series Packaging Variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TBS_bubblevariants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12973\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"TBS_bubblevariants\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TBS_bubblevariants-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TBS_bubblevariants-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TBS_bubblevariants.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official kick off of The Black Series hitting retail starts this week and with it comes news of packaging variants (at least in the US so far) for the first wave of 3-3\/4&#8243; figures. It appears that the first runs of these figures have a bubble variant where the embossed &#8220;wall pattern&#8221; is present on the bubble. Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/swactionnews.com\">Star Wars Action News<\/a> confirm this with the photo above. It shows that the Biker Scout, Clone Pilot and Clone Trooper Sergeant are &#8220;missing&#8221; this detail while the others in the case do. For those keeping track, the date stamps on those figures without the embossing is\u00a0<strong>31611 <\/strong>and those figures with it have<strong> 31261.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Johnathan from <a href=\"http:\/\/swactionnews.com\">Star Wars Action News<\/a> for the assistance.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete gallery of the variants, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwarscollector.com\/8-news\/front-page-news\/4559-the-black-series-thermoformed-bubbles.html\">StarWarsCollector.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official kick off of The Black Series hitting retail starts this week and with it comes news of packaging variants (at least in the US so far) for the first wave of 3-3\/4&#8243; figures. It appears that the first runs of these figures have a bubble variant where the embossed &#8220;wall pattern&#8221; is present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2013\/08\/04\/it-begins-black-series-variants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It Begins: Black Series Packaging Variants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39,783,694,83],"class_list":["post-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","tag-hasbro-2","tag-tbs","tag-the-black-series","tag-variants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12978,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}