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Hasbro revealed the brand new upcoming  Zam Wesell figure for Black Series at NYCC. Which is certainly a very welcome addition to the line. But we have to talk about one very important thing: the likeness and sculpt which do not resemble the actress at all. Please click through for more!

Zam Wesell in the Black Series

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Hasbro’s NYCC Star Wars panel revealed another Haslab Support Pack for The Vintage Collection:

• Haslab Support Multipack: The Razorcrest
  • Carson Teva
  • Trapper Wolf
  • Froglady

Pre-order October 22, 1 PM Eastern on Fan Channel and Amazon

You can check out the panel for yourself here.

Walmart.com has the new Dewback & Sandtrooper available to pre-order, featuring the new Black Series [Phase V] packaging. Click here for the pre-order page. 

Pre-orders are now live for the recently announced The Vintage Collection Lothal Rebels support pack. Click below for pre-order options:

The Vintage Collection Lothal Rebels (Entertainment Earth • GameStop)

It’s another Prime Day and Amazon has a few Star Wars deals to be found:

• The Vintage Collection Slave I ($91.99)
• The Black Series KX Security Droid Enforcer & Droideka ($27.49)
• The Black Series Phase I Assault Trooper & Battle Droid Officer
• The Black Series ARC Trooper (Infiltrator) & Commando Droid (Training)
• The Black Series Cal Kestis, BD-1, Turgle & Skoova Stev

Click here to browse the many Micro Galaxy Squadron deals.

Browse through all the Star Wars Deals right here!

Today’s livestream was mostly talk, a look at behind the scenes with a focus on how the toy photography is done. But the first full wave for the Black Series in 2027 was revealed as well! Hasbro said that going forward the first Black Series wave in a year will offer figures from the six core movies (even Hasbro is ignoring the sequels, which I find too funny), as in, each movie will have one figure. And in that spirit the first wave will have six figures from each of the six George Lucas movies!

• Queen Amidala (she was revealed before)
• Padawan Anakin Skywalker with force push hand
• Galactic Marine
• X-Wing Luke Skywalker (all new)
• IG-88 (now properly scaled with some new parts and based on the previous IG-11)
• Tessek (aka “Squidhead”)

Pre-orders launch on October 15th at 1 pm! The figures will be mainline releases and will be available on Pulse and all the regular retailers and etailers! The figures will be released in Spring 2027.

Edit: the livestream is going on and on and on and on… and 75 minutes in they revealed a brand new “definitive” Black Series Stormtrooper. New and improved articulation, this one even has a toe hinge now SHF style! He also has telescoping torso and limbs, which means you can adjust his height and thus have a more varied army of Stormtroopers with different heights. He’s also a mainline release in spring 2027. The Stormtrooper will be released on the brand new “golden” 50th anniversary cardback.

Edit 2: the livestream is STILL ONGOING….. the Stormtrooper comes in two variants, a regular golden cardback for the mainline and a traditional Kenner style cardback that is exclusive to Walmart, Target and Disney parks in the US and a regular fan channel release outside the US.

They say this is the definitive version now

What is your opinion? Excited? I am very much looking forward to Queen Amidala who looks fantastic.

Today’s Hasbro Fanstream dropped a few The Vintage Collection reveals. Here’s a recap of what was revealed:

• Lothal Rebels support pack
  • Sabine Wren (Spectre-5)
  • Kanan Jarrus (Stormtrooper Disguise)
  • Ezra Bridger (Spectre-6)

Sneak Preview of upcoming R2-D2 & C-3PO revamped releases for 2027. R2-D2 will be wave 1 of 2027, C-3PO will be wave 2 (pre-orders at a later date). No shiny finish, but they are in the works for future version releases.

Retro Collection will have big reveals in November.

Pre-orders start on Wednesday, October 7th at 1 PM Eastern.

Hasbro’s latest Fanstream starts today at 11 AM Eastern.  Join us right here to watch the latest reveals or catch the stream directly on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel. 

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The Amazon exclusive The Mandalorian, Mercenary Guard Droid, and Mercenary STAP The Black Series set is available and shipping on Amazon. Click here for the product page.

It’s been quiet since SDCC, so Hasbro is launching their next Star Wars Fanstream this Friday (October 2) at 11 AM Eastern. 

The next transmission from a galaxy far, far away is incoming.

Join the Hasbro Star Wars team October 2 at 11:00 AM ET for a new Star Wars™ Fanstream, featuring the latest news, reveals, and updates from across the galaxy.

Watch live on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel and see what’s next for your collection.

Entertainment Earth has added some former Pulse/Disney Store exclusives to their pre-order page. Click below for each product page:

• The Vintage Collection Imperial Remnant Stormtrooper Builder Pack
• The Vintage Collection Phase I Clone Troopers Builder Pack
• The Vintage Collection Super Battle Droid & Battle Droids (Geonosis) Builder Pack
• The Black Series Jedi Temple Guards
• The Black Series Misty & Cav (SCAR Squadron)

Entertainment Earth has the reissued The Vintage Collection Antoc Merrick’s X-Wing Fighter up for pre-order. Click here for the pre-order page.

More options are now available to pre-order this year’s Halloween Edition The Black Series figures:

• Togruta (Halloween Edition) (Entertainment Earth • Walmart)
• Mon Calamari (Halloween Edition) (Entertainment Earth • Walmart)
• Tusken Raider (Halloween Edition) (Entertainment Earth • Walmart)

Update: Now Available on Amazon

Pre-orders are now live for the latest The Black Series roleplay item, the Thermal Detonator. Click below for pre-order options:

• Entertainment Earth
• Walmart
• Amazon

Walmart has now added all three The Black Series Halloween Edition figures with the addition of the  Togruta figure. Click below for links to all three figures:

• The Black Series Togruta (Halloween Edition)
• The Black Series Mon Calamari (Halloween Edition)
• The Black Series Tusken Raider (Halloween Edition)

Also dropping today from the Hasbro Roleplay line is the Jango Fett Electronic Helmet. Click below for pre-order options:

• Entertainment Earth
• Amazon

Pre-orders are now live for the latest The Black Series roleplay item, the Thermal Detonator. Click below for pre-order options:

• Entertainment Earth
• Walmart

A few more pre-orders are dropping this week from both The Black Series and The Vintage Collection. Both are Hasbro Pulse exclusives and both are available at 1:00pm ET for Premium members, with pre-orders opening to all fans at 2:00pm ET:

• The Black Series Ahsoka Tano & ARC Trooper Jesse
• The Vintage Collection X-Wing Fighter (Vintage Colors)

Two of this year’s The Black Series Halloween figures are currently available to order at Walmart.com:

• The Black Series Mon Calamari (Halloween Edition)
• The Black Series Tusken Raider (Halloween Edition)

Over the weekend Hasbro experienced somewhat of a major PR disaster. Things turned south when the new INT-4 Vintage Collection set was put up for pre-order on Pulse. In the original press release the price for the set that contains one vehicle and one new figure was given as $51.99.

But TVC collectors were met with a nasty surprise when on the Pulse shop the price for the vehicle was now $79.99.

US collectors may be interested in knowing what this set costs elsewhere, in the Euro zone the set is 107.99€ – which is ca. $125. In the UK the price is £89.99 which is ca. $122. So as usual Europeans are price gouged and collecting Star Wars in Europe has become an expensive luxury basically. At current exchange rates $79.99 is 69€ btw. Even if you add ca 20% VAT (sales tax) and other fees a price tag that translates to $125 is difficult to justify.

To say that US collectors were less than amused when they found out the new price is now basically $80 is an understatement.

So what about you? What will your course of action be? Will you refuse to buy the set? Will you wait for eventual discounts? Or do you (maybe begrudingly so) pay the price and pre-order the set regardless?

I talked about the horrible value of Hasbro Star Wars in my article where I compare Black Series with Nacelle Star Trek figures. When will it reach a point that you (or we as a community) say “enough is enough”? Is that point now? Or will we keep buying overpriced things that used to be toys for kids, but are now priced as luxury items for adults who put them on a shelf? Even if the box still says “4+”?

Where do you stand? Let us know in the comments! 

The deal is getting worse all the time

Today I want to take a comparative look at the Black Series and how it measures up to other competing action figure lines on the market. I also think it may be interesting to see what other things are out there, how much they cost, what they are offering and how the Black Series fares overall when it comes to quality, price and most importantly fun factor and value.

And what better choice than to compare the two big space franchises? Star Trek vs Star Wars, this comparison never gets old. Nacelle has introduced a brand new Star Trek 6.5-ish inch action figure line to market. I thought it might be fun to see what other companies are doing with a well known IP and while Star Wars is of course overall more popular Star Trek is still a global phenomenon and beloved (despite the ongoing damage done to the IP for almost two decades now with first JJ Abrams and then Alex Kurtzman whose reign of terror will soon be over though). So how does a typical Black Series figure compare to a Nacelle Star Trek offering?

Click through to find out!

Space… The Final Frontier

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Another round of micro pre-orders have opened up. Click below for available links for the latest The Vintage Collection and The Black Series pre-orders:

• The Vintage Collection INT-4 Interceptor (Hasbro Pulse)
• The Black Series Imperial Remnant AT-RT (Hasbro Pulse)

Hasbro has opened up pre-orders for their recent The Black Series and The Vintage Collection SDCC exclusives. Pre-orders start at 1 PM for Premium members, and if there is any stock left, open for everyone else 8/11/26 at 1 PM EDT. Click below for pre-order pages:

• The Vintage Collection Anakin Skywalker & Asajj Ventress
• The Black Series ARF Trooper (501st) & AT-RT

New pre-orders for a few of last weeks announcements are now available for pre-order:

• The Vintage Collection Amani Guard (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• The Black Series Embo & Keibu (Hasbro Pulse)

It’s time for a big round of pre-orders from all of the Hasbro The Vintage Collection and The Black Series reveals from San Diego Comic Con. Click below for available pre-order links:

The Vintage Collection

• Anakin Skywalker (Padawan) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon • Walmart)
• B1 Battle Droid Commander (Entertainment Earth • Amazon  • Walmart)
• Obi-Wan Kenobi (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Padme Amidala (Geonosis) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Super Battle Droid (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Rotta the Hutt (Entertainment Earth)

The Black Series

• Gar Saxon (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Icarus (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Mandalorian Super Commando Kebris (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Marrok (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Mother Talzin (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Rotta the Hutt (Entertainment Earth • Amazon • Walmart)
• Captain Enoch Helmet (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Clone Trooper Accessory Pack (Amazon Exclusive)

Full Cases Via Entertainment Earth

• The Vintage Collection Wave 4 (Includes Anakin Skywalker (Padawan), B1 Battle Droid Commander, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padme Amidala (Geonosis), and Super Battle Droid)
• The Black Series Wave 7 (Includes Icarus, Mandalorian Super Commando Kebris, Marrok, Mother Talzin, and Gar Saxon)