Monthly Archives: July 2024

We had some leaked images before, but about 4 months before Skeleton Crew will come to Disney+ Lucasfilm is slowly gearing up its marketing efforts for the next Star Wars series. They released a couple of official photos from the show and some basic info. Skeleton Crew was ready for release in 2023 but was delayed because of Bob Iger’s new content strategy, filming ended in January 2023, this has been sitting in the vault for some time already. Click through for the images!

This is an old leaked set photo… inside the article you see it after post!

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With the bevy of recent announcements we thought this was a good time for a big update to  The Vintage Collection Card Collecting Resource Guide! We’ve added the latest information released over the past week to our ever-expanding resource guide for The Vintage Collection card collectors. We’ve also added all of the latest releases and updates to our  The Vintage Collection Reissue Guide as well.

Hasbro closed out their time at San Diego Comic Con with the official date for Pulse Con 2024. They will kick off their fifth year of Pulse Con on Friday, September 13th.

Last Thursday Hasbro presented their Q2 numbers. Chris Cocks is full of praise of course. Even though consumer products declined by another 20% and as far as partner brands are concerned…. abysmal performance. Click through for a short summary and overview!

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Pre-orders are now live for most of yesterday’s Hasbro San Diego Comic Com reveals. Click below for pre-order pages:

The Vintage Collection

• Ahsoka Tano (Peridea) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Cobb Vanth (Mandalorian Armor) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Grand Admiral Thrawn (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Jetpack Trooper (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Blurrg & The Mandalorian (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• The Armorer’s Forge (Hasbro Pulse)

The Black Series

• Ahsoka Tano (Peridea) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Bazil (Jedi Order Tracker) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• IG-12 and Grogu (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Imperial Armored Commando (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Jedi Master Vernestra Rwoh (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)

Note: The Black Series Dedra Meero and Cassian Andor will be available at a later date

Case Assortments:

• The Vintage Collection Wave 20 (Includes Grand Admiral Thrawn, Ahsoka Tano (Peridea), Jetpack Trooper, The Mandalorian (Imperial Base), and Bo-Katan Kryze (Plazir-15) – via Entertainment Earth
• The Black Series Wave 20 (Includes Ahsoka Tano (Peridea) and Imperial Armored Commando) – via Entertainment Earth
• The Black Series Wave TBD (Includes Bazil (Jedi Order Tracker and Jedi Master Vernestra Rwoh) – via Entertainment Earth

Let’s make it quick. The Acolyte failed to enter the Nielsen charts in week 4, just like last week. This means the big lightsaber battle episode and Qimir reveal interested very, very few people. I talked about it last week what this means for Star Wars and how embarrassing it really is for a once successful and popular franchise. But it all adds up, GI Joe HasLabs utterly wipe the floor with current Star Wars offerings (almost 11k backers now), and now the streaming shows cannot even remotely compete anymore with other genre shows like House of the Dragon (1,047 million minutes) or The Boys (1,179 million minutes). A job well done, Ms Headland and Ms Kennedy!

The Nielsen Streaming Charts

No one cares

Once again, grab (most) of your pre-orders early on Amazon for The Black Series and The Vintage Collection. Full pre-order list will go up at 5 PM Eastern. A few items are currently listed as unavailable, but most can still be pre-ordered.

Click here to shop early on Amazon.

Here’s the breakdown of what was revealed today during Hasbro’s San Diego Comic Con livestream panel, (re)introducing deluxe card backs replacing the boxed deluxe figures. Pre-orders kick off tomorrow (July 27) at 5 PM Eastern. 

The Vintage Collection

• Grand Admiral Thrawn (VC337) – Mainline release
• Ahsoka Tano (Peridea) (VC338) – Mainline release
• Cob Vanth (Mandalorian Armor) (VC343) – Mainline release
  —New Deluxe card back
• Blurrg & The Mandalorian (VC335) – Fan Channel & Amazon
• The Armorer’s Forge with The Armorer (VC331) – Pulse/Disney Store
• Jetpack Trooper (VCC336) – Mainline release

TVC Pipeline Reveals

• Jedi Master Indara
• Yord Fandar
• Dedra Meero
• Obi-Wan Kenobi [Kenobi]
• Phase I Clone Trooper Lieutenant
• Mandalorian Super Commando (Maul Armor)
• Baylan Skoll
• Shin Hati

Click through for pictures and additional details

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Well….

The following Black Series figures were revealed at SDCC by Hasbro:

• Vernestra Rwoh
• Bazil (sorry, I can hardly contain myself)
• Cassian Andor (all new figure, all newly tooled)
• Dedra Meero
• Ahsoka Tano (Peridea)
• Imperial Armored Commando (The Mandalorian)
• IG-12 and Grogu (The Mandalorian) – DELUXE set

All items are mainline releases. The Acolyte figures will be released in spring 2025, the other figures will come later this year in the fall.  Andor figures will get their pre-order dates later. Everything else will be available for pre-order on Saturday at 5 pm ET.

Maybe it’s time to become a GI Joe Collector.

Click through for the update with additional info and photos!

Ollie’s Exclusive

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Get ready for the latest Hasbro livestream straight from San Diego Comic Con. You can click through to watch and discuss, or over at the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel for today’s event! the panel starts at 5 PM Eastern. After the panel, we’ll break down all the reveals in our roundup articles.

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Pre-orders are now open for the limited edition Hot Toys exclusive The Phantom Menace Darth Maul Hologram (ACS015) 1/6 Scale Accessory. Click here for the pre-order page.

Pre-orders are now open for the Hot Toys Darth Vader (Battle Damaged) DX44 & DX45 1/6 Scale Figures. Click here for the product page!

When you look at what other action figure toylines have to offer you sometimes wonder if Star Wars survives on nostalgia and being, well “Star Wars” alone, but not because of great products or good value.

The reason I am mentioning all this is the brand new GI Joe Classified HasLab: the Rattler. And when you look at it, what it offers, its features and its price… you begin to wonder if Star Wars fans are just getting ripped off these days and with the remaining collectors even deluding themselves into thinking something like the Cantina is a great thing to have. Click through for more!

GI Joe Classified Rattler, the full package with potential  bonus figures

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The Amazon product pages are now live, and you can also pre-order The Vintage Collection reveals at other online outlets. Click below for available links:

• Moff Gideon’s Imperial Light Cruiser Hallway (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• The Mandalorian (Imperial Base) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Bo-Katan Kyrze (Plazir-15) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Mandalorian Shriek-Hawk Set (Amazon Exclusive)

The Vintage Collection Wave 20 Case vie Entertainment Earth (Includes The Mandalorian (Imperial Base) and Bo-Katan Kyrze (Plazir-15))

IGN has exclusively revealed the next Hasbro Pulse Con exclusive featuring the STAP & Battle Droid in Episode I packaging, retailing for $49.99. Get more images and details after the jump.

It looks like Amazon is not the only one jumping the gun on pre-orders today. Pre-order links are live for the Hasbro Walmart Collector Con exclusives (Micro Galaxy Squadron exclusive is not yet available). Click below to grab them:

• The Black Series Mandalorian Shriek-Hawk Trainers
• The Black Series Mae (Assassin) (Holocomm Collection)
• Micro Galaxy Squadron Ahsoka Tano’s T-6 Jedi Shuttle

Update: All pre-orders are now live

It looks like there’s a preview page featuring the four The Vintage Collection releases which allows you to add them to your card and order them early. Click on each one to open the pre-order option at the bottom. Get an early jump on today’s pre-orders. Thanks to JTA reader Mike for the tip!

Update: Individual product pages are now live:

• Moff Gideon’s Imperial Light Cruiser Hallway 
• The Mandalorian (Imperial Base) 
• Bo-Katan Kyrze (Plazir-15) 
• Mandalorian Shriek-Hawk Set

San Diego Comic Con officially kicks off today. Hasbro will be in attendance once again with their showroom floor booth throughout the event, and their Star Wars panel on Friday at 5 PM Eastern.  They’ve already kicked things off with several pre-SDCC reveals this week, with pre-orders starting tomorrow. We’ll get the full line-up at panel on Friday.

We’re back! That’s right, Hasbro Pulse is live on-site once again at #SanDiegoComicCon and ready to bring you the latest, greatest, and best from your favorite Hasbro brands!

Catch us at Booth 3213 right inside Hall D at the San Diego Convention Center, where attendees can visit, explore, experience, and engage with our epic products and brand teams. Even cooler, fans will get a front-row seat to our product reveals, interviews, and more exclusive content from our brand new Fanstreaming studio directly from the booth. So if you couldn’t make it out this year, don’t worry – we got you! Tune into the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel throughout the event to see what’s happening.

From signings and giveaways, to panel experiences, and an on-site storefront Hasbro Pulse has an incredibly #SDCC lineup! Stay tuned for more great things to come!

This Thursday (July 25) will be another full day of pre-orders. Along with today’s announcements, Walmart will hold their seasonal Collector Con with pre-orders for their exclusives going live at 10 AM Eastern. Here’s what’s on this summer’s Collector Con exclusive ticket:

• The Black Series Mandalorian Shriek-Hawk Trainers
• The Black Series Mae (Assassin) (Holocomm Collection)
• Micro Galaxy Squadron Ahsoka Tano’s T-6 Jedi Shuttle

Hasbro Pulse dropped a video on their YouTube channel this morning revealing three new The Vintage Collection releases. Moff Gideon’s Imperial Light Cruiser Hallway, The Mandalorian (Imperial Base), and Bo-Katan Kryze (Plazir-15) will be available for pre-order on July 25th at 1:00 pm ET. Click through to check out the full video.

Update: This set will retail for $59.99

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Collider.com has exclusively revealed a new Mandalorian Shriek-Hawk Special Action Figure Set. Click through for the full reveal. This will be an Amazon exclusive going up for pre-order for $64.99 on July 25 at 11 AM Eastern. 

The Hot Toys Darth Vader (Battle Damaged) Deluxe Version (DX45) gives you some additional display features for this Expanded Universe release. Click through to check out the full gallery and details!

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Hot Toys is introducing another Battle-Damaged version of Darth Vader (DX44), this time more in line with the Expanded Universe. Click through to check out all the details and gallery images.

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Hot Toys continues to build their Revenge of the Sith line with the announcement of General Grievous (MMS760D67). Click through to check out the full details and gallery images.

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While marketing for Skeleton Crew has not yet started what seems to be an official promo poster / artwork has now been found in a thrift store (of all places), according to someone who posted the photo on X. This is a color version of a metal ingot revealed previously, maybe this will be the official poster for the series.

The theory is that maybe someone who worked on the show sold some of the swag crewmembers usually get when production wraps. Skeleton Crew was ready for release in 2023 already and thus production ended quite a while ago, but Iger decided to delay the release as part of his new Disney+ content strategy, which is why we’ll get the show in November this year.

One noteworthy thing is that Jude Law is absent, unless you count his silhouette walking in the background with the four kids in tow. This may imply the kids truly are the main focus here with Law only being a support character. One would think they would feature the only known actor in this show a bit more prominently.

What do you think? After so many either at best average (Mando S3, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett) or outright disastrous (The Acolyte) shows I have doubts Lucasfilm under Kennedy will get a series right that is meant to have kids as main characters, especially when we look at the child characters in previous Disney+ projects. But of course no one will know for sure until release and I will certainly watch the pilot episode.

Found in a thrift store…

UPDATE: Luminate have already released their numbers for week 7 of The Acolyte, i.e. for the series finale. And episode 8 also failed to enter the top 10 Luminate original series like the previous two episodes. The #10 entry on the Luminate charts has 228.5 million minutes viewed (Sausage Party: Foodtopia, which is a sequel series to the movie) which is just embarrassing. The Acolyte must have had less then 228 million minutes watched, maybe even less than 200 million. According to Luminate the finale was watched by maybe as few as 4.4 million people (or even fewer)! In the update I also discuss some statements made by Headland in a Collider interview that reveal she literally considers Qimir aka Smilo Ren as somewhat of a self insert. You find the Luminate update and the interview quotes at the end of the original article!

Well, that escalated rather quickly… while The Acolyte remained in the top 10 Luminate Original Series charts until week 4 and episode 5 and only dropped out when episode 6 was released in week 5, The Acolyte has already dropped out of the top 10 Nielsen original series charts in week 3 with episode 4! The #10 show has 298 million minutes on the Nielsen charts. The Acolyte must have less than that. According to Luminate The Acolyte had 262 million minutes in week 3 (episode 4). Click through for a short commentary.

The Acolyte is as dead as this wookiee

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The latest reissue from The Black Series is the former Target exclusive Clone Trooper (Halloween Edition). You can now pick this up at various online stores including sponsor Entertainment Earth. 

Need a recap? Check out our full Visual Guide right here.

Hot Toys has also started a new collection called the Accessory Collection Series. This series’s first Star Wars release features Darth Maul Hologram (ACS015) and is limited to just 1500 units in select markets. Details and gallery images after the jump!

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Hot Toys reveals Clone Commander Scorch (TMS130), their latest The Bad Batch release. This is a Hot Toys exclusive limited to only 3000. Click through for full details and gallery images.

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It’s finally over… the last ever episode of The Acolyte was released Tuesday night… but Headland’s show ends with a massive middle finger to almost all Star Wars fans. All in all things develop as you’d think they develop, there are no surprises really here. The plot is more than just predictable.

But Headland creates one of the most toxic romances in history (only rivalled by Rey and Kylo Ren) and has the gall to even include a cameo of a certain Jedi we all know… and I do not care about spoilers. The Phantom Menace is more like “The Super Duper Obvious Menace, We’ve Known About For 100 Years” now because at least two members of the high council should know about it all, and knew about it for about a century… which is just laughable. And that other cameo may make some fans even more angry…

There are quite a few things to talk about, none of them pleasant, but Lucasfilm should hear it loud and clear from the normal majority of fans that this is nothing most fans want (in case the lousy ratings do not tell Lucasfilm how a majority of fans reject this). While the two dozen Reylos who now have Oshamir scream on Twitter about how they want a season 2. Anyway, click here or on the banner to read my spoiler review for The Acolyte series finale.

Pre-orders are officially open for the Amazon exclusive The Black Series Inquisitor & Duros Bounty Hunter (Halloween Edition) set. Click here for the product page.

Amazon is celebrating Prime Day for the next two days. We will add any notable deals we find to this post as they arrive. You can browse through the complete list of Star Wars deals here.

• The Black Series Rebel Commando – $15.99
• The Black Series Wicket – $18.99
• The Black Series Princess Leia Organa (Hoth) – $13.42
• The Black Series Carnor Jax – $16.71
• The Vintage Collection The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter – $96.49
• The Vintage Collection Tusken Raiders Builder Pack – $54.39
• LEGO Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing Fighter (75301) – $34.99

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This week you’ll get yet another pretty short article. Because The Acolyte failed to make the top ten original series Luminate streaming charts for a second week in a row, this time with episode 7, that other flashback episode. Last time the series was on the Luminate charts it had around 220 million viewing minutes, by far the lowest figure for any Star Wars live action series ever – if the numbers will be reflected on the Nielsen charts in a few weeks from now we will know for sure. But week 2 figures agreed very well between the two charts. So it is not unreasonable to assume that we may see very similar trends in upcoming Nielsen streaming charts. Click through for a few comments about this embarrassing performance on the Luminate charts.

No wonder hardly anyone is watching this

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DisneyStore.com now has The Vintage Collection Captain Enoch and Thrawn’s Night Troopers builder pack available. Click here for the product page.

Nielsen have a somewhat erratic release schedule currently, they released their early June numbers earlier this week… and on Friday they already followed up with the numbers for the next week. Whatever… Nielsen have therefore now added The Acolyte episode 3 (the flashback episode about the power of maaaaannyyyyyyyyyy) to their charts. And we can finally compare one full week of The Acolyte on the Luminate Streaming charts to one full week on the Nielsen charts. How do the numbers compare? It’s very interesting! Click through for all the details!

The power of… none…

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This is an opinion piece. It’s my opinion. I will try to explain why I think that Hasbro’s HasLab is a scam. I am not saying people who support HasLabs are dumb or idiots, there are very good reasons why collectors would want to have the HasLab offerings, most of which have been good products. What I want to achieve is that we all discuss and debate the very idea of crowdfunding by multibillion dollar toy giants and how Hasbro is pulling the wool over collector’s eyes. So please click through for my opinion piece and let’s all discuss Hasbro’s crowdfunding platform.

You want the dog? Buy 10 of these cars and you’ll get the dog for free!

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Walmart has dropped the pre-order price for The Black Series Mandalorian Nite Owl to $17.48. Click here for the product page. Thanks JTA reader Jon for the alert!

I thought the worst was behind us. Then episode 7 of The Acolyte was released. “Choice” is a travesty. A twisted mirror universe version of Star Wars that now features current era R&B pop songs and I wish I was just joking, but I am NOT.

This is the nadir. It can’t get any worse… Nothing makes sense. This episode, once more all flashback, is just the amended version of episode 3. All the same things happen again… just with a few more Jedi scenes now. And you know why all of this happened? I will spoil it for you right here and now because you won’t believe me anyway. All of this happens because Torbin is really, really, really, REALLY homesick and wants to go back to Coruscant.

I have no words for this. Okay, I have a few words for this. If you want to know what I have to say about this nuclear catastrophe click here or on the banner and read my spoiler review of “Choice”, the single worst piece of Star Wars ever, and I include The Holiday Special here.

Walmart stores are setting up new “Dark Side” shippers to display The Vintage Collection figures. JTA reader Jason has the report:

Wanted to send word that more “Dark Side” point-of-purchase shippers arrived last week at some Walmart stores, this time for The Vintage Collection product! Back in April I was able to obtain the large Dark Side capper featuring Vader and Maul (that display included Epic Heroes Series and other merchandise). This time a mix of new and old The Vintage Collection product is featured: Rex, Luke, Vader, and Stormtrooper from the latest wave assortment, plus new old stock of last year’s Klatooinian Raider and 2022’s deluxe Dark Trooper (Dark Trooper only $14.97). Figures are stacked three-deep similar to past displays (2021 LFL50 and 2022 Clone Wars). Bought enough that I decided to take the entire unit to check out. Also nabbed three different versions of the special edition Star Wars Oreo displays from Walmart, Target, and Jewel-Osco (Albertson’s). Fun niche items for your displays if you can manage to snag them from your local stores. Also, if you’ve ordered figures online and they have the issue where the adjacent case-packed bubble has smeared and rubbed printed art off, it’s an opportunity to find some card backs without this annoying blemish, Thanks all and happy hunting.

Nielsen have finally released their numbers for early June, which means we now have numbers for The Acolyte. Luminate have their own streaming charts so it will be interesting to see how the two compare. What does Nielsen say about The Acolyte? Click through to find out!

This show is wearing no clothes!

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In the Destined for Discounts category, The Black Series Holocomm Collection Ahsoka Tano is now marked down to $14.97 on Walmart.com. Click here for the product page.

Hasbro is releasing a Halloween-themed 2-pack from The Black Series featuring the Inquisitor and a Duros Bounty Hunter. This will be an Amazon exclusive. Look for this to go up for pre-order soon.

The latest HasLab campaign has concluded successfully, though it fell just short of reaching the final tier. With a shorter run than past HasLabs, would it have been met with a little more time? The final tally came in at 14,737. 

Here is another figure we had to wait a long time for, although we still don’t have an accurate replacement. That aside, Clone Commander Rex (Bracca Mission) is another fantastic action figure for The Vintage Collection. Check it out in our Research Droids Reviews today (more….)

Thank you for reading Research Droids Reviews: Season 16!

With only 23 1/2 more hours to go it’s all or, well, much less now. The Cantina currently has 10,337 backers. Greedo will soon be unlocked, probably in the morning hours or even at night, when people on the west coast pull the trigger. But the big question is: will the usual mad dash on the final day be enough to propel the Cantina all the way to 17,000? To achieve this the Cantina needs to almost match the performance of the Ghost, which added 6,827 backers on its last day and successfully unlocked all tiers, but the Cantina had unlocked tier #2 on its penultimate day and easily blast its way past 17k with time to spare on the last day – and the Cantina has not even quite reached tier #1 yet. The Cantina needs 6,663 backers now or not all tiers will be unlocked. And the penultimate day was quite a bit slower than what the Ghost had, roughly 75%. So this could be a close call.

Bite your nails and post your predictions and other thoughts in the comments! This will be the goto HasLab article and thread for the day! Have fun! And remember, it’s just toys.

Will the Cantina fly to Venus or only to the Moon?

This week it will be a very short article. Because The Acolyte has, as expected, dropped out of the Luminate Streaming Charts, it was already a very close call last week. It is no longer among the top 10 most watched original streaming shows.

Other websites may try to run interference for Lucasfilm and claim what a raging success it is and how the fans are the issue, not the show, but the cold hard fact is that The Acolyte is a ratings failure on Disney+. And while we still have to wait for Nielsen chances are that they will also confirm that this is the least watched Star Wars live action series yet. Now, in all fairness, Andor also dropped out of the top 10 Nielsen charts for original shows exactly once. So maybe The Acolyte will manage a comeback like Andor did. But Andor dropped out of the charts during the middle of the season, not close to the season finale. It seems naked Manny Jacinto did nothing for the ratings.

And no, it is not istophobes who refuse to watch it. The show is just not good, it’s horribly written, in parts horribly acted and outright nonsensical when it comes to the character arc and motivations of its main characters Mae and Osha. In addition to that it aims to deconstruct the Jedi and portray them as shady people with terrible secrets who feel so guilty they commit suicide and who act as overbearing space cops in the High Republic. Maybe most just do not like this version of Star Wars. Almost certainly so. And to think Lucasfilm spent $180 million on this…

The Luminate Streaming Charts on Variety, without The Acolyte.

Star Wars in 2024

Pre-orders are now open for the Target exclusive The Black Series Shin Hati (Arcana) & Mandalorian Shriek-Hawk figures. Thanks to JTA reader Jon for the reminder!

Earlier today the Vintage Collection collectors successfully funded the Tonnika sisters with a cantina on the side. Which means with a little more than 86 hours still to go TVC collectors can now try to get Hasbro to feed them a few more fis… I mean give them more action figures by reaching more tiers! Only a little less than 8,900 backers to go before everything is unlocked!

Go go go! 😉

ARC Trooper Echo (TMS133) joins Captain Rex, Fives, and the rest of the 501st in Hot Toys The Clone Wars sixth scale collection. Click through to check out the full details and gallery images. 

Pre-orders for Echo are now live over at Sideshow.com.

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Hot Toys is adding to the 501st today with the announcement of The Clone Wars ARC Trooper Fives (TMS132) sixth scale figure. Click through for complete details and gallery images.

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We had to wait TWO DECADES for Hasbro to update Princess Leia Organa from A New Hope on a vintage-styled card. And this is the first one that is super-articulated. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty close. Check it out in our Research Droids Reviews today (more….)

Thank you for reading Research Droids Reviews: Season 16!

This week’s episode of The Acolyte is the polar opposite of the previous one. Zero action, dialogue only. Sadly, this also means you need good actors, even more sadly, Amandla Stenberg continues to seriously underwhelm as the lead characters in this. And so much hinges on her here. Anyway. In this episode Manny Jacinto (who is actually a good actor) as the newly revealed Sith gives Osha his best sales pitch (the usual routine), while Sol pretends to be clueless but isn’t really… just when this show finally wants to tell us how the Jedi murdered all the poor space witches we fade to black. Why this show has 8 episodes is beyond me, this is at best a 4 part mini series with one hour episodes.

So… there’s not that much to talk about this week, since things were mostly just boring or the same old same old you expect to see and hear when a Sith tries to recruit someone. But of course there are some things worth discussing… like the vague vibe I get they may retcon Darth Plagueis here, if they do I have a feeling many folks may not be so happy about it. So click here or on the banner for my spoiler review of Teach / Corrupt and let’s discuss the latest episode of The Acolyte!

We also get male frontal nudity in this… where is equal representation when you really want it?

We are on the finishing straight for the Cantina HasLab! Only seven more days to go! How do things look? Funding seems to be 100% secure at this point. The big question was and is how many tiers may get unlocked and how the 4th of July holidays in the US may impact backer numbers. Click through for all the details!

Stay on target!

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We can almost forgive Hasbro for initially making the Stormtrooper (VC231) figure a Walmart exclusive because they’ve done their part to make it more widely available again. Hasbro re-adds the Stormtrooper to the lineup with enhanced paint operations and card art. The figure hasn’t looked better. We took the time to summarize all the new details for you by producing an all-new 80-image gallery complete with comparison shots and a breakdown of what separates the 2022 version from the 2024 reissue in the Collector Notes. See this essential figure, which has been updated in our RDRs now! There’s more difference here than you may realize.

While we still have to wait another 1 1/2 weeks for Nielsen to finally release their streaming numbers for early June and thus finally including The Acolyte, new player in town Luminate releases their numbers in a much more timely fashion. So we already know the numbers for last week (Friday – Thursday) for The Acolyte. And not to mince any words here… the numbers are BAD. Click through for more!

Few people care

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