Monthly Archives: February 2025
Amazon has their exclusive The Black Series Masters of Evil 3-pack on sale for $59.99 ($20 off). If you are still needing this set, click here for the product page. Thanks to JTA reader Jon for the alert!
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Amazon has two Micro Galaxy Squadron exclusives available to order:
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There were a few Black Series reveals today! Let’s dive right in!
- Moff Gideon in Dark Trooper Armor
- Imperial Praetorian Guard
- Cassian Andor in Imperial test pilot outfit from Andor season 2
- Director Krennic with photoreal head
And then several repacked figures will come in the 20th anniversary Revenge of the Sith line!
- Count Dooku
- Kit Fisto
- R2-D2
All the ROTS figures are Walmart exclusives! And will become available at the Walmart March Collector Event, more news about that to follow.
The regular figures will be available for pre-order on March 5th at 1 pm ET and will be available later this year in summer!
One roleplay item was also revealed!
- 501st Clone Trooper helmet
Updated with photos! Click through for more!
A first Andor season 2 figure was revealed!
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Hasbro’s second Fanstream of the year revealed several new The Vintage Collection releases (and one Pipeline Reveal):
The Vintage Collection Reveals:
- Momaw Nadon (VC362) – Deluxe size card back
- Ponda Baba (VC70 re-release) with alternate card back
- Imperial Armored Commando (VC366) – Deluxe size card back
The Vintage Collection Pipeline Reveals:
- Landspeeder (retooled)
Pre-orders to launch March 5th at 1 PM Eastern. Hasbro seems to be using the ‘Deluxe’ size card back as an excuse to charge more for newly sculpted figures that would very obviously fit on a normal card back, and it’s criminal that they did it to an Original 96 card back.
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It’s time for another Hasbro Fanstream, kicking off at 11 AM Eastern.
Click through to watch the embedded stream. Alternatively, you can head over to the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel to catch the event live!
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After yesterday’s news there is already rampant speculation about who will succeed Kathleen Kennedy at Lucasfilm. The Hollywood Reporter even has an entire article about it and they have some insightful things to say! Click through for more!
UPDATE: Industry insider Jeff Sneider shared some additional info about Kennedy’s retirement and who may replace her.
Those guys?
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Check out the latest anniversary poster from Matt Ferguson. The 20th Anniversary of Revenge of the Sith hits this year, and Matt Ferguson is continuing his run of amazing poster art to celebrate these milestones. And, beginning April 25th, Revenge of the Sith lands back in theaters for a 20th anniversary release.
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Yes, I know, you may be skeptical. But very reputable Hollywood trade newsletter Puck News (their newsletter and website have a paywall) broke the story earlier tonight, according to three of their sources Kathleen Kennedy will step down as Lucasfilm president and retire by the end of 2025. Major Hollywood trade magazines like The Hollywood Reporter are running the story as well, this time it’s apparently for real! Click through to read it all!!!
Symbol photo
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The Andor Season 2 trailer just dropped, along with the latest poster. Click through to check it out!
Andor is set to premiere on April 22. The 12 episode season will be presented in 4 weekly chapters of 3 episodes each.
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Tune in February 26th at 11 AM Eastern for the next Star Wars Fanstream.
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Luminate, a Nielsen competitor who have been releasing streaming charts for some time now, released their year end streaming market analysis a while ago and their report – among other things – offers a lot of insight into how Star Wars is doing on Disney+. And in more general terms how Disney+ is doing, at least when it comes to original streaming content.
And for the first time ever we get numbers in this report for shows like Skeleton Crew and even The Bad Batch!
As you probably know Skeleton Crew never made either the Luminate or the Nielsen Streaming Charts. Nielsen have finally released their charts for the week in which the Skeleton Crew series finale was released – and it did not make the top 10 once again, making it the very first Star Wars live action show on Disney+ never to crack the top 10 original series charts.
But how bad was it really? Luminate’s report does include numbers for the first five episodes of Skeleton Crew (all the 2024 episodes) plus numbers for The Bad Batch which released earlier in 2024. And what do you think the #1 original show on Disney+ was in 2024? And how does it compare with the competition?
Star Wars in 2024
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Earlier today Hasbro released their numbers for Q4 2024 and also for the full year. As expected Chris Cocks is full of praise for himself and Hasbro and sees the company on the right path. He wants to transform Hasbro into more of a games company, not really toys anymore, they also want to go more into (digital) gaming, no surprise, with how successful the licensed D&D title Baldur’s Gate 3 was and how much money on the phone Monopoly Go! is making for them. And Cocks even announced a new strategy “playing to win!”. One aspect of this new strategy is to appeal to kids ages 13+, of course Hasbro feels the effects of the smartphone and video gaming, and the cut off age for certain toys is getting ever lower. This is where games and the entire Wizards of the Coast branch are supposed to succeed. And yes, for the full year Wizards grew again, while consumer products (aka “toys”) revenue greatly declined by 12% for the full year.
Revenue overall declined by 17% for the full year, much of that can be attributed to the sale of eOne (Hasbro got rid of their entertainment branch), but even without that revenue still declined 7%. Total earnings for 2024 were $4.1 billion, vs $5 billion in 2023. But profitability is up, operating margins are pretty good and Hasbro owned inventory (aka unsold stuff languishing in a warehouse) is also greatly reduced.
What do I hear you say? Star Wars? What about Star Wars? Click through to find out…
UPDATE: now with earnings call transcript and a few insightful words about Star Wars from Hasbro (nothing positive)
Getting smaller year after year…
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The latest Droid Factory release is now in stock. Click here to order R2-BNE.
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Walmart has another round of markdowns for The Black Series figures. Take advantage here:
- IG-12 & Grogu – $9.96
- Darth Vader – $8.49
- Jod Na Nawood – $12.34
- The Mandalorian (Mines of Mandalore) – $8.09
- Grand Admiral Thrawn – $12.09
UPDATE: Some of these deals are now dead.
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Walmart has the Micro Galaxy Squadron Battle at Boonta Eve Battle Pack marked down to $13.00. Click here for the product page.
UPDATE: Deal is dead
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PSWCS.org, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Star Wars Collecting Society (PSWCS.org), is excited to announce their 15th charity medallion in support of Special Olympics PA. Click through for the full press release and ordering details!
Tags: Charity, Collectible Coins, Darth Maul, Medallions, Pennsylvania Star Wars Collecting Society, PSWCS
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Earlier today Disney Parks revealed on their social media accounts that a rather famous Star Wars character will finally come to Galaxy’s Edge.
And it’s none other than Luke Skywalker.
So much for “Galaxy’s Edge should be a living thing, not a Star Wars museum about the past, and Rey and Kylo will attract all the fans”.
I suppose several Disney execs still rue the day they decided not to recreate Tatooine for their Star Wars themed shopping mall.
In other news: the now defunct Star Wars Hotel will be converted into office space.
Source: Disney Parks on X
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Amazon has their exclusive The Black Series Jedi: Survivor 3-pack on sale for $47.24 $43.39. Thanks to JTA reader Jon for the alert!
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Get ready for another holiday-themed droid from the Droid Factory line. The pastel-colored R2-BNE celebrates Easter and will go up for order on February 16. This is also currently available onsite at the Disney Parks. Can’t wait? There are plenty posted on eBay right now.
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It’s time to examine The Black Series [Phase IV] Princess Leia Organa figure from A New Hope. See it in our Research Droids Reviews today. (more….)
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Let’s finish looking at the first wave of The Vintage Collection for 2025! The Clone Trooper Lieutenant (Teth) from Ahsoka is pretty much what you’d expect. See it in our Research Droids Reviews today. (more….)
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