Today, Hasbro held the first Fan First Friday live stream of 2021. Today they showcased some upcoming Star Wars items. These include the newly announced Lucalsfilm 50th anniversary assortment, and some new The Vintage collection figures. Check out the overview of the new items below. After the jump, you can see screen caps from the online event.
Hasbro Housekeeping Issues
- Looking to address pre-order issues. May push pre-orders to a time after reveal, other options being explored.
- Specialty waves being looked at. Will attempt to make sure that they are figures that aren’t ones that are currently in stores. Moving those 2 yearly waves to all new SKU’s, so retailers can better manage them.
Star Wars Black Series Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary Kenner Tribute 6″ Black Series
- New products throughout year celebrating Lucasfilm’s Star Wars items.
- First Kenner Homage waves went up for pre-order last night. Includes Ben Kenobi, Greedo, and a Jawa. Using classic style packaging to pay tribute to original releases.
- All Lucasfilm 50 Years figures will have a timeline on back of packaging, which shows the eras that Hasbro will be celebrating.
Star Wars Vintage Collection 3.75″ Scale Lucasfilm 50th Figures – *Walmart Exclusive Spring 2021*
- More figures from the original 96 line, based on the original 96 figures released by Kenner.
- AT-ST Drive Figure – First time released on an original card back based on original Kenner card design. Updated with photo real deco.
- Paploo (Ewok) – Newly sculpted hood, new dagger.
- Princess Leia (Endor) – New head sculpt, new helmet sculpt, updated soft goods poncho.
- Pre-orders at a later date.
Star Wars Black Series 6″ Scale Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary Prequel Trilogy – Best Buy Exclusives
- Battle Droid – Same release as 2019 figure, now on a Phantom Menace card back.
- Mace Windi – Same release as 2019 figure, now on a Phantom Menace card back.
- Qui-Gin Jin – Updated head sculpt for photo real look. Phantom Menace card back.
- Jar-Jar Binks – With spear accessory. Phantom Menace card back.
- Pre-Orders start at 1PM today. Spring 2021 release.
Star Wars The Vintage Collection 3.75″ Scale Figures – General Release
- Ahsoka Tano (Clone Wars season 7) – New Sculpt. Two blue-blade lightsabers, rocker ankles.
- Darth Maul (Clone Wars Season 7) – New sculpt. Photo real deco for face tattos. Dual-blade Lightsaber can break apart, rocker ankles.
- Pre-Order at 1PM Today
Black Series 6″ Scale Figures
- Hunter and Crosshair packaging reveal. Uses The Bad Batch logo.
- Elite Squad Trooper (The Bad Batch) – Clone Trooper Phase 2 sculpt with black deco. – Pre-Order at 1PM Today
Pipeline Reveals for Black Series 6″ Scale Figures
- No photos, just announcements.
- Pre-orders and reveals at future dates.
- Tech (The Bad Batch)
- Ora Sing (Clone Wars)
- Zero (Droid from The Mandalorian)
- Koska Reeves (Sasha Banks from The Mandalorian)
- General Lando Calrissian (Return of the Jedi)
Pipeline Reveals for The Vintage Collection 3.75″ Scale Figures
- IG-11 (The Mandalorian)
- Lando Calrissian (Empire Strikes Back)
Our recap and screen caps coming after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAsQsaY2m7E
Star Wars - Hasbro Fan First Friday - January 29th, 2021 - Black Series and The Vintage Collection Reveals - The Toyark - News
The Phantom Menace packages look unfinished without the commtech chips.
Eh, was hoping for more than just Star Wars.
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Really love the phantom menace set. I’m one of the rare ones that has obi-wan and mail so I need these naturally. The comm tech would be icing.
The Walmart exclusives give me heart burn. I had my mando and grogu 2-pack and incinerator troopers canceled. I did get the mando sets later but the trooper is done and gone. Total BS on Walmart crap exclusives.
The clone wars vintage are flipping gorgeous.
Any body got the Amazon link for the vintage collection Ahsoka & Maul figs
Not digging that the Best Buy figures are $25 a piece for simple repaints/repacks. The new head on Qui Gon doesn't even look all that new, it just looks like the previous head (but they did away with the separate eye sculpting) so it's still too wide.
Hey General Lando is happening though so that's cool.
Anyway here is the link for ahsoka
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KJHZM6J...YF2V0TR1TN3HVY
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...KIKX0DER&psc=1
Ahsoka
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...KIKX0DER&psc=1
But yeah, the so-called 50th anniversary is simply because it was 50 years ago this year that George's first theatrical film THX-1138 came out. Would be cool to get some kind of merchandise specifically paying tribute to the actual 50 year old film (like a Funko Pop or whatever).
Looks like they cheaped out again and omitted the alternate left hand that Qui-Gon originally came with. I would have liked a commemorative Episode I Mace to have come with a blue lightsaber blade, also...
Until the release of the Willow series on Disney+ or the next Indiana Jones movie, I wouldn't expect to see any figures from those brands. Hasbro would need to get the likeness rights of the actors and they would want to wait until there was a film/series release so there would be more interest in figures.
I would assume that disney owning those franchises gives hasbro an advantage innlanding the license. Idk who has them and for what scale at this point
When I saw the banner I assumed it was an individually packed TBS Paploo.
Walmart exclusives are likely to be painful to get in Australia (got Incinerator from Target, but missed Din) and, being OT, I can see myself paying through the nose for these on ebay. Grr...
Wait a second....
Anybody else notice the Elite Squad Clone Trooper is on the new body, except for the legs which are the old body's? I guess they're trying to resolve people's complaints about the knee joints on the new Clone body.
Ha ha!
Just realised that the image on the cardback isn't even Paploo. (I am aware that it's the same as the vintage cardback... I only just learnt about the Snaggletooth cardback last year, too )
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