The Star Wars Hasbro Team took to Instagram today for an interesting development. The HasLab Rancor will now come with a Star Wars: The Black Series Malakili figure at base 9K funding goal.
“We really appreciate all the feedback we’ve received in an effort to make the HasLab Rancor the best possible dream product. With that, we realize we can’t leave the most dangerous creature, the rancor, roaming the galaxy without its keeper. We will be adding a fully newly-tooled Star Wars: The Black Series Malakili figure to the base offering, funding at 9K units. Uncarded and ready for action, Malakili comes with his unique gaffi stick inspired by Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. This figure is in active development, and we will share renders as part of our backer updates if the project successfully moves into production.
This final additional figure can ONLY be added if we hit our target threshold of 9K backers before the campaign deadline (December 6, 2021). Thank you for your help in shaping this product in real time! The fate of the HasLab Rancor project is in your hands! We hope to bring both the rancor and Malakili to our passionate fans – visit HasbroPulse.com for more details.”
No further information or prototype images are available at this time. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
You can check out and back the project at Hasbro Pulse here: Haslab Star Wars The Black Series Rancor Crowdfunding Project
Its live:
https://hasbropulse.com/collections/...-series-rancor
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Really hope they do at least the handler and dancer as unlock tiers. If they were to include a photo-real slave/Hutt Slayer Leia as a tier, though--that would get a TON of backers alone.
A 6" Rancor Keeper and Oola should be unlockable tiers. The Rancor Keeper would pegwarm big time at retail, and Oola would never get a retail release in this era. So both are obvious extras to include in this set.
But yeah, watch the unlockables instead just be the bone and skull that Luke uses. I'll be equally annoyed if one of the unlockables is just a re-release of a Gamorrean for the Rancor to eat.
My guesses for tier unlocks (no order) would be Malakili, Oola, Luke, and then Giran or another Gamorrean.
a "dirt weathered" repaint of Luke that comes with the bone or skull would probably be the first tier, even though Luke was already released at retail a couple years ago. I'll be really annoyed if one of the tiers is a cheap lazy re-release of the Gamorrean. I'm sure anything 100% new like a Rancor Keeper or Oola would be saved for the final 2 tiers. Oola would drive the backer numbers a bunch. A new improved Slave Leia would be amazing too, but probably unlikely since she had no direct interaction with the Rancor in the film. However, the whole point of Haslab is to do things that could never sell at retail, and there's no way we're ever getting a re-release of Slave Leia at retail.
I backed for two of these... I've been wanting a black series Rancor since I began collecting this line years ago!
Rancor Keeper is automatic... Oola is probably next... then hoping for a pinless Slave Leia with photoreal.
We already have a Jedi Knight Luke and Gamorrean Guards making those as unlocks would be lame
We did get Luke already but it was almost two years ago and a Walmart exclusive that was in my experience pretty scarcely distributed. Galactus including Silver Surfer is a point of reference for the likelihood of Rancor including Luke.
I'd like to see if I can get in on this Rancor. Hopefully. Really have my fingers crossed for Oola though.
Hutt Slayer Leia is coming for all your puppies!
Hmmm, definitely going to need to see those stretch goals. Speculation, but the HasLab description seems to hint at or at the very least alludes to both Luke and Oola:
"A ferocious and formidable opponent whose commanding size and brute force strength is enough to rattle even the most powerful Jedi™."
"Do you remember how it felt the first time you saw the trapdoor of Jabba’s palace slide away to reveal the hungry Rancor below, awaiting it’s Twi’lek™ snack?"
Very interested in getting this guy, but it is absolutely going to depend on his paint. That can alter the final appearance so drastically. Grayscale ain’t cutting it for me. For those that backed the other Star Wars HasLab projects, when did they show the paint masters?
Livestream update - physical proto and tier 1 unlock
Star Wars Black Series Haslab Rancor Livestream 1 Recap
That's kind of disappointing but at least it's the first tier. It's not different than the first releases from what I can tell, so at least I can keep that one on card.
Galactus had Nova (a new and wanted character) as first Tier and the Sentinel had Master Mold's head (a wanted variant). I am baffled how the SW team thought rereleasing the guard on a new card was going to be an enticing offer.
I had a feeling they'd do a cheap repack of the Gamorrean as one of the tiers. I bet tier 2 will also be a repack of Jedi Luke with a new bone accessory. Hopefully tier 3 and 4 are the 6" Rancor Keeper and Oola figures that everyone really wants.
I know there's not a lot, but ONE of the tiers needs to be something else for the Rancor. Like a head with the gate spike in it or something. If all 4 tiers are just $20 figures that's very meh on a $350 figure.
i dont like that hip articulation. why didn't they do ball joints?
this price point is a huge swing by hasbro. I'd love that rancor, but for that kind of monies they better sweet'n the pot and quick. yeesh.
What? This thread had so many better suggestions than a repack Gamorean. Where is the exclusivity in that? It's a $350 dump. I don't want a coin. Let's get a figure that would be too big a risk for the normal line. People ordering this are most likely Star Wars biggest fans so we can handle deep cut. We want it. What a derp move. It makes me want to back this campaign even less now.
Black Series Rancor Haslab Update ? Tier 2 Unlocks Revealed
So stuff that should have been included.
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