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Mando Monday #8 Hasbro Press Release

This week Hasbro once again debuted new product on the penultimate Mando Monday! Next week will be the final installment as it corresponds with this Friday's final episode of Season 2. After fans experience the latest episode every Friday on Disney+, they can visit MandoMondays.com each Monday to see what new toys, collectibles, apparel, books, comics, digital content and more will be unveiled. Mando Mondays will run for nine weeks, culminating on December 21. The rumored and now confirmed Bo-Katan is joining The Black Series next year along with a second 2021 Archive Collection wave. This second wave not only reissues hot-on-the-second-hand-market figures but ones that all tie into The Mandolorian as well. Lastly, in the action figure category, the third wave of The Bounty Collection [...]

By |2020-12-16T21:54:54-08:00December 16th, 2020|Categories: The Black Series, The Mandalorian|Tags: |

The Future of Star Wars

During a tidal wave of new and mostly-amazing announcements made today during Disney's annual Investor's Day presentation, the future of the Star Wars franchise was made known. No less than 10 Star Wars properties were detailed with most of them being revealed for the first time. President of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, hosted the LFL and Star Wars reveals. We'll breakdown what was mentioned and revealed about each project below. Motion Pictures Star Wars: Rogue Squadron - Patty Jenkins will be directing a new film in an unspecified time about "a new generation of starfighter pilots as they earn their wings and risk their lives in a boundary-pushing, high-speed thrill-ride, and move the saga into the future era of the galaxy." pic.twitter.com/e3N00xCr5i — Patty Jenkins [...]

By |2020-12-10T22:28:47-08:00December 10th, 2020|Categories: Disney+, The Mandalorian|Tags: |

Mando Monday #7 Hasbro Press Release

After taking the week off, Hasbro is back for the seventh week on #MandoMonday with new product reveals. Included this week were three new Mission Fleet sets and one fantastic looking Nerf gun. The Blurrg makes its figure debut in this latest wave of Figure and Vehicle sets. Many collectors are already asking how it may scale with the 3 3/4" line showing the need for a heritage scale version, but they will have to wait until Spring to make a comparison. The Mission Fleet 5-pack on the other is already available at Amazon and has been for a few weeks. Hasbro has provided us with their official press release and images below: NERF STAR WARS THE MANDALORIAN AMBAN PHASE-PULSE BLASTER (HASBRO/Ages 8 years & up/Approx. [...]

By |2020-12-07T23:53:54-08:00December 7th, 2020|Categories: Mission Fleet, The Mandalorian|Tags: |

Midnight Mando: 11/27/2020 – Chapter 13

This past week Jake had the pleasure of joining once again the hosts of Yes Have Some's Toy Anxiety podcast but this time to round table the latest episode of The Mandalorian. Midnight Mando, the live YouTube show hosted by Craig Goldberg and Abigail Gardner, breaks down each episode with equal parts knowledge and humor. If you are up for Star Wars history, deep cuts, speculation and a fun discussion then check out Chapter 13! #themandalorian #babyyoda #starwarspodcast Join the YHS crew for another round of Midnight Mando! Subscribe to Yes Have Some on YouTube - http://shorturl.at/djD09 Follow YHS on Social Media - http://www.instagram.com/yhspodcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/YHSGr http://www.twitter.com/yhspodcast Support YHS on Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/yeshavesome Subscribe to Yes Have Some on YouTube - [...]

By |2020-12-03T21:37:54-08:00December 3rd, 2020|Categories: The Mandalorian|Tags: |

The Mandalorian: The Child Promo Box Review

Our friends at Hasbro were kind enough to send us a The Child-themed promo box full of Baby Yoda goodness from The Mandalorian. To celebrate this past #MandoMonday, Jake unboxed and reviewed the products within and you can see it all in the video above or over on our official YouTube page. Thanks again to Hasbro for providing these products and look for them all at Hasbro Pulse and both online and at most major brick and mortar retailers. This is the way!

By |2020-12-02T22:37:13-08:00December 2nd, 2020|Categories: The Mandalorian|Tags: , , |

The Sandcrawler Podcast #103 – Many Many Mando Mondays!

This week on The Sandcrawler, Jake joins Mac and Dan to discuss this Fall's many #MandoMonday reveals and a ton of action figure therapy...now in video! This week we catch up on Mando Mondays and the announced Star Wars figures for Black Series and The Vintage Collection. Will we get the entire Bad Batch team at some point? Does it really matter if the announced Zutton figure is named Snaggletooth or not? In I Wanted Everything Jake knocked off a few big missing pieces for his complete Disney Parks Droid Factory collection. Dan finds a super cool KB Toys Phantom Menace sign and Mac proves he’s a hypocrite  and gets The Carbon Freeze Chamber play set. It’s a shorter show [...]

By |2020-11-28T00:17:22-08:00November 28th, 2020|Categories: The Black Series, The Sandcrawler, The Vintage Collection|Tags: |

Mando Mondays #5 Hasbro Press Release

Continuing what Lucasfilm began in October, today was yet another round of #MandoMondays merchandise reveals from the hit series The Mandalorian. Hasbro's offerings these last two weeks have made us very happy because last year at Washington State Summer Con, Jake had the pleasure of interviewing the amazing Carl Weathers on stage. His Mando directorial debut has garnered lots of acclaim with many calling it their favorite yet! Now while the episode is not even a week old yet, Hasbro has announced Weathers' character Greef Carga in his Season 2 look for The Vintage Collection. This will be the second 3 3/4" figure to bare this look as only last week's The Black Series Carga figure will feature his Season 1 outfit. The second [...]

By |2020-11-23T22:58:03-08:00November 23rd, 2020|Categories: The Mandalorian, The Vintage Collection|Tags: |

Unboxing Disney’s New Droid Depot 5-Pack Set

In his ongoing 8-year mission to stay complete on collecting Disney's exclusive line of Build-a-Droids, Jake unboxes the latest offering: The Droid Depot 5-pack. This set features the five droids that sit outside the Droid Depot experience in Galaxy's Edge. This set retails for $50 and was released earlier this week at a special retail event at Downtown Disney. All the details concerning this set can be found in the above video, or by heading to our official YouTube page! Look for our Disney's Droid Factory Build-a-Droid Guide to be updated shortly!

By |2020-11-22T10:18:10-08:00November 22nd, 2020|Categories: Disney's Droid Factory|Tags: , |

Mando Mondays #4 Hasbro Press Release

This morning Hasbro announced another three Black Series figures based on the Disney+ hit The Mandalorian. These reveals were made on the fourth Mando Monday since the program began in late October. Each of the figures revealed today include characters that have yet to be announced for The Vintage Collection but have been announced for the Retro Collection. Now is should be noted that while Amazon and Wal*Mart are listed below, these figures are not exclusive to those retailers and will be released both in brick-and-mortar stores and at online etailers. We have been provided the official press release and images by Hasbro and be found below: STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES 6-INCH MOFF GIDEON Figure (HASBRO/Age 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $19.99/Available: [...]

By |2020-11-16T23:01:15-08:00November 16th, 2020|Categories: The Black Series, The Mandalorian|

Fan First Friday November’s Livestream Press Release

Last Friday, Hasbro Pulse held another Fan First Friday Livestream event which resulted in four new reveals for The Black Series and The Vintage Collection. The event hosted by Star Wars Brand Team members Patrick Schnieder and Eric from the Design Department on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel. The Vintage Collection Zutton figure was hinted at potentially needing two more versions to be released in the line before for and Hasbro can check it off their The Ninty Six list which is referring to the original 96 or figures that were originally released by Kenner in the vintage line. In addition to the reveals, it was mentioned that the Brand Team is listening to fans and that after the next release of Captain Rex [...]

By |2020-11-16T22:36:28-08:00November 16th, 2020|Categories: The Black Series, The Clone Wars, The Vintage Collection|
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