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The Creation Motivation for Saga Legends Figures

Arnie, host of Star Wars Action News Podcast, was able to get some great insight as to why Hasbro has begun making less articulated Star Wars action figures.  The super-collector and his fellow collector and wife Marjorie attended last week's San Diego Comic-Con and spoke directly to Hasbro's action figure team.  In the interview with Derryl DePriest (Vice President of Global Brand Management at Hasbro, Inc. and also fellow action figure collector) reveals why at this point in time Hasbro choose to make the 6 inch TBS figures and if this would cut into the amount of 3 3/4" figures that Hasbro can now release.  Another bit of good news was the confirmation that the next waves of The Black Series, Saga Legends and Mission Series [...]

By |2013-12-20T14:09:34-08:00July 23rd, 2013|Categories: Mission Series, Saga Legends, SDCC, The Black Series|

SDCC ’13 In-Depth Hasbro Review

San Diego Comic-Con 2013 has now come to a close and we here at From 4-LOM to Zuckuss are taking a look at what we learned.  Hasbro’s Star Wars panel this year consisted of equal parts revelations and confirmations.  And as expected due the close scheduling of Celebration Europe 2 left some questions unanswered.  Friday’s hour long panel began with the first thirty minutes devoted to Angry Birds merchandise leaving only about 25 minutes for the multiple action figure lines.  Confirmations In the weeks leading up to SDCC multiple items were previewed/revealed by various sites online such as Flyguy.net and Starwarsfiguren.com.  Most of these items were confirmed by Hasbro in their presentation.  The following items were officially announced: X-Wing Fighter This The Vintage Collection vehicle [...]

By |2013-12-20T14:09:34-08:00July 22nd, 2013|Categories: Droid Factory Legacy Collection, Mission Series, Saga Legends, SDCC, The Black Series, The Clone Wars, The Vintage Collection|

The Lost Figures of Hasbro SDCC 2012

As we impatiently wait for this Friday’s San Diego Comic-Con Hasbro Star Wars panel we thought we would take a moment to look back at last year’s SDCC panel. In 2012, Hasbro announced the return of the Build-a-Droid concept in their new Droid Factory Legacy Collection. This series was to feature two (2) Build-a-Droids per wave and the first two waves were announced.  Now we all know that these plans did not stay in place due to a handful of factors: change in guard at Lucasfilm, cancellation of Episodes II and III in 3-D, over-produced Episode I 3-D products filling the shelves, retailers not ordering new product and so on.  These factors led to new figures being released exclusively outside of the US, some exclusively [...]

By |2013-12-20T14:09:34-08:00July 17th, 2013|Categories: Droid Factory Legacy Collection, SDCC, The Black Series|

Hasbro at SDCC 2013

San Diego Comic-Con International has released their programming schedules for their upcoming convention and Friday, July 19th is what we have been waiting for.  Hasbro, Inc. will be holding their annual Star Wars toy panel from 1 pm to 2 pm on the 19th.  This panel is typically a great source for information and previews of upcoming action figure related toys.  SDCC's official description of the panel is as follows: "Members of the Hasbro brand and design team, including Derryl DePriest (VP, global brand marketing), Jeff Labovitz (director, global brand marketing), discuss the popular Hasbro StarWars and Angry Birds Star Wars line. Attendees will also get a sneak peek at upcoming action figures. Derryl, Jeff, and team will also host a Q&A for your burning StarWars action figure questions!" Now Hasbro usually puts on display [...]

By |2013-12-20T14:09:34-08:00July 7th, 2013|Categories: SDCC|

Sister Lines – Jumbo Yakface Updated

Yodanews.com has posted carded pics of Gentle Giants' 2013 SDCC Exclusive: Yakface.  With the release of Yakface in this line it officially extends the Jumbo Kenner Figure series to include figures from 3 of the 4 movie based Vintage Kenner lines.  Yet to be represented is any figure released exclusively in The Return of the Jedi series.  The release of the figure also prompts us to update our Sister Lines section as we make it our goal to catalog all action figure lines connected to Kenner and Hasbro action figures. Click on the pic to check out Yodanews.com's coverage of this exclusive. Click here to pre-order this Jumbo Figure from Gentle Giant. Click on the Sister Lines link at the top of the page to [...]

By |2013-12-20T14:09:34-08:00June 28th, 2013|Categories: SDCC, Sister Lines, Vintage|
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