Star Wars Brand Team Q&A – Feb ’22

Yesterday we were able to sit down with Hasbro's Star Wars Brand Team for one of their quarterly Q&A sessions. We are joined by Bossk's Bounty, Victoria's Cantina, Coffee With Kenobi, Star Wars Action News, and Guerrestellari.net. You can watch the entire interview on our YouTube channel which is linked above. We were a part of Session #2 and will list the additional sessions and links as they are located below: Session #1: Star Wars: The Vintage Collection -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjHN_8ZxvQM Session #2: From4-LOMtoZuckuss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IbPYcFnu4&t=3s Session #2: Victoria's Cantina - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nQ_bDACCNE Session #2: Boosk's Bounty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKz9vYButq8 Session #3: Yodasnews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TufYi8hNzkY Session #4: SWTVC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txpjL0_TfxE Thank you again to Hasbro for always including us and we were happy to [...]

By |2022-02-11T13:39:52-08:00February 11th, 2022|Categories: Interview, The Black Series, The Vintage Collection|Tags: |

Fan First Wednesday – February ’22

This morning Hasbro Pulse treated fans and collectors to their first Star Wars YouTube Livestream of the year. While the Livestream only officially revealed seven new items, the final reveal of the bunch stole the show! Each item shown today will go up for pre-order tomorrow February 10th, 2022 in addition, the Omega wave of Black Series figures shown at the last PulseCon and the TVC Yoda. Tomorrow is also when the next Star Wars Brand Team Q&A will take place and so look for a full video of that tomorrow as well. In addition to those items, a few more pipeline reveals where shown for both the action figure lines. Hasbro has provided us with the official press release information and images of the [...]

By |2022-02-09T23:09:36-08:00February 9th, 2022|Categories: The Black Series, The Book of Boba Fett, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|Tags: |

Bring Home the Bounty – TVC & TBS Product Reveals Press Release

Today Hasbro provided us with the latest preorders which go live tomorrow, February 8th. The two new items include one Vintage Collection figure and one Black Series. Both figures are from The Mandalorian and the Vintage Collection figure revealed is a Din Djarin in the Imperial disguise he wore on Morak during Season 2. The second figure announced today is the highly desired Darktrooper. This droid, which has been highly desired since its debut, will be released as a deluxe figure at a higher price point due to the figure's size. Speaking of prices, as rumored a few weeks ago, these figures include a slightly higher retail price than their equivalents from 2021. For example, from 2018-2021 the MSRP for TVC figures was $12.99 yet [...]

By |2022-02-07T22:28:50-08:00February 7th, 2022|Categories: The Black Series, The Mandalorian, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|

Galaxy of Toys – Episode #101: No Rancor For You

The gents from the Galaxy of Toys Podcast come together to voice their thoughts on the HasLab Rancor not funding. Join host Jason Luttrull and series regulars Matt Fox (the OG This Week in Star Wars), Ryan Beise (YouTube’s MrByZ), Chris Moorehead (Emporers’ Royal Guard Extraordinaire), Jake Stevens (From4-LOMtoZuckuss.com), and Jayson Krebsbach (Yakface.com) for some Star Wars action figure discussion. On this episode we discuss what went wrong with Hasbro's Haslab Black Series Rancor project. Please send questions and comments to galaxyoftoys@gmail.com  

By |2021-12-14T10:31:16-08:00December 14th, 2021|Categories: Galaxy of Toys, Hasbro Pulse, HasLab, The Black Series|

Toy Anxiety – Rancor Live Final Countdown

Last week (yes, we are playing catch-up) Hasbro's latest crowdfunding Star Wars project, the Black Series Rancor, failed to fund. The HasLab ended last Monday night and the cast of Toy Anxiety was there to report the live on the numbers. A lot of fun was had you can check out the whole video which kicks off 45 minutes before the end of the campaign below. Thanks again to Yes Have Some for the invite and make sure to subscribe to their channel and Jay's over at Geek. Dad. Life.!

By |2021-12-14T10:23:23-08:00December 14th, 2021|Categories: Hasbro Pulse, HasLab, Return of the Jedi, The Black Series|

HasLab x2 – It’s Now or Never!

As of this writing, we are under 24 hours left for fans to back the HasLab Black Series 6" Rancor! This crowdfunding campaign is currently at 62% funded which is unprecedented for a Star Wars HasLab. Both its predecessors, the Sail Barge and the Razor Crest funded before the final day. This particular project has seen some setbacks due to the choice of stretch goals not connecting with collectors and some sites and groups actively campaigning against the beast due to a number of reasons. Some have also argued that the competition of the Ghostbusters and GI Joe HasLabs have slowed the success of the Star Wars project especially as all three are taking place during the holiday season when wallets are tight. Hasbro [...]

By |2021-12-05T21:43:28-08:00December 5th, 2021|Categories: Hasbro Pulse, HasLab, The Black Series|Tags: , |

HasLab’s Rancor Final Tiers

This past Friday, Hasbro Pulse hosted a special Fan First Friday to announce the final two tiers of their current HasLab Black Series Rancor. The tiers include two carded 6" figures. The first, Salacious Crumb is a modern upscale of the 3 3/4" SDCC exclusive carded Crumb that was part of the first version of The Vintage Collection, and the second is a newly sculpted Jedi Luke on a Power of the Force card back with coin. Also shown during the Livestream was the first look at a painted version of the Rancor. Hasbro has provided us official images and press releases below: Tier 3 Unlock: 16,000 Backers Needed Star Wars The Black Series Salacious B. Crumb Mini This Kowakian monkey-lizard may [...]

By |2021-11-23T11:35:06-08:00November 23rd, 2021|Categories: HasLab, Return of the Jedi, The Black Series|

Yes Have Some’s Toy Anxiety: Bootleg Edition

This past week while a majority of the Yes Have Some cast was off celebrating the release and attending the world premiere of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jake was asked to join host Ryan Doell as well as Jay Key from YHS on Monster Island and Jay from Geek. Dad. Life. in a special "bootleg" edition of Toy Anxiety. Ryan Doell's Bootleg Toy Anxiety With YHS recovering from the world premeire of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ryan has assembled a rag-tag team (or a suicide squad) of renegade toy-dudes to tackle the weekly toy stress! Straight outta the flea market...it's Ryan Doell and his henchmen, the guy from Geek. Dad. Life. and Fake Jake! It's going to be a clusterf*ck for the ages! We don't need name brands, [...]

By |2021-11-21T17:32:24-08:00November 21st, 2021|Categories: The Black Series|Tags: , |

Star Wars Brand Team Q&A – Nov ’21

This morning Jake Stevens was able to sit down with members of the Star Wars Brand Team at Hasbro, Patrick Schneider, and Chris Reiff. He was joined by other fansites such as SWTVC, Bossk's Bounty, Bantha Skull, Fly Guy, and Star Wars The Black Series from Instagram. The purpose of the quarterly Q&A is to ask questions for readers, followers and fellow fans about the current products and the recent Hasbro Pulse Con '21 reveals. Each of our questions can from the fans and thanks again to you all for sending them in and to Hasbro for taking the time to answer them (when they can)!

By |2021-11-01T12:09:15-07:00November 1st, 2021|Categories: Hasbro Pulse, The Black Series, The Vintage Collection|Tags: |

Rancor Keeping – HasLab Stats

One week ago, the Star Wars Brand Team at Hasbro officially launched their third crowdfunding project, The Rancor. Just as we have done in the past with both the Sail Barge and the Razor Crest, we are keeping close track of the project's momentum and hopefully success. What makes this project different from its Star Wars predecessors is both that it is the first Star Wars HasLab in 6" scale and it is running alongside not one but two other HasLab projects. To gauge whether having competing HasLabs is a factor, we are charting the progress of all three current projects and comparing them to both the barge and Razor Crest. We would assume there is some carry-over between collectors and brands (we for example [...]

By |2021-10-30T01:02:16-07:00October 30th, 2021|Categories: HasLab, Return of the Jedi, The Black Series|
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