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Fan First Tuesday Press Release – May the Fourth Edition

Yesterday Hasbro Pulse contributed to the fun of May the Fourth with a Livestream on their official YouTube channel. During the event, they announced a number of new figures from both The Black Series and The Vintage Collection. The 6" series welcomed all-new figures to the line while the 3 3/4" line presented the equivalent of a best-of series with a number of repaints and reissues. Fans of the TVC line will be excited that three more figures from The Ninty-Six campaign are being released. A majority of the figures announced yesterday are indeed retailer exclusives so your mileage will vary greatly on actual online availability. [UPDATE - the Retro Collection Prototype Boba Fett from Target sold out in less than 2 minutes] Hasbro has [...]

By |2021-05-05T20:44:36-07:00May 5th, 2021|Categories: The Black Series, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|Tags: , , , |

#TimeForTonnika Petition

We are happy to be supporting our friends at Victoria's Cantina in the #TimeForTonnika campaign. You can learn about this MIA Star Wars character from Victoria's YouTube interview with the actress below and of course you can help by signing this petition at Change.org in order to get Hasbro's attention on this missing figure! It's #TimeForTonnika. For decades, fans have been asking Hasbro to produce 3.75" action figures of the Tonnika Sisters from the world-famous Cantina sequence in the original Star Wars. In 2017, they placed fourth in Hasbro's official Fan Choice poll for Star Wars The Vintage Collection. In the past, there have been legal hurdles preventing at least one of these figures from becoming a reality. But that has changed. Angela Staines, who [...]

By |2021-05-03T08:48:36-07:00May 3rd, 2021|Categories: The Vintage Collection|Tags: |

The Clone Wars Line – A “Basic” Disappearing Act

When The Clone Wars cartoon hit theaters in 2008 it was met with a huge toy line push which only continued to grow stronger in the following two years. The animated series, which came to an end last year with its Season 7, introduced a set of new characters to fans and a new animated style of figure for collectors. The proceeding Clone Wars line based on the micro-series also had a line of hyper-animated figures but it was nothing compared to the mega-hit TCW eventually became. No Star Wars animated property (Droids, Ewoks, Clone Wars, Rebels & Resistance) even when combined can match the massive line that The Clone Wars series produced. The Clone Wars action figure line came to be around the time [...]

By |2021-04-27T23:42:56-07:00April 27th, 2021|Categories: The Black Series, The Clone Wars, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|

Galaxy of Toys Podcast Episode #94: Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest 2021

Happy Friday! The Galaxy of Toys hosts return for a thorough breakdown of last Friday's Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest Livestream event. GOT MC Jason Luttrull is once again joined by Matt Fox, Ryan Beise, and Jake Stevens for an in-depth look at each of Hasbro's Black Series and Vintage Collection reveals. There were lots of reveals for the 3 3/4" line this time around so tune in to find out what these four lifelong 3 3/4" collectors think about the upcoming releases! On this episode, we talk about the Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest event that was streamed live on April 9, 2021.  We discuss the Star Wars presentation and give our thoughts on the TVC and Black Series reveals. Send comments and questions to galaxyoftoys@gmail.com

By |2021-04-15T22:43:57-07:00April 16th, 2021|Categories: Galaxy of Toys, The Black Series, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|Tags: |

Hasbro’s Star Wars Brand Team Q&A – April 2021

We were once again happy to be able to sit down virtually with the Hasbro Star Wars Brand Team for a Q&A session about the reveals from last week's Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest. Jake joined his fellow podcasters and fan media site runners in the 40-minute session. You can watch the entire interview on your official YouTube channel linked below! We were especially happy this session as the brand team actually provided answers to all of our questions and to many of the others asked as well. There were three or four interview sessions held this morning and will we make to post them below as they are released in order to keep all collectors up [...]

By |2021-04-13T21:07:33-07:00April 13th, 2021|Categories: Interview, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|Tags: , |

Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest Press Release & Images

Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest has wrapped and hopefully, you were able to catch all of the highlights with us today as we posted fast and furious to our social channels throughout the 4+ hour event. We had a great time this morning and felt pretty happy that we came in 4th overall in the Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest Trivia! The events this morning tilted heavily on The Vintage Collection which was a pleasant surprise. Although not to be a downer by stating the facts, the reveals were 95% repaints/reissues with Blue Leader featuring just about the only new figure tooling. While his X-Wing is a very welcomed addition to the 3 3/4" line, the fact that it [...]

By |2021-04-09T16:49:42-07:00April 9th, 2021|Categories: Hasbro Pulse, Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary, The Bad Batch, The Black Series, The Mandalorian, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2, Video Games|Tags: |

2021 TVC March Madness has begun!

Our friends at @SWTVC are currently running a March Madness bracket for The Vintage Collection line. Make sure to get in on the fun by voting each day of the month! By Finndor Moon 2021 TVC March Madness has begun!  Let's tell Hasbro what we want to see in The Vintage Collection. Throughout January, fans submitted their picks for their top 25 most-wanted all-new Vintage Collection figures to the @SWTVC page on Instagram and the Star Wars The Vintage Collection Facebook group. After tallying over 700 characters submitted, the top 64 were determined and seeded into this March Madness bracket.  All 64 are amazing choices that Hasbro needs to get into the line, but who should be first?  You can download a high-res version at [...]

By |2021-03-10T11:19:52-08:00March 10th, 2021|Categories: The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|Tags: , |

Toy Anxiety: The State of Star Wars Toy Collecting

Jake once again had the absolute pleasure of appearing on the YouTube show and podcast Toy Anxiety hosted by fellow collectors Craig Goldberg, Abigail Gardner, Jacob Walsh, and Ryan Doell. With the hobby falling upon hard times for folks headed to the toy aisle these days, the hosts discuss the state of collecting, Toys R Us in its heyday, and some of the reveals from last week's Star Wars Fan Celebration announcements from Hasbro. Tune in and subscribe to Yes Have Some and Toy Anxiety to never miss out on the fun! The week, the gang is joined by Jake Stevens of From4-LOMtoZuckuss.com to talk about the current state of Star Wars toy collecting! Toy Anxiety LIVE! -2/24 #ghostbusters​​ #starwars​​ [...]

By |2021-03-01T22:05:31-08:00March 1st, 2021|Categories: The Black Series, The Vintage Collection|Tags: , |

More Fan Celebration Reveals

This past week Hasbro continued their Fan Celebration reveals by showing off the next member of The Bad Batch and two all-new Vintage Collection sculpts. Last Thursday, Wrecker was announced to be joining his clone brothers from the upcoming animated series which were revealed a few months ago. The next day on Friday, IG-11 from The Mandalorian and Bespin Lando Calrissian were finally shown off. Both of these figures were part of the pipeline reveals made a few weeks ago during Hasbro's last LiveStream event of 2021. Wrecker was made available for pre-order this past Friday but both TVC figures will be put up for presale in the future. Hasbro has provided us with their official press release information and photos. STAR WARS: THE BLACK [...]

By |2021-03-01T21:23:57-08:00March 1st, 2021|Categories: The Black Series, The Empire Strikes Back, The Mandalorian, The Vintage Collection, The Vintage Collection 2|Tags: , |

Hasbro Star Wars Brand Team Interview – Feb ’21

Today we had the opportunity to sit down with members of Hasbro's Star Wars Brand Team, Patrick Schneider and Eric Franer. Jake was joined by our friend Dan Emmons of StarWarsCollector.com and fellow fan-media site contributors Jose from Endor System, @skeletonastronaut from Rebelscum, and Victoria from Victoria's Cantina. You can listen to the interview in podcast form by subscribing to The Sandcrawler on your favorite podcast feed. Or you can watch the video of the actual interview on our official YouTube channel as linked below!

By |2021-02-10T21:23:34-08:00February 10th, 2021|Categories: Interview, The Black Series, The Vintage Collection|Tags: |
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