Star Wars Collectible News, Photos, and Reviews

When news broke that Hasbro would be bringing forward figures from The Vintage Collection into The Black Series line, Bastila Shan was one of the first announced. Would you believe she has a completely new and much more accurate paint job now? It's really like getting a new figure. Learn more in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Dak Ralter gets a reboot in today's Visual Guide Update! Click below to check out one of the first carry-forwards from The Vintage Collection, complete with the proper name spelling! You can also read our full Research Droids Review to see just how different this figure is from his TVC counterpart.

Get the Wolfpack Ultimate Gift Set from TARGET on their eBay store for only $24.99 (discounted down from $59.99) with FREE shipping. Special thanks to JTA reader Ben Y. for the heads up!

Our friends at Yakface.com have posted a report that the 18 figure Fall wave case assortment that BanthSkull.com/JTA revealed has been "cancelled". As evidenced by the pitiful 3.75" showing at SDCC, this makes complete sense. It's likely those 18 figures will be broken down into two more waves with the next six figure wave getting shown at NYCC and the final 3.75" six figure wave shown for Toy Fair 2015 and with the move Hasbro is making by offering solid case assortments, there may no longer be a need for mixed cases going forward. Still, more must be investigated before anything is confirmed. (The March 2015 placard dates are making MORE and MORE sense.) Yakface.com alludes to receiving future information, so we will post an update as warranted.

Amazon.com has started shipping Wave 4 en masse! If you haven't picked any of these up yet get them before the prices go up! As of this post, the Snowtrooper Commander has already gone up!

Found! We just found the new The Black Series Deluxe figures at (yawn...) TARGET in the Philly area. Oh excuse us! It's just that we have something more exciting in the works for our RDRs that we believe will make jaws drop. But don't worry, we'll get to these new store finds shortly!

It appears the floodgates are opening up again! JTA reader seclorus snaps us this image of wave 4 of The Black Series 6" line that was found at his local TARGET in MT. It may be time to get back out there and hunt! Let us know what you find! (It's so encouraging to see Boba Fett and the Stormtrooper hitting pegs again!)

We continue looking at new as well as some "newish" Star Wars action figures in The Black Series wave 4. It's now time for a repaint. And what a great repaint it is because Hasbro cast the face in flesh colored plastic instead of painting it that color. Check out Dak Ralter in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Tonight's Visual Guide update features another gem from Wave 4 of The Black Series: Snowtrooper Commander. Click below to check out the guide, and catch up on our full review to find out why we are raving about this figure!

Found! JTA Scottish reader Darth G. let's us know that The Black Series wave 4 has hit the UK! And with recent reports of wave 4 landing from online shops it appears that the world is getting this wave at once. Click through for his report!

As we continue our look at new Star Wars action figures, we look at one of the nicest figures from The Black Series wave 4. Hasbro has finally gotten the Snowtrooper Commander action figure right! And Original Trilogy purists will be THRILLED that there is no clone head underneath the helmet. In fact, there isn't a removable helmet here at all! Learn more in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

The Black Series Wave 4 comes with its ups and downs. Toryn Farr is definitely one of the ups! Click below to check out the complete Visual Guide, and see what we like about her in our Research Droids Review!

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2014's San Diego Comic-Con International is in the books, but there was so much at the convention it is impossible to absorb it all in 5 days—both for those at the convention as well as fans watching from home. But now that the chaos is over take time to absorb all the news about new and upcoming releases from Hasbro, Sideshow Collectibles, eFX Collectibles, Gentle Giant, and Kotobukiya! If you missed their panels on Friday you can relive them on Star Wars Action News' first part of their SDCC coverage. Watch these presentations and find out about all the upcoming new items.

Then join us later for the second part of San Diego Comic-Con coverage with exclusive interviews, product reviews, and news about all the exclusives at the convention!

Welcome to our next Q and A of the Day post! This column will be published daily, weekly, monthly, or just based on how many questions I get emailed – but no more than one a day. Feel free to send in your questions and I will put them in the queue. Click through for Q and A of the Day: Day 72. Topic: Were your underwear soiled? Mine weren't....

Our friends at Jedi News have revealed on their Facebook page details surrounding the Imperial Shadow Squadron set (which will be a TARGET exclusive in the USA).

Site Taghobby.com, a Japanese site, has posted images revealing new Star Wars stuff coming in a new scale from company Kaiyodo. Guess what? They ALSO make 6" figures. Check them out!

With San Diego behind us now, and the rest of the year partially revealed Beyond Mortality Toys has SERIOUSLY restocked on SPEEDER BIKES, Black Series 6" and 3.75", as well as expanded our selection of in stock items store wide!

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We continue our look at new Star Wars action figures! Toryn Farr is one of the shining stars of The Black Series wave 4. Learn all about her in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

The Black Series highly anticipated TESB Yoda was a huge disappointment. Check out the full Visual Guide to see what this figure is made of! And, read our complete breakdown on why this figure didn't meet expectations in our Research Droids Review!

We and our friends from BanthaSkull.com have some information to share with you from a mutual confidential source. The Black Series 6" TARGET exclusive Shadow Squadron will retail for $49.99 and the DPCI is 087-06-1202. It's due for early November!

We continue looking at new figures! We had some time to fully digest the Yoda [Dagobah Training] figure from The Black Series line. It's very disappointing, especially when you look at what could have been. See our full assessment on why this is the case in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Bastila Shan (TBS #20) is available for pre-order (with a ship date just days away) for $10.99. Click here to secure this figure! Thanks to JTA reader Michael for the heads up that this is back in stock.

We kick off another run of Visual Guides with the next wave from The Black Series. First up we take a look at Luke Skywalker (TBS #21). Click below to check out our detailed guide, and don't forget to read our full review on this figure right here!

Found! Holy moly! JTA reader Steve P. writes in to let us know he found The Black Series Deluxe 6" Biker Scout on Speeder Bike at his local TARGET. Click through for more!

It's time for new figures! We had some time to fully digest the Luke Skywalker [Dagobah Training] figure from The Black Series line. Dare we say we don't think it's as bad as most think it is? See our full assessment on why this is the case in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Here you go! Get ready for some more non-answers again! I also don't know how I let so many Episode VII questions get by me. We ALL should know those answers by now: HASBRO CANNOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT EPISODE VII. So we are NEVER going to ask them again, OK? They're on the "no no" list going forward. Whoever did ask will be banned from JTA. (Just kidding.) We do however get some cool info out of Hasbro which may be of some benefit to you, so be sure to click through for more!

It's an old SDCC exclusive, but it's quite serendipitous that it was announced during SDCC this year as a 6" exclusive now. See what you can/might expect in The Black Series line by checking out the original 3.75" scaled Shadow Scout (With Speeder Bike) from the 30 (77-07) line. See it in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Our friends at Yakface.com are reporting that the Battle On Endor Toys R Us exclusive has been found at brick and mortar. Now for the funny part. Guess how much it is? Click through to find out!

Worried about missing him on HasbroToyShop this year? RobotKingdom.com has the Jabba's Throne SDCC exclusive up for pre-order for an acceptable $79.90. The issue? The shipping. I tested an order for myself and it came to $40. But if you can't take the risk of missing out from HTS, then you may want to order it now so you don't lose out on it. Limit of one per person and they aren't guaranteeing any mint pieces.

Hasbro updated their booth to show all of the new reveals from the presentation. Click through for a look at our Hasbro gallery, post-presentation!

We have posted our video of the SDCC Hasbro booth after the presentation! Check it out!

Hasbro has distributed their official press picture to the fan sites. Click through for a look at the full gallery!

StarWars.com has posted HI-REZ images of all of the Star Wars stuff from today's SDCC Hasbro presentation. Check them all out!!

Our WiFi crapped out on us, so we couldn't upload the images, but for the time being we have shared images from our friends around the web on our Facebook page. Check them out!

Amazon has just opened pre-orders for the final wave of The Black Series Phase I! Still no Wedge Antilles...

Join us in our LIVE BlOG of the Hasbro Panel!

If you watch carefully you just might see a nice surprise in the latest Star Wars: Rebels clip debuting at SDCC! Click through to check it! Perhaps we will actually see a modern release for this figure as it appeared in 1979!

Next up for our SDCC galleries is a small look at what's coming from Gentle Giant. Click through to check out their upcoming mini busts, jumbo figures, and maquettes.

At Toy Fair this year we reported that although Hasbro showed R5-G19 with a Build A Droid sculpt that the final release would be an all-new figure. We can unequivocally confirm to you today that the final release will indeed sport the Build A Droid sculpt. It will NOT be an all-new figure as Hasbro first indicated to us. This will elate some and disappoint others, but it gives us greater hope that the rumored C-3PO The Black Series 3.75" figure may also likely sport the Build A Droid sculpt too. We'll all find that out that tidbit later today.