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The Official Star Wars Social Media team has released the teaser poster for The Acolyte, and hinted the trailer debut is set for tomorrow. The poster reveals The Acolyte will premiere on June 4th.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Gentle Giant is getting into the spirit with a St. Patrick’s Day exclusive Yaddle Animated Mini Bust. Click through for the pre-order page.

 

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The Bad Batch Season Three Character Posters

The Bad Batch Season Three character posters were revealed on the Official Star Wars Social Media outlets. Click below to check them out.

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Review: Tusken Chieftain - TBS6 [P4] - TBOBF06

Hasbro’s next Fanstream will celebrate the Imperial March Campaign. Tune in on March 20th at 11 AM Eastern. 

Roll out the red carpet for a special Star Wars Imperial March Fanstream, coming to you on March 20th at 11:00 am ET! The team will be kicking off an Imperial celebration for your favorite Hasbro Star Wars lines, including reveals from Star Wars The Black Series and The Vintage Collection, and more! Catch it all on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel next Wednesday.

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Pre-orders for both Andor (Season One) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Season One) are available at Walmart.com. Both season one SteelBook sets are listed for $44.96. Click below for the product pages.

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Walmart.com has also opened pre-orders for the recently revealed The Vintage Collection Darth Vader and Stormtrooper. The Stormtrooper is currently up for pre-order for $13.78.

Update: The Stormtroopers cleared out at that price. Now showing Out of stock.

  

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It’s a wrap! The final two cards from the weekly Topps Star Wars Living Set are now out. Featuring the iconic blue starfield and the impressive artwork of Kris Penix, check out Snowtroopers (#499) and Willrow Hood (#500). This series ends with a run of 500 cards. Click here to view the entire Star Wars Living archive, including individual print runs.

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Another Iconic Star Wars Actor Has Left Us

In a movie with many iconic scenes, “Apology accepted, Captain Needa!” is certainly one of those memorable moments, when a sadistic Darth Vader once again disposes of one of his officers like a used paper tissue in The Empire Strikes Back.

And sadly, the actor portraying Captain Needa, Michael Culver, has passed away on February 27th 2024 at the age of 85, news of his death however only broke yesterday. Michael Culver did not appear in all that many Hollywood movies, but like many other accomplished British actors he had a very extensive theatre career and Culver was also always in high demand on British television, where he regularly appeared in various series until 2008, only after that did his tv career slowly wind down, but Culver would still narrate a few documentaries in later years.

So let’s all remember Michael Culver who will never be forgotten by the Star Wars community as the officer who would take full responsibility for losing track of Han Solo, only to become another one of Darth Vader’s victims. But as mentioned above, it would be wrong to limit Michael Culver’s long career to this one movie, some of the series he starred in that you may have heard of outside of Britain are Space 1999, The Professionals or the classic The Avengers.

Rest in peace!

Apology accepted, Captain Needa!

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This week we get a The Bad Batch double feature with Infiltration and Extraction. And the two episodes are the best of season 3 thus far. One reason for that is that the focus this week is mostly on Rex, Crosshair, Howzer and Wolffe with some interesting cameos, even the action is above standard, no alien monsters this week, instead we get an intense escape sequence when a deadly clone assassin and squads of clone troopers under the command of Wolffe, who try to capture Omega, raid Rex’ hideout. So click here or on the banner to read my spoiler review and let’s discuss this week’s two-parter!

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Pre-Order Yesterday's TVC & TBS Imperial March Reveals

Pre-orders are now open for The Vintage Collection and The Black Series Imperial March Campaign reveals from yesterday. Click below for the pre-order pages:

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Walmart's Spring 2024 Collector Con Is Now Live

Our next addition to The Black Series Visual Guide is Boba Fett (Throne Room) (The Book of Boba Fett 02). Click below to access the full guide page. Click here to check out our full review.

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The Vintage Collection Imperial March Reveals!

For some reason the official Star Wars site did not include the Vintage Collection reveals for the Imperial March campaign in their own article about the new promo campaign, but you can find the TVC items in the list of all new reveals here!

  • A classic Stormtrooper (mainline)
  • A New Hope Darth Vader (mainline)
  • Ahsoka Night Troopers with Enoch 4-pack (Amazon US and Fan Channel exclusive)

Pre-orders open once more tomorrow at 1 pm ET or 17:00 GMT! Will you get some or all of the TVC figures?

Available for pre-order on March 14th

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Imperial March Campaign Unveiled!

Star Wars gets a new promo campaign! This time it’s “Imperial March” (they seem to love puns) and as the name suggests this campaign is all about the villains! The official Star Wars site has all the details and they will also post highlights from the newly revealed items each week. The Black Series will get a Jedi Fallen Order 3-pack with the Second Sister, an Inquisitor version of Cal Kestis (based on a vision) and once more a Purge Trooper, but with some changed paint deco, so you get two straight repacks/repaints and one new figure. For the Vintage Collection reveals check the specific TVC article!

Price was not mentioned, pre-orders open on March 14th, 1 pm ET or 17:00 GMT, the set is an Amazon US exclusive! Release date is summer 2024, so in about four or five months from now! Go to the official Star Wars site for the other reveals, among them a Jazwares Micro Squadron N-1 Starfighter!

Will you get the Black Series Fallen Order 3-pack?

Amazon exclusive Black Series Fallen Order 3-pack

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Walmart’s Spring Collector Con kicks off this Thursday (3/14) at 10 AM Eastern. Pre-orders will open for two The Black Series exclusives. They’ve already posted the placeholder pages in their Collector Con preview for R4-6D0 & the Mandalorian Nite Owl. Both figures will retail for $24.97. Click below for the product pages, and check out their preview page for some of their other licensee exclusives.   

   

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Today’s Visual Guide update adds The Black Series Echo (Mercenary Gear) (The Bad Batch 17) to our Visual Guides. Click below for the full Visual Guide page. You can also check out our full review of this figure in our review database.

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Our next Visual Guide update continues our look at The Black Series Walmart exclusive The Bad Batch figures. Up next is Tech (Mercenary Gear) (The Bad Batch 16). Click below to check him out! Click here to check out our full review.

 

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Today’s Visual Guide update features the Walmart exclusive Wrecker (Mercenary Gear) (The Bad Batch 14) from The Black Series. Click below to check out the full Visual Guide. You can also visit our full review of this figure right here.

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It’s time for the penultimate set of cards from the weekly Topps Star Wars Living Set. Featuring the iconic blue starfield and the impressive artwork of Kris Penix, check out Darth Nihilus (#497) and Darth Revan (#498)Click here to view the entire Star Wars Living archive, including individual print runs.

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Even though demand for The Bad Batch episode reviews is at a record low – as are probably the streaming ratings/ views – here is the review for the latest episode released yesterday! And it not only has some questionable low tech scifi again (one of Star Wars’ hallmarks) or shows to the audience once again how much Star Wars borrowed from Dune, it also has some good moments, whenever the Bad Batch are not running around shooting alien monsters that is, and focuses on its characters and this week it means Crosshair has a hard time returning to the fold and Hunter does not trust him at all. So click here or on the banner to read my spoiler review for The Return!

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It looks like the long-running Star Wars Living set featuring art from Kris Penix and Carlos Cabaleiro will end next week with cards 499 & 500. While this set is not for everyone, it’s been a great run starting back in June 2019, and we’ve been happy to feature every set since day 1.  Click through to read a message from Kris Penix. 

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Pre-orders are now open for the Hot Toys sixth scale Shin Hati (TMS124) and Baylon Skoll (TMS125) figures. Click below for the pre-order pages.

   

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Hot Toys Baylon Skoll (TMS125) 1/6 Scale Figure

Hot Toys also reveals their sixth scale Baylon Skoll (TMS125) to go along with Shin Hati, adding to the Star Wars: Ahsoka line-up. Get all the details and images after the jump.

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