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Up next for the Walmart exclusive Original 96 wave is the Imperial Gunner (VC232). Click below for our fully detailed Visual Guide. You can also read a full review of this figure in our review database.

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Entertainment Earth has opened pre-orders for eight figures previously exclusive to Walmart, including the Ahsoka Tano and Grogu set and Stormtrooper. Click below for pre-order pages!

• Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2)
• Bespin Security Guard (Helder Spinoza)
• Bespin Security Guard (Isdam Edian)
• Imperial Gunner
• Stormtrooper
• Ahsoka Tano and Grogu
• Imperial Stormtrooper and E-Web Cannon
• Incinerator Trooper and Grogu

Do you remember the scene from “Misery” when Annie Wilkes exclaimed “He didn’t get out of the cockadoodie car!”? That’s about where we are with the Walmart exclusive Imperial Gunner figure from The Vintage Collection. Apparently, Hasbro believes they can pull the wool over longtime TVC collectors’ eyes so they can pass off an old figure from a Disney Star Wars source as an OT character when it’s entirely inaccurate! (more….)

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Click below for pre-order pages for the Walmart Collector Con exclusive The Vintage Collection figures:

Update: Several are now showing ‘out of stock’, including the Stormtrooper and R2-D2. 

• Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2)
• Bespin Security Guard (Helder Spinoza)
• Bespin Security Guard (Isdam Edian)
• Imperial Gunner
• Stormtrooper

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Walmart Collector Con is set to launch tomorrow morning at 10 AM  Eastern. Here are the links for the upcoming The Vintage Collection exclusives expected to go live at that time:

Note: Until the links are activated, they will default to the Collector Con home page.

• Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2)
• Bespin Security Guard (Helder Spinoza)
• Bespin Security Guard (Isdam Edian)
• Imperial Gunner
• Stormtrooper

Check out Instagram user @victoriascantina for two more fansite reveals today: The Vintage Collection Imperial Gunner (Return of the Jedi) and R2-D2 (with Sensorscope) (The Empire Strikes Back). Both will be Walmart exclusives and up for pre-order on March 24th at 1 PM Eastern. You can also view them on her Twitter account.

Welcome to another entry in our The Vintage Collection: The Ninety Six column. Hasbro recently committed to collectors that they will be “focusing” on characters in The Vintage Collection that fall under “The Ninety Six” banner. If you’re new to this, it means that there needs a modern counterpart for every classic Kenner figure. Between 2020 and 2021, Hasbro’s made an admirable effort by focusing on these characters. But there is more work to be done, and we’ll figure out where we are step by step. Today we assess Imperial Gunner.

Full Story

In 1984, new packaging for Star Wars figures was introduced for the European market. A cost containment initiative, the new packaging sported three languages of the Return Of The Jedi logo for a “one size fits all” approach. Although a “three-logo” design was created for The Power Of The Force line (as evidenced on some ‘boxed’ toys), it wasn’t carried over to the basic figure line’s card design. They continued to use the three Return Of The Jedi logos instead. Although the word “Trilogo” is found nowhere on the packaging, the term is universally adopted by all Star Wars collectors to describe this line of figures.

We are finishing the Trilogo line up with the final 15 The Power Of The Force Kenner figures, and there weren’t any coins provided with them. Today we revisit Imperial Gunner. The card art features darker color tones with a pink wash over the entire graphic. Kenner “airbrushed” an image of a new helmet over existing image. See the full card art and additional notes by revisiting 1985’s THE POWER OF THE FORCE Imperial Gunner figure HERE.

Let’s check out the FAO Schwarz exclusive Grand Moff Tarkin & Imperial Gunner (With Interrogator Droid) Collector Series 12 Inch Figure two-pack set. It’s very nice. See more in our Research Droids Reviews today! Be sure to leave your thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or comment about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your review requests via email if you’d like to see something that we didn’t cover yet.

Imperial Gunner • The Power Of The Force • 1985

Tonight we are adding one of the latest releases from The Vintage Collection to our Visual Guides. Click below to check out the Death Star Gunner (VC147). Make sure to also check out our full review on this figure right here.

The latest wave of The Vintage Collection has hit, so it’s time to start looking at them! Let’s begin with the Death Star Gunner. We’re disappointed with it. But it is the most-definitive version we have now. Learn more in our Research Droids Reviews today! Be sure to leave your thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or comment about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your review requests via email if you’d like to see something that we didn’t cover yet.

We’re done! It’s hard to believe, but our “The Final Countdown” marathon of the Star Wars Series 8 Vintage Kenner Mini Action Figures has concluded. If you need to catch up on any of them, all you need to do is click any thumbnail below, and it will take you to the archive. We’d once again like to thank you for your participation.

Be sure to come back in a couple of days for the complete vintage Kenner recap, a thank you, and an important announcement.

The Final Countdown (Vintage Kenner The Power Of The Force Series 8)

DON’T FORGET TO CLICK THE COIN! We continue with our uninterrupted run of the final wave of vintage Kenner figures which we’re calling “The Final Countdown.” These 15 action figures make up Kenner’s THE POWER OF THE FORCE series 8 figures. Here’s another beauty of a figure that still looks great today! But there is still debate on the Imperial Gunner. Find out why in our Research Droids Reviews today. Be sure to add your own experiences to the conversation! Reminisce your own childhood stories of this figure in our comments. Share your life-changing vintage Kenner adolescent experiences with us!