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Today is January 30, 2022, and that means it’s been ten years since Hasbro released the Star Wars [The Phantom Menace 3D] line. Where does the time go? Although revered as a controversial lineup of a motley crew of products, it contained some of the best items we ever received from Hasbro. Yes, and it contained some of the worst products as well. Many blame Lucasfilm for the deluge of wave 1 products in this line that flooded stores everywhere. It’s believed they marketed this event as a new film, and stores bought up the products like there was no tomorrow. It would explain such an overage of products on the street date. Collectors would find “TPM 3D” products nearly everywhere for many years.

In the confusion of perplexing re-releases, overcharged 5POA action figures, and a deluge of products that rotted on shelves for years afterward, it’s easy to forget that the line did bring collectors some amazing newness and goodness. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and recapture the good, the bad, and the ugly that this line brought to the Star Wars collecting community.

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Check out the Star Wars [Yoda/Attack of the Clones] Sandtrooper (MH09) in tonight’s Visual Guide Update. Click below for all of the details. Be sure to also check out our full review right here.

The 2013 Movie Heroes Sandtrooper got repainted for its re-release. See what makes it different 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 next Visual Guide addition to the Star Wars [Yoda/Attack of the Clones] line is Anakin Skywalker (MH02). Click below for our full Visual Guide. We also have a full review of this figure here.

We are continuing with the Star Wars [Yoda/Attack Of The Clones] line and now it’s time for Anakin Skywalker. He is the focus of 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.

We’re adding a few Visual Guides from the Star Wars [Yoda/Attack of the Clones] line now. Click below to check out Darth Vader (MH01). We’ve also added a full review of this repacked figure right here.

We are going to switch gears for just a couple of days to both take a short break from the Star Wars [The Last Jedi] line as well as fill in some holes from the Star Wars [Yoda/Attack Of The Clones]. Let’s start with the international-only Movie Heroes Darth Vader figure. He is the focus of 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.

For many of us, in the last couple of years, we have found a new appreciation for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Many have likened the film to a bottle of fine wine, that is getting better with age. Certainly far from perfection, the issues in the film often go overlooked in favor of enjoying what is enjoyable about it. Jar Jar Binks is usually the scapegoat for the film’s critics, but even he doesn’t bother us like he used to. (more….)

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