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Once again, The Vintage Collection Jabba’s Palace Adventure Playset is killing it in the best way possible for Walmart, and they’ve sold out of them online. At the moment, the brick and mortar level is THE ONLY way to secure this item. The good news? Walmart is doing everything possible to get in one more order for online purchases to help meet the product’s demand. The goal is to place an order for holiday availability, but if that doesn’t work out, it could arrive at the beginning of 2020. Stay tuned for any new updates on this development. Disclaimer: as warehouse stock adjudicates and balances itself, you may see a few units arrive in stock, but that’s all that’s happening. Thank you for supporting this product as vigorously as you have been, it makes the case for future playsets strong.

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Are you looking forward to The Black Series [Phase III] Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight) 6″ figure from Walmart? Many have wondered when this figure will go up for pre-order, and we have it on good word that Walmart will be doing everything possible to have it up next week. If we find out anything more specific, we’ll update you on this development. You can find the Walmart placeholder page for the item HERE.

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GameStop.com has the re-released The Black Series Battlefront Imperial Shock Trooper available to order, with in-store pick-up if it’s available in your area. Delivery is currently not available. Click here for the order page…

With great thanks to The Vintage Collection Facebook Group, we have photographic evidence that Hasbro fixed the name pill on the Walmart exclusive Luke Skywalker (Yavin) (VC151) figure. The one on the left is updated to reflect the properly-sized Avant Garde font.

Where the heck is the pre-order for The Vintage Collection Cave Of Evil Special Action Figure Set? Patrick Schneider from Hasbro promised us that all of the items revealed at NYCC would be available for pre-order the following Monday. From where I stand, it seems this is the only one outstanding. And of course, it’s the one I want the most. Maybe Hasbro is getting lambasted for trying to re-release that monstrosity-of-a-disaster-wrapped-in-a-debacle, the Luke Skywalker figure, again. But I am not sure about that.

I received my sample of Princess Leia Organa (Yavin), and the number on it is VC164. Unless Hasbro misspoke, it looks like early batches of this wave will come with an incorrect VC number. If you recall from NYCC, Hasbro stated that Princess Leia Organa (Yavin) would be changed to VC150 to make up the spot for the “canceled” Darth Revan figure.

If you ordered the latest The Vintage Collection figures from Amazon, you probably got them today. We’re getting SO MANY reports of Amazon shoving the carded figures into the box the wrong way that it bent the cards terribly. Did you experience this as well? Let us know in the comments! Click through for JTA reader Mike R.’s account. See these figures in our RDRs RIGHT HERE.

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You can pre-order the Best Buy exclusive AT-ST Raider set RIGHT NOW too!

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You can pre-order the Best Buy exclusive TBS6 [P3] IG-11 figure RIGHT NOW!

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Pre-order the Amazon exclusive The Black Series Chewbacca & C-3PO set now!

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More figures from the latest TVC wave are hitting Amazon. You can now also pre-order the Shadow Trooper (VC163) and Sith Trooper (VC162), along with the Princess Leia Organa (Yavin) and the exclusive Sith Trooper (Armory Pack). Click below for links to all of the latest orders. Still waiting on the Jawa (VC161) to be listed…

Update: Jawa (VC161) now added!

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HURRY! Pre-order The Vintage Collection Luke Skywalker (Yavin) figure RIGHT NOW!

See the official PRESS IMAGES for NYCC on our Facebook page!

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Miss any of the online links from the four Force Friday carbonized The Black Series retailer exclusives? Click below for the landing page for each exclusive. At the moment, The Mandalorian is the only one sold out (but of course it is), but you can still secure the other 3 at this time.

Walmart          |          Target          |          GameStop          |          Amazon

I can’t believe I have to post this clarification, but it’s unreal what you get accused of starting these days. During Q&A in the NYCC Hasbro Presentation today, a supposed reader of ours asked Hasbro a question about the fate of The Vintage Collection, and questioned the Team that if it doesn’t perform well if it’s in danger of getting canceled. When Patrick asked where that rumor came from, the reader, out of supposed ignorance, explained that it came from Jedi Temple Archives. We reported no such rumor. We (and other fan sites) merely posted an article citing the rumor for a discussion, which was first shared by Jake Stevens at From 4-LOM To Zuckuss. It was NOT a rumor started by Jedi Temple Archives. As I stated multiple times in the comments section of that article, I had not heard this rumor, nor anything remotely similar and didn’t believe it. None of my sources acknowledged any of it. Because we were erroneously identified as originators of that rumor, we wanted to make it clear we had nothing to do with it.

Could The Black Series [Phase III] Imperial Shock Trooper (Battlefront0) be making a return appearance? With special thanks to friend Steve U., we have a GameStop ad that reveals it may indeed be true.

BREAKING NEWS! The Vintage Collection Luke Skywalker (Yavin) is confirmed to be a Walmart exclusive thanks to a Hasbro presentation ay NYCC. We also learn his forearms are from Ponda Baba! (Video courtesy of Fantha Tracks.) More importantly, in the video, Hasbro admits that stopping TVC in 2013 was a bad mistake and they CLAIM that the FUTURE IS BRIGHT for The Vintage Collection. So, maybe that rumor doesn’t hold much water after all. See the video for yourself. You can read about and this figure and see it from head to boot in our Research Droids Reviews. Click HERE to check it out.

JTA reader Nathaniel found The Black Series [Phase III] 6″ Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight) figure at his local Walmart (and nothing else) and sent us some quick pics of the item in the packaging.

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TARGET online has put up a product page for The Black Series [Phase III] Cara Dune figure. It’s currently out of stock, but you may want to keep an eye on it! Special thanks to JTA reader Justin C. for the alert!

Amazon.es has revealed the C-3PO/BabuFrik TBS6 [P3] set with multiple images. Check them out before they’re removed!

If you live in Canada and are fortunate enough to have a Toys R Us store near you, you may want to find out if they’re having a Midnight Madness Triple Force Friday event. Special thanks to JTA reader Eric C. for the alert!

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To get you ready for Triple Force Friday, Entertainment Earth has prepared an unboxing video and Force Friday Checklist. Click here to check it out. 

Good luck with your preparations! And, we will also post things here as they go live on Thursday night and Friday. 

Hasbro, clearly desperate to ensure Unicron’s success, has added a perk to the Unicron HasLab campaign. Just Revealed! In addition to this once-in-a-lifetime figure, HasLab: Unicron backers through HasbroPulse.com will now receive an EXCLUSIVE digital comic bundle, made in partnership with @IDWPublishing and available only through @comiXology! The numbers did jump up quite a bit, but will it make the target of 8K backers by the deadline?

We first reported that The Vintage Collection Jabba’s Palace would make an appearance at retail for Fall 2019. This is all still true. And now it looks as if it’s getting labeled as a Triple Force Friday product (Ian’s email partially confirms this), despite some remite stores putting it on the shelf earlier this summer (there were only a handful of store reports). ALso, don’t forget that Walmart is retsocking this item online as well. It will likely be avaialable on October 4th as well, but if we get better details we will let you know. In the meantime, reader JTA reade Ian M.’s store report by clicking through.

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We knew the rest were inevitable; now we can see them all. Posted on The Black Series Facebook group are the rest of the First Issue figures for Triple Force Friday. For those of who can’t see the Facebook page, you can also find them on Instagram HERE. Special thanks to JTA reader Michael V. for the alert.