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LEGO is already gearing up for Star Wars Day with several new releases and GWP (Gift With Purchase) items. Click through for the complete listing.

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The Black Series [Phase IV] Darth Vader figure is old but still lovely. What’s up with its single-digit assortment number when it’s a mainline release? (more….)

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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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Pre-orders are now open for most of the Hasbro Star Wars SDCC announcements from yesterday. Click below for the pre-order links! 

Note: The upcoming Ahsoka figures will NOT be up for pre-order today. Those will go up for pre-order on August 10 at 1 PM Eastern.

The Vintage Collection

• Grand Admiral Thrawn (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Pre Vizsla (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Darth Revan (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• Imperial Officers Troop Builder Set (Hasbro Pulse)

The Black Series

• Pre Vizsla (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)
• R2-D2 (Artoo-Detoo) (Entertainment Earth • Amazon)

The Black Series Wave 14 Case (Entertainment Earth)

10% off all in-stock orders, plus free shipping when you shop at Entertainment Earth through our JTA links…

The Holiday Edition figures will NOT be up for pre-order. They will be available to order at a later date when they are ready to ship, and on shelf.

Retro Collection

• Return of the Jedi 6-pack (Hasbro Pulse)

The Nielsen Streaming Charts were delayed this time because of the holiday weekend in the US. But today Nielsen finally updated their charts. The last time Andor accumulated 418 million minutes with episode 7. Episode 8 (the beginning of the Narkina 5 prison arc) however, sees a small decline to 385 million minutes. But since a high profile series like Rings of Power dropped out of the charts (two weeks after the final episode was included in the charts), Andor is in 8th place and stays in the top 10 original streaming series charts.
It’s safe to say that Andor has found its audience, which is roughly 40-60% (depending on what episodes you look at) of the previous two Star Wars live action series, The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi (while The Mandalorian had more viewers still). This does makes Andor the most popular show on Disney+, but there is no competition on the streaming service at the moment. Let’s see if the ratings improve again a bit in two weeks, once the final prison arc episode is included by Nielsen.

The Nielsen Streaming Charts

Cassian is sent to prison in episode 8

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If you still need them, two of the deluxe The Vintage Collection sets are available for pre-order for $20.97 as of this post. 

• Imperial Stormtrooper (Nevarro Cantina)
• Incinerator Trooper & Grogu

Welcome to another weekly Toy Run Tuesday update! We hope everyone had an enjoyable time at SWC and a relaxing holiday. This weekend I finished a custom Paz Vizsla and got my Walmart exclusive Ahsoka. Did you get any new figures this week? If you attended SWC, please share your haul with us as well! Click here to continue.

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Are you ready to check out the first Star Wars humanoid astromech droid action figure? You can by checking out the R6-D3/MA-13/R1/N0-AH Droid Factory four-pack based on The Mandalorian. (more….)

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We discussed preorders a couple weeks ago, and one thing I forgot to mention is that they always seem to come all at once! I had more than 20 figures drop this week, but 6 of them were delayed on Amazon. Nevertheless it is a really good haul! Click here to check it out and leave comments of your own new toys!

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Since collectors seem to like carbonized figures Hasbro is making more of them. The official Star Wars site revealed earlier today that the Black Series will get three new carbonized figures from The Mandalorian. Available in spring 2022 will be Paz Vizla (formerly known as Heavy Mandalorian), a Shoretrooper and a Scout Trooper! All three figures will be TARGET exclusives. Happy hunting next year!

Will you add the carbonized Mandalorian figures to your collection or will you skip them?

Head to the official Star Wars site for the reveal!

More carbonized figures for the Black Series! Source: starwars.com

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Disney+ released a new featurette showing off some of the anime style art we can expect to see in Star Wars: Visions, a collection of animated Original Short Films, streaming September 22. Click through to watch!

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Cufflinks.com is having a May the 4th sale: For a limited time – Save up to 75% Off Star Wars Items, and you can also use our exclusive JTA discount code to get an additional 15% off (JediTemple15)! Click here to browse their Star Wars catalog, and click through to check out a few featured items from their store!

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It took them long enough to finally add the Imperial Probe Droid, so now all of the latest LEGO sets are available at Walmart.com. Thanks to JTA reader Nate for the alert!

• Darth Vader Helmet (75304)
• Scout Trooper Helmet (75305)
• Imperial Probe Droid (75306).

Today is the last day to add your choices before we lock the comments and tally the results! Hasbro’s choices for The Vintage Collection “Fan Channel” repack waves have been less than stellar, and if judging by the last assortment, utterly confusing. They may claim these figures are not for “us” but that’s not realistic. Let’s help them make the wisest repack choices. Click through for directions and to add your picks.

Happy Tuesday, Toy Runners! This week’s toy runs have availed me no new figures, however I took the chance to update my shelf displays and would like to share a photo. If you have new finds this week I’d love to see them, but let’s use today’s article to show off your collection! Click here to leave a comment!

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Order the Walmart exclusive wave of The Black Series figures:

• Ahsoka Tano
• 332nd Ahsoka’s Clone Trooper
• Mandalorian Super Commando
• Mandalorian Loyalist

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Be sure to look at the “Other Sellers on Amazon,” That’s the place you’ll find it available for $24.99 from Amazon. The Death Trooper is also available for $24.99 as well.

• The Mandalorian (Amazon)
• Death Trooper (Amazon)

It looks like we have some great animated series to look forward to. A new trailer dropped (watch below!) for the recently announced The Bad Batch, and Star Wars Visions was announced. It’s awesome to see that The Bad Batch will be continuing The Clone Wars style of animation!

Star Wars: Visions, an Original Series of animated short films, celebrates the Star Wars galaxy through the lens of the world’s best Japanese anime creators. Coming in 2021 to Disney+.

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It’s 4 PM Eastern, so that means today’s Mando Monday announcements are now available to pre-order. Click below for pre-order links.

• The Black Series Remnant Stormtrooper (Target Exclusive)
• The Black Series 1:1 The Mandalorian Helmet (Amazon • Entertainment Earth)

New Zealand Mint’s Christmas Sale has just started and right now you can enjoy 10% off their Stormtrooper Silver Miniature. Guaranteed minimum 130g sterling silver this amazingly accurate design, by 3D master sculptor Alejandro Pereira Ezcurra, shows one of the faceless villains holding a blaster rifle ready for action. This is a very limited-edition piece, with only 1,000 casts available worldwide.

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38 years ago today, October 12, 1982, years before the dark times, a young 11-year-old boy named Rusty Miller released The Jedi Master’s Quizbook. It’s hard to believe this thing is almost four decades old now.

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Click through for a complete list of Entertainment Earth’s pre-orders from Hasbro’s PulseCon presentation today!

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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.

Today we revisit Bespin Security Guard [B]. It didn’t come in standard Trilogo packaging. Instead, it was packaged in what the collecting community deems as “Trilogo Hybrid” packaging. The card front is nearly identical to the Kenner Return Of The Jedi Bespin Security Guard [B] figure, while the back features the Trilogo logo and figure group shot. The review’s Collector Notes are updated with this information. See the full card art and additional notes by revisiting 1982’s THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Bespin Security Guard [B] figure HERE.

The Darth Vader Reveal Deluxe Magnet Set is the follow up to Regal Robot’s popular IG-11 and Baby Yoda deluxe magnet and is celebrating “I am Your Father’s Day”. They are also having a 3-day sale on Star Wars-themed director chairs and cafe tables. Their newest magnet set is based on that chilling first reveal of Darth Vader beneath the mask in his meditation chamber in The Empire Strikes Back.

The new magnet will be available with FREE SHIPPING for the initial 2 weeks and folks can order here starting TODAY on Father’s Day. Click through for more details!

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The Black Series 6″ The Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary 4-LOM/Zuckuss figure set is in stock as of this post.