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Review: Mandalorian Fleet Commander - TVC - VC314

Make sure to check out Denuo Novo from now until May Fourth to take advantage of 10% savings sitewide to celebrate May the Fourth. 

Denuo Novo is excited to announce that the May Fourth Celebration has begun! Save 10% now sitewide on high-end Star Wars collectibles and apparel. The sale ends May 4 so don’t miss out!

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Free Shipping At Disney Store Through Tonight

Disney Store currently has free shipping through midnight PT tonight using code FREESHIP. Click here to browse their Star Wars items.

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Hasbro Financial Results Q1/2024

Wall Street is celebrating Hasbro’s latest earnings report. The company posted an operating profit of $116.2 million. The stock price is up by almost 12% as I write this. And then you look at the report and you wonder what on earth these people are partying over. And Star Wars? Not worth a mention at all. You want to know why Hasbro no longer talks about Star Wars? Click through for more!

Nothing to see here, please disperse!

Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks at the earnings presentation (symbol photo)

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Pre-orders are available at Sideshow Collectibles for the Hot Toys exclusive Commander Cody (Chrome Edition) and 0-0-0 (Triple Zero). Both are limited and will likely sell out fast. Click below for pre-orders!

Note: These are both exclusive items so you will have to sit in the Sideshow virtual queue for a chance to pre-order.

   

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Pre-Order Yesterday's The Vintage Collection Reveals

Several new pre-orders are available for the Fan Channel exclusive The Vintage Collection reveals from yesterday. Click below for pre-orders:

These figures are both a part of the Fan Channel wave that includes Kanan Jarrus (VC318) and Ezra Bridger (Hero of Lothal) (VC319) and is available to pre-order on Entertainment Earth.

   

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PSWCS.org Premiers Their 14th Charity Medallion – Ahsoka

Continuing their popular series of collector coins, PSWCS.org, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Star Wars Collecting Society (PSWCS), is excited to announce their 14th charity medallion in support of Foster Love Project, featuring Ahsoka Tano. Click through for the full press release and ordering details. 

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Hot Toys is adding another sixth scale Stormtrooper to the ranks with the release of their Stormtrooper (with Death Star Environment) (MMS736). Click through to check out all the details and gallery images.

This is available to pre-order right now at Sideshow Collectibles.

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Hot Toys is continuing their sixth scale Chrome line with the release of the Hot Toys exclusive Commander Cody (Chrome Version) (MMS734). Get all the details after the jump!

This will be available for a limited pre-order starting today at 1 PM Eastern at Sideshow Collectibles.

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Hot Toys 0-0-0 (CMS016) 1/6 Scale Figure

0-0-0 (CMS016D58) joins BT-1 in the Hot Toys sixth scale line-up. In a weird move, Hot Toys has made 0-0-0 a Hot Toys exclusive, which will make it harder to pair the two up for collectors. Click through to check out the full gallery and details.

This will be available for a limited pre-order starting today at 1 PM Eastern at Sideshow Collectibles.

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BigBadToyStore has revealed via their Instagram account two new The Vintage Collection figures: Mandalorian Judge & Cal Kestis (Imperial Officer). These will be available to pre-order tomorrow (April 23) at 1 PM Eastern. Both figures were previously pipeline reveals.

Update: These are both Fan Channel exclusives and part of the Fan Channel wave that includes Kanan Jarrus (VC318) and Ezra Bridger (Hero of Lothal) (VC319). This case is currently available to pre-order on Entertainment Earth.

     

 

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Pre-Order Today's Hot Toys Announcements

Sideshow Collectibles has opened up pre-orders for all three of today’s Hot Toys announcements. Click below for pre-order pages:

      

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Hot Toys BT-1 (CMS017) 1/6 Scale Figure

Finally, Hot Toys drops a surprise on us with a comic book release! Check out the very cool BT-1 (CMS017) from the Darth Vader/Doctor Aphra comic series. Click through to check out all the details and the full gallery (with a sneak peek at Triple Zero!).

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Hot Toys Lord Starkiller (VGM063) 1/6 Scale Figure

Hot Toys is ‘Killing’ it today! Also revealed today was the previously teased Lord Starkiller (VGM063). Get the full details after the jump!

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Hot Toys Darth Revan (VGM062) 1/6 Scale Figure

Hot Toys kicks off their tribute to the Dark Side with the official announcement of Darth Revan (VGM062). Click through for the full details and gallery images.

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Review: Professor Huyang - TVC - VC311

Hasbro thinks so little of their longtime collector base that they believe you are too dumb to notice that you can get 100% all-new tooling and seven accessories for $16.99 or an 80% reused-parts figure also with seven accessories but for $24.99 and label it a “Deluxe” figure. That said. The Vintage Collection Professor Huyang is a fantastic figure; you likely will want doubles of it. (more….)

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Thank you for reading Research Droids Reviews: Season 15!

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Only one more week to go! As The Bad Batch is approaching the series finale the Bad Batch still have to find Tantiss, so they can watch how Omega single handedly takes down the secret outpost and escapes with her fellow prisoners and space dogs and maybe even captured clones. So this week is all about the Bad Batch finally finding a way to get to Tantiss. Omega meanwhile is already busy plotting her escape and things unfold exactly like you think they would. Still, “Into The Breach” was actually fun, because the infiltration of the Imperial orbital station with a reluctant former vice admiral Rampart was pretty entertaining. Click through for the full spoiler review of the episode and let’s discuss the penultimate The Bad Batch entry!

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Yesterday’s The Black Series announcements are now available to pre-order on Target’s website. Click below for pre-order pages:

 

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The Black Series Mandalorian Privateer Revealed

Also revealed today on Social Media via @fathersfigures is the Mandalorian Privateer. This will be a Target exclusive and will retail for $24.99. 

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The Black Series Droid 4-Pack Revealed

The folks over at Gamerant.com have revealed the latest The Black Series exclusive, featuring droids from The Mandalorian. R5-D4, BD-72, & Pit Droids will be a Target exclusive retailed for $49.99. Get the full details and additional images over at Gamerant.com.

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In the past few days news have made the round that on new Target planograms no shelf space is alotted for The Vintage collection and that there is not even a DPCI number for TVC in Target’s system anymore. What is going on? Click through for the full story!

He may have something to do with it

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Anyone familar with “Betteridges’ Law of Headlines” will immediately know the answer to the question… so spoiler: no. They haven’t. Sure, they made money with Star Wars, quite a bit, but they paid $4.05 billion for Lucasfilm in 2012, which has to be recouped before you can talk about actual profits. For the first time (I believe it is the first time) it’s not some YouTuber who is eternally angry which can be used as a source for this, but Forbes magazine! However, since Forbes only covers the movies I will add other things like merchandise, video games and, well, everything!

All the Star Wars movies and many Disney+ shows are produced in the UK. The reason for that is tax incentives. However, this also means Disney has to provide detailed financial statements in the UK  and those are public, i.e. if you know the names of the production companies (think Blue Harvest) you can easily look up how much money Disney/Lucasfilm actually spent on something, and this includes all the movies and various shows. And those numbers are quite… something. If you thought movie budgets at Disney and Lucasfilm are out of control… you ain’t seen nothing yet!

So click through for a detailed breakdown of the movie budgets and learn why Disney, even after 12 long years, has not even recouped the cost of buying Lucasfilm in 2012 with all Star Wars projects combined.

Money sinkhole

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LEGO Star Wars™ Day Upcoming launches

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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Things go boom in this week’s episode of The Bad Batch! In “Juggernaut” the team once again tries to find out the location of Tantiss, for the n-th time this season, but this time for reals! It turns out Crosshair knows of yet another way to locate Tantiss… something he failed to mention all this time before “because”. So off we go! Meanwhile Omega is back in the lab on Tantiss and gets a full tour of the facility by Dr Hemlock who turns out to be a graduate of the Dr Evil Medical School for Aspiring Villains. And someone please give Emerie Carr a long, long hug, this episode proves she needs one! So there are things to talk about this week… primarily about how stupid (Disney) Star Wars can be… even if entertaining on the surface! Click here or on the banner for the my full spoiler review of Juggernaut and let’s discuss the latest The Bad Batch episode!

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Walmart is clearing out more figures at low prices, this time the Carbonized The Vintage Collection figures. Click below to take advantage of some great prices:

Update: Prices dropped again

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