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Here’s another update to our Hot Toys Visual Guide, featuring the Scout Trooper and & Speeder Bike (TMS017) as seen in The Mandalorian. Click below for the full Visual Guide!

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Scout Trooper (VC196) rounds out The Vintage Collection’s Gaming Greats line. Check out our full Visual Guide below. Be sure to also stop by and read our full review.

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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 Biker Scout.

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Pre-orders are now open for both the Scout Trooper (MMS611) and the Scout Trooper & Speeder Bike set (MMS612). Click below for the pre-order pages!

You can’t expect your Hot Toys Scout Trooper to walk! Hot Toys also officially reveals the Scout Trooper & Speeder Bike set (MMS612). Click through for all the details!

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Previewed during Sideshow Con, here’s the official announcement for the Return of the Jedi Scout Trooper Sixth Scale figure. Click through for full details and gallery images.

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We still have new The Vintage Collection figures to check out! Let’s take a look at the $14.99 Scout Trooper Gaming Greats figure from Jedi Fallen Order. What a shame that this is our first Scout Trooper in TVC, and not on the appropriate Return Of The Jedi card. (more….)

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Princess Leia (Endor), Paploo, and Luke Skywalker (Endor – With Non-removable Helmet). Oh, and let’s not forget the upcoming Scout Trooper from the Gaming Greats line. Yet, the current Hasbro Star Wars team hasn’t announced the reissuing of the fantastic Toys R Us exclusive Speeder Bike vehicle from 2012’s SW [The Phantom Menace 3D] line look. Hasbro, it’s high time to get out this stunning Speeder Bike vehicle to the marketplace again. You’ve never placed it in The Vintage Collection packaging. Add in a pack-in Biker Scout figure in The Vintage Collection packaging, and you’ll make us all very happy collectors. Don’t screw this up for the 40th Anniversary of Return Of The Jedi.

The Amazon exclusive The Black Series [Phase IV] Speeder Bike/Scout Trooper & The Child is pretty nice in some regards, but a disappointment in others. Is it worth $49.99? (No.) Did we need this set to complete an important scene from The Mandalorian? (Yes.) (more….)

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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 Biker Scout. The Trilogo card art is much darker than the Kenner version. See the full card art and additional notes by revisiting 1983’s RETURN OF THE JEDI Biker Scout figure HERE.

Tonight’s Visual Guide update features another The Black Series Gaming Greats figure from GameStop. Click below to check out the Scout Trooper. You can also read our full review of this figure right here.

It’s a new Scout Trooper from the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order videogame. Will you buy it? (more….)

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5POA is never OK, but at least Hasbro did something good with the Celebrate The Saga multipacks, a parting gift for collectors as they close the tooling archives on these figures forever. The Galactic Empire set includes a new take on R2-Q5, a figure we haven’t seen Hasbro release is 19 years. And the included TIE Fighter Pilot and Snowtrooper sculpts are better than their current super-articulated counterparts. The rest of the set is “meh.” Are you buying these sets for your collection? (more….)

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You saw our The Pathway To The Vintage Collection Special Report published on August 6th. Now we’re revisiting the figures that set The Vintage Collection in motion. Let’s continue moving ahead with 2006’s VTSC Biker Scout figure in our newly updated review, complete with new text and photos and Visual Guide. This figure still looks great in 2020!

We’re rapidly approaching the final month of RDRs! But before start off May, let’s end April with three of the BEST EXCLUSIVES Hasbro has ever produced. We’re starting with 2000’s The Power Of The Force “2” [FlashBack/CommTech] Speeder Bike (With Scout Trooper) Action Collection TARGET exclusive. It’s HUGE and entirely delightful! 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.

Biker Scout • Return Of The Jedi • 1983

What did Hasbro think when they produced the Speeder Bike (Power Racing) vehicle for The Power Of The Force “2” [Green/Freeze Frame] line? It has some charm, but is a relative disaster! 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.

NEW FIGURES! Let’s continue with The Black Series Archive Scout Trooper figure. It’s a bit of an improvement, but still not perfect. Find out 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 have another update to an older Visual Guide as our eatured guide tonight. Take a look at our update for the POTF2 [Red] Imperial Speeder Bike below. We also added this to our review database today. You can read our full review right here.

The Imperial Speeder Bike was one of the first vehicles released in the modern Star Wars line, but how well does it hold up? 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.

It’s hard to believe, but our “Jabba Don’t Preach” marathon of the Star Wars Series 6 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. Recounting all of your childhood memories with these unequaled action figures and sharing the wonderful experiences you’ve all had with them is priceless. Please keep adding to the discussions! Also, please begin to prepare yourselves for more as we dive into November’s “Turning Ewokese” marathon where we look at the Return Of The Jedi Series 7 figures. These reviews will focus on 14 Kenner action figures from the second and third waves of the Return Of The Jedi line, and we’re very excited to tackle them.

Our “Jabba Don’t Preach” marathon continues with a popular army-builder: Biker Scout. And we have received so many updates since from Hasbro. Relive your memories of this classic 1983 action figure 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!

Let’s continue to go back in time and check out some figures from The [Post] Original Trilogy Collection. Next up is the Scout Trooper (Endor Raid) (’05 #13) figure. It’s just a repack, but find out more in our Research Droids Reviews today! Be sure to leave your thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even 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.

Toys R Us released two exclusive multipacks for The Original Trilogy Collection. We’re checking out both of them. First up is Endor Ambush. It’s not a great set at all. Find out why in our Research Droids Reviews today! Be sure to leave your thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even 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.

Check out the amazing Scout Trooper & Speeder Bike set from S.H. Figuarts, tonight’s addition to the Visual Guides. Click below for the full guide page. This was also the focus of our 3200th review! Make sure to stop by and give it a read!