Hasbro Star Wars Fan 1st Friday Jan 29th 2021
 

Our recap and screen caps coming after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAsQsaY2m7E

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The Phantom Menace packages look unfinished without the commtech chips.

Eh, was hoping for more than just Star Wars.

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Really love the phantom menace set. I’m one of the rare ones that has obi-wan and mail so I need these naturally. The comm tech would be icing.

The Walmart exclusives give me heart burn. I had my mando and grogu 2-pack and incinerator troopers canceled. I did get the mando sets later but the trooper is done and gone. Total BS on Walmart crap exclusives.

The clone wars vintage are flipping gorgeous.

You were hoping for something other than star wars in a livestream that was explicitly stated to be only Star Wars reveals? This is a FFF, not Pulsecon 2.

Any body got the Amazon link for the vintage collection Ahsoka & Maul figs

They are already up at BBTS. Why order from Amazon if you don't have to? Amazon is risky when it comes to packging figures. BBTS always does a good job of packing them securely.

Plus why give Bezos more money? He's just gonna spend it on mansions for his girlfriend :D

Not digging that the Best Buy figures are $25 a piece for simple repaints/repacks. The new head on Qui Gon doesn't even look all that new, it just looks like the previous head (but they did away with the separate eye sculpting) so it's still too wide.

Hey General Lando is happening though so that's cool.

I order from Amazon mainly for my son who doesnt care about packaging but also free shipping

Anyway here is the link for ahsoka
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KJHZM6J...YF2V0TR1TN3HVY

Maul
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...KIKX0DER&psc=1

Ahsoka
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...KIKX0DER&psc=1

Hasbro explicitly marketed it as a Star Wars + Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary Fan First Friday, so I think they're saying they were hoping for figures from Indiana Jones or Willow or some other Lucasfilm production (I don't know, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters?) other than Star Wars.

Doubtful. We'll probably get some 6" Indy figures whenever Indy 5 finally comes out next year, and maybe something for Willow when its new sequel tv series premieres on Disney+ (also next year).

But yeah, the so-called 50th anniversary is simply because it was 50 years ago this year that George's first theatrical film THX-1138 came out. Would be cool to get some kind of merchandise specifically paying tribute to the actual 50 year old film (like a Funko Pop or whatever).

Looks like they cheaped out again and omitted the alternate left hand that Qui-Gon originally came with. I would have liked a commemorative Episode I Mace to have come with a blue lightsaber blade, also...

Does Hasbro has the license to make toys for all of that stuff, though? They have Star Wars of course, and I think they have/had Indiana Jones, but Willow and the rest of it I'm not sure.

I went back and looked at the email Hasbro sent as well as their Instagram post and they both specifically state that today's live stream was only for Star Wars. A part of today's stream was to start the celebration of 50 years of Lucasfilm but, again, it was only going to be about Star Wars.

Until the release of the Willow series on Disney+ or the next Indiana Jones movie, I wouldn't expect to see any figures from those brands. Hasbro would need to get the likeness rights of the actors and they would want to wait until there was a film/series release so there would be more interest in figures.

Lucasfilm produced both Indiana Jones and Willow and, as far as I can tell, both are now owned by Disney. But I don't think that Hasbro automatically gets to make figures of either property since they make Star Wars figures.

I would assume that disney owning those franchises gives hasbro an advantage innlanding the license. Idk who has them and for what scale at this point

When I saw the banner I assumed it was an individually packed TBS Paploo.

Walmart exclusives are likely to be painful to get in Australia (got Incinerator from Target, but missed Din) and, being OT, I can see myself paying through the nose for these on ebay. Grr...

Wait a second....

Anybody else notice the Elite Squad Clone Trooper is on the new body, except for the legs which are the old body's? I guess they're trying to resolve people's complaints about the knee joints on the new Clone body.

At least there's no Target exclusive this time around! Small victories, right? Hopefully there will never be another Target exclusive of ANY kind from Hasbro.

Ha ha!

Just realised that the image on the cardback isn't even Paploo. (I am aware that it's the same as the vintage cardback... I only just learnt about the Snaggletooth cardback last year, too )