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Originally Posted by CameronFrye

Quick question for the Hot Toys (or just general toy) experts on here. I’ve just started collecting Hot Toys Star Wars 1/6 scale figures and I’ve noticed on the Sideshow Collectibles website that there’s a Bespin Luke, Jedi Starfighter and R5-D4 amongst others, listed as ‘coming soon’, yet they appear to have been announced months (or even years) ago. My question is - how come these pieces appear to be stuck in limbo yet Hot Toys can announce and have a release date for figures from The Mandalorian with no delays?

Those figures, Bespin Luke, R5-D4, etc are just prototype figures put up at conventions. They don't all get made into full releases. I'd expect that Luke to come at some point, but the Snowspeeder Luke is still on order, so they may wait until that is released. R5 who knows, and there's no way they're going to make the Starfighter. It's way too big, and Hot Toys doesn't tackle too many vehicles. Look up Jazzinc if you want to see some third party 1/6 scale options for displays and some vehicles.

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Originally Posted by CameronFrye

It’s nice to see this piece rereleased, although I don’t want to disappear down the rabbit hole of collecting Marvel figures, despite me absolutely loving them. There’s no way I can afford these and the Hot Toys Star Wars figures too. Can anyone tell me how common is it for Hot Toys to rerelease older figures? I missed their Emperor Palpatine and ROTJ Luke but I’m hoping they’ll get rereleased in the future so I can avoid scalpers on eBay.

I really doubt Palpatine, they'll almost certainly do Luke from The Mandalorian, so he may be as close as you'll get to a Jedi Luke reissue since he already had three releases. An exact reissue like this War Machine is pretty uncommon after so many years. There's some big examples lately though, but I don't think they'll re-release many figures as much as they may re-do them like with that Bespin Luke prototype. Hot Toys' first Star Wars figure was a Bespin Luke two pack.