Star Wars the Black Series and sneak Peak of some Lego 2014 sets

The black series has been in Australia for around 2 months now and so far all that has been seen retail wise is series 1 and 2 of the 3.75" and series 1 of the 6", series 2 has already dropped in the US and can be found here at on line e-tailers in most countries presently.

Series 2 of the 6" is rather impressive, I think the character selection is stronger with Boba Fett being there, Greedo is a far stronger character than Biggs and has been long overdue also, both Han and Leia Speak for themselves too.

My criticism of the 3.75" line has been its rather week character selection wave 2 does nothing to refute this idea either, clearly Pablo Jill, Mara Jade Skywalker and Luminara Unduli are the strength of the wave although this has also been tempered by a sub par Mara Jade figure, the full wave can been seen below:

Personally I feel that Hasbro have thrown far too many troopers into the first two waves and really should have thought about some other characters to break it up a little.  

A list of the current waves and the pending third wave can be seen at Yakface in their toyguide section, several other figures from the second half of this year can be seen there also.

Jedi Temple Archives have had some images up of some of the third wave of figures coming out in the black series 3.75" the more impressive figures are Darth Plageuis, Vizam and Merumeru, suffice to say that Rex and Neyo are the only clones of this wave too, hopefully this trend continues next year.

Lego:

Someone on the internet has shown some images of the upcoming lego sets for next year as you can see from the clip the figures are place holders only, these are working images one would imagine, on first impression I think the cannon lacks, the little 'chibi' vehicles look rather good, the AT-AP which has been previewed at SDCC looks rather good but its a little light on as a wave, personally I believe that this is the wave suffers from being the first of Disney's involvement since the takeover of Lucasfilm and its subsidiaries, hopefully it is only a glitch.

Hasbro's lineup for the rest of 2013.

Lets start off by giving Hasbro a little bit of a get out of Jail free card here.

Firstly everything that was planned for this year was thrown into dissary by Disney/Lucasfilms decision to abandon the releases of both Episode 2 and 3 in 3D this year.  One can only imagine what this would've done to product planning and line going forward.

Hasbro have prett much cancelled the Clone Wars wave for this year (being only a Eurpoean exclusive), with no more to come in the future.  These will be absorbed into the realistic look of future waves, no more animated look.

Class 1 vehicles didn't appear to have anymore this year after the first release which are already out.

So what did we get?

not much, this year is a year for a few exclusives.  In the Vintage packaging we have a Slave one with a new Han in Carbonite, Biggs X-Wing, Tie Interceptor and a Republic Gunship.

Hasbro announced a Black Series figure collection that will be highly detailed 6" figures featuring characters from the movies predominately, although the fans choice Mara Jade will be released in this line up also.

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Images sourced from both Rebelscum.com and jeditemplearchives.com.

Hasbro & Lego Star Wars 2013.

With Christmas upon us, there have been some images that are starting to appear of both Hasbro and Lego's offering for 2013.

Hasbro:

Currently in Australia we can purchase the new Class 2 vehicles for around $50 from Toys R Us.

In the last week the class 1 vehicles images have started to appear on the internet and one of the things instantly recognisable is the inclusion of 2 figures differing from the traditional 1:

I like the small fighter and a non CW Yoda is always nice, this set seems to have the EP 2 release in mind.

Not a fan of this set perhaps its the fact that I could never envisage a set like this existing in the SW landscape after episode 1.

I like both of these sets and for collectors this year the Dropship was incredibly hard to find, so another set that brings the vehicle back is welcome.  I think the AT-RT has been used frequently, however, it is still a great set and a new paint scheme always helps.  The addition of the TK tactical droid is a good addition also.

Lego:  

Recently Lego also showed an upcoming set for 2013 being the Battle of Hoth.  This has the appearance of a giant battle pack with some nice inclusions:

•  General Riekan.
•  Snowspeeder.
•  Snowtroopers with another E-Web.
•  Trenches.
• Imperial Probe Droid.

 Perhaps one day we can get a set that includes an Ion Cannon as previous sets have not included any...

A long time ago...

Cliché I know, as this is the first post I thought that I would start off with something a little iconic, and the scroll through text seemed perfect for a blog post title.


As stated I'm interested in Star Wars, my passion includes Hasbro's assorted line of figures and vehicles, Lego and their play sets, Selected 1/6 figures and Star Wars Literature.


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