The Listening Post.

I'm getting word of a couple of weeks for the pre orders to become available, however its more likely that as soon as they are up they are from in hand stock so we shouldnt have to long to wait to get them in our hands.

Hope they have enough.
In my lego world there was a bunch of new sets out today and with them some 'freebies' - namely the Harry Potter Book of Monsters - promotion was meant to last a month. By 11am today all new sets where on 60 day back order all the freebies that were mean to last a month gone.....

People are starved for things to do and buy so things flying off the digital shelves right now - FYI I missed out because I was too slow

Monkey, you missed out not because you are slow but up against technology. Bots.....That is what it has come down to, just about everything is getting snapped up for flipping. :evil:

I love the 21st Century........

Another batch of the Vintage Collection Action Figure Exclusive Din Djarin, grab one if you missed him last time.


https://www.staractionfigures.co.uk/F0880-RR.html

Pre-Orders are now up on both IDT and SAF for the Han, Luke, Cody, thrawn figures

Cheers Monkey, Han and Luke and cody on pre order. Undecided on Thrawn but I might. :roll: :lol:

I'm undecided on this wave. I'm at the point where I'm thinking of focusing on The Mandalorian due to space.

Damn, I really have some catching up to do. Constantly drained of energy and enthusiasm for anything is taking its toll for sure. Anyway thets have a look at what is coming, and I will give some opinions and thoughts...

Kenner colour inspired 6'' black series cardbacks for the 50 years of Lucas Films. Obi Wan, Jawa and Greedo. No Han with Greedo? These I think will be unfortunately Amazon exclusives, these are not my cup of tea. No issue with them in particular but I did hope we would get a new photo real Obi and a rerelease of Greedo for those that didn't get a chance to pick them up long ago. Maybe we will though; Greedo I feel would be hard to improve on if at all possible and Obi Wan isnt to bad, just a face paint improvement would be sufficient. Please, Hasbro Id like a decent old man Ben. That would give you a good excuse to do an improved Tatooine Luke, and R2.





Now this little lot has peaked my curiosity, is this a return of the expanded universe but for the Black Series line? I hope so. I really enjoy unique characters, especially from the comics. I have no idea what the packaging will be like, maybe something similar to the gaming greats line. Will we get a Mara Jade? Some new Jedi figures? Jaxxon is a really interesting choice, so will we see a version of Han to go with him? I dont think we will see these for a fair while though but who knows. These are ticking some boxes for me for sure.







Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazon are also rumoured for the Black Series line, not for me but anything Cantina related in 6'' will please a few of you I am sure.

A little addition that I don't think we will see for a while but comes from within Hasbro, and its not mentioned anywhere else. We may get a Death star gunner for the black series and VC line. Now I dont know if this will be in the original trilogy packaging or the Mandalorian line up. Did you spot them? I know I did even if it was only for a split second. Two please Hasbro...


So what do you all think? It looks like Hasbro are testing the waters with some of the more obscure and unique characters from the comics and legends so hopefully they will be successful and sell well. Now I know for many of you, myself included space is always a premium. Collecting both vintage modern and 6th scale really does make things problematic so we have to pick and choose, so ill try and post what I feel will be of interest to the majority of you here.

You can find other details of future releases over on Yakface too.

A pick of some of the best channels on youtube that are really worth subscribing too and will give you something to do for a while. 8)
That Junkman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J3md0Cep-A
Only One Kenobi
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_l3qpKDzncpGhOcmcP1SWA
Bossk's Bounty
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjgsIkrxBpR0QkqFzsWme6A
Usualmike Television
https://www.youtube.com/user/darla83

Star Action Figures web site is a little bit slow but only took me 10 minutes to get on the site.
Just pre ordered these...I'm a sucker for Ep1 packaging.
What are your thoughts?


Also pre ordered a 50th anniversary Jawa and Ben.
Going to be an expensive April...

Just had a look, I don't think you can go far wrong with these to be honest and you are right on about the packaging it does look good. Now, would we get a young Anakin? hmmmmm.


Looks like a Clone Wars Maul and Ashoka for the vintage collection, I might grab those two depending on the cardback art (I dont open the VC stuff). Expensive couple of months ahead of us...... :roll: :lol:

Just pre ordered the bad batch trooper for now.

Some more Black Series reveals and a few VC thrown in

Bad Batch
Tec
Clone Wars
Aurra Sing
Mandalorian
Q9-0 (ZERO)
Koska Reeves 8)

ROTJ
General Lando :shock: (Might be the best Lando we will ever get)

Vintage Collection
IG-11
ESB Lando

Yeah - i went all in on the Phantom cards - will look great with the two from the other year. 50th as well. in fact i am down the rabbit hole and have just got all the empire 40th cards (very expensive) and am trying to find the SW 40th ones.....

Some of those have got stupidly expensive Monkey, id of liked the R5 unit but not going to shell out for it as id like a loose one. :roll:

Yeah - but my OCD will get the better of me so i will have to track them down

Hopefully i secured all the Empire ones and they should arrive next week and then i will look at the best sort of prices for the SW ones, or if people here have spares or want to look at trades etc. we will see - but i can't believe some of the prices for mass produced and widely available figures.

Don't really know why i passed on them the first time around - but there you go...

Watch out for a big photo post next week when the Empire figures come in.

Bargain finds worthy of mention

Hondo Ohnaka's R5-P8 £12.99
https://www.comicsandcocktails.co.uk/store/Star-Wars-Black-Series-6-Galaxys-Edge-R5-P8-%C3%B7-p255296880

Well, I did not see this one coming. Oddly enough, I was thinking the other day why didnt I get Cal. I thought he was going to sit around for ages and I could prioritise on other figures but nope I was wrong.

Different version, kind of like him so ill grab this one.

https://www.staractionfigures.co.uk/F2821.html

Vintage collection Carbon Cara Dune available for pre order. Honestly, grab her whilst you can. Prices have gone absolutely mental so would be worth grabbing one whilst you can. Glad I got the normal VC and BS Cara long ago.


https://www.staractionfigures.co.uk/F1422.html

thanks for the link, i got one,glad to pay normal price i don't have any other Cara figures so this will do nicely