The Vintage Collection

Hasbro’s Star Wars Fanstream Went Heavy on Gaming, Clones, and Deep-Cut Chaos

Star Wars Day May the 4th promotional graphic

Hasbro just dropped one of those Star Wars Fanstreams where collectors open the tab casually and then leave five minutes later questioning their storage space, bank account, and emotional attachment to plastic clone troopers. The latest Hasbro Pulse Star Wars Fanstream brought a serious pile of reveals across The Black Series, The Vintage Collection, convention exclusives, mini helmets, and more. But for Star Wars gaming fans, the real headline is obvious: Knights of the Old Republic and The Old Republic both got meaningful Black Series love. That is not a small thing. That is shelf validation. KOTOR and SWTOR Get Black Series Attention The gaming reveals are the ones that hit hardest for our corner of the galaxy. Hasbro revealed a Black Series Mission Vao & Carth Onasi 2-pack inspired by Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, giving the classic BioWare RPG another proper collector nod. That is exactly…

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Walmart Collector Con Is Bringing Clone Wars Obi-Wan, an Airborne Trooper, and Two Mini Helmets Star Wars Fans Will Absolutely Pretend They Don’t Need

Header image showing Walmart Collector Con Star Wars collectibles including Obi-Wan, an Airborne Clone Trooper, a Stormtrooper mini helmet, and a Mandalorian mini helmet

If you collect Star Wars figures for more than about five minutes, you eventually develop a very specific kind of delusion. It usually sounds like this: “I’m just going to look.” Then Walmart Collector Con happens, a Clone Wars-era Obi-Wan shows up with a 212th Airborne Trooper, and suddenly you are doing release-time math like your morning depends on it. That is pretty much the situation now, because Walmart Collector Con kicks off on March 19 at 10:00 AM ET, and Hasbro’s Star Wars lineup is exactly the kind of thing built to destroy even the flimsiest collector self-control. The Main Event Is the Obi-Wan and Airborne Trooper 2-Pack The biggest draw here is the Walmart exclusive Vintage Collection Obi-Wan Kenobi & Airborne Clone Trooper 2-pack, which goes up for preorder on March 19 at 10:00 AM ET for $32.80. Hasbro’s published details say the set includes a 3.75-inch Obi-Wan…

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The Vintage Collection Finally Gets Baze Malbus, and Rogue One Fans Have Every Right to Be Happy About It

Header image featuring The Vintage Collection Baze Malbus figure with text about the new Rogue One collectible release

Hasbro has officially opened pre-orders for a deluxe Vintage Collection Baze Malbus, and honestly, it is about time. For a character who spent Rogue One stomping around with a cannon the size of a small grievance and delivering some of the movie’s coolest non-Jedi energy, Baze has felt weirdly overdue in this format. Now he is finally here as VC397, priced at $27.99, and yes, this absolutely feels like one of those releases collector shelves have been waiting on for longer than they probably want to admit. This Is Very Clearly a Rogue One Anniversary Play Hasbro is framing the figure as part of the 10-year celebration of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which makes perfect sense. If you are going to start mining that movie again for collector goodwill, Baze is a strong place to do it. He is not background filler, not a blink-and-you-miss-him alien, and not…

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