It’s time for the community to pressure Hasbro into ditching the 16 year old Build-A-Droid astromech mold.
John Miko is back with another guest article, and he takes on the subject of what he’d like to see out of the deluxe line going forward.
No, I’m not talking about the temperatures in Phoenix. 2024 got off to a rough start for TVC, but things are looking up…
We officially back to our normal programming schedule post HasLab. It’s Friday, so that means a Figures That Make Me Happy entry.
It’s actually puzzling why Hasbro hasn’t sunk some tooling dollars into this yet.
Fan Channel and Brick and Mortar have different sensibilities, but Hasbro hasn’t fine tuned them yet.
This problem Hasbro has may actually be either classy or annoying depending on your perspective, but some will definitely find this article annoying.
Usually Chris gives his thoughts following big reveals, but in a slight breach of etiquette, I’ll do it instead…

Thank you to Hasbro and Rogers & Cowan PMK for the following images (121 total) and press release.
For your reading and viewing pleasure, check out our review and full gallery of VC331 - The Armorer (Lakeside Covert World)
The Armorer (Lakeside Covert World) gallery and review>>This is going to be a little experimental. I don’t know for sure that the panel presentation is going to be carried live by the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel, so I will also be embedding the stream from the Imperial Communique who is in attendance. We’ll have to see how this goes. Click through for the chaos.
The panel will be at 5PM ET this evening. What do you expect to see?





I’m happy that this expression is back, and it’s not because I’m an in-package collector. I also conclude this (long) article with a suggestion for what should come next for the Special Action Figure sets.