In case you missed it over there to the right, we recently played catch up on the on-line wave for the Vintage Colleciton.  Nothing you have seen at all the other site, but if you wanted to see our take on these figures, click the thumbnails below:

If you wanted to pre-order individual figures from wave 1 of the 3.75” Black Series, toyrus.com has them on sale at 2 for $14.99.

Yup Volkerc.  Again.  Click through to check out pics of the two Imperial Scanning crew 2 packs coming to a K-Mart store nowhere near you (if you live in a civilized area).

At the opposite end of the spectrum from the Toys R Us report below, my local Target managed to create an end cap display to ensure that we never escape the ridiculous glut of Phantom Menace product. When I scanned the Rise of Darth Vader package I was amazed to find that the price was on the display was correct.  And not only have these items escaped clearance, the price scanner revealed there are more in the stock room.  Glory day!  Full sized image after the jump.

There is nothing earth shattering to this report as it has been reported by multiple sources that the new Class II vehicles in the pointing Vader Revenge of the Sith 3D packaging have been popping up at US Toys R Us stores.  With confirmation that they are on shelf in Massachusetts, it pretty much confirms they have made the coast to coast swing.  This particular store also happened to have a Vintage Collection Obi-Wan’s Starfighter still on the shelf, so I was able to compare the two to determine if the new ship is a new mold or not.  Read my findings after the jump.

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Volkerc does it again, by providing the case breakdown for wave 2 of the 6” Black Series.

Wave 2
Slave Leia 1x
Boba Fett 1x
Ep. III Anakin Skywalker 1x
EP. IV Han Solo 1x

The Vintage Collection Slave I is also available for pre-order.

Amazon.com has the exclusive Vintage Collection Tie Interceptor available for an August 15th pre-order.

If you are a Star Wars historian at heart, you will not want to miss this 1978 Boba Fett screen test showing the prototype armor we’ve all come to love recently.

For those not wanting to order the Black Series by the case, the individual wave 1 figures are listed as coming soon to Hasbro Toy Shop.  Additionally, orders of $10 or more in Star Wars merchandise get a free Star Wars figure valued at $9.99.  My real motivation for posting this is the sad commentary that there isn’t a single figure from that lackluster launch wave that I want extras of.  I have a case coming from BBTS and that will be the extent of my wave 1 purchase.  I can’t recall the last time I haven’t wanted extras of at least one figure.  And six of them are carry forward figures since apparently Hasbro feels pressure to match their 2012 record of destroying the retail pipeline in only two assortments.  This is what happens when you set the fail bar very high.

New breaking guru Volkerc has posted pics of the upcoming K-Mart exclusive Ewok Catapult set on his site starwars-figuren.com.  Head over to check them out.  Not too shabby.

As first alerted to by our friends at Jedi Temple Archives, four of the upcoming Black Series 3 3/4” figures are available for pre-order at toysrus.com with buy one get on 50% off. The estimated ship date is 08/06.

The site flyguy.net comes through again.  Remember all those clones that no one was asking to be upgraded?  Yup, they’re a comin’.  On a less sarcastic note, I’m particularly happy about a certain “survivors circle” Jedi that appears to be getting the upgrade treatment.

Also if you think I saw Jedi Temple Archives repost this news and then did the same thing here, that’s just stupid.

Follow that link right below this sentence for a sweet (and short) teaser trailer for the recently announced Battlefront 3.

The site flyguy.net has revealed a list of 8 heretofore unannounced 6” Black Series figures.