2026 March Madness Day 3 Matchups

The second day of voting saw all of the higher seeds win - which coincidentally means that all the figures I wanted lost. But at least today we will get to eliminate either C-3PO or Obi-Wan to make more room for Bad Batchington the mayor of Fort Wayne Indiana.



This is an early battle of big guns. C-3PO enters the tournament with a lot of momentum, but he’s still an effete droid who has been made over and over again (with varying levels of awfulness). Obi-Wan is a fellow main who certainly has more action potential. Last week saw his companion piece Qui-Gon sneak past the Frog Lady, so it will be interesting to see if those voters break for Obi-Wan or if they recognize 3PO as a more critical needed upgrade.



No Star Wars figure poll would be complete without a matchup between the clinically insane director of Aguirre, Wrath of God, and the little girl from the ultra-violent Wolverine movie.

People have been asking for The Client since the first trailer for the Mandalorian dropped while Jecki Lon remains one of the key missing pieces from the surprisingly complete Acolyte collection. Is there still demand for fleshing out the Navarro Cantina, or will the recent (very good) Stranger figure provide a boost to an alien Jedi.



After winning last year’s March Madness, Mara Jade qualified in the middle of the pack this year. Even so, her draw in this part of the bracket looks pretty favorable here to make a run. It was fun to see non-Jar Jar Ahmed Best make a cameo in the Mandalorian, and this seems like a figure that could certainly share tooling with any number of PT Jedi. But moving on would require a big upset that seems pretty unlikely.



This is an interesting matchup that I really don’t have a feel for, so we’ll once again turn to John Madden:

This guy Two Tubes has two tubes and the Pyke soldier doesn’t have any tubes, but they don’t call him No Tubes. If I have to pick between a guy with no tubes and guy with two tubes, I’m taking the guy with two tubes every time. That’s just more tubes.

Saw Gererra lept from animation to live action in Rogue One, and Forest Whitaker was given even more opportunity to… uh, explore the character in Andor. People have literally been demanding a Rukh figure since 1996. So what gets the edge here? An insane Rhydo addict, or an old EU stalwart that no two people can agree what he’s supposed to look like.



Just get out of here with this nonsense. Voting for the miserable fly is an affront to decency. Two Cantina aliens look to carry that banner through the tournament. Make the right choice.



The Jedi Temple Guard figure from the 5POA Rebels line goes for a lot on the secondary market despite being an objectively terrible figure. I don’t know or care who the Second Sister is, but I'm not ruling out that it is a Kylo Ren-themed drag performer.

So one is a guard that guards powerful warrior monks who can definitely protect themselves, and the other is a middle management Jedi Hunter that exists so Darth Vader can devote more time to strategic planning and filling out performance reviews. This one's a toss-up.



Peli Motto has remained a popular request since her debut in the Mandalorian as a testament to our collective insanity. She’s a wacky stock sitcom character accidentally inserted into Star Wars, but somehow it works? But our own “Sassy Teen” certainly got a bump from his failed unlock as part of the Gunship Haslab. Like Arleil before him, these polls might be the best pathway to an eventual figure. But we don’t yet know if he’ll grab that momentum.

Go Vote Already!

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