Hasbro Star Wars May The Fourth Livestream Later Today

Posted by Chris on 05/03/23 at 07:05 AM Category: May The Fourth, Livestream Event

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IT'S LIVESTREAM DAY! IT'S LIVESTREAM DAY!

Hasbro will be conducting a livestream on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel at 11 AM ET this morning (roughly 4 hours from the time of this post). The purpose of the stream is to preview what will be available to preorder on Star Wars Day tomorrow. What do you hope/expect to see?

This is one of the livestream events were I'm setting my expectations low. The reason is simple: we're had a ton of reveals recently. Between Celebration Europe and the weekly Mando Mania reveals, the cupboard is likely getting low on what is viable for tomorrow. We're probably going to see the actual reveals of items that were previously pipelined. The oldest outstanding pipelined item we have is the Darth Vader / Obi-Wan Kenobi Battle 2-pack. That just feels like a natural reveal for May the Fourth, doesn't it? Their shattered relationship is the quintessence of Star Wars. But what else? The other heretofore unrevealed pipelines are all recent having been shown last month at Celebration Europe:

Grand Inquisitor
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Pre Vizsla
Director Krennic
Darth Revan

If I'm right about the 2-pack, I'd have to say that the Grand Inquisitor would be a natural companion preorder, but I don't feel like that moves the needle enough for Star Wars Day. I'm hoping we get to see the long awaited update to Darth Revan, even with the Knights of the Old Republic remake rumored to be delayed until 2025. That feels Star Wars Day worthy. I don't know how many others from that list to expect though. Some will surely have to be saved for San Diego Comic Con which is only ~2.5 months away.

Additionally, we will be getting some more info on the HasLab (article continues after the Instagram embed):