Solo 3.75" Force Link 2.0 with Han Solo

[Jeff]

Pics from EW:

[Darby]

I dig it. Great likeness of Alden-Han.

[Rob]

I haven't seen the rest of the lineup yet, but I hope they don't keep putting unique figures with the force link readers.  I already have two of them and don't need a third or a fourth.

[Jeff]

I hope they don't keep putting unique figures with the force link readers.

Since the sound tech is in the reader and not the figures, you'll need a new reader with each new movie to add new dialogue...  and of course they'll keep putting unique figures in there as long as folks keep buying.

I already have two of them and don't need a third or a fourth.

If you only have two, you're missing something...  I've got three (basic Force Link set, TRU Force Link set, and BB-8 playset).

This will be my 4th, but I've got 4 kids so now they won't have to fight over them.  Still need one for me, I guess.

[Rob]

Since the sound tech is in the reader and not the figures, you'll need a new reader with each new movie to add new dialogue...  and of course they'll keep putting unique figures in there as long as folks keep buying.

Yeah... I've never actually tried to use the things... and I doubt I ever will.

If you only have two, you're missing something...  I've got three (basic Force Link set, TRU Force Link set, and BB-8 playset).

This will be my 4th, but I've got 4 kids so now they won't have to fight over them.  Still need one for me, I guess.

I suppose I do have 3 then... I just forgot that the BB-8 set came with one.  I grabbed the figures out of that one and the BB-8 is in my closet with all the parts stuffed into it.

[Jeff]

I've never actually tried to use the things... and I doubt I ever will.

My kids like them... but in fairness, only 25% of the time are they are using them with the figures.  The other 75% of the time they are being used like Iron Man/Boba Fett style role play wrist rocket launcher type things. 

[Rob]

For sure, I'd imagine they're great for kids. 

[Jesse James]

I still don't own one but man I bet the probot sounds cool.  I think had I been able to get as many of the SA Praetorian Guards as there were in the duel sequence, I would've bought enough of the helmet/weapon variant 5POA figures in any form to make the complete set of guards.  I probably would've picked up Rey and Kylo to custom up into articulated versions of themselves then too.  As it stood though I found one SA guard and never saw a sniff of more of that wave ever being put back out.  I made one mad tear to WM stores on the way home from a football game methodically hitting all the ones I could between the college and my house, and I found everything but the executioner which my buddy got me a week or so later.

That wave is forever the weirdest next to that last Rogue One wave I saw one time.

[Brian]

I actually haven't gotten one of these yet, and I really like that Han figure, so it is a good chance to pick one up.

[Darby]

I don't have one yet either, and this will probably be a pick up for me. Though I assume Han will be available elsewhere, so... we'll see.

[Nicklab]

Some of these leaked at a local Walmart store near me.  And unlike the TLJ Force Link gauntlet, this one doesn’t have a window for the figure. I think someone at Hasbro might be concerned about figures being cut out of the packaging by people who want the figure and not the gauntlet.

[Muftak]

So if I buy one for the figure, I can't check the paint apps first...

...or make sure the unscrupulous lot haven't already removed the figure and returned the set. At least with a window box they have to replace it with something. So much for stopping the thieves, I think this makes it easier.

This is not a cool development, and has pushed me to not being interested in tracking this Han down 'til deep clearance time. My son likes his ForceLink enough I would have considered it otherwise.

[Rob]

Is Forcelink 2.0 actually anything different or is it just the same thing re-branded?

[Muftak]

It's new, and backward compatible to last fall's TLJ ForceLink toys. New ForceLink 2.0 figures are not compatible with the original ForceLink.

It is also supposed to be forward-compatible, and will be able to update the sounds it contains so that going forward you don't have to buy a new one every six months to keep up-to-date.

[Scockery]

Sure, sure, and watch them dump the Force Link feature by the end of the year.