Hasbro Pulse Con 2024

[Jeff]

Setting up a thread for next week's Pulse event since it looks like some Black Series reveals for Skeleton Crew are already leaking this weekend...

https://www.hasbropulse.com/pages/hasbro-pulse-con-2024

Get ready for an epic digital experience with your favorite Hasbro fan brands! Hasbro Pulse Con 2024 is set to deliver exclusive product reveals, brand-new exclusives, exciting announcements, and more. Don't miss out! Mark your calendars for Friday, September 13th, at 1:00pm ET. Stay tuned here for more updates and make sure to follow us on social media!

[Jeff]

Just noting that the EE "drop zone" tease for SW on 9/13 (Pulse Con day) includes "playset" in it's description...

https://ee.toys/51SGB3

Friday, September 13
2:00 pm PT
Hasbro / Star Wars / Action Figures / Playsets / Prop Replicas
Adventure! Excitement! And other things a Jedi may not crave are coming up soon - sign up for a reminder and you can pre-order the latest reveals as soon as we can show them to you!

Also, I guess that confirms that pre-orders will be 5pm ET/2pm PT on 9/13 so set your calendar/reminders/alarms accordingly...

[Jeff]

Hasbro has offered a few updated details about the event coming Friday...

- Hasbro Pulse Con 2024 will be livestreamed exclusively on Hasbro Pulse YouTube, Instagram and Facebook channels on September 13 at 10am PT / 1pm ET.

- Hasbro Pulse Premium Members can enter an exclusive pre-show experience starting at 9am PT / 12pm ET where they can expect brand sneak peeks and teasers for the main event. They’ll be treated to a Hasbro Pulse Con Exclusive Product Showcase as well, along with special products and a live Q&A session hosted by members of the Hasbro team.

- over 35 products will be showcased, including four Hasbro 2024 Convention exclusives:
* TRANSFORMERS LEGACY UNITED DINOBOT DINOKING MULTIPACK
* G.I. JOE CLASSIFIED SERIES #136, EDWARD "STARDUSTER" SKYLAR
* STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES STAP & BATTLE DROID FIGURE
* MARVEL LEGENDS SERIES KANG THE CONQUEROR

- Pre-orders will be available September 13 at 5pm ET exclusively on Hasbro Pulse.  Early access will be offered to Hasbro Pulse Premium Members at 4pm ET.

[Jeff]

I'm watching the pre-show...

- Steve Evans hinting in the pre-show that some 2025 "Return to Tatooine" style reveals are coming for TVC this afternoon.
- Also hinting that 2026 will see the focus shift to "a different era" of Star Wars as the marketing focus for TVC

Slightly revised timeline for the show - all times ET
1:10pm GI Joe
1:40pm D&D
2:00pm Magic
2:20pm Star Wars
2:55pm Marvel Legends
3:20pm Transformers
4:00pm Pulse shopping window opens for Pulse Premium members
5:00pm Pulse shopping opens for all fans

[Jeff]

Star Wars Panel Reveals:

TVC
- VC347 Anakin Skywalker (World Between Worlds) - "almost entirely new"
- VC348 Clone Trooper Lieutenant (Teth) - uses the recent clone sculpt, not sure about the head/helmet
- VC345 Jedi Master Indara
- VC346 Dedra Meero - new female imperial body that they can build on
- VC344 Luke Skywalker
- TVC Streets of Mos Eisley Playset with VC342 Jawa (Mos Eisley)

No pipeline reveals today...

Really surprised that new Farmboy Luke is not VC375.  When Steve Evans made a big deal about that VC# being special, I thought ANH Luke was a lock for that...

[Jeff]

No pipeline reveals today, but they did reveal a new "Return to Tatooine" checklist they will be populating over the coming months as they reveal new things. 

Chris said "you might see a hint or two in there of what else might be coming" - what do you see?  Are those Dewback tracks next to Luke?

[Rob]

Anyone else getting connection issues trying to order at Pulse? 

[Nicklab]

The tracks in the sand next to Luke are definitely intriguing.  And since they're single file?  I think they might be getting ready to release a bantha!

And then there are the tracks in front of the Jawa.  To me, those look more like something a dewback would leave.

Then, there's a blurry spot on the sand behind the wall of the new playset.  Could it be a hint of the "force field" that's seen beneath the landspeeder?

[Ryan]

There is also a big dark shadow out front of the cantina but behind the new set, it may just be a continuation of the wall shadow but it looks more to me like it could be a shadow from the 9000 Z001 landspeeder.

[McMetal]

Anyone else getting connection issues trying to order at Pulse?

It was one of the worst check out experiences I have ever had, and that is saying something. 

The whole site was very unresponsive right before 5pm, I finally had to just download the app and submit my order through there because on the website it kept telling me I had to add a phone number over and over no matter how I entered it. Super frustrating.

Oh, and I still haven’t gotten an email confirmation of my order yet either.

I had just ordered some Marvel Legends stuff earlier in the week and had no problems at all. 🤷

[Jeff]

The whole site was very unresponsive right before 5pm, I finally had to just download the app and submit my order through there because on the website it kept telling me I had to add a phone number over and over no matter how I entered it. Super frustrating.

When they went to a global website, it would have been nice for the instructions to point out you needed to add the +1 country code to the front of their US phone numbers to get them to stick.  So dumb that the software could not figure that out and help people stuck in the phone number cycle of death.

I am glad I waited to grab my stuff from Amazon (because I had some AMZ points to use on the pre-orders) since it seems like a LOT of people had ****** check out experiences today.