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Title: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Jeff on May 10, 2018, 04:06 PM
From out of the blue comes a crazy new Black Series 6" figure - Stormtrooper with Blast Effects - found at TRU in Hong Kong (https://twitter.com/yak_face/status/994664918887481344).

No word yet on how this will be made available in the USA. (Nor any word on if this is a one-off or maybe the start of a new sub-line?)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dc3Cb0OUQAYrXep.jpg)

Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Jayson on May 10, 2018, 04:43 PM
I don't know. Looks fake.  ;)
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Jesse James on May 10, 2018, 11:52 PM
(https://media.giphy.com/media/xT4ApznCZTtuBjmHHa/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: McMetal on May 11, 2018, 09:53 AM
It looks like a kitbash of the Amazon battle damaged trooper and those centerpiece sets. Pretty weak effort in this case, but the idea itself isn't terrible.

Reminds me of that TRU Greedo/Han 2-pack that would have been so much better if it had been an actual chair from the Cantina...
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Nicklab on May 11, 2018, 10:34 AM
LOL @ the Zuvio's that are still hanging on the pegs above these things 2 and a half years later...
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Diddly on May 11, 2018, 04:09 PM
This is pretty cool and all, but it makes me wonder why Hasbro doesn't just rehash other figures in special packs like they do in the 3.75 inch line. Not counting the 40th Anniversary Collection, the only 6 inch figures I can think of that have seen rereleases/repaints are the Stormtrooper, Sandtrooper, Clone Trooper, and the Han/Greedo Cantina set, and surely there aren't too many people army building 6 inch figures?
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Nicklab on May 15, 2018, 06:49 AM
I saw a post from DorksideToys about this piece.  They inquired with Hasbro and were told that this Deluxe Stormtrooper is exclusive to Asia.
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Jesse James on May 15, 2018, 09:47 PM
Asian Exclusive?  Interesting.
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: McMetal on May 16, 2018, 08:52 AM
Well, I guess that makes sense in light of all the other Asian exclusives there have been in this line, wait- er...huh?

Pretty annoying if true. They should have at least made some available to HTS or one of the online retailers.
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Dave on May 16, 2018, 10:21 AM
I wonder if this was supposed to be a global TRU exclusive that got redirected to an Asian exclusive when TRU imploded.

Not sure I really want this, but it would be nice to have the option to buy this.  I wonder if EE or someone else will manage to get access to quantities of this.
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Diddly on May 16, 2018, 07:28 PM
Hmm, do airlines offer wholesale pricing on flights? We could go to Japan to pick this up, then get some SH Figuarts figures while we're there  :D
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Jeff on June 12, 2018, 11:18 AM
So this figure set is now listed on ToysRUs.ca (http://www.toysrus.ca/product/index.jsp?productId=141929056).

TRU Singapore, TRU Canada...  but no love yet for USA thanks to TRU-USA's demise.  I guess he's in limbo with TRU 6" Zuckuss and some other TRU exclusives.
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: McMetal on July 21, 2018, 08:50 PM
Doesn't sound like there were any updates on this set coming out of SDCC?
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Darth_Anton on July 25, 2018, 12:13 AM
I f'd up on that one guys. Apologies. None of us could remember him on the spot.
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: McMetal on July 25, 2018, 08:21 AM
No worries, man, literally everyone else forgot to ask about this too. I will probably just go the eBay route...
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Jayson on July 25, 2018, 09:39 AM
Hasbro said that they are working on bringing it but don't have (or are unwilling to share at this time) a retail partner.
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: JediJman on July 31, 2018, 12:04 PM
Hasbro said that they are working on bringing it but don't have (or are unwilling to share at this time) a retail partner.

Too bad they don't have some kind of Black Series 6" Archives line that they could eventually bring stuff like this into. 

 :-X
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: Nicklab on August 16, 2018, 11:36 AM
Per this Star Wars Collector posting (http://starwarscollector.com/8-front-page-news/3901-confirmed-by-hasbro-fate-of-previously-announced-toys-r-us-exclusive-tbs-6-inch-battle-fx-stormtrooper-in-us) the Battle FX Stormtrooper will be heading to the Disney Store.  Of course there was no mention of WHEN, but hey, why let people know when they can find you products, right Hasbro?
Title: Re: 6" Black Series "Blast Effect" Stormtrooper
Post by: McMetal on August 16, 2018, 11:59 AM
I'm glad to hear it'll be coming out somewhere here, even if it doesn't help me much with no Disney stores in a 75 mile radius.

Been pricing these things on eBay from Canada for awhile now and the amount of money they want is pretty unreasonable IMO.