Live stream - Jing, Chris, Emily, Eric.

Recap of recently pre-ordered things...
- TVC Phase II Clone 4-pack - confirmed new tooled helmet head sculpt
- Deluxe Jango Fett

Note on fan-channel...
- "Even more focused in 2024" on providing Fan Channel
- "Still delivering strong figures" to brick-and-mortar (Target/Walmart) for "characters kids and casual fans will recognize"
- Use Dooku as example of figure fans want so = fan-channel

New TVC reveals today... all of these are mainline figures; Pre-order 1/24 @ 1pm ET (guessing these make up a lot of the wave that is coming with Huyang):
- TVC TBB Captain Rex (uses new Clone sculpt)
- TVC ANH X-Wing Pilot Luke {VC158 repack/refresh with tweaked cardback}
- VC312 The Mandalorian (Season 3) - seems like a repack of the Rescue/N-1 Mando figure sculpt on a new Season 3 cardback
- VC313 Grogu (Season 3) - new pram with three different cover options and his flat shirt (from the DLX Grogu/Luke pack)
- VC314 Mandalorian Fleet Commander - has an interchangeable helmet head
- VC315 TM Axe Woves (Mando Season 3) - "refresh" where this version has an interchangeable helmet head

New TVC Exclusives:
- TVC Sabine/Chopper/Lothcats (2) Multi-Pack - Chopper/Lothcats and Sabine both on Mural cardback
--- Limited Pre-Order window at Hasbro Pulse (1/24 @ 1pm ET through Feb 14th @ 11:59pm ET)
--- (man, these are very nice - new helmet head for Sabine is WAY better than that DLX figure)


TVC Pipeline Reveals:
- TCW 4-Pack - Ahsoka, R7-A7, CH-33P, RG-G1 (Amazon Exclusive)
- HK-87 red/tan repaint
- Dark Trooper (stripped down carded release)
- Ahsoka the White
- Mando with 'borrowed' Beskar Trooper Jetpack
- Updated Mando Season 3 Bo Katan
- Deluxe COBB ******' VANTH with Fett armor

Any chance Chopper isn't a repack?

He appears to be a slightly repainted version of the original Disney Chopper figure (which Disney has repainted before in this line).

These are starting to trickle onto Amazon now...

Ahsoka -> https://amzn.to/3U5DcBy
Luke -> https://amzn.to/42actpt
Grogu -> https://amzn.to/3S5RaAP
Mando -> https://amzn.to/3S94p3I
Vader -> https://amzn.to/3S4v3uK
Stormtrooper -> https://amzn.to/3S2S413

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Now I've either got to pull the head off a perfectly good R5 droid or just leave Grogu trapped like a boy in the bubble. 

Remember this guy from Target a couple years back?



I dug through my accessory bin baggies to find this extra R5-head and used it with the Mando N-1.  If you bought this set back in the day, that's an easy way to get an R5 head without having to sacrifice a whole R5-D4 for the job.

Jayson doing Jayson things and teasing new 2024 products:

https://yakfaceforums.com/main/2024/01/09/tvc-rumor-report-new-unknown-playset-or-vehicle-code-name-found/

- dimensions of box are similar to something around the size of Tantive IV and Carbon Freezing Chamber playsets OR a vehicle like Imperial Troop Transport

Let's start our speculation while Jayson keeps digging...

I'm hoping it was just writer strike related things that caused some kind of delay in confirming/moving on to a Season 2 as I'd like to see more of Baylon/Shin's story (and everything else going on in Ahsoka's finale).

Speak of the devil...  a tidbit from the announcement of a Mando & Grogu movie:

"The Mandalorian & Grogu will lead Lucasfilm's ongoing feature-development slate, including films helmed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, and Dave Filoni, who is also currently developing Ahsoka Season 2, among those in the works."

So I guess we will get an Ahsoka Season 2 eventually...

I don't think he's the type to fill Shin in on all his plans.

It's kind of a bummer that they were clearly setting this all to go somewhere with Baylon but then at the same time they don't seem to have any definite plans for an Ahsoka Season 2?  All of which is also complicated by the untimely passing of the actor.  I'm hoping it was just writer strike related things that caused some kind of delay in confirming/moving on to a Season 2 as I'd like to see more of Baylon/Shin's story (and everything else going on in Ahsoka's finale).

Dark Troopers down to $16 on Amazon now…

TVC Dark Troopers = $15.74 at Pulse:
https://hasbropulse.com/collections/clearance-collection/products/star-wars-the-vintage-collection-dark-trooper