Count me in on being excited for this release!  Seeing new, never before made OT characters in the Vintage Collection shouldn't be a big deal, but in actuality it is.

Of course, some in the TVC social media circles are looking at "Who's Next" from Jabba's Palace.  They haven't even recycled the shipping boxes yet, but this is the collector mindset at work.

Old stock seems to be making it back out there with both Hasbro and Disney!  The Droid Depot 5-pack from Galaxy's Edge from a few years ago has popped back up on Shop Disney.  No vault to be seen with that set.  So I wonder if that might be the case at some point with D3-09?

I found this the other day in Walmart, and again yesterday in Target.  It's nice when you can actually find things on the shelves!  But the price tag on this is still questionable.

Quote from: McMetal on September 21, 2023, 02:21 PM

I’m wondering if they will flash back to explain that as well. I mean, the Purrgil had literally broken through all the windows on the bridge, and I’m no physics major but I’m pretty sure you can’t go through hyperspace Al Fresco 

I just figured there were emergency shields that keep the atmosphere from venting.

Same!  It's best not to invoke physics when it comes to Star Wars.


Thrawn sure can make a hell of an entrance!  And not a bad parking job by the Chimaera, either.

The Night Sisters seemed like a beautiful blend of what we had seen before with Mother Talzin on Dathomir, while drawing on the archetype of three witches - the Stygian witches and the Three witches in MacBeth come to mind.  And their abhorrence of the Jedi seems like something that we should definitely pay attention to.

Baylan Skoll seems to be acting much more in his own interests now rather than as an agent of Thrawn or Morgan Elsbeth.  It seems clear that he needed a ride, because he has been in search of something grander.  I suspect that's going to bring him into conflict with the Night Sisters.

The Howler was hilarious!  And it was great to see a creature with that kind of personality executed so well.  As for the reunion?  It seemed almost pre-destined.  And I suspect that the next conversation between Sabine and Ezra will not go as well.  But I was definitely struck by how much an older Ezra looks like his father.

Feel free to modify the link for sponsorship, Jeff.  Here's the listing for the case of this wave from EE:

Pre-Order Link: https://ee.toys/YR8PZR  #ad #sponsoredlinks

This Star Wars The Vintage Collection Action Figures 2 Wave 3 case contains 8 individually packaged figures:
1x Chopper (C1-10P)
2x General Hera Syndulla
2x Pre Vizsla
1x Darth Revan
1x Director Orson Krennic
1x R5-D4 (The Mandalorian)
(subject to change)

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I have to say, I'm a little shocked to see 6 characters in an 8 figure case!  But this will definitely deter any kind of pegwarming - that is, if the retailers get the case assortment and not solid cases.

Mine arrived today.  Damn, that box is big!  This thing is gonna light a fire under my ass to get my displays together.

Secondary market prices on D3-09 seem to be going up as we get closer to the closure of the Galactic Starcruiser.  And it leaves me wondering what will happen with these figures.

With this version of Darth Vader, I thought there was an obvious choice for the image on the cardback.



Or...



But watching the scene, these are really tight closeups, and the shot composition is very much horizontal - intended to fill the frame.  A cardback filmout needs to be more vertical.

Plus there's the lighting - or lack thereof.  The incidental lighting of the glow of the lightsabers is all there is.  And when it goes from blue to red?  That red does not read well on the black of Vader's helmet.  It makes the exposed face look demonic, but the definition of the rest of the helmet is somewhat lost.

Hasbro has definitely done some heavy lifting in the past with cardback artwork on TVC cards - the deleted scene figures, the realistic Clone Wars renditions, etc.  This would have been a similar case.  So it leaves me wondering if this was a call on the part of Hasbro's packaging design people?  Or perhaps Lucasfilm wanted something more neutral?