2022 Hasbro "May the 4th" Livestream

[Jeff]

Starting up a thread to catch the Black Series reveals from the May 4th livestream...  details from Hasbro:

May The 4th be with you, Star Wars fans! Celebrate this special day with Jing, Chris, Emily, and Eric as they take to the stream on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel at 10:00am ET.  There will be many exciting new reveals and pre-orders - you won't want to miss it!!

[Jeff]

Jayson's rumor report for the livestream -

"For preorders, by my count, we should see about 12 mainline and fan channel items split evenly between the Vintage Collection and Black Series lines. There may be a couple retailer exclusives as well that may or may not throw off that balance."

[Jeff]

The Black Series Reveals

Mainline:
- ROTJ Ewok Village Leia
- ANH Figrin D'a with 3 instruments
- TM New Republic Security Guard

Deluxe:
- ANH Nalan Cheel with the rest of the instruments (Pulse)

Exclusive:
- 187th Battalion Clone Trooper (Walgreens)

Pipeline Reveals:
- HK-87
- Luke Skywalker (TM Season 2)

[McMetal]

Wow, that was actually pretty cool. I’m legit excited for some of these.

But how am I gonna fit all those Bith on my already crowded ANH shelf???

[Dave]

But how am I gonna fit all those Bith on my already crowded ANH shelf???

I'm still debating which way to go with this.  If it were 3.75" I would get enough to fill out the band, but with 6" I'm not sure I'm going to get more than one Figrin and one Nalan.  Getting six will be expensive and take a lot of room.

[Matt_Fury]

You're going to need three of each of the Cantina band member to make the band.

Preorders will be limited to two.

[P-Siddy]

Preorders will be limited to two.

Which will be the smart way to go, right? [/s]

[Nicklab]

You're going to need three of each of the Cantina band member to make the band.

Preorders will be limited to two.

I was wondering about getting multiple band members.  The question I have is about the interchangeable hands.  Can you interchange the deluxe figure's hands with those of the Figrin D'an figure?  Because if you want to build out the Modal Nodes with 6 of the Bith musicians, that might be more economical.

[Matt_Fury]

People are going to buy multiples of these just for there to be a boxed set of the whole band in 9 months or so.

[Brian]

But how am I gonna fit all those Bith on my already crowded ANH shelf???

I'm still debating which way to go with this.  If it were 3.75" I would get enough to fill out the band, but with 6" I'm not sure I'm going to get more than one Figrin and one Nalan.  Getting six will be expensive and take a lot of room.

As I’ve been paring down and selling off things the past few years, I’ve come to the decision - with space issues - that I’m keeping extras/army building buying to 3 3/4” only. I just don’t have the room aside from just packing them away. So if I grab these, it will likely only be one of each as well unless something drastically changes budget or space wise.

[Muftak]

None of this interested me in the least bit. I got a little excited as they were revealing the Retro 6-pack box set in the hopes that they were actually about to reveal 2 of them with the other 6 from the original 12 in the other one, but no dice. They kept saying all the original figures, but I guess they just meant all of the Wave 1 of Retro...

And look at that, a package with no plastic on it at all, yet contains several figures on cards with bubbles as the product. I bet this is how the ROTJ wave drops next year, too!

[Nicklab]

All of it looked cool.  And I really liked the attention to detail on the Modal Nodes.

All of that being said?  I am not preordering ANY of the Black Series items that were revealed today.  It's just where I am with the Black Series.  And I have personal animosity about that Ewok village Leia.  Back in the POTF2 days that 3.75" Ewok village Leia was one of the biggest pegwarmers.  That figure sat for YEARS!  I think it was released in 1998, and you could still find them on pegs 3 or 4 years later.

[Dave]

And look at that, a package with no plastic on it at all, yet contains several figures on cards with bubbles as the product. I bet this is how the ROTJ wave drops next year, too!

I thought that was a little ironic too.  I thought that was going to be the beginning of them talking about no plastic, but nope, just a windowless box with the plastic bubbles on the inside.

[Jeff]

Dropping these in here since they were on May 4th and Obi-Wan is part of the same wave with Ewok Leia, Security Droid, and Figrin D'an -

Pre-order 5/5 - Ewok Leia, Security Droid, Figrin
Pre-order 5/11 - Obi-Wan




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[Matt_Fury]

Crap....I have to order yet another Black Series figure!