Someone may have already posted this but has anyone figured out how the panning droid "connects" to the platform. I am not an engineer and I can't make it work.

I just worked this out myself last night.

The two arms that are not being used to hold the lava cauldron can swing forward to plug into the lava.  The platform will lift off of the lava base, and you'll find two slots that are intended for those two arms to plug into.  Plug those in, then replace the platform and the Panning droid and lava mining platform are effectively one unit.

If my explanation isn't clear enough, check out the small photo on the figure blister.  It shows how the pieces integrate.  But the way I set mine up looks a good deal better than the RS image.

Scored the white & orange pit droid 2-packs with accesory 2 today.

Saw Juno Eclipse and Vader in a store this morning.  They look alright.  I left them behind though, since I've got a deal pending for the entire wave minus the Shadow Guard.

Great news!  Congrats Scott for carrying the ICMG torch for all these years.

There may or may not be a midnight madness.  But it does appear to be a hard street date.  That date showed up in almost all of the Hasbro presentation slides.  There are a good number of movie licensed toy lines out there that launch on a specific date, and usually the cases have the street date stamped in red.

The staff is from the Fett Legacy set.  That goes with Mandalore.  And the electricity goes with the Secret Apprentice (apprentice version).  If you check out the package back you'll see where those should go.

Well there is an image of TC-4 in that book, regardless.