If it's out of stock, they might as well lower the price even more!

I have never let this exclusive runaround stuff get to me, but this week's events have been ridiculous. I think I will be ignoring Online Exclusives from here on out. If I see them in store so be it, but the local WalMart is one of the little/outdated ones that doesn't get them, so their stuff will be dead to me.

My new tracking says it shipped this morning and will be here tomorrow afternoon, but it is some shipping company I have never heard of before so who really knows?

Mine is cancelled as well.

Who wants to chip in to charter an exploratory submarine to look for them amongst those lost containers on the bottom of the Pacific?

Conjecture: when Hasbro realized the shipment was lost and they would have to rerun the figures at the factory, they decided to toss in the "enamel pin" addition to cover-up the fact that things went awry. We will see these for sale on WalMart.com again in August.

I'm likely looking too much into it, but there may be more nuance to that ending beyond just "wow, Luke is a badass jedi."

Heck, I just want to know where Luke stowed Grogu when they left in the X-Wing. I guess he could squeeze him in on his lap...it's not like there are extra seats.

Unless Luke knew he wasn't getting a full-sized trainee here, it's kind of an odd choice of a rescue vehicle to show up in.

Also wondered how Boba was managing to track Mando so easily. Just awesome skillz I guess!

I thought about that, then No-Prized it away quickly with the logic that the Slave I could probably track the armor itself. Better off to get your ship blown up when it is being tracked by everybody. (The other No-Prize I had to puzzle out was why Boba waited until his armor left Tatooine to go after it. My solution: the link between the armor and Slave I again. As long as the armor was local (ie on the planet,) it was the only "key" to powering up the Slave I. Once it was off-planet, Boba could use backup unlocks.

As for Fennec Shand,  she was "left for dead" as opposed to "dead." Maybe Fett took her to be put back together by his old buddies the Jawas of Doom?

This is the first episode of the season I watched twice, but there was so much forward movement in the story here, so much character growth, and so much well-done action it was really compelling. And I feel hypocritical about loving this one so much, because a big part of the fun for me with the series is the serial aspect of the adventures.

I loved all of it. My one quibble would be the literal Force-field, and the Filonized "Jedi Temple." It made me remember there were reasons "Rebels" lost me at the end of Season Two.

That said, I would be thrilled if the next episode is from Grogu's POV and shows us what happened during his Jedi Communion. I get a feeling that whatever crew Mando winds up pulling together they are going to get out-classed in battle with Gideon, until whoever Grogu reached out to shows up to turn the tide. Should be a fun finish to the season.

Chirrut and Baze didn't even sell that well the first time around.  Re-releasing them doesn't make much sense.

You aren't looking at it from a marketing standpoint--which is the only thing Hasbro thinks about these days. You have to have the whole crew in the new boxes so you can make the mosaic on the box sides...Baze and Chirrut are a must if you want to build that picture!

The current Star Wars team at Hasbro is all about re-using molds to sell us something "new." Here the new is the way you can keep the cardboard boxes together in a group, and maybe a chance for better deco on Jyn (especially)...oh yeah, and one new character. It is an exact repeat of the Rebels "Ghost" crew wave from last year. (They can do a little bit of good PR by using the Cassian Andor that only came in the multipack, and not the winter coat version this time, but I give them less than even odds that they understand the distinction between the two figures.)

In other words, they needed to do $125 worth of figure reissues to justify the new tooling required to make a $25 Bodhi Rook figure (and from what I remember of his costume, a lot of that could be recycled parts anyway.)

I hear HasLab is going to clearance them out around 10pm tonight. I am waiting to jump on it then!

By all accounts, no.

And yet my local WalMart--where Black Series and Vintage Collection pegs sit apparently empty for weeks on end--always has some GOA figures on the 2 pegs alloted for them, and they sell some and then replenish, then sell some more. It's always that final Han and Threepio case that fills the pegs back up, and when it refills I always look to see if this time Yoda and Boba Fett are there, but not yet.

So by default these are selling okay in my area. I don't know how many cases of the other two lines sell out immediately upon arrival because I don't catch them, but I have been able to watch the Galaxy of Adventures figures sell a handful a week for months on end.

And I will buy Boba Fett, Yoda, and Darth Maul if/when I see them.