I rewatched the finale because that was about as much Cyril as I could stand seeing again, and it was so good. I hope they wrap up the loose ends with the older characters in the first arc though.

Syril is such an annoying simp.  The actor does an awesome job portraying him like that!

It does seem there was a pre-tariff price hike of some sort. I really like BBTS and have used them several times this year to catch up on all the TVC I could, so I don't want to be disparaging.
However, a few weeks ago I ordered one of those Heavy Battle Droids from BF2 and it was $9.99. Now it's $11.99. I doubt they are paying an import fee now for a figure that has been on a clearance sale for weeks.
Noticed the same with the Peasant Disguise Anakin and their own BF2 Arc Trooper. Looks like a $2 increase across the board, clearance items included.

I will support the hobby as long as I can. Having recently gotten back in, I already had to mentally adjust from paying $7.99/figure to paying $16.99/figure.
What I don't want to happen is that BBTS, EE, and others like comic shops have to raise prices now while Amazon weathers the storm and siphons the customer base away.
I just lost my 2 closest Gamestops and only 1 Walmart by me regularly restocks TVC. Amazon can be great, but I don't want a future where they are the only reasonable option.

Spoilers...?

Sounds like there is a lot of speculation that Filoni and gang are picking up a bunch of old George ideas and recycling them in this show.  One idea comes from a cancelled Darth Maul video game:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sith_Lords

"George Lucas revealed his interest in Darth Maul working with Darth Talon, a concept that would carry over to Lucas' first drafts of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.[10] When Lucas was told that this would not work since Talon lived more than 170 years after Maul, he said the main character could instead be a descendant or clone of Maul.[11] Talon's purpose in the game would have been to serve as "Maul's Lauren Bacal", a smart and sexy female deutagonist.[8]"

So, flash forward to the Maul Shadow Lord preview from SWJC where it was shown that Maul is training/working with a red/pink skinned Twilek.  There is a ton of speculation over whether of not this may be his new apprentice and so all the rumor-folks are assuming that she = "Darth Talon" because of the video game stuff above.

I probably won't care enough to do that.

I got a notification that one of my Marvel Legends preorders went up by $2, despite the fact that other retailers already have this figure in stock and are selling it at regular price. 

So nope, I don’t care if it’s for two dollars or two cents, I would feel like a sucker paying more for something when I don’t have to, so that one is getting canceled. None of my Amazon preorders have gone up yet.

I wonder how much business they will lose over this.