The set I just opened came with 6 blaster rifles.  Is that on purpose or did I get extras?  I can't imagine needing to outfit any of these with double blasters...

Cool, I found a couple of Jod Nas at my local store yesterday too and picked one up. 2/5 so far…

Mine arrived today. It's interesting, they have moved away from the plastic-free packaging on these (at least for this set). There is a molded-PET insert for the droids instead of the cardboard & wax paper inserts, but they still have the blasters in a wax-paper baggie.

I seem to remember when they were first introducing this set, they said the droids would be made of a more rigid plastic. After opening one set, they seem gummy as ever... but it is also 100-degrees outside today, so I may have to wait for these to cool down a bit and see if they stiffen up. If not, I may return a few of the sets I bought.

I will note that it is nice that they varied up the weathering on each of the three grunts a little bit, making each of them unique.

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EDIT: I checked these again today after letting them cool off for the weekend, and they do feel a bit more rigid when compared to previous carded versions. The all-new leg sculpt is a bit more bulky to further help make the droid more rigid, and the added ball-jointed knees & rocker ankles help make it much more poseable and stable. The new hips have a bit wider range of motion, too.

This is actually a surprisingly significant upgrade over the previous version.

Got my order in, just for one though. I’m really glad this is a new tooling that better fits with the more detailed TIE series ships we’ve been getting since the late 2000s. I’m not thrilled with the price, but at least it’s an entirely new ship.

Looking ahead to SDCC 2025 as it'snow 5 weeks away, and I'm wondering if Hasbro is going to shift the way they conduct the SDCC panel this year? Last year they were still offering the Pipeline Reveals - and 2 of those that were announced in June of '24 are still yet to be officially revealed. But per Hasbro they decided to taper off the Pipeline Reveals since they seemed to diminish the excitement level for announcements in general.

This is what got revealed for TVC last year at SDCC:
-3 TVC mainline figures [Imperial Jet Trooper, Thrawn (Ahsoka), Ahsoka Tano (Peridea)]
-1 TVC deluxe figure - Cobb Vanth
-1 creature pack - Mando and Blurrg
-1 playset - Armorer's Forge
-8 TVC mainline figures announced as Pipeline Reveals.
-Shortly before SDCC Hasbro announced the Mandalorian Shriek Hawk Training Team multipack

Given the shift in how Hasbro is announcing things? I suspect that there will be more announcements than last year.  It's fair to expect Hasbro to finally reveal the new Han Solo and Chewbacca that were pipelined a year ago.

Yakface also has 4 named characters on their current rumor list, with another 17 entries for mainline figures, 3 slotted for deluxe figures, as well as a couple of multipacks. I think we could see anywhere from 6 - 8 mainline figures announced, a deluxe figure and a multipack announced for TVC. I'm also not ruling out the possibility that Hasbro could make at least a couple of pipeline reveals, but those would be an exception to the shift in the way Hasbro is announcing things.