This week in Star Wars Q&A - can you fix cardbacks that the shipping services told to get bent? I'd probably steer you to track down a good one instead. Also why does Hasbro make the kid scale barely incompatible with decades of history? Man, I don't know, keeping it consistent worked well for LEGO and Playmobil and Hot Wheels.

Also, we're out of questions for October. Got a burning question? Ask!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Crosshair (The Vintage Collection). The second team member from Clone Force 99 is here, and the first one was in 2023.

Reusing a lot of Hunter parts, this is a good figure - it doesn't have all the paint you might want, but the range of movement is good and it looks like the character on the show He also has a decent amount of gear and added parts, with a swappable head rather than a removable helmet. Also most surprising of all, I've actually seen him on pegs in stores over the past month - more than once.

I'd recommend giving him a look if you liked his appearances on The Bad Batch and The Clone Wars. Read on!

This week in Star Wars Q&A - Electronics! It seems odd that they're gone. And HasLab Reruns - it seems unlikely but not impossible.

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It's not a Star Wars figure, but it's not far off! This indie figure is sculpted by the guy who did Walrus Man, with details inspired by Grand Moff Tarkin, Cobra Commander, Boba Fett, and Darth Vader. And it's colored like a Fisher-Price Adventure People X-Ray Man. And it's only $25 for an indie PVC figure. What is it?

Still available! The Healey Made X-Raider Action Figure is a fantastic little figure that mashes up inspirations from the greatest 3 3/4-inch action figure lines of the 1970s and 1980s... and a little more. It's Glyos-compatible, and I would recommend it if you have an unpackaged collection of The Retro Collection.

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Moff Gideon (Dark Trooper Armor, The Vintage Collection). It's not the same as the other releases, but the coloring makes it look familiar. It's a decent figure, but one without an unmasked head. If you can find it, give it a look. Read on!

On Monday night, the HasLab Republic Gunship ended with 9,771 backers.  If you look at it now, it's 10,541 with the Coleman Trebor stretch goal unlocked.  Presumably these are late-adds from overseas, non-Pulse markets.  Well, congratulations backers, everybody gets a dino man!  

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Alexsandr Kallus (The Vintage Collection). Good luck trying to spell the first name right, it was easier when the boxes said "Agent." This ISB stooge has a lot of great detail and articulation, and it shows what a difference a few years makes. Nobody wanted Kallus when Rebels first started, and now? People want more Kallus. Hopefully they'll follow-up with a figure based on his Rebel look later from the series some day.

Hasbro did a great job on this one, so hopefully you can find it. Read on!

It was a nail-biter, but the Star Wars The Vintage Collection LAAT/i Gunship barely squeaked out the minimum order quantity in the afternoon and finished at 9,776.  Unless there are more surprise orders to put in there, that means it's the first Star Wars HasLab to fund without meeting a single tier.

The nail-biter continues as Hasbro's Star Wars The Vintage Collection LAAT/i Gunship funding period ends in just over 22 hours.   It's has a pretty good weekend, with a shot of orders Friday morning bumping it up from 4,700 to 5,384.  It just passed another milestone, having passed 6,000 Sunday night.  Right now, it stands at 6,076 and continues slowly ticking up.

Will it fund?

This week in Star Wars Q&A - Returning to the sequels! Is it time to revisit the movies that didn't get enough action figures? And bespoke playset creation - what are the rich people playing with these days?

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Do you remember what you were doing 40 years ago today?  Maybe you were waking up early, because Saturday Morning Cartoons were still a big deal.  ABC TV in the United States would premiere the first episode of The Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour, animated by Nelvana.  Reportedly, the studio has paused production on new animation just last week.

On September 7, 1985, we got to see what would be a common trend in popular IP. After the adults and big kids moved on, you reinvent it for kids. I was one of those kids, so I was really excited to see R2-D2 and C-3PO come back alongside Wicket, Logray, Teebo, and everybody else. The backgrounds and animation were really excellent, with voice acting from one familiar voice and the rest provided by Canada's finest.  Oh, and Vlix was in it.

If you've never seen these cartoons, Disney+ has them all. These cartoons were effectively the finale of Star Wars in mainstream culture in the 1980s.  The Marvel comic would run until 1987, when Star Tours opened and West End Games kicked off its RPG.  Both were exciting expansions, but the former was locked behind a massive vacation paywall while the latter was a series of books and miniatures. 

On Friday morning fans were in for a bit of a surprise, as the Republic Gunship jumped up and down, presumably adding non-Hasbro Pulse pre-sales to the grand total.  At press time, it's at 5,384.   It hasn't made the first goal of 8,000 yet, but it's a huge net gain over Thursday, which was just over 4,700.

There has been news.  A sticker sheet has been added to the package, adding some deco options for fleet building.  An "unboxing" video showing off the prototype in a home environment has been added.  

There are about two days and 21-ish hours to go, and it's kind of an unknown how this is going to end up.  It's trending behind other The Vintage Collection items,  slightly ahead of The Black Series Rancor, but behind the funding goal of 8,000. 

And of course, some of us are still waiting for our Cantinas to ship. (Me, I can't wait, I've been digging out all the aliens.) I'll be watching the ticker all weekend, because this is a surprising project that hasn't gone as expected.  (And because the Cantina isn't here yet.)

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: R2-B0025 (Droid Factory). We have had an orange BB-8, but this is the first R2 unit in orange - and it's a good one. Metallic orange paint over orange plastic makes panels pop, with green and black elements around a few gold bits. It's a really decent droid. Read on!

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