Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: TIE Fighter Pilot (The Vintage Collection). It is the definition of "just different enough to make you mad" - it's like the 2018 Vintage TIE Fighter pack-in pilot, but this time the head is fully painted and the helmet is glued down. The helmet and suit are basically the same. Read on!

Via Hasbro Pulse: Star Wars™ The Black Series Rancor Update! There is no picture, but there's some text - and we all know, that's where the magic happens.

From the campaign: "We really appreciate all the feedback we’ve received in an effort to make the HasLab Rancor the best possible dream product. With that, we realize we can't leave the most dangerous creature, the rancor, roaming the galaxy without its keeper. We will be adding a fully newly-tooled Star Wars: The Black Series Malakili figure [editor's note: emphasis added] to the base offering, funding at 9K units. Uncarded and ready for action, Malakili comes with his unique gaffi stick inspired by Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. This figure is in active development, and we will share renders as part of our backer updates if the project successfully moves into production.

"This final additional figure can ONLY be added if we hit our target threshold of 9K backers before the campaign deadline (December 6, 2021). Thank you for your help in shaping this product in real time!" More commentary after the jump? Sure, why not.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Wrecker (The Black Series). It's a recent release, and this member of The Bad Batch has one of the most expressive faces in Hasbro's entire action figure line. Read on!

This week in Q&A - Rancor stuff! And HasLab - with a week left, it's all anyone wants to talk about!

Be sure you send in your questions for next time. The mailbag is out of on-topic questions, so if you got some, send some in. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Q9-0 (Zero, The Black Series) (The Black Series). It's a neat robot, with great detail and you've got a ghost of a chance of finding the wave in stores. The grey is a little more "plastic" than "metal" in appearance, but do remember, it is a plastic figure. The painted dirt and wires are a nice touch. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: General Lando Calrissian (The Black Series). It's a recent release, but some elements of the design seem like Hasbro may have been sitting on this fairly good replica of the Return of the Jedi costume. Read on!

Be sure you send in your questions for next time. The mailbag is out of on-topic questions, so if you got some, send some in. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Vice Admiral Rampart (The Black Series). It's Tarkin with a new head. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Trapper Wolf (The Black Series). The PulseCon exclusive uses a 25-year-old man's body (from a 2013 figure) with a 47-year-old man's head - and it's still pretty neat. Read on

This week in Q&A - I'm hip! I mean, their hips. Vintage figures. They're doing some interesting things with them. Also Reissues - well, you can't please all of the people all of the time, can you?

Be sure you send in your questions for next time. The mailbag is out of on-topic questions, so if you got some, send some in. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Artillery Stormtrooper (The Black Series). It's a yellow repaint with some new guns and a slight mark-up - did you get yours when Amazon had the exclusive in stock a few weeks ago? Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: IG-11 (The Vintage Collection). The completely new figure blows your old IG-88 toys out of the water with separated claws on his hands, wonderful articulation, and lots of moving parts on the head. Also it's Taika Waititi, and we all love that guy. Read on!

This week in Q&A - Long pre-orders! They're hopefully not as long as long COVID, but you're still going to be waiting for months. HasLab stuff! Why are some goals revealed and some not? Why don't people like the Rancor? What else may be good for next time? Let's ramble. Also more HasLab stuff! Hey, you guys drive the conversation here.

Be sure you send in your questions for next time. The mailbag is out of on-topic questions, so if you got some, send some in. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Lando Calrissian (The Vintage Collection). It's the first resculpt of this outfit since 2004, so he was due for a good update - and this is a very good update. Read on!