Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Ponda Baba (The Black Series). It's a 2019 Luke body with a new head, new hands, and new colors. Is it enough? It's not bad. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Dr. Evazan (The Black Series). This PulseCon debut is also showing up in retail stores as an individual figure - and it's a new head and torso with Jedi Luke arms and D.J. legs. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Clone Pilot Hawk (The Black Series). It's a Target exclusive that came and went quickly, retooling the original Clone mold with new heads and new paint. Read on!

The funding for the HasLab Star Wars™ The Black Series Rancor ended just under an hour ago, capping out at about 8,500 of a required 9,000 orders before numbers started reducing down to 832 (as of 9:49 PM Pacific) and the project was removed from the HasLab archive page. For now you can still see the pictures and copy for Malakili, and it is unknown what this means for future projects.

As it did not fund, we do not anticipate this project to see production, but it will be interesting if Hasbro tries to make a similarly sized - but simpler and cheaper - creature with less articulation at a lower cost. (I am not betting on it.)

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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.

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Aurra Sing (The Black Series). The box says The Clone Wars but you know it's The Phantom Menace - and it's a really good figure who interacts with her accessories well and has top-tier paint. The antenna in her skull is a separately molded grey piece, too. Read on!