The Disney takeover has resulted in more Hasbro-compatible toys at theme parks, like this year's ice sculpture-inspired Christmas robot R4-H18 (Droid Factory Line Look).   It's a typical R4 unit cast in a clear white plastic, frosty with silver highlights and decorated with festive and removable drinks.  It can't make use of the third leg and the drink tray at the same time, but that's how these things go.  Read on!

This week in Q&A - Displaying the Sail Barge. It's a little early, but it's certainly a problem on my mind right now. Also hunting stuff - and that's about it, since we're light on questions. I assume you're having an office Christmas party, are avoiding your family, or are in line screaming because someone forgot to get a can of those fried onion things and now you're behind someone with 27 items and you've just got this one thing, and they're paying by check, and have no humanity. What can you do? What, pray tell, can you do?

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Is this the worst action figure of 2018? Yes. The Disney Sandcrawler pack-in Jawa (Droid Factory Line Look) is clearly cobbled together from Hasbro parts someone cast and didn't resculpt over the joints.  It's crude, and if you told me it was a bootleg I'd believe you.  At least the droid is OK and the Sandcrawler is nice. Read on!

Onell Design has new Glyos-compatible figures every month or so, and the last release had Pheytooth - a Snaggletooth-inspired figure.   I looked at it over at 16bit.com, and figured I may as well share it here.  Previous figures include nods to troopers, Greedo, and even Vlix - so I like these a lot.  Read on!

A Sandcrawler pack-in at Disney theme parks, the Gonk Droid (Droid Factory Line Look) has a pop-off chassis and jointed legs. It's very similar to the Hasbro one from a few years ago, down to sculpted joints that worked on Hasbro's but are ornamental here.  Read on!

This week in Q&A - Online Shopping and Stores. A lot has changed since 1995! More Solo figures? I can wish. Figure selection has also changed a lot lately.

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The Force Link 2.0 Kylo Ren is a lot like the one from the first Force Link band last year - but with a different symbol on his boot, and a different sound chip.   You may not need more Kylo Ren figures, but you also might need them all - and this Solo: A Star Wars Story release does meet the "just different enough to make you mad" quota.  Read on!

You might have seen this L3-37 (Solo: A Star Wars Story line look)  around, but maybe not.  It's good!  A heavily modified R3 droid has arms and legs, but you'll ese parts from an old Astromech chassis placed strategically on her body.  It works.  Oh, it works.  Read on!

This week in Q&A - Light Distribution. Guess what kids don't want for Christmas? I'll give you two hints. One rhymes with "noise" and the other rhymes with "blar fours." Toy tracking - well, this is more administrative stuff. Also new Vintage TIE Fighter wings - they might not be worth opening up.

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You know you want the Range Trooper (The Vintage Collection).  But can you find it?  It has a white blaster - the Force Link 2.0 version has black - and tons of articulation.  You'll want to get a few of each to fill out your playsets and dioramas.  Read on!

This Han Solo (Vandor-1) comes form a boxed set meant as a tie-in release to the home video for Solo: A Star Wars Story but has been in pretty short supply at brick and mortar.  (Order online!)  It's a nicely-textured figure with goggles, a holster, some snow, and nifty boots.   You'll want this one.  Read on!

What's mine is yours!  The long-delayed Solo: A Star Wars Story Force Link 2.0 Kessel Mine Escape Walmart Exclusive Playset is now up on Walmart.com for a cheaper-than-anticipated $39.88.  You can order it, it may not be in your area just yet.  Click here to check availability.

This week in Q&A - Missing exclusives are missing. You didn't necessarily miss them if no one is trying to sell them to you on the secondary market. Holdo everything - where are the figures we didn't yet get from Comic-Con or Toy Fair? And Vintage Repacks - will the unchanged figures have changes? You bet their packaging will be revised. That's life. We also ramble about the new Disney Sandcrawler at the end.

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A mysterious figure appeared in the Onell Design release November 29 called "Pheytooth."  It has a red hue on the graphic, and the last mystery figure was green and called Greeden.  And this is a Star Wars site, so it could be anything.  I wouldn't want to hit a snag making the wrong guess, but it's up for grabs now for $11.  Order one, won't you? These tend to be limited to the low hundreds, and while I can't say I know the run here they tend to disappear in a day or three.