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Hasbro's PulseCon is on, with new pre-orders from Star Wars, Marvel, Transformers, and of course G.I. Joe.

Shipping on all orders is now a flat $7.95, including pre-orders, so order a lot all at once. If your order is above $99, it qualifies for free shipping - pre-orders, too!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Darth Maul (Deluxe, Cyborg, Epic Hero Series). This Walmart exclusive is an inexplicable $20, and is awesome as it is confounding on so many levels. They retooled the figure's robe skirt to be shorter, but merely painted on the belt buckley parts. There's a clip-on piece of chest armor and a cool spinning lightsaber blade swirl, but these accessories can't possibly justify the $12 upcharge over a basic figure. Having said that, it's so weird, and so funky, that I would highly recommend it on sale or if we find out the price was some sort of clerical error that will be fixed at some point. It's well-made, but so strange in where the budget went and considering Walmart has a figure 2-pack while Amazon has a figure 3-pack for the same price, it's a mystery for the ages. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Tusken Warrior (The Retro Collection). This figure never showed up at Target or Walmart, but started showing up at Ross in the last month for $3.99. It answers the question "what if the 1978 Sand People had cloth robes?" It's quite excellent, if you see it for four bucks, buy two or six. Read on!

This week in Star Wars Q&A - The Acolyte! Are they still coming out with product? And Pilots! Who are these people?

Also, we're out of questions for next week.

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If you're out and about, it is joined by at least three other Epic Hero Series exclusives.

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The new-for-fall Inhumans Marvel Legends Series Crystal and Lockjaw Deluxe 6-Inch Action Figures is also up for pre-orders today.

If you missed them before, pre-orders are now open for Star Wars The Vintage Collection Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes 3 3/4-Inch Action Figures, Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Siege Commander Jetfire and the hard-to-find Star Wars The Black Series Clone Commander Obi-Wan Kenobi 6-inch Action Figure.

Shipping on all orders is now a flat $7.95, including pre-orders, so order a lot all at once. If your order is above $99, it qualifies for free shipping - pre-orders, too!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Darth Maul (Movie Version, Epic Hero Series). This one has a play feature - his lightsaber can be split in half, as have so many, so you can use it as one accessory or as two. The sculpt is very good, with an expressive face and some very pointy horns. Hasbro did such a good job n this mold that you can see why they wanted to repaint it for an exclusive, even if it's a weird fit. Having said that,  this particular movie-specific figure may be in a store near you right now, too. I'd recommend it. Read on!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: RD-3 (Droid Factory). This Disney Ahsoka droid has the foot cables - which are very unusual for Disney droids - with a slightly larger head on an old body that you probably don't remember actually seeing on the show. But the colors look nice. Read on!

This week in Star Wars Q&A - Edition Run Sizes and new toys for kids.

Also, send in more questions - I do have some work trips coming up and would love to bank a couple of entries ahead of the flights!

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Here's an interesting one - Goliath Games is making a Power Saber, which is a new non-licensed laser sword toy. Why are we mentioning it here? The Verge has an article titled "How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy" that kind of says it all.

The electronic toy is very "a lightsaber with the trademarks filed off," so no official sounds, and a generic hilt await this fully-extending blade which works through a screw mechanism. It's a really neat idea, but it's reportedly very loud and I assume kids (and fans) will be much less interested given the price combined with the lack of a license.

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Grand Admiral Thrawn (Rebels, The Vintage Collection). Taking the book character, and making him a cartoon, and making a live-action version of the cartoon version of the book character, is certainly a novel idea. It recycles some other movie figure parts, and it will again be recycled with the Ahsoka Thrawn in the future - with other new parts. As such this is something of a transitional figure, so if you skip it, you might be in good shape. Read on!

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: CH-33P (Cheep, The Vintage Collection). If you didn't get the gold in Paris, maybe you can get one on eBay. This droid isn't C-3PO, but he comes from the droid bins that, sadly, no longer exist. He also looks pretty close to The Clone Wars version, but since it uses the Chopper body the torso and one of the legs don't match. You do get a new dome, and the old body is painted to look more or less like the on-screen robot. For a $70 set, it would have been nice to have had the correct body and limbs though. Read on!

This week in Star Wars Q&A - Theme Park Face Lift! Do you believe in time travel? And More Cantina vs. Joe stuff, that's where the questions are coming from.

Also, The Acolyte had an iffy week.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Boba Fett (Epic Hero Series). It's fantastic - but not for everybody. If you were a Kenenr kid, this will feel like a roughly 1990s release with sturdy joints, awesome accessories, and a giant rocket-firing backpack that he can wear and stay standing. Deco is good, sculpt is excellent, and its ability to balance seems shocking giving how many The Vintage Collection guys just face-plent without a heavy backpack. I recommend him. Read on!