Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Obi-Wan Kenobi (The Black Series). It's a PulseCon reissue with the photoreal paint job, and it's a pretty solid improvement. Read on!

This week in Q&A - HasLab - should we keep talking about this?  And Deluxe Figures - are we getting our money's worth?

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!

It's new! Modeled after the newer revised armor of Boba Fett, this Healey Made Raider (Revenge) is available now for $25, until it sells out. The same mold has been issued before, but it looks like it has a new cloth element. It also costs about the same as Hasbro's new Boba Fett figure in The Vintage Collection, so take a look and click here to check availability.

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: R5-D33R (Droid Factory). It's new for 2021, and not a bad design. Read on!

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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!

This week in Q&A - Hans across America! Sometimes we don't get what we prefer! And The Rancor - which I assume will stop being a topic of conversation soon!

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: 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!

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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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This week in Q&A - rainbow droids! Did everybody miss out? And Sequel Toys - should we expect more? And HasLab Rancor complaints and questions since this is supposedly the final day, and at press time it's at 5,599 of 9,000 backers. Short of a time extension, it doesn't seem likely to happen.

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: 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.