There was also a Black Series 6" DLX Savage Opress. 

It was a pretty small show - just 1.5 hours or so for everyone.  I was glad it was pre-recorded so I could just skip ahead to the SW section rather than waiting for it.

Kicking off a thread for a new mainline wave - better pics coming later

Pre-order tomorrow (10/28) @ 1pm ET at all participating retailers (2pm ET at Pulse for non-Premium members):

VC354 Jedi Knight Yord Fandar
VC357 Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Legend)

The TVC 1.0 Aurra Sing is one of my favorite figures from that era.  Especially the case that was included with the original version, which held the lightsaber hilts of Jedi that she had taken out.

...but this version doesn't include that.  There's also a new cardback.  The cardback alone always gets me because we're veering into "Just different enough to make you mad" territory.

I've seen a fair amount of criticism about this figure.  Some of it is well deserved.  A lot of it has to do the perception that the TPM wave in TVC 1.0 was responsible for the demise of that line.  That's partly accurate, but doesn't take into account how Aurra Sing was among the 7 characters that were released in both TVC and the Discover The Force line that was exclusive to Walmart.  Doubling up on those characters was part of why there was a glut of TPM figures in The Vintage Collection.

The other criticism I've seen regards the articulation of the figure.  2012 standards of articulation were good then.  But I've seen calls for the current types of hip and ankle articulation which are lacking on this figure.  It would be nice if Hasbro would build a new Aurra Sing from the ground up, but I can't see them investing those resources into a character that's from a blink and you miss it moment in TPM, or her appearances in The Clone Wars.  And can anyone realistically expect Hasbro to re-engineer an existing figure to include such significant changes in articulation?

One concession I will make?  Aurra Sing fits in that whole "Return to Tatooine" theme.  Her "blink and you miss it" appearance in TPM is on Tatooine.  I've seen some people express the sentiment that they saw that theme as being almost exclusive to characters from ANH, which was stunning to me.  Uhhhh... have they watched the first act of ROTJ?!?!? 

The pilot looks great.  The Aura Sing, whatever. 

Had to go back to page 3 to find this thread...

Jayson says these are now starting to hit the US ports.  If the recent pattern holds, that'd mean they will start shipping to us in 3-4 weeks.

I wonder when they are finally gonna reveal and take pre-orders for the E-Wing pilot (Lt. Callahan) that they pipelined back in February?

Bossk's Bounty got an exclusive reveal for Lt. Callahan as part of the MCM London Comic Con reveals

Exclusive Reveal: Star Wars The Vintage Collection Lieutenant Callahan VC351


The figure looks pretty good!  Oh, but those white boots...