So on top of all the typical action figure news sites and me covering the Hasbro Fan Media event this Saturday, the 22nd, the Hasbro Pulse Facebook page will be live streaming the presentation. There will be plenty of news and pics reported throughout the day, but that will be your best bet for a first glimpse.

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Seeing the images posted already - is Hasbro that clueless? More figures for a Star Wars line that I’m already seeing on clearance in every store I go to, now another different scale of figures and vehicles coming out. Yet, no sign of new 4” figures. What do they have against that scale? Every year or so it seems like they try to bring out another size of SW figures and they usually fail horribly. Is it that hard to stick to your bread-and-butter?

I should know better than to try and understand toy company logic.

The play lines for Star wars will be 5" and about 3"... Anything, but the classic 3 3/4".
Someone at Disney's or Hasbro's really didn't appreciate the fact that the TLJ line peg warmed for a long time.
Do they expect us to start a whole new scale?

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Hasbro Pulse preorders will be up for sale at 4pm EST

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First up os Power Rangers.

Teaser for Season 2 Beast Morphers on Nick that premieres today.

Teaser for season 28 of Power Rangers Spring ‘21.

Boom Studios comic PR + TMNT crossover. Turtles as Rangers.

Wedding invitation (fake ad) for Gamesteop villain set.

Playable electronic dragon dagger with lights and sounds and display stand.

Lightning Collection
New Time Force Red Ranger
Blue Ranger
Gold Ranger
Ranger Slayer (Boom Studios)

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Nerf next
Fortnite
BASR-L in yellow In orange and black
GL shoots rotating rockets
SR hammer action 4 shot pistol
Ripley teal paint job on previous blasters

HALO Infinite
Game teaser
Nerf coming 2020
MA40 with rear 10 dart clip
Needler
SPNKr
More details coming later this year at game cons

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Marvel

Super Hero Adventures stuff coming

Maximum Venom
Venom Cap is Walmart exclusive

Black Widow movie deluxe legend white with stand and explosions


Eternals (News coming at SDCC)

Walgreens Iron Man 2020

Comic Black Widow white for Target, grey for Walmart.
Dr Doom ports will except some of the effects from her.

Army Builders
Pulse Exclusive Hyrda trooper

Fan vote
This year’s winner announced at SDCC will be available AT SDCC and only the winner will be made.
White Elecktra
Lady Siff
Silk

Vote on Hasbro Pulse

Riders
Cosmic Ghost Rider
Squirrel Girl
Punisher short sleeve gear, matte black bike.

Retro grey, green, and Target Red Hulk

Target Gamerverse white and gold space Iron Man.

All new Iron Man, Ms Marvel (Khmala) and Cap

Avengers wave (pretend it hasn’t leaked)
Build a Figure Gamerverse Abomination

Age of Apocalypse
BAF - Sugar Man
Jean Grey only fits in the package sideways because of Sugar Man’s face

Deadpool wave Susnpot, Steong Guy, Warpath, Black Tom, Maverick,

Pose these top heavy BaF responsibly.

Retro (Toy Biz) wave
Peter Parker leather jacket, half spider sense head
Gwen Stacy with Mary Jane head
New Spiderman with improved articulation...and pizza.

Deluxe figures
War Machine with all the balst effects unmasked head.
AoA Apocalypse

Old Man Hawkeye (no visible pins in knees or shoulders aka pinvisible or sue project)

Old Man Logan from comic with baby Hulk as single figure release

Nimrod

Xmen Legacy modern Rogue (Rock solid no pin legs)

Giant Sized Xmen Storm at Target exclusive (Pinkess construction)

Hugh Jackman Wolverine from Xmen movie
Mystic also from 1st movie
Domino from Deadpool 2
Cable movie Walmart exclusice
Deadpool and Warhead 2 apck
*Magneto and Prof X 2 apck with swappable young and old versions
Other Wolverine with whitw tank top Amazon exclusive today

HasLab Legends
Teaser for....a Sentinel??????

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I have gotten more Star Wars figures at Five Below this past year, than I did at Target or Wal-Mart.

My local Wal-mart only got the gold Star Wars packs, but didn't get any Resistance figures. But, a Wal-mart 45 minutes away had the Resistance figures marked down to $3 each.

When Kenner had the line, we got a lot of the background characters. Even in the late 90s, we got lots of background Jedi, aliens, B and C level characters. We got the Cinema Scenes, Planet sets, and all the multipacks.

When we got to the recent trilogy, we got a Constable with little to no on screen appearance instead of getting figures of other characters with a decent amount of screen time.

We got no characters from the casino sequence of Canto Bight. We got what, 2-3 pilots?

I actually posted on Facebook back on December 26th that I was sitting in Barnes & Noble looking through the Visual Dictionary at all the characters and bemoaning the fact we would not be getting any figures of any of them.

We got a Rose Tico figure, but not a Lt Connix. A character, mind you, that was part of a multiple plot lines (Leia's aide in The Force Awakens, arranging the evac from D'Qar, siding with Poe to take over from Holdo, and being in the command elements in the last one). Not to mention the actress is Carrie Fisher's daughter in real life.

Releasing just the core 10 figures, without any background characters, and flooding the pegs with them until they reach clearance does not do anyone any good.

The local Ollie's has about 15 Rey figures from The Force Awakens pegwarming there...

Then someone decided to just make a bigger, cartoonish style figure for Rise of Skywalker. They are pegwarming and taking up valuable real estate at Target. Walmart has nothing but lightsabers on the shelves, and that has been for over six months now.

That is why no one is buying anything and won't support a new line, because they get burned when they start getting invested in something and get it cut out from under them.

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Star Wars

Galaxy of Adventures
Clone Wars Ashoko and clone Trooper

Battle Bobblers

Mission Fleet revealed on Gizmodo already

Mandalorian
Dark Sabre role play
Anamtronic Baby Yoda available for preorder now for the holidays

ESB
40th 6” wave on Kenner cards
Yoda, Hoth Leia, AtAt driver, Han
Bespin Luke
Lando
Tie Fighter pilot
Muddy R2 fromDagobah
new Hoth Rebel soldier (different face plate fits in backpack)
Luke snow speeder outfit all new sculpt Remoavble helmet

Deluxe in Balck series packaging
Probe Droid with hover stand

Slave One with vertical stand and Han in carbonite.

Retro collection 3 3/4” Walmart exclusive
Blonde hair Bespin Luke with yellow sabre
Hoth Leia
Hoth Han
Yoda
Lando
Boba Fett no rocket fire

Hoth snow speeder Luke with Hoth Ice Adventure Game blue lightsabre

Black Series 6” snow speeder with Dak available this summer.

Vintage Collection 3 3/4”
Jedi Luke (with the newer head sculpt)
The 96
Power Droid (Lars Homestead) removable top

Force FX Lightsabers
Revan lathed aluminum with color changing LED with red and purple and corresponding kyber crystal. Available on pulse for preorder.

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New GI Joe manager speaking
“No leaks this week, so we’re good.”
IDW comic and War on Cobra game

Film coming with the preview image. No news or reveals from movie today.

Lenny designer also on stage to discuss...
Classified 6”
Roadblock has rail blaster to char enemies
Duke shown in diorama with Mars barrels
Skill levels will be shown for each character on side of box
Villains to be reveal later (not today)

Snake Eyes Arashikage shirt available on Pulse

And that was all that was shown.

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Transformers

Grimlock panel bomb with G1 voice actor


First look at Netflix War for Cybertron animated series
Starts at the tail end of the Cybertron Civil War.
Alita 1, Bumblebee shown
Characters and even transformations come directly from Hasbro CAD designs.

This cartoon looks soooo cool. Dark gritty but toy driven.

John Warden designer on stage.
Deluxe wave 1
Hiund
Chrimia
Mirage
Scrapface
Each figure comes with pieces of Teletran 1

Votager wave 1
Megatron tank
Hotlink

Leader Unboxing wave 1
Show spoiler product from the Netflix show at Walmart. Don’t open until you’ve watched the show.

IDW

Earth Rise Wave 3
Runamuck all new mold

Mercenaries
Snapdragon triple changer
Double Dealer modulator

Quintessons wave 2 and 3
Judge with throne that converts to base with cage for micro figure, 5 faces
Alicon
Slither Fang corba

Commander class
Sky Lynx 4 modes AND 5th rocket base playset. Shuttle has approved NASA logo, shuttle named The Magnificence

Titan clasS
Skorponok

Preorders on pulse today

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More Transformers
Generations Selects
Micromaster Spy Patrol set wingthing and rumble

Bumblebee Cyberverse on Cartoon Network teaser
Thunderhowl new character

Studio Series
Soundwave satellite
Topspin
Cliffjumper

Voyager
Scrapper
Sentinel Prime

Voyager
Thungerwing

Leader
Overload


More Collaborative coming but not talking about today.

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Ghostbusters
Kenner inspired Real Ghostbusters
Walmart exclusive complete retro Kenner line in lusing Stay Pufft and Slimer available at 4pm today

Ivan and Jason Reitman on stage. What!!!?????

Ghostbusters Plasma Series 6” with the same real scan head sculpts
The big 4, Gozer, and Dana Barrett
Build a Ghost Dog
Up for preorder on Pulse

Ghostbusters Afterlife
Shows off movie prop


Hasbro Plasma Spnagler Neutrona wand role play with lights, sounds, and vibration.

Hasbro gave them Tobin’s Spirit Guide packaged figures of them. That was pretty awesome.

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Some GI Joe pics from the floor

Footlocker gear has been restocked and is available now.


6” pay attention to the artwork for any future clues.

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