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Iron Man 3This Saturday, May the 4th, Hasbro will be offering a 20% discount on all Star Wars purchases from their online store, HasbroToyShop.com.
During checkout, add promotion code “SWFANDAY” and the discount will be taken from the purchase total.
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Lego Price Rollback at Walmart
We read a few reports online that some Walmart stores had issued a price rollback on several Star Wars sets and, after checking locally, can confirm this. The discounts range from about $3 to about $24 on the higher priced offerings. Here’s what showed up on rollback at the local store, original retail in parentheses:
- 9497 Republic Striker-class Starfighter: $35.96 ($44.97)
- 9499 Gungan Sub: $55.96 ($69.97)
- 9500 Sith Fury-Class Interceptor: $72.96 ($89.97)
- 9515 Malevolence: $95.96 ($119.97)
- 9516 Jabba’s Palace: $95.96 ($119.97)
- 9525 Pre Vizsla’s Mandalorian Fighter: $39.96 ($49.97)
- 75002 AT-RT: $17.00 ($19.97)
The savings on the Malevolence and Jabba’s Palace are quite significant but we’d recommend picking up the two Old Republic ships or Pre Vizsla’s Fighter as they’re the type of sets that can fly under the radar, suddenly disappear and leave you searching eBay for a deal.
Free Shipping on PSWCS Charity Medallion
The Pennsylvania Star Wars Collection Society (PSWCS) is offering free shipping on their Yoda charity medallion this week.
PSWCS offers a great deal on the perfect stocking stuffer!
Are you looking for that ideal gift for the Star Wars fan on your list? Would you like an opportunity to support a fantastic charitable organization this holiday season? PSWCS is offering a special deal for US customers on their charity medallion THIS WEEK ONLY!
PSWCS is selling a limited-edition medallion to benefit Mid-Atlantic Burn Camp. This medallion, approved by Lucasfilm and featuring the likeness of Yoda, is limited to 1000 pieces. The price is $10.29 per medallion. As part of a special holiday offer, all domestic orders placed between Monday December 10th and Saturday December 15th will receive FREE SHIPPING. This offer will save you up to $2.50 per medallion! All orders place by December 15th will ship via First Class mail on December 17th – so you’ll receive your order in plenty of time for the holidays.
Fewer than 150 of these medallions are available. For more details about the charity and to order your medallions, please visit: http://www.pswcs.com/charity/BurnCamp/
Happy Holidays!
Black Friday Deals
There weren’t a lot of Black Friday deals that I was interested in this year but the two best were probably the Toys-R-Us Class II 2-packs for $20 and the Walmart 8-packs of action figures. I had already picked up the Mandalorian Assault Transport & Anakin’s Jedi Starfighter ahead of the sale, didn’t want to take a chance, but did stop at Walmart today and ended up with one of their exclusive figure packs.
The store I stopped in had a pretty large display that was mixed with Clone Wars, Saga Legends and Movie Heroes figures. What was interesting was the header graphics on the cardboard sleeve; the Movie Heroes figures had the current Darth Maul photo while the Clone Wars and Saga Legends had last year’s Shadows of the Dark Side Captain Rex header.
There was a good mix of figures in the sets. The Clone Wars packs had figures such as the first Ahsoka, Shaak Ti, R7-A7, Quinlan Vos, Undead Geonosian, Boba Fett, ARF Trooper, Kit Fisto and Pre Vizsla. For Saga Legends, you could find Snow Troopers, Space Troopers, Snowspeeder Luke Skywalker and various Clone Troopers among others.
My favorite find, however, involved the Movie Heroes packs. One pack included the second wave of figures; Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn with light-up lightsabers, Queen Amidala, Jar Jar Binks and Anakin Skywalker. Darth Vader, Darth Maul and General Grievous rounded out the set which made for a great mix of heroes and villains.
I’ve seen some reports that not all Walmart stores had a large selection of packs so if you didn’t find what you were looking for with your first stop, if you have a second store close by it might be worth a look.
Along with the Star Wars sets were joined by 8-packs of Avengers and Marvel movie figures and our store didn’t have as big of a selection of those. Not sure if they sold or just had a smaller assortment to start with. However, there were still some good figures to be found including the Warriors 3 from the Thor line and comic versions of War Machine and Whiplash along with multiple versions of Iron Man, Captain America and Loki.
One deal that I don’t recall seeing was for a box of Lego bricks for $15. The set of 650 bricks included an assortment of bricks, plates, wheels and other shapes to build houses, cars and whatever else you could think of. At only $15, that works out to just over $0.02 per piece which is incredible for Lego.
While not on sale, I did spot the 3rd wave of Movie Heroes figures at Target and the light-up Darth Vader is really nice but the Snowspeeder Luke Skywalker may be the best deal with his included retractable backpack. You could match that up with your Hoth AT-AT and have a really neat time playing.
I stopped at Toys-R-Us on Wednesday night and ended up buying the new Vintage Collection Millennium Falcon, but didn’t go to the store today.
There are still online sales going for the weekend and some stores will be running “Cyber Monday” sales so keep your eyes peeled. With Christmas a month away, there will be lots of sales and opportunities to pick up some cool collectibles for good prices.
Walmart 8-Pack Action Figures for Black Friday
Walmart’s Black Friday shopping advertisement has shown up online and included is a Star Wars 8-pack of action figures that will be available for $25 from Thursday, November 22nd at 8:00PM through Friday, November 23rd at 11:00PM. The ad shows Shadows of the Dark Side packaged Saga Legends figures but that may or may not be accurate for what we’ll find in stores.
Along with the Star Wars pack, there will also be an Avengers 8-pack and that set is showing off a mix of Iron Man, Captain America and Thor figures from each character’s respective movie.
If the photo from the ad is accurate, it seems that Hasbro is still looking for a way to dump older stock. It will be interesting to see if any of the current Movie Heroes figures, which are two waves behind at retail, show up in these sets.
Gentle Giant October Sale
Gentle Giant is offering a sale on several mini busts and statues from now until end of day November 2nd. They are also offering free US shipping and half-priced International Shipping on all in-stock items.
Included in the sale are several Star Wars mini busts including The Force Unleashed Darth Vader, two Cantina Band members and Logray along with statues of the Clone Wars Clone Trooper and Magma Trooper.
There are also a couple Harry Potter statues, Marvel mini busts and the Sucker Punch Amber mini bust. Head over to Gentle Giant’s sales page to see everything offered and then browse their site for other in-stock items to take advantage of the free shipping offer.
Lego on sale at Target
Stopped in the local Target store this afternoon and found that the Star Wars sets were all marked down about 20%. Not a bad deal on a couple of the sets, such as the new Jabba’s Palace (9516) which is only $95.99 this week.
Plenty of the City sets are on markdown also, but some of them aren’t as much as 20% off. Still worth checking out.
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