Hasbro San Diego Comic-Con Panel

Hasbro held their SDCC panel today and made some interesting announcements. The most jarring, however, was the announcement that there will not be a Celebration VI exclusive. Droid Factory, as leaked on Wednesday, is in fact making a comeback and an often requested character is making an exclusive appearance at Brian’s Toys. Below is an outline of the new stuff that was announced today. We’ll be updating and clarifying as additional information becomes available.

The Legacy Collection is making a comeback as the official name for the new collector line. Movie Heroes and Clone Wars will continue but no new product was shown in the presentation. Droid Factory is back with 1 or 2 new figures per wave. They announced “over 30 figures in 2013” but we need clarification if that’s for the year, only counting new figures or maybe just for spring.

Legacy Collection:

  • Wave 1
    • R2-D2
    • Geonosis Padme
    • Biker Scout
    • TIE Pilot
    • AOTC Anakin Skywalker
    • AOTC Sergeant Clone Trooper
    • Sandtrooper
    • Luminara Unduli
    • Red Battle Droid (VC Sculpt)
    • Geonosian Warrior (Sun Fac?)
    • Pablo Jill
    • 212th Clone Trooper
    • Build a Droids:
      • TC-70 (Clone Wars)
      • FA-4
  • Wave 2
    • Mace Windu
    • Captain Rex (Realistic)
    • Luke Skywalker (Yavin Ceremony)
    • Mara Jade Skywalker (Jedi)
    • Darth Vader (Bespin Dinner)
    • A-Wing Pilot
    • Biggs Darklighter w/ new head
    • AOTC Clone Pilot
    • Build a Droids:
      • R8-B7
      • R5-X2

12″

Hasbro is bringing out a new line of limited articulation (5 points), 12″ tall figures. They will have their weapons molded to their hands and will be reminiscent of the vintage Kenner line of 12″ figures. The first wave announced include:

  • Darth Vader
  • Anakin Skywalker (ROTS)
  • Clone Trooper (AOTC)
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi (ROTS)

Fighter Pods

Series 2 is available now and there will be a 3rd series available this fall. There are 125 more figures scheduled for 2013 and we’ll see a release of a new rapid fire and reload launchers.

Exclusives

There are a lot of nice, but expensive, exclusives coming later in the year, including the figure we mentioned; Jocasta Nu. Jocasta Nu is available now for pre-order from Brian’s Toys and costs $24.99.

  • Target
  • Darth Maul Returns Battle Pack (December)
  • 3-packs (out now)
    • Villain Set: Sand People, Boba Fett, Snaggletooth
    • Droid Set: R5-D4, Death Star Droid, Power Droid
    • Fighter Pods Tin w/ exclusive metallic Darth Maul (September)
  • KMart
    • AT-ST in august
    • AT-ST Crew w/ 2 new head sculpts
    • Ewok Scouts: Wunka & Widdle Warrick
  • Toys-R-Us
    • Ewok 5pack October: Kneesa, Flitchee, Nanta, Teebo, Tippet
    • Yavin Pilot Pack (August): Tiree, Davish Krail, R5-D8, Jek Porkins, “Mauler” Mithel
    • Speeder Bike w/ Scout Trooper (October): Explodes, stand (Speeder is new)
    • BMF Millennium Falcon in Vintage Collection Star Wars box
    • AT-AT in Vintage Collection ROTJ box (October): AT-AT Driver paint variant
  • Brian’s Toys
    • Jocasta Nu on Vintage Collection card (Count Dooku bust w/ Holocron book and punch card) December

During a short question and answer period the Mandalorian Assault Transport was brought up and Hasbro is looking for a way to release it. We should see an announcement of The Old Republic game figures at Celebration VI.