Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: New Old Retro Based on Old New Star Wars Movies, and Take a Dooku. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

The show itself didn't have much for figure fans that you may not have seen in online events or previous conventions, and arguable the most interesting tidbit came via The Toy Book: Toy Association Reveals Upcoming Toy Fair Dates, Locations [Through 2028]. Despite being in New York City for over a century, it'll skip 2024, be in New York in 2025, and then move to New Orleans. In January. Who was asking for this, I'll never know.

Via CNBC: Toys R Us is planning a brick-and-mortar comeback in the U.S., with up to 24 new flagship stores. Airport shops, stores-within-stores, cruise ships, and the like probably sound impressive to investors who don't know the business, but the low-margin, on-trend business can be hard to navigate. If you've been to some of the Macy's Toys R Us stores, a lot of old, state stuff can linger for a very long time.

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Nothing at New York Toy Fair could compete with the news of the upcoming show schedules. If you're on the action toy beat, those seem to have their own tidal forces so Toy Fair being a somewhat nebulous presence for business to business (and especially for fan press), we got to see some good stuff. But nothing that would probably warrant, were this the 1990s, a magazine cover.

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Tusken Raider Warrior (Single Card Edition, The Vintage Collection) . This is the single-carded one, which I opened right as I forgot for a split-second I meant to open the Target version with the Massiff first. Whoops. Either way, it's still Rey with new parts on her - a pretty impressive redress, but a redress all the same. Read the whole review.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Garindan (Custom). This is another fan-made, mass-produced figure but this time you can tell from where the parts originated - there are pieces of the 1997 Kenner The Power of the Force Garindan mixed in with a vinyl cape, a black Cloud Car Pilot comm, and other new and old elements. Read the whole review.

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This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition, Front Mission 2: Remake, Detective Pikachu Returns, and over a dozen more.

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Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Star Wars Turns 300 Again and Droid Sockets and We're Out of Questions. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

Via Atari: Save Mary - Limited Edition. It's an old game that never saw release, and now it is! Well, 500 copies are being made, so there's that.

Via The Glyos News Dump: Healey Made Trooper (Gothamite 1984) Available Now. The newish figure has a cape and great colors, and it looks really cool! His chest holster looks like a Bat-symbol. He's $25.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: R7-TN0 . It's not from anything specific, but it is a droid painted like Ahsoka Tano and that's pretty neat. Read the whole review.

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Via THR: 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Moves to Netflix After Paramount+ Cancellation. Presumably Netflix went through the sofa cushions and found enough money to rent the show for seasons 1 and 2, the latter of which hasn't aired anywhere yet.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Grogu (and Luke Skywalker, The Black Series). This one comes with Luke, who was marked up $20 for his accessories like Grogu, and might be on clearance at a store near you. Read the whole review.

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Via Super7: G.I. Joe ReAction Vehicle Cobra Mothership. It's $495.00, which seems pretty decent for something massive with a big detailed interior. Early funding includes parachutes! Higher tiers include stickers and turrets. It seems a little slow to back early, but it's a very nice vehicle and having seen it in person? It's impressive, and the biggest new G.I. Joe vehicle or playset in quite some time. Will fans have room for them next to the Terrordromes and FLAGGs? That I don't know. But I do know this is probably a lot more inexpensive than tracking those down.

This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Arcade Archives Darius II, Sonic Superstars, A Boy and His Blob: Retro Collection, and over a dozen more.

Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Star Wars Playsets and Hey That's Good. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

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From the birdsite via The Toy Book: BREAKING NEWS: Toy Fair New Orleans will not happen. Plans have been scrapped and the event will stay in New York (with eyes on L.A.) for the time being. The initial reaction from the industry seemed to be a shrug and people saying "maybe we don't need this event anymore," and the plans are still to keep the event in New York in March 2025. But beyond that? Not much specific.

From Kickstarter: Zealandia Models: Retro Dinosaurs - Wave 1. They look like the cheap toys your parents or grandparents may have had as kids, but they're $45 and up. It's a heck of a neat idea, but priced like collector stuff - give it a look!

Via Instagram: NEW Scooby-Doo Tiny Mights are now available at Walmart and other select retailers soon. HereÕs a peek at the #NYCC exclusive glow-in-the-dark set! Come to Booth 1543 to grab one for yourself.. Supposedly these are just over $30, and I wish I was there to get a set - they look great!

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Via Analogue: Analogue 3D The future is here. 64 bits of pleasure. While thin on pictures or specifics, one can assume it's a Nintendo 64 - after all, a MiSTer FPGA core is in development, and this would probably be one of the more advanced systems you can probably expect to get out of the current chips. A new controller is teased, too.

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Boba Fett (Comic Art Edition, The Vintage Collection). This is gorgeous figure at a hideous price - the mark-up on a $12.99 figure from a few years ago makes little sense, but from a technical perspective it's a nice product with great paint on a lovely cardback. We also got a Marvel Boba Fett about 15 years ago packed with a droid and a full-size comic for about $12 - so this definitely got slapped with some premium pricing. At least it's gorgeous. Read the whole review.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Oola (Custom). This is a figure Jabba wanted but Kenner was unwilling to make. A fan made one last year, and then a few more, and it's pretty close to what you might expect out of Kenner from 1983. The color is a little wrong, the headdress is a tiny bit off, and the sandals may not quite match - but the same was true of a few figures back then. She fits in perfectly with your older Return of the Jedi figures, and sadly is priced more or less accordingly. I like it - I wouldn't buy it if Hasbro charged $40. But Hasbro won't make one, so it's this or nothing. Is it worth it? Read the whole review.

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This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Arcade Archives GUTTANG GOTTONG, Gargoyles Remastered, METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.1, and over a dozen more. And Super Mario Bros. Wonder comes out today

Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Crowdfunding Star Wars and Let's Talk Vehicle Reissues. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

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Via Hasbro Pulse: The Marvel Legends HasLab Giant-Man ends tonight. It's close, but not close close at over 7,200 of 10,000 backers. Without bonus smaller figures for flippers to carve out and sell, it has proven to not be particularly enticing despite being a pretty big figure for the price and on par with other very large Hasbro toys at $200... but, given the trove of wonders that is Ollie's or Ross, the collector dollar can go a lot further these days. Will it succeed? My guess is "no" or "barely," but you've still got some time to give it a shot.

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Via Hasbro Pulse: The Marvel Legends HasLab Giant-Man ends tonight. It's close, but not close made it, passing 10,000 backers with over 3 hours to spare. (It needed 10,000 pieces sold to fund.) As of last night I was anticipating a Rancor-esque situation where it creeps up to the goal and maybe, just maybe, made it - but the fans showed up at the last minute, which is great! It sold 13,889 backers - almost 50% of which was on Monday, and 111 units shy of making the final stretch goal. I wonder if Hasbro will just say "good enough, here you go."

Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: R7-FNG. He doesn't suck! The purple vampire droid has a glow-in-the-dark dome and fake fangs, making it a ridiculous - but creative - design that I think a lot of figure collectors will want. (Star Wars collectors, who knows, but "monster" and "glow" makes it a winner in by book.) Read the whole review.

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Via MST3K: Let's Make MST3K Season 14! is up and... I have no idea what the progress is. They're aiming to do between 6 and 12 full episodes (and 6 and 12 shorts) plus

Something new every day-- unless it's old! Our exciting Figure of the Day continues for you lucky people! Is there anything we won't cover in this column? Probably not!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Krrsantan (The Black Series). This is a perfectly nice basic figure, but it's priced as a deluxe - he's shorter than Chewbacca and has a similar accessory count, but it would seem the most popular characters are getting pulled aside for a wider box with more empty space in it with a higher price. But the sculpt is good, the articulation is well-engineered, and he has the minimum amount of accessories that you need to say "OK, he looks cool on my desk" while the smaller one has six hands and way too much gear for almost the same price. It's an increasingly bizarre line, ad a basic Kenner-style one is due soon. Read the whole review.

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This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Trip World DX, Arcade Archives Blandia, RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures Deluxe, and over a dozen more.

Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Star Wars Card Sadness and Guns. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

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From HasLab: Ghostbusters Plasma Series HasLab Two in the Box! Ghost Trap and P.K.E. Meter is a good item for a good price. I don't get to say that much - I joked with a friend that this should be funded within 24 hours, and it hit 40% in the first afternoon. You get a couple of props plus stretch goals for things like holsters and patches. Given what you pay for an action figure these days, these items seem like a relative bargain in 2023 dollars. They'd probably also seem like a good deal in late 1990s dollars. Go get yours!

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From HasLab: Ghostbusters Plasma Series HasLab Two in the Box! Ghost Trap and P.K.E. Meter has been fully funded with 42 days to go! Hasbro's prop items are some of the best in the business, and this one looked like it was a pretty good deal - apparently everybody agreed.

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