The list above with what was made for Black Series would be the most I would ever expect in TVC. I really want Kelnacca, Jecki and Basil. Mainly because we need more aliens. PLus I liked them even though Basil was kind of a chump.
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Same.
What an over hyped character. I'd take Cal's master from Fallen Order and I've never played the game.
The Stranger deserves a spot in TVC, but don’t care about any other characters beyond what was already pipelined. Hasbro hasn’t even finished the Rogue One or Bad Batch crews yet, nor have they gotten around to characters like Luthen or Peli, so I’d be shocked if they had plans to make figures of all the other murdered Jedi from this show.
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Now that it looks like it’s cancelled or maybe even kinda expunged, I don’t expect to get anything else from it. But the weird thing is Qimir/Stranger is one of the most popular Disney SW characters, even to a lot of people who hate the show.
I think a lot of people would buy that figure; fans might just assume he has a larger role in the lore (as the progenitor of the Ren cult) and keep him in their minds as a relevant character, despite being from material they reject. He’s the only one that may get some more appearances down the line somehow.
I think a lot of people would buy that figure; fans might just assume he has a larger role in the lore (as the progenitor of the Ren cult) and keep him in their minds as a relevant character, despite being from material they reject. He’s the only one that may get some more appearances down the line somehow.
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Yes, it would be a slap in the face from Hasbro if they took that route. Characters like Luthen or Peli should come first.
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Agreed, but it also depends on how early things were planned.
The Stranger could have been in the pipeline for both lines well ahead of the cancellation.
Luthen (Andor S2) and Peli (Return to Tatooine) both have a shot in 2025.
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As much as I want Luthen, I’m still itching to get the main villains of the last two Star Wars theatrical releases. Those have been a top priority. I don’t know what it is with Hasbro and either waiting or omitting the big baddies.
So far we have:
Solo: Dyrden Vos
TROS: Palpatine
TBOBF: Arguably the Pykes
Bad Batch: Dr. Hemock (Yeah that’s not happening, lol)
Acolyte: The Stranger
They also seem to skip out on Dark Jedi/Inquisitors. That one is a headscratcher since lightsaber wielders tend to do well outside of a couple of exceptions.
So far we have:
Solo: Dyrden Vos
TROS: Palpatine
TBOBF: Arguably the Pykes
Bad Batch: Dr. Hemock (Yeah that’s not happening, lol)
Acolyte: The Stranger
They also seem to skip out on Dark Jedi/Inquisitors. That one is a headscratcher since lightsaber wielders tend to do well outside of a couple of exceptions.
They've been doing better lately, to their credit. With figures like Revan, Krennic, Vizsla, Thrawn, etc. But TVC's villain problem will continue and only get worse if we keep at our current rate. We barely get the main villains, much less the secondary ones.
TFA/TLJ need Hux and Kylo. TROS needs Palpatine, Pryde, and Kylo
Solo needs Dryden Vos and Crimson Dawn Maul
Rebels needs Pryce, 7th Sister, 5th Brother, 8th Brother, Grand Inquisitor, Maul... and many others.
Rogue One needs Tarkin
TBOBF needs the Pyke Boss
Bad Batch needs Hemlock, Rampart, and Imperial Crosshair
Ahsoka needs the Great Mothers
Andor needs too many Imps to count, but from memory we should have at least Syril, Blevin, Partagaz, and Yularen.
Kenobi needs 5th Brother and 4th Sister
Acolyte needs The Stranger
TFA/TLJ need Hux and Kylo. TROS needs Palpatine, Pryde, and Kylo
Solo needs Dryden Vos and Crimson Dawn Maul
Rebels needs Pryce, 7th Sister, 5th Brother, 8th Brother, Grand Inquisitor, Maul... and many others.
Rogue One needs Tarkin
TBOBF needs the Pyke Boss
Bad Batch needs Hemlock, Rampart, and Imperial Crosshair
Ahsoka needs the Great Mothers
Andor needs too many Imps to count, but from memory we should have at least Syril, Blevin, Partagaz, and Yularen.
Kenobi needs 5th Brother and 4th Sister
Acolyte needs The Stranger
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Hasbro has seemingly neglected the ST in general, so these omissions are no surprise.
Definitely agree.
There are a few Rebels slots for next year, so hopefully at least one of them goes to a villain.
I think Hasbro considered Tarkin already done since he was released in TVC 1.0. With that being said, I would still like to see an upgrade to that figure with a modified photoreal headsculpt, the correct uniform color, and a plastic tunic.
Definitely agree, along with Pyke foot soldiers and the Mayor.
Agreed.
I have to give Hasbro credit for at least releasing the main villains Morgan and Thrawn within the span of a year. We just received Captain Enoch. Baylon and Shin are already pipelined. The Great Mothers would make great additions as well.
At least we’re getting Dedra. The show isn’t too toyetic, but I can understand from a collecting standpoint how the show could be capitalized to bring us more Imperials.
Yes. On the positive side, we at least got the main bads Reva, Vader, and the Grand Inquisitor. I suspect we might see at least one of these characters next year.
Yes, and I’m sure he’ll be coming soon if Hasbro hasn’t completely cancelled any future plans for the Acolyte.
Overall, we’ve gotten Cad Bane, the Emperor, Thrawn, Darth Revan, Jabba, Bib Fortuna, Morgan, etc. so at least Hasbro has been making an attempt to get more villains out. But it isn’t easy given their budgetary constraints and the amount of media they have to keep up with.
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I never understood what it means for a show to not be "toyetic". So what if every character isn't doing backflips and wielding weapons. We used to get plenty of characters who are just background pedestrians - specifically all those Senators. As a kid I'd still use those guys, for the few I got, and treat them as my own new characters - giving em sabers and blasters and whatnot. But people also say TVC is a collectors line now, so who cares if a figure isn't "toyetic"?
Besides, Andor is loaded with Imperial Military and Rebel characters. That seems perfect for action figures. Like it's hilarious to me to see people asking for Frog Lady with no arguments and on the other hand consider it too much to ask for a new head on an Officer body for Partagaz or Yularen, both of which are pretty essential characters to the story.
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Some shows/movies just don’t lend themselves to being a market for toys. If a show focuses more on drama, political intrigue, and suspense, then it focuses more on telling a good story as opposed to selling toys. For instance, a movie like Minions would market selling a lot of Minions merchandise like toys and plushies because the minions themselves are depicted as cute and funny, something that would appeal to both children and adults. What makes other Star Wars media ‘toyetic’ is that there are a lot of aliens and the plot lends itself to a child (or adult) wanting to reenact sequences from it. For instance an Ahsoka or Mando figure would appeal to a large market because of the popularity and coolness factor of these characters. Frog Lady may not necessarily be as cool and popular but she’s an alien and even her namesake is a throwback to popular Kenner toys like Walrus Man. Aliens make for more interesting action figures than boring humans.
With Andor, I don’t see the appeal in reenacting a Syril interrogation scene or Mon Mothma giving a political speech except for a niche subset of collectors. I’m not trying to discourage figures getting made from it; in fact, I even enjoyed the show and consider it one of the best pieces of Star Wars media. But I’m just not clamoring for many figures from it as I would the Mandalorian or TBOBF for instance.
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You say it yourself: those characters are just a new head of an existing body - yet Hasbro will ask me to pay full price for it. Frog Lady is a completely new alien for the same price, and much more interesting.
If I want to put up a scene from Andor - a challenge in itself because there are so few figures available - I could put up a dozen Imperials already. Okay, they don't have the correct face, but I would need to fill up the scene with other extras anyway who are also wrong for the scene, so what. If it's about one of those "Imperials sitting around talking about rebels" scenes I have no interest in putting that together anyway. It's boring as a display; if I wanted any of that I would do the DS1 meeting which is at least classic.
Now, if we were still at the times where we were blessed with wave after wave of figures at a much more affordable price, I wouldn't mind more Andor Imperials - together with other characters, of course. But we're not, slots are limited, so I'd rather get a figure to enrich an already satisfying roster of a show that provides ample opportunity for dioramas, than get another kitbash Imperial for a show that does not lend itself to display frozen moments of (in essence, not being toyetic...).
This is, sadly, a situation with all of the shows right now, and it leads to some shows not getting figures at all (the Tales of series, the Visions anthologies...), some shows being underrepresented, and even well represented shows not getting enough backgrounders for a rich display. Can't change that, for now, must be happy about occasional eyecatcher gems like the Mythrol or Krrsantan.
(Also, no arguments for Frog Lady is a funny claim. The argument is that I would buy her. Which is the only argument Hasbro wants to hear about.)
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Same.
Hell, people are clamoring for an Imperial dignitary who has zero lines! The senator figures were wide, varried and had no lines.
Andor has several figures engaging in espionage, action and insurrection.
Let's not make toys of those!
And the less said about random egg lady the better.
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When it comes to Star Wars, I think of toyetic in terms of vehicles, beasts, and playsets. Any character could be made as a figure. Of course with the way things have been over the last few years, if a show gets a handful of figures it counts as being toyetic.
Oh for the glory days of a media release getting a Force Friday across retail and multiple aisles devoted to Star Wars product.
Oh for the glory days of a media release getting a Force Friday across retail and multiple aisles devoted to Star Wars product.
Same.
Hell, people are clamoring for an Imperial dignitary who has zero lines! The senator figures were wide, varried and had no lines.
Andor has several figures engaging in espionage, action and insurrection.
Let's not make toys of those!
And the less said about random egg lady the better.
LMAO right?! I see people clamoring for the most boring characters imaginable sometimes. But the second I want them to make use of that Imperial Officer mold it's not "toyetic" enough. And Sim Aloo is? The Tonnikas are? Fozec of all characters? Come on man...
Maybe it's just the way that I display the figures. I try to do scenes where possible, but for the most part it's just groups of characters from the show in dynamic poses. Often times these are figures that don't have any memorable scenes. And I still like those guys to fill in the gaps between the centerpieces, so to speak.
Also my point with Frog Lady was that nobody was saying she wasn't "toyetic" even though her greatest achievement in her 10 seconds of screentime was sitting down on a chair. But badass imperials giving badass speeches isn't good enough
But Hasbro knows these toys aren't toys. All those background characters in the 70s and 80s were toys for kids. TVC and TBS and even Retro are made and marketed to adults either for collecting or displaying in a diorama. When I was 8 Lobot had a sandwich sword and he and Snake Eyes were fighting Megatron and Skeletor in the Battle of Fort Stryofoam Packing Insert. Now? Lobot either gets put in a plastic storage case and then in a plastic storage box in my basement or gets opened, put on the Carbon Freezing Chamber with the other figures from the scene and put on a shelf never to be touched again.
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Preach, bro! 
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.Well, Sim Aloo is more about Kenner nostalgia than anything. And the Tonnikas have certain attributes making them different from most figures; we don’t need every diorama to be a complete sausage fest.
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Senni Tonnika was actually an Action Fleet figure in 1995-96, when the toys were primarily aimed at kids. The resulting legal issues led to Hasbro not making her for the next 30 years (as a further complication, she was labeled as Brea Tonnika on the packaging).
I expect that my sister or I would have bought her if we'd seen her in stores. There were very few female characters available in the 90s.
Edit: Galoob was great for female heroes and villains. Hasbro still hasn't made Admiral Daala, Guri (in two scales!), or Jedi Knight Mara Jade. They even included Gaeriel Captison and the original leader of the Nightsisters.
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What does that have to do with literally anything?
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; we don’t need every diorama to be a complete sausage fest.
Avoiding the sausage fest
idk if she sold like "mad" but I got her on display right next to Andor and B2EMO. It's not like I'd avoid buying her because she was a female character. Not sure were you're going with that.
Forget the interrogation scene. What I'm hoping for is to recreate the Syril breakfast cereal scene in momma Syril's kitchen Action Playset. Comes with kitchen cabinets, bench and table with cereal bowl accessories and exclusive momma Syril action figure....
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I like having figures that interact with each other for scene displays. It’s always a bummer when we get one or two figures from a scene and can’t do much with them unless we get the rest of them.
We have Cassian from the first three episodes of Andor, but no one to go with him. Syril (Pre-Mor Security), Bix, and Luthen (Ferrix) are all main characters and would help build out some scenes for that arc, so it’d be nice to get them.
Similar ideas apply to the Bad Batch, Kenobi, TBOBF, and Acolyte. Take for example the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Legend). It’s a cool look, but we won’t have any other figures from those scenes to go with it, which is a bummer.
To the Acolyte’s credit, the figures we’re getting will mostly interact with each other. The Stranger and Jecki feel like the biggest missing pieces from setting up some fun scenes.
We have Cassian from the first three episodes of Andor, but no one to go with him. Syril (Pre-Mor Security), Bix, and Luthen (Ferrix) are all main characters and would help build out some scenes for that arc, so it’d be nice to get them.
Similar ideas apply to the Bad Batch, Kenobi, TBOBF, and Acolyte. Take for example the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi Legend). It’s a cool look, but we won’t have any other figures from those scenes to go with it, which is a bummer.
To the Acolyte’s credit, the figures we’re getting will mostly interact with each other. The Stranger and Jecki feel like the biggest missing pieces from setting up some fun scenes.
I think it's unfortunate that they probably won't make Kelnacca now, even if he only had a 30/70 chance before and possibly using reuse from Big K. He's really the only thing I truly wanted from this show. But even some of the others offered custom fodder so not a total loss. Even if a person didn't care for the plot there were some interesting characters/looks that translate into serviceable action figures, as I've said several times I've bought a lot of figures from failed movies simply because the figures look good.
I also feel this may impact their timetables going forwards on new shows and opting to take the wait and see approach like they did with Mando in the beginning. As it is there's a bit of a wait on some stuff, but if they wait to see audience reaction before committing to it that means at least 18 more months after the show airs before we'd see figures from it. And that's just the mains, who knows how that affects third stringers!
And it's not like every show is going to be as badly received, nor is there always going to be hit after hit, they simply have to roll with the punches and take chance here and there. I mean look at Andor, Cassian and Vel didn't seem to perform well at retail, but it was talked about as being the best written SW show on D+, yet its viewership was low as well. And here I've always said that you can't go wrong with Jedi and Sith in your show because lightsabers sell, but now I see I was possibly very wrong if the writing doesn't do it any favors. That might also trickles down to the toys, we'll have to see how well sol does and if they carry through with Yord and Trinity. Not to mention if they bother with Stranger Danger. Surely, they would since his character is one of the more well-acted parts in the show even if I thought the helmet gimmick was tacky and overused at this point. If they don't make him it will feel like Solo all over again without ever getting Dryden!
I also feel this may impact their timetables going forwards on new shows and opting to take the wait and see approach like they did with Mando in the beginning. As it is there's a bit of a wait on some stuff, but if they wait to see audience reaction before committing to it that means at least 18 more months after the show airs before we'd see figures from it. And that's just the mains, who knows how that affects third stringers!
And it's not like every show is going to be as badly received, nor is there always going to be hit after hit, they simply have to roll with the punches and take chance here and there. I mean look at Andor, Cassian and Vel didn't seem to perform well at retail, but it was talked about as being the best written SW show on D+, yet its viewership was low as well. And here I've always said that you can't go wrong with Jedi and Sith in your show because lightsabers sell, but now I see I was possibly very wrong if the writing doesn't do it any favors. That might also trickles down to the toys, we'll have to see how well sol does and if they carry through with Yord and Trinity. Not to mention if they bother with Stranger Danger. Surely, they would since his character is one of the more well-acted parts in the show even if I thought the helmet gimmick was tacky and overused at this point. If they don't make him it will feel like Solo all over again without ever getting Dryden!
Any scene that includes blue milk deserves a playset.
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This all day long.
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I'm not 100% certain of that. He was recently pipelined for TBS so design work and possibly tooling was most likely already done when that happened. It's possible a TVC one was already greenlit and in early production when the show non-renewal happened.
Just because a project ends doesn't mean it's never gonna get new merchandise. This is Star Wars we're talking about. Didn't they just sell a Haslab based on a nearly 50 year old movie? The figures will come. Maybe not soon, but one day. If we gotta wait 50 years for an Acolyte Haslab to go up and fund 2/3 of it's tiers, so be it
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With the cancellation, I wouldn't be surprised if Hasbro put everything from the series on hold, if it's not been tooled already. I imagine they'll want to test the market before further product investment. If the majority of the fan reception isn't positive, it'll pose a risk to merchandising. Disney might be cutting losses and focusing on what they believe will sell - hard to blame a company for that. They already have pre-order numbers from Pulse and other companies, which will help determine if more Acolyte figures are produced outside of what's been announced.
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Doing some guesswork on when Yord and Indara could show up, I’m going to guess it’d be hard to outright cancel them. It seems likely they’d be in the first two or three waves of 2025.
Lt. Callahan, Anakin (Ahsoka TCW Flashback), some Skeleton Crew figures seem likely to fill the first 2025 wave. I’m more inclined to believe Luke, Han, Chewie, and Ben will show up in the back half of 2025 to time better with the Cantina release.
That leaves our SDCC pipelines, which seem like they’ll make up the rest of those early 2025 waves (whether it be mainline or fan channel).
After Indara and Yord, it does seem less likely we’d get another Acolyte figure other than the Stranger. And this might’ve been the case prior to cancellation. We have plenty of cases of new Star Wars media missing key/main characters in TVC because Hasbro wants to move on to the next project. Sad part is Skeleton Crew and Andor Season 2 will probably have plenty of key characters skipped over too.
Lt. Callahan, Anakin (Ahsoka TCW Flashback), some Skeleton Crew figures seem likely to fill the first 2025 wave. I’m more inclined to believe Luke, Han, Chewie, and Ben will show up in the back half of 2025 to time better with the Cantina release.
That leaves our SDCC pipelines, which seem like they’ll make up the rest of those early 2025 waves (whether it be mainline or fan channel).
After Indara and Yord, it does seem less likely we’d get another Acolyte figure other than the Stranger. And this might’ve been the case prior to cancellation. We have plenty of cases of new Star Wars media missing key/main characters in TVC because Hasbro wants to move on to the next project. Sad part is Skeleton Crew and Andor Season 2 will probably have plenty of key characters skipped over too.
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And here I was just looking for a new drill bit for my dremel.
