Hasbro - Panel

On Friday August 13th at 1:30, Hasbro held their "What's New from Hasbro" panel where they went through a slideshow of current and upcoming product.

Most of the info in the presentation was already covered at San Diego Comic-Con but there were new reveals in both the Vintage Collection and Clone Wars lines, as well as a preview of the new Darth Maul FX lightsaber with removable blade.  We tweeted the Hasbro panel live and hope everyone took advantage of that, but if you didn't, and haven't already seen the new info from Hasbro, we'll cover some of it here.

You can download the full presentation here: SW 2010 Celebration Collector Presentation (112MB)

The full Twitter session is can be found here: Hasbro Panel Twitter Feed

Some of the most interesting news came in the exclusive announcements but first, we were introduced to new Vintage Collection and Clone Wars figures.

New Vintage Collection figures, which should be on pegs in November, include:

• Super Battle Droid
• Senate Guard
• Mace Windu
• Padme Amidala (Peasant disguise w/ two headdresses)
• Anakin Skywalker (Peasant disguise with soft goods)
• Jango Fett
• Kit Fisto
• Zam Wesell (interchangeable head, removable helmet and face mask)
• Obi-Wan Kenobi (AOTC)

The Vintage Collection line is scheduled for 37 figures in 2010 with 27 being new or newish, while the other 10 will be "greatest hits" and appearing on the Kenner style cardback for the first time.

Coming in October and November, new Clone Wars figures include:

• Embo
• R4-P17
• Mandalorian Warrior
• Boba Fett
• Shaak Ti
• Cato Parasitti (November)
• Undead Geonosian (November)
• Clone Trooper Draa (November)
• Clone Commander Jet

All of the Clone Wars and Saga Legends figures will come with the new Galactic Battle Game pieces and dice.  Action figures in Battle Packs will also have game cards and the mail-away Sgt. Bric figure will include a play mat that can be used to store the cards and play the game.

The Starfighter wave is getting several new vehicles, some of which were previously revealed or had prototypes show up online.  One surprise reveal was the new Jedi Turbo Speeder.  The following vehicles should be hitting from October 2010 through January 2011 (for the Turbo Speeder).

• AAT
• Clone Swamp Speeder
• Hyena Bomber
• AT-AP
• Xanadu Blood
• Plo Koon Starfighter
• Droid Gunship
• Droid Tri-Fighter (new deco)
• Jedi Turbo Speeder

As mentioned above, arguably the most interesting information was revealed in the exclusives section of the presentation.

One surprise was that Kohl's will receive an exclusive Galactic Heroes AT-ST Cinema Scene in September.  I believe this is the first exclusive Kohl's has had since the release of Revenge of the Sith.

K-Mart is also getting back into the exclusives business with the Jodo Kast action figure (out now) and the Clone Wars Clone Commando Squad pack which has a Cold Weather Trooper, ARF Trooper, Pilot and Jetpack Clone.  Look for that now as it's also due in August with Jodo Kast.

Here's a breakdown of the other exclusives.

Toys-R-Us

• Clone Wars Kul Teska (available now)
• Clone Wars Nikto Skiff Guard (September)
• Legacy of the Dark Side 2-packs (October)
  • Pre-Cyborg Grievous to General Grievous
  • Boba Fett: Orphan to Bounty Hunter
  • Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader
• Rise of Boba Fett Ultimate Battle Pack (Clone Wars, September)
  • Slave I
  • Mace Windu's Jedi Starfighter
  • Boba Fett
  • Mace Windu
  • Bossk
  • Anakin Skywalker
  • Astro droid
• AT-AT (October, Kenner style packaging)
• Battle Over Endor (January 2011)
  • 1 of 2
    • Major Mianda (Scythe One) TIE Fighter Pilot
    • Palso Thern (Blue Seven) B-Wing Pilot
    • R2-T7 Grizz Frix's Astromech Droid
    • Grizz Frix (Red Five) X-Wing Pilot
  • 2 of 2
    • Lt. Oxixo TIE Fighter Pilot
    • Sila Kott (Red Two) A-Wing Pilot
    • R5-P9 Ekelarc Yong's Astromech Droid
    • Lt. Ekelarc Yong (Gray Three) Y-Wing Pilot
• Saga Vehicles w/ Figure - Kicks off with Scramble on Yavin figure and cart (March 2011)

Target

• Clone Wars Bounty Hunter DVD Battle Packs (October)
  • Hostage Crisis
    • Shahan Alana
    • Robonino
    • 2X Commando Droids
  • Hidden Enemy
    • Captain Rex
    • Sgt. Slick
    • Clone Trooper Chopper
    • Clone Trooper Gus
• Clone Wars Figure 2-Packs (October)
  • Senate Commando Captain & Senate Commando
  • Cad Bane & IG-86
• Geonosis Arena 2010 (October)
  • 1 of 6: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Super Battle Droid
  • 2 of 6: Rodian Jedi & Battle Droid
  • 3 of 6: Anakin Skywalker & Droideka
  • 4 of 6: Shaak Ti & Geonosian Warrior
  • 5 of 6: Nicanas Tassu & Count Dooku
  • 6 of 6: R2-D2 & C-3PO w/ Battle Droid Head
• Vehicles (October)
  • Snowspeeder in Kenner style packaging
  • TIE Fighter in Kenner style packaging
• Mini Muggs 3-Packs (October)
  • Bounty Hunters (Bossk, Boba Fett, IG-88)
  • Yoda, Darth Vader, Stormtrooper
  • Clone Wars Bounty Hunters (Cad Bane, General Grievous, Captain Rex)
• Hoth Battle Packs (December)
  • Attack on Hoth: AT-ST, E-Web canon, AT-ST Driver, 2x Snow Troopers
  • Defense of Hoth: Turret, Radar Laser Canon, 2x Rebel Troopers, K-3PO
• Vintage Figure Collection (December)
  • Bespin Alliance: Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Bespin Wing Guard
  • Hoth Rebels: Han Solo, Rebel Trooper, FX-7
  • Imperial Set: 4-LOM, AT-AT Driver, TIE Fighter Pilot

The Vintage Figure Collection is a sleeve that includes three 3-packs of figures.  The 3-packs are a nod to the vintage Kenner 3-packs that were available in the 1980's.  The pack has an MSRP of $49.99.

Walmart

• DVD Figure 2-Pack (September)
  • Rising Malevolence: Plo Koon & Ahsoka Tano
  • Shadow of Malevolence: Anakin Skywalker & Clone Pilot
  • Destroy Malevolence: Obi-Wan Kenobi & General Grievous
• Jabba's Throne (Available now)
• Kit Fisto's Jedi Starfighter (October)
• TIE Bomber (December)

Millennium Falcon

During the panel, a rep from Hasbro demonstrated the new RC Millennium Falcon that is on shelves now.  Check out the video below.

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