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SDCC: WATCH Hasbro unveils new Star Wars toys

July 10th, 2015 by Marc Comments

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Some awesome new figures from across the Star Wars galaxy are coming to a toystore near you very soon, and we have some images of these beauties during their reveal at the Hasbro SDCC booth!

Before we get started, HOW COOL IS THAT IMAGE ABOVE?! Seriously?  I love how it recreates the scene in The Force Awakens trailer with the First Order base under attack and an explosion sending Stormtroopers flying!  Speaking of which, yes those are the fabled Black Series Stormtrooper figures and they look pretty awesome.

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Next up is the Black Series Ahsoka Tano from The Clone Wars, although she looks very much like her older Rebels incarnation here.

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Speaking of Rebels here’s the first character from the new animated series to be produced in The Black Series – Kanan Jarrus! This figure looks all kinds of awesome and really retains the visual style of the show!

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Yay, yet another Luke in the Black Series…. said no one ever.  This, their 3,401,090th version of Mr Skywalker is based on his first appearance in A New Hope.  Because if there’s one figure we wanted, its this.

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But this is the real jewel in the crown – a Force Awakens TIE Fighter – and it’s huge!  Look at the size of it!  And the detail!  Below is a closer look at the pilot, confirming that they do have those red stripes on the black helmet.

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The Force Awakens figures are set for release on September 4th – dubbed Force Friday.  Clever. Also here’s the moment Hasbro released the SDCC display to the world, caught on video and immortalised forever…

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….