Hasbro Black Series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Figures Available For Pre-Order

Shown below is the new Star Wars the Vintage Collection Skeleton Crew Jod Na Nadwood Figure is available for pre-order from Amazon with a suggested retail price of $16.99.

20 hours ago, RobertD said:

Gonna have to get a better look at the headsculpts, the pictures here are not very flattering. Either way he's not an important character for me so I'll be able take it or leave it.

Platinum is definitely the better looking of the two. I can't see myself bothering with the regular release. I wonder if this is going to be part of the 1:1 color variant thing, or if that doesn't get implemented until further down the line?

My understanding was that was going to start for the 2025 releases but I could be wrong.

Gonna have to get a better look at the headsculpts, the pictures here are not very flattering. Either way he's not an important character for me so I'll be able take it or leave it.

3 hours ago, Emnems80 said:

If I was going to pick up Geo-Force the platinum is what I would get. The first time I saw him as a kid reading comics he was in that outfit.

Platinum is definitely the better looking of the two. I can't see myself bothering with the regular release. I wonder if this is going to be part of the 1:1 color variant thing, or if that doesn't get implemented until further down the line?

If I was going to pick up Geo-Force the platinum is what I would get. The first time I saw him as a kid reading comics he was in that outfit.

A part of me wonders if them making Geo-Force means we'll be getting a Terra sometime soon, and another part of me knows it definitely doesn't XD

Shown below via Mike on social media, we have our first look at the DC Collector Edition Platinum Edition Geo-Force figure from McFarlane Toys. It was announced during NYCC that the regular version of this figure would be released as a Target store exclusive here in the US.

Last weekend McFarlane Toys held an all-brand panel at the 2024 New York Comic Con which we brought you live coverage of and you can watch below if you like. We wanted to circle back to this and breakdown everything that was announced during the panel for you all. You can also check out images of all the slides shown as well as some of the product they had in-hand at the show below in our IMAGE GALLERY.It should be noted that unless stated as a store exclusive, these products some of which are already available for pre-order can be purchased at our sponsors BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth.

The panel started with them running a fan vote with members of the audience where the winning character would be made into a DC Multiverse figure. The 4 choices people could vote on included Green Lantern Jade, Classic Bizarro, The Guardian and Classic Eradicator.They then moved on to their Movie Maniacs line starting with the two Beetlejuice 6" figures available for pre-order now. Then they showed the next two figures from the new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie which are Astrid and Bob The Shrinker. The later two will be up for pre-order soon.Next they showed their Red One Movie Maniac Figures. The movie opens in theaters on November 15. They are doing 6" figures of Nick, Callum Drift and Krampus in the first wave.They are also doing a 2-Pack with Jack O' Malley Vs Snowman and an Amazon exclusive 4-Pack featuring Nick Callum, Nick, Krampus and Garcia The Polar Bear. These will be available for pre-order on October 24.They then moved on to Spawn showing the new Spawn #1 1:10th Scale Resin Statue which is available for pre-order now. They also showed the two Spawn 6" Call Of Duty figures also available for pre-order now. They also officially announced the Blue Sketch Spawn variant figure which is being sold as a Walmart exclusive. Spawn was originally going to be blue because Todd thought Spawn was going to be a space based character when he was first creating him. Finally for Spawn they talked about the Target exclusive Page Punchers 2-Pack with Raven Spawn and Ninja Spawn.For their new Marvel line of posed figures they talked about the 1:6 Wolverine from Incredible Hulk #340 and 1:6 Hulk from #345 which are available for pre-order now. They also showed their 1:6 Thor from Mighty Thor #177 based on Jack Kirby art and Symbiote Spider-Man from Secret Wars #8.For 1:10 Marvel Posed figures they showed the Venom (ASM #316), Miles Morales (MMSM #1), Captain America (CA #100), Magneto (X-Men #1), Spider Man (ASM #68) and Green Goblin Platinum Edition ASM #312). These are all available for pre-order now.For new Marvel 1:10 they showed Spider-Man (ASM #302), Sam WIlson Captain America (All-New Captain America #1), Cyclops (X-Men #1), Daredevil (DD #600) and Storm (Marvel Tales #236).McFarlane then went on to announce changes being made to their Platinum Edition figures starting in 2025. So you will have the following types of Platinum Edition stickers of select figures:- Silver Sticker - 1 to 1 Color Chase Variant- Red Sticker - Unique Chase New Character figure. These are largely going to be in-store chase figures.- Gold Sticker - Ultra Rare Figure and include authentic artifacts from movies.Todd says these limited chase figures allow them to get more in the way obscure characters out to market. For the first Gold Sticker Platinum figure they announced which won't actually have the sticker will be a Red One Dwayne Johnson figure that will feature an actual piece of cloth from his outfit.Next they moved on to the DC Multiverse line going over figures that had already been announced including Batman Beyond (Neo Gothic), Batman (Batman: Noel), Batman With Ace The Bat-Hound (1950s), Commander Steel (Target Exclusive), Sinestro Parallax (Target Exclusive), Hal Jordan Metallic Green Lantern (Walmart Exclusive) and Action Comics 1000 Variant Superman (Walmart Exclusive). All these figures have either gone up for pre-order or hitting physical stores now.They showed for the first time their DC Multiverse New Gods Orion, JSA Wildcat, Tempest (Which they mis-labled Aqualad) and Fleischer Superman.For their DC Multiverse Build-A-Figure waves they announced Justice League: Task Force video game figures. The game was a console game in the 90s. The wave will include figures of Aquaman, Superman, The Flash and Batman. The Build-A-Figure for the wave will be Darkseid. These figures will have wired capes for Batman and Superman.They announced a DC Multiverse 12" Mega Fig of Red Swamp Thing (Swamp Thing #57-58).DC Multiverse Batman And Robin Movie Batmobile which holds 1 figure and has lights and sounds. See this video for a better look at that:

They did not mention if there would be two versions of this vehicle or not. Usually they do one version with a figure and one without, so we will have to wait and see for this one.For DC Multiverse Snyderverse Batman Vs. Superman they showed the new Knightmare Batman, Wonder Woman, Doomsday vs Superman and armored Batman. There is also a Platinum Superman False God figure in this assortment. These figures are available for pre-order now.For Walmart Collector Con they also showed the Darkseid with Throne and the Knightmare Batman and Armored Batman 2-Pack. Those are also available for pre-order now.They showed the DC Collector Edition 1978 Superman Movie Christopher Reeve figure which is also available for pre-order now.From the first Joker movie they showed once again their upcoming The Murray Franklin Studio Diorama set which will feature figures of Joker and Murray. Joker will come with 3 headsculpts.They thought about doing a stairs diorama from the Joker movie but decided it was going to be to big.They showed from their new Justice League Vs. Godzilla Vs. Kong line which is based on a comic series the 3-Pack featuring Kong vs Batman. The set will include a 7" and 3 3/4" Batman. Kong will have two headsuclpts (Screaming and relaxed). You can see some in-hand images for this set in our GALLERY.For DC Collector Edition figures they showed the Green Lantern Simon Baz, Lightning Lad, Grid and Mr. Terrific figures. These figures are available for pre-order now. Note Lighting Lad so far at least has only been made available at Walmart, but its not listed here as a Walmart exclusive. With these figures Todd has started going to alternate magnetic faceplates as opposed to headsculpts.They also showed for the first time a Target exclusive Geoforce figure. No word when that one will be made available.They revealed their DC Collector Edition Captian Cold, Power Girl with Streaky The Cat and Guy Gardner Green Lantern.They also announced a DC Collector Edition 2-Pack with Thomas Wayne and Zoom. Unmasked heads for both will be included.McFarlane DC Digital figures they showed the Robin (Earth 2) and The Joker (Silver Age), which if you get both you can build a digital Psycho Pirate figure. Psycho Pirate is not a real physical figure. These are hitting shelves now. There is also a Platinum Edition Speed Force Flash and Platinum Edition Black Suit Joker figure in this assortment.They showed a 12" Posed Joker (Batman: Three Jokers) figure. Has a digital collectible.DC Direct Batman The Animated Series Target Exclusive Batman (Lightning Strike Variant), Batgirl, The Joker (Christmas With The Joker), Two-Face and Maxie Zeus BAF. This wave along with the Batwing are available now.The BTAS series Target Exclusive wave with H.A.R.D.A.C., Bane, Poison Ivy, Phantasm and Bruce Wayne BAF was delayed but still coming.The New Batman Adventures Anti-Fire Suit Batman, Fire Fly and Creeper are available for pre-order now everywhere that sells them.1:3RD Scale Replicas Cowls with Batman (Knightfall), Batman (1989), Batman (Classic TV Series), and Batman (Target Exclusive BTAS) are available now.The next wave will see cowls of Batman (Batman Begins 2005), Detective Comics The Batman (1939) and Batman (Hush 2002).Todd's Mods Vinyl Figures - Bane, Swamp Thing and Batman. Now available for pre-order.6" Batman Classic TV Series - The Joker, Red Batman Suit (Movie Poster), Batgirl (Comic), Clock King (Comic), Wonder Woman (Comic) and Batgirl Cycle all available now.DC Super Powers 5" figures the next wave - Lobo, Dick Grayson Robin, The Atom, Jay Garrick The Flash, Unmasked Batman and Superman (Regeneration Suit).DC Direct Resin Statues - Catwoman By Jock (Pre-Order 10/29) and Batman Vs Superman Batman. Also shown the J. Scott Cambell Supergirl resin statue. Both Supergirl and Batman are available for pre-order now.Upcoming Collectors Club Drawing Board Crowdfund Comic Book Corner Box 17.Batman and Superman wall mount statues. Batman will be 16.5" and Superman will be 17.75". There will be a autograph Batman edition as well offered in the Crowdfund. This will be launching soon.Posed NFL and UFC Sportspicks figures they showed quickly, all of which have been available for pre-order for a bit now.Lord Of The Rings The War Of The Rohirrim animated movie figures and playset. The figures are 3.75" figures and there is a Build-A-Figure. the first wave includes Helm Hammerhand King Of Rohan, Hera Princess Of Rohan, Shank: The Orc and Wulf Son Of Freca. The Build-A-Figure is a Snow Troll. These are available for pre-order now.They are also doing a Helms Deep Playset which is made of cardboard. It's over 7ft long. It will be sold separately.Finally they showed again their BRZRKR Boom Studios comic series 7" figures based on actor Keanu Reeves. These were first announced to be coming at SDCC. There are two versions, the regular and battle damaged version that are supposed to be out by the end of the year.They announced the winner of the DC Multiverse Fan Vote which was Green Lantern Jade. So she will be coming to the line at some point in the line. Bizarro came in second followed by Eradicator and The Guardian.

On 10/21/2024 at 5:34 PM, glhshelby said:

Hasbro definitely has to get releases approved by Lucasfilm, and Im sure supporting the new media is part of it. But you have to also consider that when Hasbro decides what figures to make from a new series, they generally have little insight into the story or characters, and obviously they have no way of knowing whether the show will be good or not because it often hasnt even finished filming. So its fairly reasonable to decide to produce the main characters from each show.

On 10/21/2024 at 1:50 PM, Jscott991 said:

I've always believed Hasbro Star Wars was at the mercy of Disney. There's no way the team is enthusiastic about making multiple pegwarmers from every show that comes out (and I'm not saying every new media character is a pegwarmer, but many figures that get made are pretty low demand).

Its called CONTRACTUAL FULLFILMENT. The details are essentialy in the licensee's marketing agreement of &/or with Disney's New Star Wars media (shows, movies, games, etc.). Thus Hasbro is obligated to put out x-amount of ACOLYTE figures which they are given an extra finnancial kick-back on. Under A merchandise marketing clause.

Its why more times then not, that those 'new media' figures have the updated tooling, new cloth templates & our "factory put together" a little better then your classic -- run of the mill -- more popular; comic book versions.

Same w/ the MCU, when they put out A new garbadge Captain Marvel or Captain America movie.. We want the classic Cap figure to have them butterfly's, bigger shield, newly sculpted boots etc. Yet (usually) All the updated tooling goes on the lame new Disney version(s) of the Captain America character first. Its essentially the same w/ the actual figure selection process. I.e. Contractual obligation; that comes w/ finnancial production incentives to give new media marketing contracts cart blanche over everthing else.

16 hours ago, glhshelby said:

But you have to also consider that when Hasbro decides what figures to make from a new series, they generally have little insight into the story or characters, and obviously they have no way of knowing whether the show will be good or not because it often hasnt even finished filming. So its fairly reasonable to decide to produce the main characters from each show.

I know people incessantly criticize Hasbro's design teams for their character choices, but I have to think they can look at many of these figures and know they aren't going to sell, even if they don't know quite know how the show will turn out. This comes up with MCU figures too. Hasbro had to know they were going to take a bath on a lot of these. These choices were being made for them somewhere else.

3 hours ago, Jscott991 said:

I've always believed Hasbro Star Wars was at the mercy of Disney. There's no way the team is enthusiastic about making multiple pegwarmers from every show that comes out (and I'm not saying every new media character is a pegwarmer, but many figures that get made are pretty low demand).

Hasbro definitely has to get releases approved by Lucasfilm, and Im sure supporting the new media is part of it. But you have to also consider that when Hasbro decides what figures to make from a new series, they generally have little insight into the story or characters, and obviously they have no way of knowing whether the show will be good or not because it often hasnt even finished filming. So its fairly reasonable to decide to produce the main characters from each show.

Its just unfortunate that Hasbros sale/budget apparently accommodates so few new figures, that those new media slots take such a large percentage of the annual releases.