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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!

A great head! The Hasbro Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Kingdom Core Megatron Action Figure is smaller than previous releases, but the paint job on the head and body are among Hasbro's best recent efforts. Also he's cheap and has a couple of cool accessories, and there's a minimal chance of you actually being able to find these out and about somewhere. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Aurra Sing (The Black Series). The box says The Clone Wars but you know it's The Phantom Menace - and it's a really good figure who interacts with her accessories well and has top-tier paint. The antenna in her skull is a separately molded grey piece, too. Read the whole review.

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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!

Hoverboards! The Playmobil 70634 Back to the Future Part II Hoverboard Chase is currently the only set specifically designed from the second film - I hope there will be more! You get Doc, Marty, Griff, a Future Police Officer, a pond, signs, Mr. Fusion upgrade parts, and a bunch of other bits. It's $35 but pretty good overall - there's more in the Advent Calendar boxes, but it's still excellent. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Lando Calrissian (The Vintage Collection). It's the first resculpt of this outfit since 2004, so he was due for a good update - and this is a very good update. Read the whole review.

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This week's batch of titles on the eShop: A Boy and His Blob, Captain Backwater, The Gardener and the Wild Vines, and over a dozen more.

At retail: Blue Reflection: Second Light, Just Dance 2022, and My Singing Monsters Playground.

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Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Star Wars HasLab, HasLab Star Wars, and Pre-Order Windows. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

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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!

Quite possibly this year's best! The Hasbro Transformers Studio Series Wreck-Gar gives you a super-articulated robot figure with good accessories and a goofy junk bike alt mode - it's exactly what you want. He's also pretty sizable! So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: IG-11 (The Vintage Collection). The completely new figure blows your old IG-88 toys out of the water with separated claws on his hands, wonderful articulation, and lots of moving parts on the head. Also it's Taika Waititi, and we all love that guy. Read the whole review.

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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!

The biggest Playmobil set yet! The Playmobil 70548 Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 Playset is seemingly a de facto online exclusive, meaning you can probably get one easily while supplies last. At this price I don't assume it'll be produced forever, and it's a nice set that walks a line between fancy prop replica and preschool toy/dollhouse. It has no action features, but there are a lot of electronic components to give you lights and sounds. If you have the scratch, it's one of the coolest things any Playmobil or sci-fi fan can buy this year. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Via Deadline: �Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts� Pushed A Year; New �Star Trek� Movie To Beam Up Over Christmas 2023. For those keeping track, the Transformers film was set for 2022, and the Matt Shakman-helmed Trek had no specific date.

If you haven't been keeping track, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron's production got pushed back (the movie is set to hit in 2023, unless it moves,) the untitled Indiana Jones sequel was pushed to at least 2023, Marvels got pushed into 2023, and I have no doubt I'm forgetting a few. A lot of stuff is getting pushed back, I assume due to the fact that box office numbers are in the toilet and nobody wants to lose hundreds of billions of dollars on a film release before there's some certainty as to when COVID will let up enough for people to regularly go to the movies again. In 2020, the number of films released in the USA was cut from 911 to 455, and the total box office went from $11.3 billion to $2.1 billion. Movies are effectively an investment, and releasing anything now - and possibly next year - will not yield much of a return.

Also the 2022 Marvel slate has been changed a lot too, with a lot of stuff getting pushed back a couple of months next year. With the toys, food tie-ins, and everything else, I assume they're all going to be out as scheduled - but hey, they can delay things a year or more now.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Artillery Stormtrooper (The Black Series). It's a yellow repaint with some new guns and a slight mark-up - did you get yours when Amazon had the exclusive in stock a few weeks ago? Read the whole review.

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This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Arcade Archives Black Heart, SPACETIME ODISSEY, Dungeon Adventure, and over a dozen more.

At retail: Shin Megami Tensei V, Just Dance 2022, and Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy.

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Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Star Wars Reissues, Articulation, and as always, Complaints. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

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Via AMClicks: Tema: Nuevo Cat�logo Playmobil Plus 2022. Shown: new Circus sets and, if I understand correctly, direct-to-consumer exclusive reissues of the Victorian dollhouse sets that were popular and expensive in the late 1980s through the early 2000s. Even at the time, these were premium-priced collectibles - goodness knows what they'll cost now that we're in a collecting bubble.

To put it mildly, this set of reissues is a Big Deal. Please look forward to it.

I remember the original dollhouse - set 5300 - being quite expensive, possibly $180-$200 at a local Hobby Bench shop back then. Sealed box sets (or open/complete) go for $800 or more these days, and I assume the reissues of these will also be $200-$300 since there's a lot of collector interest and old people with jobs who can afford it. (No I don't have this one.) A scan of an old catalog shows the original prices from 30 years ago, and it'll probably be at least that expensive for the reissue. When the piano set was reissued in 2017, it was $11.99 - a full dollar less than what it sold for originally.

These sets seemed more adult-driven back then, with lots of historical weirdness like fishmongers in the pink boxes - and, of course, the shoeless person you see at the top of this very page. (Neither are included in the reissues.) The big house is one of the Playmobil holy grails, and the smaller sets are packed with what amounts to some of the niftier "dollhouse furniture" you can get in a toy line that's part doll, part action figure, and once in a while, part traditional toy.

Unless you have old vintage ones to sell, in which case, better get on that. Playmobil keeps a lot of its parts in circulation for a very long time. Tooling for a 1989 Grandfather Clock seen in the reissues was also in last year's Scooby Doo Mystery Mansion, and while it appears there will be some changes in some of the new sets it's mostly going to be recolors of the original releases.

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If this looks familiar, it should! We reviewed this 2017 rerelease almost four years ago, and with the other Victorian sets getting reissued it's worth looking at again.

If you missed this one, it's being blown out on Playmobil.us for $5.24 right now - an absolute bargain.

A reissue of a tiny piano and a 3-inch pianist! The Playmobil Pianist with Piano has a revised music sheet and some changes to the piano paint job, so you can tell it's different from the one from nearly 30 years ago. So read it again!

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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!

A great tiny robot! The Hasbro Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Kingdom Core Optimus Prime Action Figure is sized to fit with your Titan-bots, or is just the right size for a toy on your desk. If you can find it, I'd say you might want one. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Trapper Wolf (The Black Series). The PulseCon exclusive uses a 25-year-old man's body (from a 2013 figure) with a 47-year-old man's head - and it's still pretty neat. Read the whole review.

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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!

Neat! The Playmobil 70149 "Fi?ures" Figures Day of the Dead is ornate. There are lots of paint applications on a 3-inch figure, most of which are on the front - but it's impressive. I can't complain. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Vice Admiral Rampart (The Black Series). It's Tarkin with a new head. Read the whole review.

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This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Arcade Archives LIBBLE RABBLE, Space Moth Lunar Edition, Ice Station Z, and over a dozen more.

At retail: Marsupilami: Hoobadventure, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, and Pokemon Shining Pearl.

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Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Star Wars, HasLab, Playmobil, All the Things. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

Be sure to send in your questions for the next thrilling update!

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Ad: Pre-Order Raiden's Shouki at Entertainment Earth! The first Masterpiece Edition MPG-01 train is coming in 2023, and you can pre-order it.

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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!

PulseCon exclusives! The Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Trilogy Covert Agent Ravage and Decepticons Forever Ravage Action Figures would have been sold in July in San Diego in another timeline, but in ours, they were mail-order items! One Ravage is a new version of the G1 toy with new paint, the other is a heavy retool of Cheetor to look like a cartoon model. And one has an assembly problem - but which? Read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Via Phil & PizzaHutShop.com: Matchbox Pizza Hut Playset3. I assume this $9 set will be in stores at some point, but it's here now - and shipping seems to be about $12.50. Neat if you remember the red roof buildings of old!

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: General Lando Calrissian (The Black Series). It's a recent release, but some elements of the design seem like Hasbro may have been sitting on this fairly good replica of the Return of the Jedi costume. Read the whole review.

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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!

Possibly one of the best collector values of the year! The Super7 Killer Bootlegs Rhamnusia's Revenge Action Playset with Draco Knuckleduster and Phantom Starkiller Action Figures gets you a Kenner-style playset with two figures. The backdrop is blacklight reactive, the base is blue glow-in-the-dark plastic, and the figures are glow-in-the-dark green - but the paint is generally not blacklight reactive. If you can find it, you should get this set - for $75 I got my money's worth. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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Ad: Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Earthrise Voyager Skywarp and Thundercracker is in stock at Entertainment Earth! The hard-to-find Target exclusive is back, and ships free while supplies last.

Order now! Also pre-order some new 12-inch Ghostbusters figures from Hasbro - they're hard to find, but you can find them right here!.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Q9-0 (Zero, The Black Series) (The Black Series). It's a neat robot, with great detail and you've got a ghost of a chance of finding the wave in stores. The grey is a little more "plastic" than "metal" in appearance, but do remember, it is a plastic figure. The painted dirt and wires are a nice touch. Read the whole review.

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This week's batch of titles on the eShop: Arcade Archives RAIMAIS, Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality, Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All!, and over a dozen more.

A lot of items are on sale at retail and digitally, so you may want to look into that as well.

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Galactic Hunter has posted a Q&A: Star Wars HasLab, and Rancor, But I Repeat Myself. It's new! Be sure to click through and read up on the latest!

Be sure to send in your questions for the next thrilling update!

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Via Arcade 1-Up (and thank you Shaun): PAC-MAN� Giant Joystick Plug and Play. It's a really big joystick you plug in your TV. How big? 36-inches. There's a foot pedal on it and some full-size buttons - it's more than a little ridiculous, but also probably falls under the license for game machines that no doubt include stipulations for size.

QVC sells it in the USA - and is sold out - but the $100ish device includes Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, New Rally-X, Galaga, Galaga 88, Dig Dug, Super Xevious, Rolling Thunder, Dragon Spirit, and Mappy if you can get it. It's not a bad selection, although I have no idea how good that interface is for actual playing. As far as I know it's the biggest mass-produced consumer-sized joystick - and it connects via HDMI, a rarity in the plug and play space - but maybe there's a bigger one.

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We're taking donations for server costs! Really. One of the rewards is Q&A a few days early - you can read next Monday's installment as soon as it's ready, which can be as early as 12:01 AM my time on Monday!

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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!

A nice pair of repaints! The Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Trilogy Selects Artfire with Nightstick Action Figure is here to get you that Japanese repaint you always wanted for his first US release. So read on, and come back tomorrow for more fun!

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