Finally on line. Live blogging starts now. Here is what you have missed. I screwed up again and didn’t stop the video in time because I was screwing with my connection. Will post the first 20 minutes tonight.
General
- New exclusives for ESB
- Same stuff for SDCC
Clone Wars
- Mace’s Jango helmet has a thermo detonator
- Ki-Adi Mundi
- Shaak Ti, Young Boba (with jet pack and guns), R4-P17 and Mando Trooper and Embo coming
- Zombie Geonosian (YAY!) and Clone Draa
CW Vehicles
- Droid Gunship and Droid-Tri Fighter coming
- Jedi Turbo Speeder Vehicle
Vintage
- Running change to Anakin to name him Darth Vader (Vintage line)
- Skiff Guard Woof
- New Rebel Commando with soft goods trench coat
- New R2-D2 with serving tray and pop-up lightsaber (periscope with replace lightsaber)
- Talking about stuff already covered during SDCC
Vintage Vehicles
- Same shit from SDCC
Exclusives (new stuff follow)
- TRU: Nikto Skiff Guard (same from SDCC)
- Kohl’s: GH AT-ST (ultra cute, flip up hatches) with Vader, Driver and two Snowtroopers
- Target: DVD Battle Packs with Greatest Hits of CW Hostage Crisis and Hidden Enemy
- TRU: Rise of Boba Fett Ultimate Battle Pack confirmed (new Slave 1). Fits a Han in Carbonite. Showing up now, but not due out till October.
- Walmart: New Jabba with new Oohla (very detailed, wink wink)
- Back to the same SDCC crap
- Target: Geonosis Sets (eyes painted on Battle Droid, new Anakin head, R2-D2
- Walmart: Tie Bomber confirmed
- Target: Vintage 3 new 3-packs in one pack, but removable to make individual 3 different 3-packs.
2011
- Preview the AOTC wave. Kit Fitso, Zam Wesell (with 2 heads), Obi-Wan, New Anakin (peasant with soft goods cape), Padme (with 2 headresses), Senate Security (soft goods), BLUE Jango and Super Battle Droid.
- TRU Exclusive ROTJ Pilots, 2 battle packs
- Battle on Yavin re-issue/repaint
So they did the slides in reverse. Sucks that I had connection issues. Now going over Role Play and Galactic Heroes and other crap we could care less about.
Wow, didn’t realize I disabled comments on this post. They are now active, a week later.
Yeah man, WTF?
I must of accidentally clicked the checkbox in my frenzy to blog the panel.
Canadian Joe Con is awesome, it gets better every year!