Hasbro Star Wars The Black Series Darth Maul & K-2SO 6-inch Scale Action Figures

[toynewman]

Shown below via Gizmodo and LaughingPlace is a look at the new Star Wars The Black Series Darth Maul & K-2SO 6-inch Scale Action Figures from Hasbro. You can purchase these figures beginning tomorrow, Tuesday August 13th, at 1 pm EDT. from our sponsors BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth.

[toynewman]

Shown below via Gizmodo is a look at the new Star Wars The Vintage Collection Andor: K-2SO Figure from Hasbro. You can purchase this figure beginning tomorrow, Tuesday August 13th, at 1 pm EDT. from our sponsors BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth.

[toynewman]

The new Star Wars: The Black Series Darth Maul, Cassian Andor, K-S2O, Dedra Meero 6-inch Scale Action Figure from Hasbro are available to purchase from our sponsors BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth.
Amazon Links: Darth Maul, Cassian Andor, K-S2O and Dedra Meero

[toynewman]

The new Star Wars The Vintage Collection Andor: K-2SO Figure from Hasbro is available to purchase from our sponsors BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth as well as Amazon.

[Cxb452]

Are these new tooling or re-used figures?  Maul looks new but I can't tell about the rest.

[Arkana99]

Yeah, a Datapad!!! Just the accessory I needed for my Star Wars figures!!! 

[Lord_Scareglow]

41 minutes ago, Cxb452 said:

Are these new tooling or re-used figures?  Maul looks new but I can't tell about the rest.

I dunno anymore, Star Wars Black series is really a massive Bore, same characters and figures over and over again, I can't even keep track, is it new? is it old?

There are so many wild characters in the world of Star Wars, but yet they just keep doing the same things, it's a shame.

 

[memocromatico]

Andor looks good, but I only really need so many of him  Dedra was a great character and antagonist, I’m sure I’ll love to hate her more in s2. But K2… I mean, I love him but they can only put out so many versions of him with little to no difference. He’s been reissued 3 times not counting this. Black Series is not doing much to keep me interested

[Satam]

23 hours ago, Lord_Scareglow said:

I dunno anymore, Star Wars Black series is really a massive Bore, same characters and figures over and over again, I can't even keep track, is it new? is it old?

There are so many wild characters in the world of Star Wars, but yet they just keep doing the same things, it's a shame.

 

I believe this is dictated to Hasbro by Lucasfilm, who see this as the flagship Star Wars line, and therefore must almost always have mainstay characters or characters from new movies/series. I asked about this when chatting with a couple of folks from the Star Wars line at Comic Con a couple weeks ago and wasn't really able to get a completely straight answer. Some of the above is reading between the lines and some of it is directly out of their mouths. The Vintage Collection is where they're allowed more freedom with universe building, including more character diversity. For those of us who don't collect that scale, we're kinda outta luck and may never see some of our favorite supporting or Extended Universe/Legends/Whatevertheycallitnow characters.

[Lord_Scareglow]

21 minutes ago, Satam said:

I believe this is dictated to Hasbro by Lucasfilm, who see this as the flagship Star Wars line, and therefore must almost always have mainstay characters or characters from new movies/series. I asked about this when chatting with a couple of folks from the Star Wars line at Comic Con a couple weeks ago and wasn't really able to get a completely straight answer. Some of the above is reading between the lines and some of it is directly out of their mouths. The Vintage Collection is where they're allowed more freedom with universe building, including more character diversity. For those of us who don't collect that scale, we're kinda outta luck and may never see some of our favorite supporting or Extended Universe/Legends/Whatevertheycallitnow characters.

Well it's a bummer, Black Series has so much world building potential, yet it's grown so stale, I hear constantly that people are tired of this line, and a lot of people moving on from it as of recent, There are so many cool characters we will probably never see, which is a tragedy, because sure a Boba or Darth is going to sell, but at what point are people just going to say I don't need the 30th Darth Vader figure, I don't need to army build Luke Skywalkers. If true that Lucasfilms dictates what they make they are makin poor decisions and driving away long term collectors, but putting out things they can easily pass on.

I've been done with this line for quite some time myself, but I'm still always hoping for more Ewoks.

[Cxb452]

On 8/13/2024 at 2:30 PM, Lord_Scareglow said:

I dunno anymore, Star Wars Black series is really a massive Bore, same characters and figures over and over again, I can't even keep track, is it new? is it old?

There are so many wild characters in the world of Star Wars, but yet they just keep doing the same things, it's a shame.

 

Very true.  There just doesn't seem like any excitement put into this line anymore.  I get reuse keeps cost down but re-releasing figures just kills the line.

[Emnems80]

I'm assuming this Maul is the same figure as the SDCC 2024 exclusive and the 3pack with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. Just as Cxb452 asked earlier I am also wondering if this Maul is an all new/retooled figure or just a straight reuse.

[toynewman]

On 8/17/2024 at 12:42 PM, Emnems80 said:

I'm assuming this Maul is the same figure as the SDCC 2024 exclusive and the 3pack with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. Just as Cxb452 asked earlier I am also wondering if this Maul is an all new/retooled figure or just a straight reuse.

This one appears to be the Gamestop 3-pack without the cloak.  The SDCC has all soft goods to allow him to sit on the Sith Speeder.