Hasbro's October Star Wars Fan Stream
Hasbro held its October Star Wars Fan Stream, hosted by Steve Evans, on Friday, the 2nd of October, revealing a number of new products across the various Star Wars lines.
The following is a breakdown of the news and reveals. As always, we will use screengrabs from the panel initially and then will update these as and when any press pack is sent through.
The panel opened with Steve confirming that all of 2026's products are now revealed, so the panel today will focus on what we can expect as we head into 2027.
Steve then handed over to Brandon and Chris for the reveals and news, and they confirmed that 2027 will be a new era for Star Wars and will include new Black Series packaging (as previewed at SDCC).
The Black Series session saw Tom join Brandon for the reveals, and they started with an in-hand look at the new 2027 packaging and the Queen Amidala figure. The Queen figure was unpacked and shown in detail with the soft goods robes, the facial makeup, and the articulation that is still included under the soft goods to allow for a wide range of posing.
Amidala is part of a six-figure wave, and all of the other five figures were revealed. The wave follows the movie releases from Episode 1 to Episode 6, and the first of these, from Attack of the Clones, is re-visit of Padawan Anakin Skywalker. Anakin comes with a Force Push hand and a normal hand, as well as his lightsaber with a normal blade and a swoosh-effect blade.
Up next and representing Revenge of the Sith is the arrival, finally, of the Galactic Marine. This new Trooper comes with a backpack, and two Clone Trooper blasters. This completes the trio from ROTS with Ki-Adi Mundi and Commander Bacara.
For A New Hope, we can look forward to a new version of Luke Skywalker in his X-Wing pilot outfit. This is brand new and updates the original 2013 figure with a removable helmet, his blaster, and his blaster. The helmet even includes a flip-up visor.
Then we moved to Empire Strikes Back and a re-release of IG-88 using the larger IG-11 body and with new tooled parts. IG-88 comes with removable holster, two different blaster rifles, and his bladed weapon.
The wave is concluded by the Return of the Jedi release of Tessek (Squidhead) from Jabba's Palace. Tessek will come with a soft goods skirt and robes and with a palace blaster. This is the first Quarron in the Black Series line, and the first figure that has a corresponding Kenner figure from the original run since we got Hammerhead.
This Saga wave is a mainline release and opens for pre-order on 15th October and then ships in Spring 2027.
Finally, and as expected for an Anniversary Year, we have some new Black Series 6-inch carded figures incoming. The one shown was a new Tactical Stormtrooper figure with a new feature to adjust the height of the figure. This 'definitive' version will come on a new style cardback, with a more traditional Kenner inspired cardback version available at Walmart, Target, and Disney Parks.
The Vintage Collection series can look forward to new versions of R2-D2 and C-3PO; these are brand new sculpts, an update the proportions and scale. These new figures will be used for A New Hope releases first, with Threepio sculpted with a restraining bolt and Artoo coming with a restraining bolt swap-out panel. Artoo also features the retractable third leg and will still fit in the sockets for previously released ships like the X-Wing.
These are mainline Spring 2027 releases with Artoo in the first 2027 wave, and Threepio in wave 2. Pre-orders will open later in the year.
The presentation for Vintage then moved on to talk about previous HasLab projects and the associated 'world building' releases that they aim to do alongside a HasLab to enhance the projects. In 2027, we can look forward to new 'HasLab Support Packs,' and they start with a new set for Rebels and The Ghost called the 'Lothal Rebels' with figures of Kanan in Stormtrooper Armour, alongwith Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren from Season 1. All three figures come with their respective removable helmets and their weaponry.
The Rebels Set is a Fan Channel and Amazon item and opens for pre-order on the 7th of October with a delivery in Spring 2027.
The Vintage session ended with a tease of what looks like an X-Wing helmet and a large blaster, potentially for Trapper Wolf based on the two together and his scenes in The Mandalorian.
There was no news for Retro Collection as such on the panel, but we were promised for big news come November 2026.
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