That's awesome. How old is your brother?

I received Kelnacca today from Amazon. That was a surprise, no ship notification. 

This site seems it's getting ready to crash once again. I'm getting errors from every little space.

Hmm, I guess everyone has the figures already that were up for pre-order from the WMCC today. I secured me some 501st troopers. My understanding is from YouTube Star Wars sites they are on the new Clone body.

Bbts charged for Xizor, Bacarra and my commando droids. They hit early.

I don't check this thread as much as I used to, so maybe it was already reported, but Yakface is saying a fanstream may happen on 3/25, for preorders going up 3/26.

I think Xizor is a figure I definitely would have bought even two or three years ago...but now I'm super choosy on my Star Wars stuff and I just couldn't pull the trigger.   I may soften after he's been out awhile or if I find him on sale or something...

I remember reading Shadows of the Empire back in the 90's and immediately enjoying the Xizor character.    I honestly wouldn't mind if they resurrect some of that story and restore it to canon as it doesn't hurt any of the existing stories much.    

@panthercult Well, Xizor himself IS canon, since he was mentioned on the Clone Wars cartoon (and I believe he's had another mention elsewhere, but at the moment the CW instance is all I can think of). IF rumors are true, Xizor and Rendar will be making appearances in some future media, so you never know. I know Filoni likes those characters, so there is definitely a chance.

I think that's good.   I like for them to pull as much from the Legends continuity novels into current canon as they can (Thrawn was a big win)  -  obviously some of the stuff is impossible Jacen, Jaina and Anakin Solo and Ben Skywalker from the books aren't possible  (though Kylo Ren and Jacen Syndulla each borrow a little from Jacen) - and some of the stuff isn't worth keeping... but bringing in what they can is good and fun.   And Xizor seems eminently doable.  Dash Rendar too, so I'm glad if they can find a way to let them in.   

Frankly,  I think it would be interesting if they found a way to rework Mara Jade and made her a viable character.    Obviously she doesn't get to be Luke's wife and the mother of his son -  but they could keep her back-story as someone Palpatine trained as an assassin  - once Vader was out patrolling the galaxy Ol' Sheev would need a new hobby.   They could introduce her in the next season of the Mandalorian they've announced - and then  explore her own thing... I don't know maybe not.   Maybe old school fan's of Zahn's work wouldn't accept that.    But they've done a fine job integrating Thrawn into the current canon.    They could find a way to rework Mara so she doesn't have to stay in the Legends scrap heap.

Really wanting a new BT-1 on the larger droid body with more effect pieces.

Some stuff went up. I wanted none. Hope some of you were thrilled.

I mean... I looked at the Night Trooper figure for half a second... but the weird, cracked half mask with the gnarly scarred face under it was a turn off.    If it was just a trooper repaint in those colors I might have picked it up actually - but the zombie face thing was a pass.    And as much as I enjoyed seeing grown up Ezra Bridger in the Ahsoka show, a figure of him isn't something I'm dying for.     The price tag on SM-33 is to steep.   He might be a fun droid to have but I'll wait for clearance or I won't have him.

That Andor in the black pilot armor is tempting though... I like the look with the helmet on...

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That Andor in the black pilot armor is tempting though... I like the look with the helmet on...

Yeah. Even with slimming my star wars collecting down, imperial stuff is always gonna get me to at least look, and with the helmet on, that pilot looks pretty slick. That's the one figure they've shown this year so far that I haven't ruled out.

I really just need the new ROTS Anakin and Kenobi, ANH Han and to see the new ANH Kenobi if I want it. These long drawn out reveals for product are so annoying - seven items split across two lines is not a satisfying reveal.

I know, Celebration is less than a month away... but still. I have literal holes on my shelves waiting for these four figures!

And I'm not counting on Celebration being a place for mega-reveals either. because then there's comic con!