The Best Star Wars Black Series Improvements We've Ever Seen! - Figure It Out Ep. 258 

Fun story, couple weeks ago, there was a totally full and new Toys "r" Us in Mexico city (pretty weird in my opinion). Then, one of the streamers showed the Star Killer 3 pack exclusive from Hasbro and it's ridiculous price was of 220 dollars. So, last week, in Mexico we have The Good End which is similar to Black Friday in the States, and they have the pack in discount for 80 bucks. Not only that, but all those Hasbro exclusives that sometimes you can't get unless you are paying a membership to that company.

You guys should do a "Wierdest Black Series Experiments" video and talk about the freaky Qui-Gon face, the Y-Joint/sort of drop down hips they did on a few figures in 2019, and any others you can think of which just briefly appeared and then went away

Photo real is easily the best improvement to come to the Black Series. Turned me from someone who had less than ten figures to now hundreds. I do like that Justin mentioned gummy plastic tho. I picked up a Marvel Legends Morbius recently and was so disappointed in how gummy it was. Nothing like a modern 2023 Black Series figure. Happy early Thanksgiving guys, even to Tom Walgreens. He needs our support in these trying times.

I love the positivity of this video. The line has come a long way. Great job pointing the improvements.

I think this is unquestionably the best year for black series. I finally got a great ROTJ style Luke, Malgus is my favorite black series ever, Malak, Bastila, Cal, Endor trooper, old master maul, Jedi legend obi wan, Mara jade, new clone, and so much more.

Honestly, its so hard to choose just one thing specifically. The line as a whole as improved drastically just in the last two years. I’m happy with where we’re at and hope to see it continue.

Elbow joints, better plastic,photo real,better availability,matte finishes! They are really listening and pumping out some great stuff lately. I 100% agree with vid boyos ! Now we need Walmart exclusives right and we’re on easy street ! Nice watch see has Sunday!

My favorite improvement is definitely mainline Gaming Greats. Absolutely no one asked for Malgus and they just slammed that banger down on the table, dropped the mic, and left the room in classic Hasbro WTF fashion.

My top 3 improvements are availability of the figures, prequel and Clone Wars attention, and photo real. I’d love to see a counterpart to this video where you talk about a few things that maybe have gotten worse or not improved since the line started.

Character selection is my pick for my fave improvement. Its been awesome rapidly filling up the shelf with desperately needed characters as well as ones that we thought we would never get.

Great video! The line really has come a long way since it first came out. face printing was a huge upgrade, sometime even beating out import figures imo. Improved articulation, and lately we've been getting a really nice selection of characters from a bunch of varied media. I couple years ago I never would have thought we'd ever get Darth Malgus, Malak, Bastila, Mara Jade, etc.

I can confirm that baylan has ball jointed wrists! It’s amazing. It also opens the door to more swappable hands in the future!

Justin´s face when saying all the new clonewars figures and ending with Kiadi Mundi XDDD love you guys

So many cool upgrades to our favorite figure line! Great points of topic and improvements shown in this episode guys!

Jeremy gonna hate this video 😂. hasbro has really stepped it up and really i don't see any signs of them slowing down and I feel like every year is the best year to be collecting for the last 4 years now so let's gooo 2024 boutta be crazy.

The double entendres are just flying left and right, and I'm here for it. 😄

I think you guys nailed all of it. Photo real, butterflys, overlays & pinless are some VERY welcome additions. Another entertaining video. Happy Thanksgiving fellas & cheers! 🍻🤘

Apart from the Photo Real, which is awesome, the best change by far was the single jointed knees. Finally we can bend the knees more than 15 degrees without the figures looking like they have ridiculous noodle legs! Not yet sure how I feel about the thigh cuts being replaced by swivel hips...

Incredible and unexpected Tom Walgreens cameo had me dying like that ep of South Park where they randomly focus on Officer Barbrady after years of not using him had me absolutely rolling and Nate props for that commitment lmao happy Thanksgiving boys

1. Photo real and it’s only getting better 2. Availability in-store. The hunt lives! 3. Hasbro listening to the fans in general - I.e. Moving away from PFP, increased implementation of soft goods, making it easier to get figs, and character selection.

Photo real the real improvement Black Series has made. Some articulation improvements too. Now we just need accessory improvements

When you guys mentioned photoreal, I'm surprised you didn't bring up the rerelease of the Rebels crew: they were abysmal in the red & black era, Sabine being the worst which thankfully you could hide with the helmet. I'll give it to Fwoosh who made an amazing comparison video. Considering how they did such a phenomenal job with Dooku and I've seen the figure in-box, I wish they bring it back for Archives or Galaxy Packaging and give him an even better portrait AND the Lightning Force hand. I'm all in on TVC but I would buy that one for sure, not to mention that I was introduced to the work of Sir Christopher Lee thanks to Attack of the Clones. For the elbow joints, Vader is literally perfect now. (He just needs new, stronger legs and revised shoulders so that the tunic stays properly under the armor for all NON 1977-like versions). All other points are valid, but I've my concerns on TBS which I'll keep away from the comments for now. Cheers!

All of the improvements are great! The continued improvements are why I remain a loyal Black Series collector. Personally, I'm just glad I can find figures in stores and the case assortments have improved. I shop at 7 Walmarts and 1 Target, and I swear all of them took 2020, 2021 and most of 2022 off when it came to Black Series figures-except for General Lando.

Great video as always boys! It’s been crazy seeing how much the Black Series has been improving as a whole in recent years, I have high hopes for 2024 and beyond! Comment is gonna be a bit early but hope you guys have a good Thanksgiving 🦃 and here’s to hopefully many more great years of TBS

I would love to think this list is foot notes to the Thanksgiving prayer you both said at the family dinner table on Thursday lol. Good point, made me feel thankful lol

Man, Malgus and Malak are absolutelly perfect. I hope we get a Sion soon, and maybe an improved Nihilus.

Most important improvement is character selection, so glad we're getting CW and prequel figures!

I'm actually pretty thankful that they didn't give us the starkiller or any of the figures we have now in figure form during the dark ages era 💀 🗿 I'd rather the sequel trilogy take one for the team than get the shitty face scans for any current figures we have. The only thing that's missing is swappable hands for every figures. They did a good job with hasbro pulse exclusive starkiller having swappable hands.

Honestly every improvement has been a major upgrade but photoreal takes the prize. I also hope they implement the new ball joints in all, if not most, upcoming figures.

Where I live in Canada, the Exclusives rarely show up in any of our three Wal-Marts.

I have the Baylan wave: Shin and Fleet COmmander have hinges, but Baylan has ball-jointed.

Articulation and the new sculpts are what I like best ✌️

Character selection is the best of all. I'm loving the prequel figures most of all. I have a grand army of clones.

I still wish they would've molded the 2023 clone body to have the shoulder pads attached to the chest to avoid them tucking under the overlay and raising it

12:33 gosh I want Dooku to be Archived so bad, he looks absolutely perfect! I don’t even care for the lightsaber swoosh so they can get rid of that if they want, I’m not picky

They have definitely improved their figures, but some of the new prices makes it easier to justify import figures when there is the option. The face printing is where they moved closer to real collector grade.

Tom Walgreen moment 😂

Also Gaming Greats having newly tooled figures

i love the new boxes for the figures they look amazing

Photo real faces, and soft goods. Still waiting on an updated Black Series Anakin pre-Vader or ROTS updated 👀😄

Great improvements for sure especially the photo real. I’m a huge fan of Ahsoka and I do own the Hasbro CW No. 44 never opened in mint condition and I thought was one of the best early on Ahsoka figures then they had some black series ones. The rebels one was ok then they re-did that figure and it was minimal changes but then comes the clone wars season 7 one which there were some issues but over all it was fantastic then they did mando Ahsoka and it was phenomenal and now we have the Padawan Ahsoka figure and it is literally the beast Ahsoka out right now. Compare that to the vintage collection black series Ahsoka and it’s like damn. They have been stepping it up even though repacks are annoying sometimes.

Hello Nate and Justin, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the improvements of the black series figures over the last 5-6 years. The face printing tech is a vast improvement for character's faces of human characters and aliens as well. Unfortunately we also lost the ability to have the best looking battle damaged/ worn looks to the figures. Hasbro has the chipped paint looks down but where is the dirt and grime from being in the field ?? We lost that from the new painting system Hasbro is currently using. We definitely have better character selection but way too much Mando figures in my opinion. I was happy when Hasbro rereleased the Rebels line, before that the only Rebels figure I had was Chopper. I was fortunate enough to find him at a GameStop that I don't frequent often, I was happy I stopped by that day. I feel happy about no more Walgreens exclusives, but sad that Tom Walgreens is drinking so heavily these days. 😢 I hope you both had a great Thanksgiving 🦃, and a great weekend. I'll catch you Sunday. Take care my friends, Tom

Stormtroooers aren’t aiming. Ha! I hope Black Series continues to innovate. Butters and ball jointed hands are wonderful. I also hope they continue to offer characters from multiple media sources. Comics, games, live action and animated TV, Films… they are spreading it around. I do want missing OT characters like Lobot, Nien Nunb, medical droid, and sweet sweet cantina aliens. I want creatures! Creatures Hasbro! Great video. You get to be called gents for showing gratitude… probably called schills by those who aren’t gents. Happy Thanksgiving OOTB! Hope there’s a 2024 Rebo miracle.

Double Jointed arms and legs would be the cherry on top.

Yoda’s human face. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

As far as the exclusives being easier to get that's really only for the US, luckily I have a friend there that helps me out a ton but even in Canada figures like the Duels End Vader were super hard to get unless you were checking Toys'R'Us daily

Photo real saved this line, the only thing that stopped me from getting into this line early on was the horrid face paints.

I hardly collected the line before photoreal other than aliens and helmeted characters.

Yeah THANKfully, the line has really improved from the spand of just a couple years. Also Ye got the Max Rebo Comic I recommended!

Guys, can you make the list of figures with 2023 clone body? It'll be very helpful:3

i grabbed the star killer, shin hati and baylan a couple weeks ago from toy snowman. idk if they still have em but baylan has ball joints, shin has up and down lightsaber swivel no in and out. and it's on both hands. but that's nothing compared to the crack smoking decisions made on those 2 figures.

I’m glad that they are making more eu characters and more character besides the main movie characters

Happy Thanksgiving OOTB

I have the comic white Darth Vader (2022) which its awesome with those update joint compare tho the first Darth Vader, and also I have the ko of the sandtrooper which is good but those hips sucks, maybe for december il will have the new white clone trooper on the 2023 mold, but I still wish hasbro make a version 2.0 of the white Darth Vader because those legs have the peg, since is the empire strikes back body has a secret feature, the top part of the helmet is glued to the mask, if you look close we can see a bit of anakin head but it's sculpted and not painted, you can try to remove the top part of the helmet with very hot water, on the inside of the top part oh the helmet we can see some detail and a rettangular per for some stand, other than that nice video

All in all the line is definitely improving as it goes on. Photo-Real was a game changer. Before that I didn’t collect anything with a human face. Thanks for another great episode. Keep up the good work.

peace be with you mtfbwy always

Do yall know when Shin and Balyn gon be released?

A lot of clones and mandalorians came out. Boo on the prices. Entertainment earth is great for inbox collecting. At least for me.

I've gotta disagree with the 2023 clone mold I'm not a fan particularly. I don't like how it looks and the way the shoulders articulate under the chest overlay.

Hands down the photo real faces. Massive leap forward imo.

Finally some positivity about the black series 🙄 instead of the constant complaining and whining about plastic 😅

The dark ages didn't seem that bad at the time

Just an informative heads up: the first Black Series to use photo real was Rey (Island Journey).

Cloooonerrrrrs😂

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Plastic free... thumbs down😢