With all the regular comic and toy conventions shut down this year, Hasbro fans have been hungry for official toy reveals, subsiding on blurry leaks of factory prototypes and the occasional video. That’s why Hasbro is taking its own convention virtual this year!

Heroscape Sneak Peak

Fans were given a sneak peak on Tuesday where the next HasLab project was unveiled—Heroscape is back! You can back it now on the Hasbro Pulse site. It’s been a while since the game has been on the shelves, but given the active secondary market for copies, people are going to be all over this campaign.

Con Exclusives

If you’re a Pulse Premium member they’ll go on sale for you today at noon Eastern. For everyone else, you’ll need to try your luck tomorrow. I’m pretty pleased that we’re going straight to Hasbro Pulse for con exclusives this year. The platform has proved to be quite stable and able to handle traffic in a way that Hasbro’s previous shopping platform wasn’t. It should be able to stand up to thousands of rabid fans (and, sigh, probably more than a few bots).

This year’s con exclusives are rather impressive and represent characters from nearly all of Hasbro’s brands. We’ve been waiting for our chance to buy these since they were revealed earlier this summer!

Check on that little guy! (Image: Hasbro)

From Ghostbusters, we have Tully and a demon dog for $49.99

Wassss a Maaaaan! (Image: Hasbro)

If you’re a packaging collector, the Snake Supreme Cobra Commander figure will be a hard one to pass up. It’s $29.99 ($10 more than the retail figure).

The entire box set just oozes smutiness (Image: Hasbro)

The Hellfire Club is represented in their full S&M glory (how did I not pick up on that as a kid?). The impressive box set (complete with play masks for the figures…seriously, how?) will set you back $79.99.

“Martha!” “Wrong movie, my boy.” (Image: Hasbro)

If you want to relive the most depressing Marvel movie of all time, this Wolverine and Xavier two-pack, representing the characters as they appeared in Logan, liver spots and all, is just for you. It’s $49.99.

Go, go indeed. (Image: Hasbro)

If you’re a Power Rangers fan, this Lord Drakkon Evo III figure will set you back $49.99. I have no idea what’s going on here and I’m still impressed by it.

We find the defendant…GUILTY (Image: Hasbro)

The Transformers Quintesson Pit of Judgement 5-Pack will finally be released for everyone to start building out their side-collection of 1986 movie toys (more on that in a sec). It includes the Quintesson Judge, a Sharkticon, an Alicon Bailiff, Kranix, and the Prosecutor, all in movie-accurate decos. For $69.99 you get two characters that won’t be offered at retail, two more that are great army builders, and a better deco on one of the weirder figures in the War for Cybertron line, plus a great backdrop to use for the rest of the ’86 toys on their way.

If you’re a Star Wars fan, there’s a lot to try and grab.

Never have fans been so happy to get the same sculpt three times in one pack.

Clone Wars series fans will want to grab this three pack of troopers featuring Jesse, Fives, and Echo. Why did Jesse get stuck with such a boring name anyway?

For the Kenner box alone, I’ll get this. (Image: Hasbro)

I don’t collect Black Series figures, but I’m sorely tempted by this screen-accurate Wampa. It’s the same incredible sculpt that was released previously in the line but with proper coloration and darkened horns. Perfect for disemboweling your Tauntaun.

Ewok not to scale. (Image: Hasbro)

The big set for this year is a $109 collection of Battle of Endor figures with Luke, Leia, Han, Wicket, and a Black Series speeder bike, all in a very attractive collapsible display box. This one will sell out fast.

Convention Weekend Schedule

If you can take some time off on Friday, you’ll want to do so. Festivities start at 11:00 AM ET with a Magic: The Gathering Zendikar event. That’s followed by a Dungeons and Dragons panel (which makes sense since those two properties are more entwined than ever). Joe Manganiello will be running a DM panel then, by the afternoon, we get to the big properties.

Around 3:00 PM ET the Star Wars panel will begin with Black and Vintage Series reveals, plus roleplaying items (yay lightsabers!). After that will be a Star Wars HasLab panel where they’ll reveal their next HasLab project! Black Series-scale Death Star? We can dream.

After that we’ll get news on upcoming Star Wars shows. Rounding out the day will be the Marvel panel. While Marvel already had its big spotlight this year with the HasLab Sentinel, here’s hoping that there are some fun surprise reveals (maybe some Days of Future Past-themed figures to go with said Sentinel?).

On Saturday there are more main event panels (and, honestly, the ones that will have the whiniest fanboys), this time for Transformers and G.I. Joe. Everything kicks off with G.I. Joe at 10:00 AM, so set your alarms! Fingers crossed that we’ll get some non-exclusive Vipers and a Baroness figure without her bike so that everyone can get them (instead of just bots).

At 11:00 AM ET we’ll get the Transformers Earthrise: Kingdom reveal. A lot of these figures have leaked online already, but it’ll be nice to see official images of the neo-Beast Wars figures. So far we know that Cheetor, Blackarachnia, and Rattrap will be part of the first wave, along with some really cool Fossilizer figures (think Weaponizers, but dinosaur skeletons). Undoubtedly there will be more reveals.

Also set to be unveiled during the toy panel are the Studio Series 1986 figures. Finally having run out of Bay-verse figures to barf up, Hasbro is wisely turning back to G1 and giving us figures that are animation-accurate to the minute detail (Scourge even has pink fingertips!). It’s a shrewd move since, with the move to Beast Wars, Hasbro risks leaving its deep-pocketed 80s nostalgia-hounds behind. We might have four Grimlocks already, but one that looks exactly like the one in Transformers: The Movie will be enough to get us to shell out the cash one more time.

After the toy panel will be another Transformers panel focusing on the next season of the Netflix show (yawn) with the panel after that focusing on the voices behind the Transformers. Special guests Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) and Frank Welker (Megatron) will both be there!

Rounding out the day will be a Ghostbusters panel (with special guest star Ernie Hudson) and a couple of Power Rangers panels.

It’s going to be a packed couple of days! And more than a little painful on the wallet. Thankfully, all the panels will be recorded so you can catch them on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel if you miss them when they’re live.

I’ll be back this weekend to talk about the G.I. Joe and Transformers reveals!