While San Diego Comic-Con is an entirely digital event this year, plenty of companies are still offering up exclusive collectibles timed to Comic-Con@Home. That includes Mattel, which will be revealing several new geek-worthy toys in the days ahead. Mattel's Comic-Con exclusives include multiple deluxe Hot Wheels sets (one of which recreates an iconic moment from Avengers: Endgame) and a set of Halo Construx figurines with light-up packaging. Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at all the toys revealed so far, and keep checking back all week as we update the gallery with new Mattel reveals. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=comic-con-2020-mattel-reveals-exclusive-collectibles&captions=true"] All of the exclusives revealed this week will be sold only on the official Mattel Creations Instagram page (@MattelCreations) and will go on sale Thursday, July 23 at 9am. Mattel previously revealed a Comic-Con-exclusive Jurassic Park figure we expect to be one of the most desirable toys of the summer. The Barbasol Dennis Nedry figure is an homage to one of the more iconic moments from the original movie. It features a Nedry figure encased inside a replica shaving cream container that even includes light-up effects and sound clips. In other recent collectibles reveals, Hasbro has launched a crowd-funding campaign for an enormous Marvel Legends Sentinel figure and debuted two pop culture-inspired Transformers figures, the Back to the Future-style Gigawatt and the Top Gun-style Maverick. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/07/15/sony-doubles-playstation-5-production-for-holiday-2020-ign-daily-fix"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

While San Diego Comic-Con is an entirely digital event this year, plenty of companies are still offering up exclusive collectibles timed to Comic-Con@Home. That includes Mattel, which will be revealing several new geek-worthy toys in the days ahead. Mattel's Comic-Con exclusives include multiple deluxe Hot Wheels sets (one of which recreates an iconic moment from Avengers: Endgame) and a set of Halo Construx figurines with light-up packaging. Check out the slideshow gallery below for a closer look at all the toys revealed so far, and keep checking back all week as we update the gallery with new Mattel reveals. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=comic-con-2020-mattel-reveals-exclusive-collectibles&captions=true"] All of the exclusives revealed this week will be sold only on the official Mattel Creations Instagram page (@MattelCreations) and will go on sale Thursday, July 23 at 9am. Mattel previously revealed a Comic-Con-exclusive Jurassic Park figure we expect to be one of the most desirable toys of the summer. The Barbasol Dennis Nedry figure is an homage to one of the more iconic moments from the original movie. It features a Nedry figure encased inside a replica shaving cream container that even includes light-up effects and sound clips. In other recent collectibles reveals, Hasbro has launched a crowd-funding campaign for an enormous Marvel Legends Sentinel figure and debuted two pop culture-inspired Transformers figures, the Back to the Future-style Gigawatt and the Top Gun-style Maverick. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/07/15/sony-doubles-playstation-5-production-for-holiday-2020-ign-daily-fix"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

With Star Wars: The Clone Wars recently ending its seven-season run, Lucasfilm is developing a new spinoff series called Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The new series will focus on the titular team previously introduced in the opening storyline from The Clone Wars: Season 7. Star Wars: The Bad Batch will premiere on Disney+ at some point in 2021. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/18/star-wars-the-clone-wars-final-season-the-bad-batch-clip"] First appearing in the Season 7 premiere "The Bad Batch," these characters are a group of elite Clonetroopers who are more genetically unique than their clone brothers, allowing them to carry out unusually dangerous and challenging missions. This spinoff series will take place shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, with the quartet eking out a living as mercenaries and struggling to find a new purpose. “Giving new and existing fans the final chapter of ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ has been our honor at Disney+, and we are overjoyed by the global response to this landmark series,” said Disney+ SVP of Content Agnes Chu in a statement. “While the Clone Wars may have come to its conclusion, our partnership with the groundbreaking storytellers and artists at Lucasfilm Animation is only beginning. We are thrilled to bring Dave Filoni’s vision to life through the next adventures of the Bad Batch.” The series will be helmed by a number of Star Wars veterans, including executive producers Dave Filoni, Athena Portillo, Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett, co-executive producer Carrie Beck and producer Josh Rimes. Rau will also serve as supervising director and Corbett will be head writer on the series. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-upcoming-star-wars-movie&captions=true"] While no voice actors were named in Lucasfilm's press release, it seems safe to assume Dee Bradley Baker will reprise his role as all five members of Bad Batch - Hunter, Crosshair, Tech, Wrecker and Echo. The time period also offers clues as to other iconic Star Wars characters who might appear, such as Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex or a young Kanan Jarrus. The Bad Batch is just the latest Star Wars series announced for Disney+. Fans can also look forward to a Rogue One prequel series focused on Diego Luna's Cassian Andor, an Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring Ewan McGregor and a mysterious female-led series from Russian Doll's Leslye Headland. Meanwhile, several Clone Wars fan-favorites will be making their live-action debuts in The Mandalorian: Season 2, including Rosario Dawson playing Ahsoka Tano and Katee Sackhoff reprising her voice role, only now in live-action, as Bo-Katan Kryze. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/21/star-wars-the-clone-wars-season-7-premiere-review"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

With Star Wars: The Clone Wars recently ending its seven-season run, Lucasfilm is developing a new spinoff series called Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The new series will focus on the titular team previously introduced in the opening storyline from The Clone Wars: Season 7. Star Wars: The Bad Batch will premiere on Disney+ at some point in 2021. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/18/star-wars-the-clone-wars-final-season-the-bad-batch-clip"] First appearing in the Season 7 premiere "The Bad Batch," these characters are a group of elite Clonetroopers who are more genetically unique than their clone brothers, allowing them to carry out unusually dangerous and challenging missions. This spinoff series will take place shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, with the quartet eking out a living as mercenaries and struggling to find a new purpose. “Giving new and existing fans the final chapter of ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ has been our honor at Disney+, and we are overjoyed by the global response to this landmark series,” said Disney+ SVP of Content Agnes Chu in a statement. “While the Clone Wars may have come to its conclusion, our partnership with the groundbreaking storytellers and artists at Lucasfilm Animation is only beginning. We are thrilled to bring Dave Filoni’s vision to life through the next adventures of the Bad Batch.” The series will be helmed by a number of Star Wars veterans, including executive producers Dave Filoni, Athena Portillo, Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett, co-executive producer Carrie Beck and producer Josh Rimes. Rau will also serve as supervising director and Corbett will be head writer on the series. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=every-upcoming-star-wars-movie&captions=true"] While no voice actors were named in Lucasfilm's press release, it seems safe to assume Dee Bradley Baker will reprise his role as all five members of Bad Batch - Hunter, Crosshair, Tech, Wrecker and Echo. The time period also offers clues as to other iconic Star Wars characters who might appear, such as Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex or a young Kanan Jarrus. The Bad Batch is just the latest Star Wars series announced for Disney+. Fans can also look forward to a Rogue One prequel series focused on Diego Luna's Cassian Andor, an Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring Ewan McGregor and a mysterious female-led series from Russian Doll's Leslye Headland. Meanwhile, several Clone Wars fan-favorites will be making their live-action debuts in The Mandalorian: Season 2, including Rosario Dawson playing Ahsoka Tano and Katee Sackhoff reprising her voice role, only now in live-action, as Bo-Katan Kryze. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/21/star-wars-the-clone-wars-season-7-premiere-review"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Hasbro's latest announcement continues its recent theme of crossover Transformers figures, with the latest mashing up two more excellent 1980s properties: Transformers and Top Gun. The new robot Maverick is a classic F-14 Tomcat in alt-mode and a volleyball-playing Naval aviator in robot mode. Seriously: one of Maverick's included accessories is a volleyball, for complete beach action. Maverick comes with two extra hands for beach volleyball and a "screen-inspired miniature motorcycle accessory." Check out the high-resolution gallery below to see Maverick in both bot and alt-modes, as well as packaging and logo. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=transformers-x-top-gun-maverick&captions=true"] The helmet is based on the design from the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick movie, so it spans time to create a cohesive bond between the Top Gun and Transformers of the 1980s and the newest trend of Transformers/80s property mash-ups. At the start of July Hasbro revealed Gigawatt, the Time-Machine Autobot based on the 1985 classic Back to the Future. Preorders for the Transformers x Top Gun figure go up at 10 am PT today, with an MSRP of $49.99 USD. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Seth Macy is Executive Editor, IGN Commerce, and just wants to be your friend. Find him on Twitter @sethmacy.  

Hasbro's latest announcement continues its recent theme of crossover Transformers figures, with the latest mashing up two more excellent 1980s properties: Transformers and Top Gun. The new robot Maverick is a classic F-14 Tomcat in alt-mode and a volleyball-playing Naval aviator in robot mode. Seriously: one of Maverick's included accessories is a volleyball, for complete beach action. Maverick comes with two extra hands for beach volleyball and a "screen-inspired miniature motorcycle accessory." Check out the high-resolution gallery below to see Maverick in both bot and alt-modes, as well as packaging and logo. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=transformers-x-top-gun-maverick&captions=true"] The helmet is based on the design from the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick movie, so it spans time to create a cohesive bond between the Top Gun and Transformers of the 1980s and the newest trend of Transformers/80s property mash-ups. At the start of July Hasbro revealed Gigawatt, the Time-Machine Autobot based on the 1985 classic Back to the Future. Preorders for the Transformers x Top Gun figure go up at 10 am PT today, with an MSRP of $49.99 USD. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Seth Macy is Executive Editor, IGN Commerce, and just wants to be your friend. Find him on Twitter @sethmacy.  

Charlize Theron shared an update on the status of Atomic Blonde 2, as she confirmed that the script for the sequel is currently being written for Netflix. Speaking to Total Film, Theron revealed that the streaming giant had expressed an interest in the Atomic Blonde sequel after the team behind the 2017 action-thriller pitched the idea of a follow-up flick in a meeting with executives. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/08/03/charlize-theron-on-atomic-blondes-stunts"] "We took [Atomic Blonde 2] to them and Scott Stuber [Head of Original Films at Netflix] was really interested in it," Theron admitted. "We talked to him about it extensively, and we're in the process of writing it right now. That character was set up in a way where she didn't really reveal much of herself. So I feel like there's a lot of potential there. The bar's pretty high, but we're excited about it." David Leitch's noted Cold War action-thriller was widely celebrated when it was released, with many critics comparing it to the director's thrilling John Wick franchise, particularly for its levels of intensity and first-rate action sequences. Theron was also widely lauded as a completely convincing movie badass operating within a story from Antony Johnson's 2012 comic The Coldest City. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-25-best-non-superhero-comic-book-movies&captions=true"] In our review of Atomic Blonde, we noted that the movie leaned "more heavily into being a John Wick film than a John le Carré-esque espionage tale, and that the battle between those two tones can be occasionally distracting," though its attitude and the fervent style of its execution ultimately made it "staggering and exciting to watch" at the theater. At the box office, the movie grossed $100 million worldwide against a production budget of $30 million, sowing the seeds for a potential sequel. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Charlize Theron shared an update on the status of Atomic Blonde 2, as she confirmed that the script for the sequel is currently being written for Netflix. Speaking to Total Film, Theron revealed that the streaming giant had expressed an interest in the Atomic Blonde sequel after the team behind the 2017 action-thriller pitched the idea of a follow-up flick in a meeting with executives. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/08/03/charlize-theron-on-atomic-blondes-stunts"] "We took [Atomic Blonde 2] to them and Scott Stuber [Head of Original Films at Netflix] was really interested in it," Theron admitted. "We talked to him about it extensively, and we're in the process of writing it right now. That character was set up in a way where she didn't really reveal much of herself. So I feel like there's a lot of potential there. The bar's pretty high, but we're excited about it." David Leitch's noted Cold War action-thriller was widely celebrated when it was released, with many critics comparing it to the director's thrilling John Wick franchise, particularly for its levels of intensity and first-rate action sequences. Theron was also widely lauded as a completely convincing movie badass operating within a story from Antony Johnson's 2012 comic The Coldest City. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-25-best-non-superhero-comic-book-movies&captions=true"] In our review of Atomic Blonde, we noted that the movie leaned "more heavily into being a John Wick film than a John le Carré-esque espionage tale, and that the battle between those two tones can be occasionally distracting," though its attitude and the fervent style of its execution ultimately made it "staggering and exciting to watch" at the theater. At the box office, the movie grossed $100 million worldwide against a production budget of $30 million, sowing the seeds for a potential sequel. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

The Mandalorian star Giancarlo Esposito has teased the possibility of Moff Gideon being a Force-sensitive villain, as he recently reflected on the character's possession of the Darksaber and what it symbolizes to him. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Esposito offered up some more details about his expanded role in Season 2 of the Disney+ Star Wars show, as he suggested that his character might be wielding more than just the physical powers of the black-bladed weapon. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/21/star-wars-lightsaber-color-meanings-explained"] "To be in the position of having that regal, graceful power but have this saber which delineates a different part of me than any other character," Esposito explained, referring to the Darksaber twist at the end of the first season. "To have this saber means I can use it, and I can do my own dirty work, that I'm a fighter, that I'm a warrior. That's part of me. "It also creates the possibility that he is one of the ones. He possibly has that, and that to me is interesting because is he really that fallen hero? Is he a descendant of Darth Vader. Who is he? What does he want? He knows all about everything, and you'll have to wait to find out. Yeah, he's actually pretty good with that Darksaber too." The Darksaber is considered to be one of the most important artifacts in Mandalorian culture. It was created by a warrior named Tarre Vizsla, and over time it has come to serve as a symbol of power. In fact, whomever wields the blade is viewed by Mandalorian traditionalists as the rightful ruler of Mandalore, and defeating the blade's owner in ritualistic combat is seen as the rightful path to power. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-wars-force-powers-you-probably-didnt-know-about&captions=true"] The Mandalorian's season finale was filled with several big surprises, leading right the way up to the closing shots that showed Esposito's character carving a segment out of his crashed TIE Fighter and emerging from the wreckage with the ancient Mandalorian-made weapon in his possession, which in itself illuminated a lot of unresolved mysteries and burning questions for the next season. The Mandalorian Season 2 is set to debut on Disney+ in October 2020. Until then, we invite you to dig through the archives and learn more about the history of the Darksaber by reading our Star Wars wiki guide on the ancient lightsaber, find out about an unexpected connection between the series and The Rise of Skywalker, and see our breakdown of all the notable cameos in The Mandalorian so far. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

The Mandalorian star Giancarlo Esposito has teased the possibility of Moff Gideon being a Force-sensitive villain, as he recently reflected on the character's possession of the Darksaber and what it symbolizes to him. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Esposito offered up some more details about his expanded role in Season 2 of the Disney+ Star Wars show, as he suggested that his character might be wielding more than just the physical powers of the black-bladed weapon. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/21/star-wars-lightsaber-color-meanings-explained"] "To be in the position of having that regal, graceful power but have this saber which delineates a different part of me than any other character," Esposito explained, referring to the Darksaber twist at the end of the first season. "To have this saber means I can use it, and I can do my own dirty work, that I'm a fighter, that I'm a warrior. That's part of me. "It also creates the possibility that he is one of the ones. He possibly has that, and that to me is interesting because is he really that fallen hero? Is he a descendant of Darth Vader. Who is he? What does he want? He knows all about everything, and you'll have to wait to find out. Yeah, he's actually pretty good with that Darksaber too." The Darksaber is considered to be one of the most important artifacts in Mandalorian culture. It was created by a warrior named Tarre Vizsla, and over time it has come to serve as a symbol of power. In fact, whomever wields the blade is viewed by Mandalorian traditionalists as the rightful ruler of Mandalore, and defeating the blade's owner in ritualistic combat is seen as the rightful path to power. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-wars-force-powers-you-probably-didnt-know-about&captions=true"] The Mandalorian's season finale was filled with several big surprises, leading right the way up to the closing shots that showed Esposito's character carving a segment out of his crashed TIE Fighter and emerging from the wreckage with the ancient Mandalorian-made weapon in his possession, which in itself illuminated a lot of unresolved mysteries and burning questions for the next season. The Mandalorian Season 2 is set to debut on Disney+ in October 2020. Until then, we invite you to dig through the archives and learn more about the history of the Darksaber by reading our Star Wars wiki guide on the ancient lightsaber, find out about an unexpected connection between the series and The Rise of Skywalker, and see our breakdown of all the notable cameos in The Mandalorian so far. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.