The “Mimban Speeder” or Imperial Patrol Speeder as it has now officially been dubbed is the only vehicle from the new film. Very little of this has anything to do with Solo, but it is very cool to have diecast versions of them nonetheless. Imperial Patrol Speeder (Previously with the word “Mimban” sometimes attached, as in “Mimban Speeder ” this seems to have been dropped on official packaging.).First Order AT-ST (With partial removal of “head” and driven/piloted by BB-8.There are a few others as well, but I mainly want to focus on the new ones, which Hot Wheels has started designating First Appearance to stave off any potential confusion. We’ve got a few re-issues like Fett’s Slave I, Vader’s TIE, and the Naboo N-1 Starfighter, but perhaps the “best” would be Darth Maul’s Sith Infiltrator which was never an easy piece to find (and who knows, it may not become any easier to find this time either). I didn’t find those, but I was lucky enough to run across the latest run of Starships in conjunction with Solo: A Star Wars Story. Honestly I wasn’t expecting a whole lot, though I have seen a new Star Wars “tribute” series of 1:64 cars that I thought might pop up. But now we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone late Friday night / early Saturday morning I walked into Walmart. I knew these were coming a couple of weeks ago as per Mattel’s website and though I had every intention of writing a piece on them, time got away from me. I’ll post an update once I get this (and any possible future) articles all fancied up with pics! Thanks! So in lieu of waiting around for my computer issues, I’m publishing this anyway. I use a separate computer for my photo editing and I don’t have reasonable access to it at the moment. Important Note: I apologize for the lack of original images in this article.
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