{"id":47371,"date":"2026-10-31T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=47371"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:07:17","slug":"black-series-halloween-edition-2026-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/10\/black-series-halloween-edition-2026-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Series Halloween Edition 2026 packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Star Wars Black Series<\/i> \"Halloween Edition\" figures began in 2022, when Hasbro was <a href=\"\/yo\/art\/swbshwe22ctvp8.jpg\">still using plastic-free packaging<\/a>. 2023 had no releases, and by the time 2024 came around, plastic windows were back, but the graphic design remained mostly the same. This year, however, there's been a fairly drastic change.<\/p>\n<p>We still get the purple backdrop with black icons on it, and still get the orange stripe near the bottom. But instead of a straightforward, head-on image of the character on the side, we get cool drawings of them, making it easy to tell even with a glance at the pegs who's in the box. All three of them share space on the top flap, as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/swbshwe26box1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/swbshwe26box1-300x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a larger look at the art, the back of the box has that same portrait, but larger and with more of it visible, including a little bit of detail in the backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/swbshwe26box2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/swbshwe26box2-300x118.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"At last, you can safely eat Legos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/at-last-you-can-safely-eat-legos\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">At last, you can safely eat Legos<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Brilliant Star Wars display\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/brilliant-star-wars-display\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Brilliant Star Wars display<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Well that's just inappropriate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/well-thats-just-inappropriate\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Well that's just inappropriate<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"SDCC 2011 - Day 1, Thursday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/sdcc-2011-day-1-thursday\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SDCC 2011 - Day 1, Thursday<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #122\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-122\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #122<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Wars Black Series \"Halloween Edition\" figures began in 2022, when Hasbro was still using plastic-free packaging. 2023 had no releases, and by the time 2024 came around, plastic windows were back, but the graphic design remained mostly the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/10\/black-series-halloween-edition-2026-packaging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8],"tags":[26,179],"class_list":["post-47371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-hasbro","tag-star-wars","tag-universal-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47376,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47371\/revisions\/47376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}