I think there's manuvering fins or something for the Hounds Tooth yet to be shown as well

Raider is missing quite a bit.

I'm betting next spoil will be scum huge or an aces pack

My bet is that those won't be announced until we have either the Raider or Wave 7 in our stores.

We also know that FFG makes products well in advance so with the new trilogy films starting up this December we can be certain that related toys are being worked on right now.

I'd say it's the other way around. FFG takes about 18 months to complete a Wave of X-Wing, and they have _not_ seen the movies, and do _not_ know what cool things are going to be coming from the movies. Therefore they won't be adding anything to X-Wing from episode 7 for at least another year or so.

However, I wouldn't be surprised to see something from Rebels make its way into this game in Wave 8. I'm honestly not 100% sure what that might be, as the Ghost and Gozanti are too big, the Phantom on its own would be weird, the Tie Fighter and A-Wings are already in the game, and the Inquisitor's Tie Advanced Prototype would require some... interesting tuning to make different enough to bother with.

Nevertheless, I'd like to be wrong about everything I've said above.

I expect a final Raider preview at some point, including Titles, dial, and the Mouse Droid crew.

We also know that FFG makes products well in advance so with the new trilogy films starting up this December we can be certain that related toys are being worked on right now.

I'd say it's the other way around. FFG takes about 18 months to complete a Wave of X-Wing, and they have _not_ seen the movies, and do _not_ know what cool things are going to be coming from the movies. Therefore they won't be adding anything to X-Wing from episode 7 for at least another year or so.However, I wouldn't be surprised to see something from Rebels make its way into this game in Wave 8. I'm honestly not 100% sure what that might be, as the Ghost and Gozanti are too big, the Phantom on its own would be weird, the Tie Fighter and A-Wings are already in the game, and the Inquisitor's Tie Advanced Prototype would require some... interesting tuning to make different enough to bother with.Nevertheless, I'd like to be wrong about everything I've said above.

I think your off in your time frame. If FFG has licensing wrapped up you can bet they already have info on Episode 7. Because of the lead time to design the ships, cut the molds or the masters for the molds, printing and assembling the expansions, they've been working on this for several months at least. If Ep 7 ships wont be released for a year they will have missed a big chunk of impulse sales. I think shooting was finished about a year ago and went into post production for special effects. It's possible that they've had drawings, photos and cad files for the better part of a year. We might see ships from Episode 7 before the movie leaves the theaters. That's optimistic but possible. It also might explain why reprints have taken so long to be restocked. Ep 7 stuff has been interspersed with the normal reprint cycles.

I fully expect some sort of champions article.

FFg has tended to spoil a new wave quite rapidly and then let us drift in limbo a bit.

Sure, I would love to hear more about wave 8 or an aces pack, I just don't expect it to happen this Monday.

I do expect them to know more about Episode VII and with the Marketing Machine that is Disney I don expect them to wait 6 months after movie-release to produce Episode VII gaming material.

I could use another X-wing...

I've no idea how much Ep VII stuff FFG has. There's clearly been select info passed to merchandise manufacturers well in advance looking at the stuff coming out. I'd imagine FFG is a fairly small player from Disney point of view so who owns how much they get? Could be enough to have their own prototypes being worked on, could be not a whole lot.

I want me a T-70 X-Wing that hopefully doesn't melt the first time it's looked at as soon as possible please!

It really depends on how much priority LFL puts FFG. But, LFL did force TPM content into SWCCG, with the stuff in the Tatooine expansion based on incomplete info, as LFL did not send a full script, only base information on some characters. And that didn't come out until 2 years after the movie.

We also know that FFG makes products well in advance so with the new trilogy films starting up this December we can be certain that related toys are being worked on right now.

I'd say it's the other way around. FFG takes about 18 months to complete a Wave of X-Wing, and they have _not_ seen the movies, and do _not_ know what cool things are going to be coming from the movies. Therefore they won't be adding anything to X-Wing from episode 7 for at least another year or so.However, I wouldn't be surprised to see something from Rebels make its way into this game in Wave 8. I'm honestly not 100% sure what that might be, as the Ghost and Gozanti are too big, the Phantom on its own would be weird, the Tie Fighter and A-Wings are already in the game, and the Inquisitor's Tie Advanced Prototype would require some... interesting tuning to make different enough to bother with.Nevertheless, I'd like to be wrong about everything I've said above.

I think your off in your time frame. If FFG has licensing wrapped up you can bet they already have info on Episode 7. Because of the lead time to design the ships, cut the molds or the masters for the molds, printing and assembling the expansions, they've been working on this for several months at least. If Ep 7 ships wont be released for a year they will have missed a big chunk of impulse sales. I think shooting was finished about a year ago and went into post production for special effects. It's possible that they've had drawings, photos and cad files for the better part of a year. We might see ships from Episode 7 before the movie leaves the theaters. That's optimistic but possible. It also might explain why reprints have taken so long to be restocked. Ep 7 stuff has been interspersed with the normal reprint cycles.

FFG would be brilliant to time their Wave 8 ship release around the Christmas release of the movie. Release new core sets with the new X-wing and TIE as ep VII tie-ins and they'll not only make a killing in the holiday season, they bring in a bunch of new X-wing players.