Last week, Mr. Anne, the toy buyer for Walgreens, the man responsible for all the awesome new exclusive action figures that we have been seeing (and waiting to see) at Walgreen’s Pharmacies, took to twitter to give hope to frustrated fans looking for the recently released 6″ Star Wars Black Prototype (white) Boba Fett figure:

For folks having a tough time finding Proto Boba – We are sending a straight case of 8 to over 5,000 stores starting in November.

— Steven Anne (@stevenganne) September 19, 2014

So that’s good news, right?   It’s certainly good news for those folks still on the hunt for the white Fett… but the other side of that coin is that Walgreens has also been the first store getting in shipments of the Star Wars Black wave 4 (Darth Vader, Jedi Luke and Chewbacca).   They were shipping with the white Fett.

For those of us that are surrounded by stores that are still choking on SWB wave 2 (Han, Greedo and Slave Leia) Walgreens was the only glimer of hope for finding that new wave, so if the SWB cases switch to straight white Fetts then we might be out of luck, depending on how Walgreen restock system works.

But of course we are talking about over a month from now and a lot can happen between now and then, so I guess I’m going to stay positive and keep hitting my local Walgreens store looking for new Star Wars Black figures!   Overall it’s good news that Walgreens has stepped up to become a player in the collector toy market and that they are listening to the fans and trying to accommodate everyone getting what they are looking for.