A few days ago
an image of the third figure to the modular line up, that includes
40268 R3-M2 and
40176 Scarif Stormtooper, surprised the LEGO community.
And now Rebelscum has a photo of the loose minfig to share.
Initial speculation on distribution concentrated on a May 4th promotion but
Zusammengebaut.com - and a few other European LEGO blogs - have received an official communiqué that the promotion will start on January 1st. There's no info on the trigger mechanism, nor how widespread the promotion will be but judging that the news is being disemminated by LEGO-approved sites in Europe it's fair to say that it will initially be concretrated in this region first.