High Resolution Images from Upcoming Waves

The collecting site Jedi Insider, referenced here numerous times before, has a veritable jungle of new high resolution images from all things Star Wars. Below are the Clone Trooper images. Head on over to Jedi Insider for much, much more!

The Legacy Collection: Wave 3

The Clone Wars: Wave 2

The Legacy Collection: Wave 4

Those are some pretty sweet looking figures. I definitely like the Phase 1 Cody and Oddball. The above photos are from Jedi Insider. Those below are compliments of Galactic Hunter. Send some traffic their way as well.

The Legacy Collection: Wave 4

The Legacy Collection: Battle Packs

Captain Rex Has Arrived ... Finally!

The Clone Wars "preview" figure of the clean version of Captain Rex has arrived - 3 days after the debut of the entire line. You could obtain this figure through a mail-away offer. You had to send 4 UPCs from the 30th Anniversary Collection figures plus a check for $6.99 and you'd receive this exclusive preview figure prior to the debut of the new line. Except that didn't happen. In May the distributors sent out a postcard stating that there had been a manufacturing delay and that the figure would not arrive until July. That gave them almost 4 weeks to ship them out prior to the launch of the new lines. A few people received their figure on July 24th or 25th. Most will receive it over the next 2 or 3 weeks. Ball officially dropped. Here are some pictures of the preview Rex I received...

The box Captain Rex arrives in.

Removal of Rex from the box.

The preview Captain Rex figure is clean, where as the one at retail sports a dirty/damaged look.

And here is the card back. Besides the changes in the appearance of his armor, Preview Rex's box folds down into a 3-D display, a la the Darktrooper and Spacetrooper from POTF2.

The Preview Captain Rex has been added to my TCW page. In addition, I have edited and opened my Comics and Books pages. Enjoy!

Deep Breaths...

UPDATE: Per gbfans.com, Activision Public Relations Manager Maclean Marshall has stated, "First and foremost, the game is absolutely not canceled. The company (Activision) is reviewing its options regarding those titles that it will not be publishing.

So Activision is indeed dumping Ghostbusters but it has not been canceled. The game will more than likely be delayed but hopefully someone out there steps up and grabs the distribution agreement soon, so the game still makes its way to consoles this fall or early winter. Please?


Word on the wide world of the Internet is that Ghostbusters: The Video Game may be at risk for delay or, at worst, cancellation. Recently Activision Blizzard took over Sierra and the game will now be published by them... maybe. Recent announcements from Activision have left Ghostbusters in limbo. They were not mentioned specifically as one of the games that would remain on Activision's plate. Activision plans to keep Spyro, Crash, Ice Age, and Prototype, as well as a 5th franchise not yet named. Could the 5th franchise be Ghostbusters? Possibly, but no word yet. This has caused (dogs and cats, living together) MASS HYSTERIA on the 'net. Some stories have been premature and announcing that the game has been, indeed, canceled. This is false. Noone has stated that this has happened. And it most likely won't. The game is too far a long and this game has franchise power behind it. People have been waiting for this game for almost 2 decades!

Vivendi will not comment. GamePro says it is canceled (not true, yet). As does CustomPC. Vooks is sticking with the "Activision not publishing it" story. Ditto for Boomtown. Destructoid has a quote from a Sierra PR representative stating "It is not cancelled and will not be cancelled."

Let's hope this indeed is not true. Even if Activision will not publish anymore, rumors have Sony finding someone else. And fast. The Ghostbusters name and franchise is huge and well-known. As long as it doesn't get canceled, it will be released.

For more information head on over to Proton Charging, Ghostbusters.net, or gbfans.com.

Comic-Con Exclusives Available

For those people that were unable to attend the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con (like me), exclusives from Star Wars Shop and Hasbro Toy Shop are now on their respective sites. Head on over to shop.starwars.com to grab the Clone Trooper Senate Security exclusive figure. Then go right to hasbrotoyshop.com for the Commander Gree Mighty Mugg and the Disturbance in the Force exclusives. Supplies are limited! Act fast!

There have been a slew of updates to my collection pages again. I corrected a few images that had been misrepresented as well as adding more placeholders for items I have obtained - but have yet to photograph - over the past few months. Expect pictures of them a week from tomorrow. Also, I published 3 new pages for your viewing pleasure: Star Wars Transformers, Trooper Variants, and Non-Trooper Figures.

The Star Wars Motherload

Today is the day. And things couldn't have gone any better than they did. I woke up at 7:25 in order to be a Target for their opening at 8am. Kelly and I pulled into the parking lot at about 7:50am. There were a few other customers waiting in cars in the parking lot. This made me a bit nervous. At about 7:56am Target opened their doors. Kelly and I walked backed to the toy section behind 2 people. This made me even more nervous. I turned the corner and saw 2 endcaps with Clone Wars goodies. One of the customers in front of me peeled off for the matchbox cars. Phew. However the other customer was going to the same area as me. Kelly and I go to one endcap and I started grabbing the figures I wanted. This endcap had a mixture of The Clone Wars and The Legacy Collection figures as well as some roleplaying items and a Millennium Falcon. I snatched that Falcon - the only one in the store - as well as the Target exclusive Commander Fox. After the endcaps Kelly and I rounded the corner into the aisles and continued to find the figures I was searching for. The bottom shelf had 2 AT-TEs and I grabbed one. Between the endcaps and the aisle I was able to locate 10 of the figures I wanted. From The Clone Wars: Target Exclusive Commander Fox, Obi-Wan Kenobi with Generals Armor, Obi-Wan Kenobi with Generals Armor (1st Day of Issue variant), Clone Trooper, Captain Rex, and Captain Rex (1st Day of Issue variant). From The Legacy Collection: Saga Legends Clone Trooper, Greatest Hits Commander Gree (1st Day of Issue variant), Greatest Hits Kashyyyk Trooper (1st Day of Issue variant), and a Greatest Hits Imperial EVO Trooper (1st Day of Issue variant). Sprinkled in with the figures and large vehicles were the Clone Trooper Voice Changer Helmet, Clone Trooper and Stormtrooper Blasters, and the $19.99 vehicles: AT-AP Walker, V-19 Torrent, V-wing Starfighter, all of which I picked up. After the Target haul there wasn't much left to get but I still planned to go to Wal-Mart and Toys R Us.


At Wal-Mart they had pallets of Millennium Falcons and AT-TEs. At least 10 of each. Back in the aisle I found the remaining figures and variants I wanted. From The Clone Wars: Clone Trooper (1st Day of Issue variant) and the Imperial Pilot Legacy Evolutions pack. From The Legacy Collection: Greatest Hits Commander Gree, Greatest Hits Kashyyyk Trooper, Greatest Hits Imperial EVO Trooper, Clone SCUBA Trooper, Clone Trooper with Quad Cannon, and an Obi-Wan Kenobi with Generals Armor. And that was everything I wanted!!!



But of course I went to Toys R Us anyway. Kelly and I pulled in their just a few minutes before 9am, when they opened. We entered the store and the front aisle was somewhat decorated for The Clone Wars. I say somewhat because the employees were still decorating and unpacking everything. They knew this was coming for close to 5 weeks and they weren't prepared. Fail. Luckily I had already purchased all that I wanted so it wasn't as big a deal. There was another gentleman there going through everything the employees put out as soon as it hit the pegs. Try Target and Wal-Mart, buddy! Overall it was a successful and spectacular morning.



In accordance with the new items I have updated my TCW and TLC pages. Check out all of my new stuff!!!

Target Prepares Their Shelves

Today is Thursday, which means I got off work early and went on a toy run. The pickings have been slim these last few weeks since the retail stores have not been restocking in anticipation for Saturday. Target has had their Star Wars items on clearance now for the past 2 weeks. Today when I went to Wal-Mart and Target, I noticed some changes to the toy aisles. At Wal-Mart, my first stop, they had removed a smaller section of Star Wars figures all together. Back at the larger area of Star Wars items there were absolutely no basic figures to be found. However, they had a bunch of comic packs that were spread out over 7 or 8 pegs. This is presumably to save the area for the new collections due out Saturday. I also noticed on the bottom shelf a Clone Wars item that was not supposed to be available until this weekend: the ultimate lightsaber kit. Unfortunately I forgot to snap a picture of it. It was the only item that breached the street date. You could tell Wal-Mart was getting ready to reload.

My next stop was at Target. I went back to the toy aisles and walked to the normal spot for Star Wars items and there was nothing! I quickly turned around and realized that the open space at the beginning of the aisle had a few Star Wars items such as transformers and The Force Unleashed lightsabers. But that didn't explain all the empty pegs and a bright red sign in the middle of the section. I walked over to it and noticed that all the pegs were labeled for the Clone Wars and Legacy Collection figures! The sign stated that the store was preparing for a new display. I snapped a few pictures for the world to see.

Target sign basically announcing that new stuff is coming!

Clone Wars basic figure price. Yuck. $7.99 is gettin' a wee bit expensive.

Sweeeeet! Come to my mouth ice cream!

Saturday morning is so close! New Star Wars things here I come!

Something, Something, Something Dark Side

The title card from the second Family Guy Star Wars parody.

The crew at Family Guy sure do love Star Wars, don't they? After last years hit, "Blue Harvest", the FOX comedy is ready for part two (or is that Part V?). While widely rumored since the debut of "Blue Harvest", a parody on Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back will definitely be aired in the coming television year. Seth McFarlane says that the script for the episode, thoughtfully titled "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side", has been complete for a few months now. There is even a small preview for the second installment on the Blue Harvest DVD released in January. Some of the noteworthy additions to "Something..." will be Ernie the Giant Chicken as Boba Fett and Ollie Williams as Lando Calrissian. Fun stuff. Now word yet on when this show will air but it is possible that it may not be until May 2009, as indicated by this episode list on the episodes Wikipedia page. They are sorted by episode number. Episodes routinely air out of order but you can see that "Something..." is the last one listed.

For those of you wondering where they got this title, it is actually from a joke in a previous Family Guy episode from season 5 known as "Barely Legal". In the episode there is a tangent association (surprise, surprise) with the Emperor and how he can make anything sound evil by adding 'dark side' or 'complete' to the sentence.