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Hasbro Answers Star Wars Nerd Questions Round 51

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

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Another week, another round of Star Wars Nerd Questions! To be honest, there weren’t a whole lot of questions that were that exciting or super nerdy. There’s some decent stuff in here so you shouldn’t be too disappointed if you choose to click on the more button. Man, I’m a terrible self promoter.

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The Totally Awesome Millenium Falcon Is Real!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

The toy that made collectors balls’ blow off in awe a few weeks ago has been officially confirmed by Hasbro in their latest Q&A section. (Don’t worry, I’m working on collecting the questions for my usual round of Star Wars Nerd Questions.) Here’s a new picture of the Millennium Falcon to help satiate your lust for what could qualify as one of the greatest toys ever:

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Why did Hasbro try to keep it a secret for so long? The answer is simple, they wanted to have the reveal in a super spectacular manner. With a toy so cool they thought it would be best to blow our minds when we least expected it. They still plan on having some sort of big reveal to those outside of the toy world, namely a prominent story in an upcoming Wired magazine, but since the cat’s already out of the bag they figured they might as well confirm it now. Their official response follows the break if you want to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth:

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Custom Figure Corner: Star Wars WWII Style

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I’m not huge into custom figures, but there is the occasional one that gives me pause. Very rarely do I pop a nut over one, but seeing extremely well done Star Wars customs made in a World War II flavor is worth saying, “Holy balls!” over. These photos emerged last week and since I was in a state of hallucinations brought about by Scarlet Fever, I wasn’t able to enjoy them, so I’m posting a couple of my favorites here if you haven’t seen them yet and as filler. Hey, at least I’m honest.

Chewbacca

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Apparently if Chewbacca was in World War II he’d start wearing clothes therby answering our burning question, “What does Chewbacca look like with pants on?” At least that’s the question that got me thrown out of a Star Wars convention. What really stands out for me with this Chewbacca is the gun. I just love how the detail was put into it to make it look like a crossbow, even though it’s machine gun that looks like it would exist in the ’40s.

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Clone Watch: German Clones?

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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If you didn’t happen to go to the latest Star Wars convention in Germany (the appropriately named Jedi-con), then you most certainly missed out on the exclusive two pack of clones that were at the show. The figures are Shadow Troopers that are packaged much like the Target exclusive Order 66 packs.

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Another Millennium Falcon Pic

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Another picture of the Millennium Falcon has emerged on Galactic Hunter.com. Here’s the super small version, but you must go on their site and super size it for all the fantastic details:

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Hasbro’s Big Arse Millennium Falcon First Look

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

If you grew up in the late seventies to mid-eighties there’s a pretty good chance you remember running around your house with a big plastic Millennium Falcon in your arms while you did your best to mimic the sounds of space flight heard in the Star Wars films.

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The toy company that made that classic Millennium Falcon had done such a great job that it’s been remade with only slight alterations off and on up to the present day by the company that now makes Star Wars figures, Hasbro. Lately though, there’s been rumors that Hasbro has had a new Millennium Falcon in the works. As much as the vintage Falcon worked with it’s myriad of features, it is simply too small to please adult collectors i.e. huge nerds like me. This new Falcon promises to be much bigger and better and if the image found on Galactic Hunter.com* is any indication, bigger is definitely better:

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This Falcon looks like it can fit four figures in the cockpit, something that Star Wars fans have been wanting for decades. It also features new and improved interiors, missiles in the front, and a more movie accurate cannon on the top. Judging by the size of the seat there and the fact that most Star Wars figures are around 3 1/4″ inches tall, you can make your own guess on how huge this set might be. There’s also no indication so far that the back opens up, but if it does this set would be every Star Wars toy collector’s dream come true. There’s no word on price, either but judging on other large Star Wars releases in the recent past I’d say it’s well into the 150 plus range.

As exciting as this image is, Hasbro hasn’t officially confirmed that this image is 100% legit. Galactic Hunter says they got it from a trusted source, so only time will tell.

*If you go there click on the pic to get any even higher resolution.

Thanks to: Poe Ghostal of Poe Ghostal’s POA for the heads up.

Hasbro Answers Star Wars Nerd Questions Round 50

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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I’ll be honest. The last round kind of sucked. Everyone let off on the nerd gas pedal, but this week there’s a few uber-geeks that decided to floor it. There’s also some great questions that have some informative answers, but let’s be honest. We’re only here for the cringe inducing questions.

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Hasbro Answers Star Wars Nerd Questions Round 50

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

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Here we are again! This time we’re on round fifty and I’m sad to say that a lot of the questions have been toned down in nerdiness by at least two or three notches. Still, if you like Star Wars there are some pretty decent bits of info that came out of this round so read on, my friends!

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Darth Vader Gets a Phone Call

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Last week while working on the Hasbro Answers Nerd Questions I discovered that there was some sort of exclusive SDCC set involving Darth Vader communicating with a holigraphic Emperor head from a scene in The Empire Strikes Back, which Yo Go Re of OAFE.net called, “Darth Vader Gets A Phone Call” and I’ll use from now on. The image of the set is now available so we can all get a good idea of what this thing is (click on it to make it larger):

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Hasbro Answers Star Wars Nerd Questions Round 49

Monday, March 17th, 2008

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It’s hard to believe that the next round of Star Wars Nerd questions is here. Really. It only seems like yesterday that we were assaulted by massive social retardation and yet here we are again. This round was particularly interesting because it seems like most sites pumped up their nerdery by a factor of ten. Are they competing for the coveted Ultra Geeky AwardTM? Most likely not, because no one has sent me an angry email over it yet. Let’s see how long I can go before it all blows up!

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Hasbro Answers Star Wars Nerd Questions 48

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

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Nerd question time again, peeps! Even if you don’t like Star Wars toys you really should give this feature a read. It will teach you a thing or two about nerdom and the more you know, the more you’ll be prepared for the post apocalyptic nerd wars.

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Custom Star Wars Shelves

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I’ve been thinking of ways to display figures factoring in my limited space considerations. I ran across a site called The New Sand Crawler Workshop.com where they make shelving units that serve as dioramas for Star Wars figures. It’s some neat stuff, considering it’s all made of wood.

If you search around the site a bit you’ll see some rather simple (but still cool looking) dioramas like this one that’s based on Empire Strikes Back:

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The sets get more elaborate from there. Here’s an example of another Empire Strikes Back shelf that looks fantastic:

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One Cool Custom Lego Gunship

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

In my recent post about the new Lego Gunship, reader XeQUae made mention that he had two of the old (and ultra valuable) Lego Gunships and he modified it so it can be an AT-TE carrier like in the one of the best scenes in the entirety of Attack of the Clones.

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Lego Gunship Revisited and Other Lego Offerings

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Thanks to our fine friends at Wizard Universe.com (and a chap named Zach Oat), I got some Star Wars lego info from that very fine website. The biggest (news for me at least) is that the Lego Gunship will make a return.

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Star Wars at Toy Fair 2008: The Clone Free Edition Part 2

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Here’s the final and third part of the Toy Fair Star Wars coverage. Thank god.

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There are scheduled to be a minimum of 23 Clone Wars figures dropping in 2008. Collectors will might note that some of the figures will sport some sort of gimmicky action feature. If you take a look at that horrible arm on Yoda, you’ll know what I mean.

Obi-Wan Clone Armor

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Here’s the animated version of Mr. Wan in his clonified armor. Nice.

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