SDCC Carbonite Chamber is back in stock at HasbroToyShop.com
UPDATE: Gone again
Category Archives: Collecting News
Sponsor News: Entertainment Earth Sale
Entertainment Earth is having a Star Wars Sale! Simply purchase one item at regular price and get the second for 25% off*!
*Exclusions apply
Yakface/SWAN Fan Party Shirt Revealed
Here it is! This one-of-a-kind shirt, designed and illustrated by CVI artist Mark McKenna, will be GIVEN to each attendee of our Fan Party on Thursday night! Get your tickets at SWActionNews.com
Star Wars Celebration VI Collecting Track
The Star Wars Collecting Track is better than ever at Star Wars Celebration VI with the addition of the Collector’s Social Area!
Organized by Marjorie and Arnie of the Star Wars Action News podcast, the Social Area gives Star Wars collectors the opportunity to network with other Star Wars collectors, learn more about the collecting hobby, and get autographs from authors of books on collecting.
The Social Area will feature collectible roundtable discussions led by collecting experts from across the globe. You can meet other collectors from your area and join a collecting club! Listen to live podcasts about Star Wars collecting from Star Wars Action News, the ‘Chive Cast, and This Week in Star Wars! Meet the owners of some of the most popular collecting websites, and more!
Plus, on Friday night in the Social Area, the underground hotel sales come to you with the Star Wars Collectible Swap Meet! Held in the Social Area, bring some of your Star Wars items to trade! Find the one figure needed to complete your collection, or that one-of-a-kind item you can’t live without.
Stay tuned for a full schedule of events, and be sure to stop by the Collector’s Social Area, room W304.
CurtoBurns Collector Cast: Ep. 3
We couldn’t let San Diego Comic Con go by without some analysis and discussion and we’re joined by our good friend, and co-author of Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection, Paul Harrison from Jedi Temple Archives. We also catch up with show regular Steve Sansweet who finally reveals the details of what he’s going to be doing at Star Wars Celebration VI at the recently announced Rancho Obi-Wan Experience. Steve also reveals who else will be joining him at the Experience too. Justin LaSalata updates us on the latest Celebration VI exclusives revealed since our last show.
It’s another not-to-be-missed episode of the Curto Burns Collectors Cast!
Subscribe for free through iTunes or download at CurtoBurns.com
Gentle Giant Exclusives Now Available
Gentle Giant is now offering their 2012 convention exclusive to the general public! Take the links below before they sell out! Thanks to our friends at Star Wars Action News for the tip!
Episode 355: Cast & Crew
Gus Lopez and Duncan Jenkins’ first two books on Star Wars collectibles have been comprehensive, fact-filled tomes about Star Wars collectibles, both mass market and prototypes. But for their third book, they go even more rare, looking at collectible items only made available to the cast and crew of the Star Wars films and TV shows. On this week’s Star Wars Action News, Duncan and Gus join Arnie and Marjorie to talk about the new book, and give tips on how you can obtain cast and crew items in your own collection!
Also this week, Marjorie and Arnie bring you BREAKING NEWS on what may be the single most limited collectible at Celebration VI!
With reflections on another San Diego Comic-Con International gone by, online availability of the Carbon Freeze exclusive set from Hasbro, and your voicemails, it’s all this and more on this week’s Star Wars Action News podcast!
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CVI Exclusive Astromech Banks from DST
Our friends at Star Wars Action News have posted news on two CVI exclusives coming from Diamond Select. Head on over to the Venganza Media Gazette for the details on the R2-R9 (first offered at SDCC) and the CVI exclusive R2-Q5 Astromech banks!
Yakface/SWAN CVI Party Shirt Almost Revealed
The puzzle revealing our shirt handed out to Yakface/SWAN CVI Fan Party attendees is almost complete! Get your tickets as we’re getting only one month away from Celebration VI!
New Lego Sets Hitting TRU
Hasbro’s distribution continues to lag behind market expectations, but LEGO still seems to have things figured out, as forum member drod26 recently found the new Jabba’s Palace set at his local Toys”R”us store.
Click on the image above for a closer look.