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Episode 321: Let’s Get Ready To Holiday!

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They say Christmas gets earlier and earlier every year, but now the holiday creep has aftershocks! Hit your local stores and the Christmas items are out in full force barely two weeks into November, and on this week’s Star Wars Action News, Marjorie and Arnie run down the Star Wars holiday gifts you can find at your local retail outlets, including Christmas ornaments, candy dispensers, candy canes, and more!

Also on this week’s show, Brian’s Toys “One of Every Figure” Club recently shipped it’s Star Wars Vintage Collection Wave 8 figures, and Marjorie and Arnie review the figures in this wave, as well as the specials on Gentle Giant Jumbo Figures at BriansToys.com

With a contest to win a Star Wars LEGO Advent Calendar from BackstageToys.com and a review of the new Star Wars novel Riptide, it’s all on this week’s Star Wars Action News podcast!

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Episode 320: Land Speeder Record

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As Star Wars toy collectors know, right now at Target are two new items that are sure to take Gen X-ers back to their childhood–an Empire Strikes Back Tauntaun in vintage packaging, and Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder in vintage packaging recalling the packaging from the 1978 original. On this week’s Star Wars Action News podcast, Jerry takes the landspeeder up to 88 miles per hour and travels back in time to look at the actual vintage Kenner Landspeeder, and compare it with Target’s current exclusive release and all the Landspeeder releases in between!

Also at Target, in the trading card aisle, a new Star Wars item has slowly been pulling in Star Wars collectors, and metal shavings–Star Wars Power Plates, tin magnets shaped like license plates from the Star Wars universe. On this week’s Star Wars Action News podcast, Marjorie and Arnie review a few of these blind-packaged plates.

Also on this week’s podcast, Marjorie and Arnie discuss new exclusives and Revenge of the Jedi figures hitting stores, and play your voicemails to share what you’re finding. Steve, the Gingerprince, reports in from the Entertainment Media Show in the UK, and Nathan continues his look back at Hasbro’s beloved Comic 2-Packs.

With information on how to win a set of Star Wars soaps, information on the Star Wars Action News listener gift exchange, and more, it’s all on this week’s Star Wars Action News podcast!

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Episode 319: Hero Tauntaun

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Vintage, Clone Wars, battle packs, new toys seem to be hitting not just in the USA but worldwide! Inspired by these reports, Star Wars Action News hosts Arnie and Marjorie went to a large number of stores. Did they strike figure gold? Listen to this week’s episode to hear their report, as well as store reports from The Gingerprince in the UK, and listeners from the USA and Australia.

Also this week, Star Wars Action News podcast enhancer Berent comes clean with an interview with Luxury Lane Soap, makers of several Star Wars soap bars including the Han Solo in Carbonite. Listen to find out how they make these soaps, what their future plans are, and how you can win a full set of Star wars soaps!

With garage sale Star Wars hints, a run down of Sideshow’s Spooktacular and Gentle Giant’s Terrorific sales, and a reflection on the Hasbro Fan’s Choice vote, it’s all this week on the Star Wars Action News podcast!

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Episode 318: This Year’s Top 20 Most Wanted Figures

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Dan and Jerry are back and they kick things off with a lunch-time store run. Jerry finds and reviews the Target exclusive Tauntaun set, “The Search for Luke Skywalker.” But, the big news this week was the announcement of the 20 characters eligible to be the 2013 Fan’s Choice figure. Did your favorite figure make the list? Listen and find out. Also, Dan and Jerry offer their “certain point of view” on which ones you may want to save your vote for. All that and a run-down of the Legendary Scale Darth Maul that Sideshow put up for order this week! Listen and see what you think about Dan and Jerry’s picks!

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Episode 317: NYCC 2011 Coverage

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New York Comic Con is one of the fastest growing sci-fi and comic conventions in the country. Run by ReedPop, the convention organizers behind Chicago’s C2E2 and Star Wars Celebrations 5 and 6, this year they attracted a major Star Wars presence, with Hasbro making their first official New York Comic Con appearance, as well as Hallmark who brought along another Keepsake Ornament exclusive!

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Episode 315: A Comical Story

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Star Wars collectors know the feeling of completing a set. Be it a full set of Power of the Force 2 figures, a full set of Sci-Fi Book Club hardcover novels, a full set of West End Games Role Playing guides, or the full 92 vintage figures, these journeys can be long, or can be as quick as the right eBay auction. On this week’s Star Wars Action News, Arnie tells how one of his collecting holy grail quests was accomplished as a birthday gift for Marjorie. Listen to find out what vintage collection it is!

Also on this week’s show, Brock joins us for two book reviews: Fate of the Jedi – Ascension by Christie Golden, and the 25th Anniversary Edition of Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire! And Marjorie and Arnie review the Toys R Us exclusive Death Star Trench Run vehicle pack, and tell you where the best deal on Vintage figures is this week.

With the Top 10 figures submitted to Hasbro based on listener votes, the winner of the Wal-Mart exclusive Blu-Ray Boba Fett poster, and more, it’s all on this week’s Star Wars Action News podcast!

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Episode 314: Blu and You

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Have you read the headline? The Star Wars Blu-Rays are the best-selling Blu Rays of all time! Did you buy the set? This week on Star Wars Action News’ podcast, Marjorie and Arnie break down what the sales of the Star Wars Blu Rays mean for Star Wars and the future of home video in general.

Also, on last week’s Star Wars Action News Marjorie and Arnie gave a detailed review of the Star Wars Blu-Ray release, and now it’s time for the listeners to give their thoughts on the biggest Star Wars collectible of the year. From Star Wars fans who passed on the release to fans blown away by the quality of the sights and sounds, hear the thoughts of the Star Wars community on the Blu-Ray release on this week’s podcast!

With discussion of popcorn tins, Pringles cans, and cereal boxes, plus a chance for you to win a Wal-Mart exclusive Blu-Ray Boba Fett poster, it’s all on this week’s podcast!

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UPDATE: TVC Old Stock Purge?

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We received word from our friend Chris “HothIcePlanet” that Target is planning to facilitate the restocking of their Vintage Collection by purging select figures, mostly from waves 1 and 2, from their pegs. Hopefully this will clear the distribution log jam and get new product to the pegs.

For more on this, you can listen to Chris on The Sarlacc Pit Podcast over on GalacticBinder later this week.

UPDATE: Our friends at Jedi Temple Archives are reporting a similar action at Walmart. Head on over for their report.

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Episode 313: Blu Harvest

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First there were the rumors. Then we had the announcement. Details trickled out for months. Now they’re here–The Star Wars Blu Rays. Met with responses from “Noooooo” to “Who Cares?” to unbridled dancing around like an Ewok, this series is both the first high-definition release of the Star Wars films as well as another iteration of Lucasfilm’s tinkering.

On this week’s Star Wars Action News podcast, Marjorie and Arnie break down the release, from Wal-Mart midnight releases met with mixed success to Target’s limited lithographs, they run down the first-day buy, review the Blu Ray set, and discuss the overall importance of this release both to Star Wars as well as home media entertainment worldwide. All on this week’s Star Wars Action Blu’s!

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Episode 312: Blu Horizon

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Jerry and Dan are back with some help from another member of Republic Forces Radio Network… Jen! The saga on Blu Ray is on the near horizon! Well for some of us it’s already here! But that’s later in the show…

And what a show we have for you this week! We’ve got a rundown on all the offers that stores will be using to try to tempt you into buying your copy of the Blu Rays from them! We’ve have lots of Store finds, Online finds, news about NYCC, and a Hasbro Q&A!

Think we’re done? No way! Our own Steve the Ginger Prince was one of the lucky folks to get a copy of the Blu Rays early! Be sure to catch his first look into all the goodies!

All this and more on this week’s Star Wars Action News!

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