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Fan Sites Unite at Celebration VI in the Star Wars Collectors Social Area

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When Star Wars collectors want to find out about the latest and greatest toys, statues, and prop replicas hitting retail, the primary sources of news and reviews are not corporate owned web sites, but sites run by Star Wars fans for Star Wars fans.

While one might expect competition among the various sites, each trying to scoop the other, the truth is the owners and reporters from many sites are friends who see each other annually at conventions, Toy Fair International, and of course Star Wars Celebrations.

Now at Star Wars Celebration VI, six of these fan-created web sites have joined together to bring an exciting new collectible available in the Star Wars Collecting Track Social Area!

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Contests/Giveaways, Customizing, Events/Livestreams, Site News

SWTOR Customizing Tribute Roundup Report

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As many of our readers sadly remember, the Star Wars fan community lost one of its most spirited customizers last July, Mike Martinez, known around the forums as Mercuryartstudios.

In his honor, three fan sites came together to realize a customizing contest that he had been working on, and the participation was amazing.  We would like to thank the customizing community for such a strong showing in this multi-site customizing tribute to our friend that we miss so much.  The theme was anything related to SWTOR, and entries could be fan fiction, etc. but did need to include three figures.  It was basically a “loose interpretation” of an Evolutions theme from SWTOR.

The event has now come to a close, and we have a Roundup Report showing off all 60 customs made for this, as well, as some random winners, and a grand prize winner who is walking away with a very cool Star Wars collectible.

Check out the Roundup Report, and enjoy all the cool customs by clicking on the image above!

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Suggestions for Hasbro!

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Remember when the Legends lines were fun and Hasbro found a way to appeal to both collectors and kids?  When we actually looked forward to walking into the toy aisle?

Collector frustration continues to rise, so we’re going to start throwing some new ideas toward Hasbro in the forums, and we’re starting things off with a bit of a rant with how they’ve handled Movie Heroes so far this year and how it could have been handled better.

Sound off in the forums with your thoughts, and even your own ideas after the jump!

Contests/Giveaways, Customizing, Site News

Multi-Site Customizing Contest

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Yakface is proud to announce a tribute to a friend of the community who passed away last summer – a multi-site customizing contest that was in the works by a collector know around the forums as MercuryArtStudios.   We were shocked and saddened last summer when he tragically lost his life in a car accident.

Mike Martinez left behind a great following in the customizing community and touched a lot of people.   In his memory, we wanted to see through an Evolution style themed customizing contest that he had been planning – so we have teamed up with two other sites to make this happen.  We are proud to have teamed up with Echo Base News and Imperial Shipyards to host this customizing event.

To help encourage particpation, we’ve also gathered a great pool of prizes – for more information and rules of entry, click here!