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Multi-Site Customizing Contest

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!

Facebook Giveaway Update

In case you missed the fun over the weekend, our Facebook page was extremely busy as we gave away figures from the latest Vintage Collection wave. Four lucky winners (one of which is in Scotland) will be receiving their new figures soon.

Winners:
Ronan Munro & Raven Hughes – VC68 Rebel Soldier
Joe Timpona – VC69 Bastila Shan
Chris Sjarif – VC70 Ponda Baba

We wanted to send out a heartfelt thanks to all that participated as well as a thank you for helping us cross over the 2000 “likes” threshold!

What If??? TVC Search for Luke Set

With the new exclusives hitting the aisles at Target, one thing is for certain, Vintage packaging sells. I took it upon myself to create my own “exclusive” that could have/should have been released by Hasbro – and with no new tooling costs or over-inflated pricing.

In essence, it is the new “Search for Luke Skywalker” set but reworked to take advantage of the popular Vintage packaging design. This version switches out the new, super-articulated, Hoth Han for a more screen (and scene) accurate sculpt and it also drops the superfluous Hoth Rebel Trooper, remedying the fact that there isn’t a Hoth Luke in stores to tie into Target’s exclusive “Luke’s Tauntaun”. How’s that for poor retail planning?

By now you’ve heard or seen that both new beasts have the non-functional open belly plug, but with a little prying and some extra guts from the 2003 Toys”R”Us exclusive “Battle of Hoth” multi-pack, you can take Han’s cool new tauntaun and make it even better.

Hopefully Hasbro sees that with a little more planning and minimal development costs, it is possible to get more play value than you can swing a lightsaber at for kids and adult collectors alike.