Our latest Yakfinities Customizing Challenge has wrapped up! We ended up with over 40 unique custom Bounty Hunters! Head on over to the forums for a fully gallery of the entries and see which random entries are walking away with and some Hasbro action figures as prizes.
We’re counting down the hours now until Star Wars Celebration, but before we get to that, Flyguy and Yakface break down the week’s news and announcements in collecting. Begun the Scale Wars has as Hasbro seems to have a developing issue with figures keeping a consistent scale within their respective lines. Hot Wheels has several new character cars coming out in the next few weeks. Are you going to let them pass you by? Big news this week was the onslaught of exclusives announced for Star Wars Celebration – we breakdown our favorites and frustrations. We wrap things up with the release of the Digital Movie Collection as well as our weekly acquisitions segment. All this and much more on Episode #59 of The Realm Recap!
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Our friends at Jedi Temple Archives are reporting that the Target Exclusive AT-DP with Driver has started to hit Target on the West Coast. Head on over for a closer look and start checking those stores.
Sideshow is proud to present R2-ME2, a unique re-imagining of everyone’s favorite sassy astromech: R2-D2
The Force is strong with this collective of creative minds from across the galaxy! Starting with a blank prototype of our Deluxe R2-D2 Sixth Scale Figure, Sideshow invited over 90 friends and fans to participate in customizing the iconic droid with a brand new look. Check out a sneak peek at the progress on these one-of-a-kind custom projects below, and follow along on Instagram with the hashtag #R2ME2.
Be sure to check out the full reveal of the project April 16 at Star Wars Celebration!
Speaking of Hot Wheels, looks like we can expect several more character cars (singles and sets) in the near future. Click on through to check out the C-3PO (shiny), The Inquistor, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Vader (Episode IV deco) and more.
Our friends at the Star Wars Collectors Archives have posted a great breakdown of the entire schedule for the Collecting Track Panels and Events for Star Wars Celebration.
My new issue of Star Wars Insider landed today and inside, there is a reveal of a very cool Celebration exclusive for an even better cause. Hot Wheels is having a special R2-KT character car for sale ($10.00 each). Disney and Mattel will be donating the proceeds to Star Wars: Force for Change.
Some of you have seen posts recently regarding the weird shifting scale for some of the new clones in the 3.75″ Black Series line (Rex, Doom, Wolffe). The inconsistency doesn’t stop there as the new 6″ Leia Boushh towers over her previous 6″ body. What is going on here??? Thanks to Kool Kollectibles for the heads up on this image from The Fwoosh.
