Star Wars Collectible News, Photos, and Reviews

Click through for our Research Droids Reviews recap and see what recent reviews you may have missed.

Frank over at Frank Diorio's Diorama Workshop wanted us to share with our readers that the voting is now ready for his 1st Anniversary Diorama Contest.

The fans choices were sent in and I selected my TOP 5 Dioramas that I think I would have fun building and so, the Contest Voting can now BEGIN. You could win my Star Wars Tantive IV, Detention Block, Emperor's Tower, Indiana Jones Golden Idol room or Star Trek the original series Enterprise Bridge Diorama. YOU DECIDE THE PRIZE !!!

Click through to start voting! Voting continues through the end of May...

How can a figure with 14 points of articulation be so bad? We actually say that somewhat affectionately about The Original Trilogy Collection's Luke Skywalker [as Jedi Knight] figure. The packaging is great, and the likeness isn't terrible, but the articulation is seemingly pointless. See what we mean in our Research Droids Reviews today. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

LEGO is gearing up for a big event in Times Square on Thursday to celebrate the upcoming The Yoda Chronicles, and they kicked things off early by sending out a special Exclusive Souvenir press kit featuring the Holocron Chamber. Click below to check this completed set out as LEGO makes its debut in our new Visual Guide format!

Star Wars Action News hosts Marjorie and Arnie have reported many times on the Toy Man Toy Show in St. Louis, MO. Sunday, May 19th, was the most recent show and had Star Wars represented from all era, from 12-Back carded vintage figures to the most modern of Hasbro toys. Listen to find out if you should visit St. Louis for the next Toy Man show on July 14th!

One Boba Fett in any given format is just never enough, so Gentle Giant Ltd. quickly developed the second Jumbo Vintage Kenner Boba Fett [Rocket Firing] figure already. Check out this mythic action figure in super-sized glory in our Research Droids Reviews today as we complete our analysis of recently released figures in this line as well as finish up our "21 Days Of The OT" marathon. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

I just found out that my pal Chris Swanski at BanthaSkull.com has the same disdain for Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones as I do. But perhaps more importantly, what I also didn't realize is that he's written another clever wiki entry on the topic of something he's deemed the Sky Guy Paradox which attempts to explain the phenomena of how characters from Episode II look inexplicably 10 years older (and what I think it significantly more than that) than they should in Episode IV. Before you accidentally interpret this post as some sort of one-sided bromance, click through to learn about the Sky Guy Paradox. Brilliant! (And VERY entertaining!)

Listen up all our friends across the pond in the UK! Hard to find TVC figures are arriving at Toys R Us and on sale too! JTA reader Stuart has the full story for you! Click through to read his awesome report!

OK. So we now know a new Star Wars animated series is coming!!! This has our brains going into overdrive about how Hasbro will approach this toy line. Since they left us miserably hanging in the dark with The Clone Wars line, we hope that this new toy line based on the TV show is handled much differently. We have some ideas to throw Hasbro's way and we want YOUR INPUT too! Comment away please! Click through for more!

STAR WARS: REBELS

Coming in the Fall of 2014, a new animated adventure that takes place in between Episode III and Episode IV! Click through for more information!

How frustrating is it that the R5-D4 action figure from 1979 is technically more accurate than the modern ones? (Well, that depends upon your own point of view.) Find out why this is so as we we continue to visit some recently released collectibles in this line in our Research Droids Reviews. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Our resident The Clone Wars expert Mike_5555 is back with a recap of Season 4 of The Clone Wars. He analyzes the various episodes and story arcs that were part of the season and adds commentary and even scores them based on their impact to the overall series. Click through to read this in-depth analysis.

JTA sponsor Dorkside Toys sends us their latest newsletter with new deals, pre-orders and incredible bargains! Click through for more!

Wow! Gentle Giant knows how to vac-metalize better than Hasbro! The sterling Death Star Droid looks incredible, and now you'll be able to see some cool details you would normally miss in the 3.75" line. Stay closely engaged with us as we continue to visit some recently released collectibles in this line in our Research Droids Reviews. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

You saw our recent review of this awesome Jumbo Cantina Andventure Set HERE, but now ActionFigureXpress.com has put it on clearance for more that 50% off at $39.99! If you have been on the fence with this nostalgic collectible, now is your chance to act because they just won't last long at this price! (Just remember that the Jumbo Vintage Kenner Figures are all sold separately.) Sale ends May 18th, unless the product sells out first.

Well, it's official! The Endor AT-AT has FINALLY hit the East Coast. I just recently found it in the Philly area, but we are also getting reports from NY, NJ and CT too. We're actually a few days late posting this, but it's a safe bet that this behemoth is everywhere now. Sadly, it didn't "do it" for me. I may just be so burned out at this point. I will see how I feel next pay day. Click through for some other reports too!

Our friends at ToyHypeUSA.com are celebrating their first birthday on the web. They are running a contest too where you can win some cool stuff. Click through for more information!

JTA reader earthclanbootstrap let's our readers in on a cool find at Meijers (for those of you lucky enough to have them near you). Click through for his report!

Star Wars weekends has already revealed some secrest from the cancelled Season 6 of The Clone Wars (do you still believe there are fans out there that are still holding out hope that TCW will indeed return)?! Anyway, check out this little teaser video about the bonus content that will eventually make it out to us one way or the other!

Gentle Giant takes over this week's Brian's Toys Newsletter. Not only is the 12" Jumbo Yoda (Orange Snake) in stock, but new pre-orders are available for the recently-announced 12" Jumbo Zuckuss and the long-awaited Star Wars chess set. For 6-inch collectors, the Marvel Legends Rocket Raccoon Series is ready for pre-order.

Check out this week's newsletter for a selection of Star Wars graded vintage, from carded to loose. Go to Brian's Toys!

There is no universal agreement as to whom the Snaggletooth action figure is meant to represent. Is this Takeel? Is this Zutton? Is this Rachalt Hyst? Some even believe Snaggletooth is an amalgamation of all three! Kenner used a picture of Rachalt Hyst on the packaging, but it goes without saying that the intent of all vintage Kenner figures was to mirror them from the films and not The Star Wars Holiday Special. So it's very likely that Snaggletooth just suffered the same costume, accuracy and aesthetics issues as Hammerhead and Walrus Man did, etc. Still, some collectors feel otherwise. What do you think? Stay closely engaged with us as we continue to visit some recently released collectibles in this line in our Research Droids Reviews. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

The results are in! Christopher Lee has made his preferences known! In fact, they were so good that he had to choose an extra winner! There are now THREE of you who will receive an exclusively signed Compendium Poster! Click through to see if you won! And thanks to all who participated.

Gentle Giant Ltd. surprised us all when they announced they had plans to reproduce a replica of the Cantina Adventure Set for the Jumbo Vintage Figures line. It's not an exact replica, but it's pretty darn close. See it from every angle and with all four Jumbo Vintage Kenner Figures for which it was designed. (For the record, this playset came without any figures.) Stay closely engaged with us as we continue to visit some recently released collectibles in this line in our Research Droids Reviews. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Here is a quick update about a bunch of cool new preorders and the latest arrivals from Big Bad Toy Store.

JTA reader (and periodic RDR writer) Arnold Corso proudly purchased the Cantina bar distillery and painted it to add to his cantina diorama. Be sure to let him know what you think in our comments!! A full gallery awaits you, complete with patrons!

JTA moderator PaulB shares his custom creation: his take on what an Episode VII Han Solo might look like! Click through to see his kit-bashed creation!

JTA moderator Sjefke has worked up a rather impressive realistically-styled custom Pong Krell action figure. It's his submission for the cool Figures that Never Were contest at ImperialShipyards.net? Click through to check out his hard work! Now if we could just get Hasbro to work hard for us!

He has been called everything from "Butt Face" to "Ponda Baba" but you probably know him best as Walrus Man. No matter what you deem his name to be, he may be the most inaccurate Kenner action figure from the entire 1978-1985 run (save for the characters with the obvious name change errors). Gentle Giant Ltd. was sure to bring all of his inaccuracies forward to the Jumbo Vintage Kenner Figures line and he looks fantastic. Stay closely engaged with us as we continue to visit some recently released Jumbo Vintage Kenner Figures in our Research Droids Reviews. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.

Hopefully you were able to partake (or at the very least read the discussions) in our very "heated" debates about the 3.75" Black Series and Saga Legends lines coming out this Fall. The topic at this point has been rather exhausted, so now it's time to talk about the 6" Black Series line, perhaps the most controversial line of all. Introducing an all-new scale is a very dicey thing. With it comes more risks than anything else. To be fair, it brings collectors more details and articulation, but will it engage the amount of collectors it needs to sustain itself? Will four new figures at a time be enough to maintain interest? Will they expect to sell the same four figures for months on end? (Because that AIN'T gonna work.) Let's look at what's definitely coming and then for fun speculate on what might be coming. (more....)

It's our opinion that one of the biggest omissions to The Vintage Collection was Momaw Nadon. But have no fear because Gentle Giant Ltd. has released a one-sixth scaled version of Hammerhead and placed him in "vintage styled" packaging. Stay closely engaged with us as we continue to visit some recently released Jumbo Vintage Kenner Figures in our Research Droids Reviews. Feel free to leave your own thoughts in our comments section, vote in the poll or even leave comments about it on our Facebook page. Click the banner below for the direct link to the review! As always, you can also send your own personal review requests via email if you'd like to see something that we didn't cover yet.