Star Wars Collectible News, Photos, and Reviews

Justin at Yakface.com send us a link to his impressive photo novel series. It's time for Chapter III - Revelations. Click through to be visually stimulated with some amazing custom work and a fantastic storyline!

JTA reader Eli Hyder, who has his own fantastic customs site, writes in to share his amazing take on Darth Vader's surgery scene from Revenge Of The Sith. Click through to check it out!

Check out JTA moderator Paul B.'s take on Luke Ceremonial. See what a decent head sculpt will do for an action figure? Let's hope that the Black Series version comes out better than this! Click through to see more.

Awesomely talented customizer and JTA reader Carl B. is back to show off his latest Cantina environment. Check out this breathtaking work of art!

Friend Trevor S. shares with us some of his latest custom work! Check out Young Palpatine, Darth Tenebrous and Darth Plagueis customs by clicking through.

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!

Our pals at Yakface.com have an awesome production update to the upcoming latest chapter in the Enloe Trials, an excellent Photo Novel by our good friend Justin over there. Check it out!!

JTA friend John Mc. alerts us to a custom Black Series scaled Jabba The Hutt and play-set at Amaro Customs. How awesome would it be if Hasbro delved into something of this magnitude for the heightened scale this line brings? While there are some definite likeness and scaling issues, check it out to see a "what if" that Hasbro should indeed set out to manufacture in the newly developed line. Pay special note to the articulated Salacious Crumb. There has got to be some surprising companion pieces (like this) made or this line doesn't have a prayer.

JTA reader John McCartney writes in to direct readers to a very interesting article. Dan from Chicago Toy Collector has taken some "crummy" old original vintage Star Wars figures and turned them into something a little more video gamey. Cannibalising parts and doing some repainting work, he’s come up with two lines, one for the Mushroom Kingdom and one for Mega Man. Even more impressive is the blister pack box art he’s done for the Mega Man pieces. Click through to see these for yourself!!

Our friend Frank Diorio has a great new video from Celebration VI showing off the awesome Ewok Landscaping diorama that was done there. Click through to check it out!

Awesome prizes continue to be added to the Yakface.com/ImperialShipyards.net customizing contest! If you're a customizer, get on over to see how you can win! These sites are two close friends of ours and the competitions are always a blast. We highly recommend you participating in it. Remember, this unique competition is two create characters based on what they may look like in Episode VII! See if you can win!

We all are perplexed why Hasbro was unsuccessful with soft-goods during The Vintage Collection. They just couldn't seem to get a more tailored look on the soft-goods that they chose for their action figures, yet they seemingly had no difficulty in the original vintage Kenner lineup. Big, bulky and often obtrusive is how the modern soft-goods on figures like Luke Skywalker (Lightsaber Construction) and Emperor's Royal Guard turned out and quite honestly left a lot to be desired. Thankfully there are expert customizers that do provide tailored soft-goods for these excellently sculpted action figures to remedy this situation. With great thanks to JTA reader Josh M., we have been given two samples of custom soft-goods that do wonders for Hasbro's otherwise excellent action figures. Click through to see new and improved versions of two figures from The Vintage Collection thanks to these more fitted soft-goods. There are also links to eBay where you can get these for yourself.

    

UPDATE: This auction has ended and the links won't work right now. We will update eBay links once they get re-listed. Sorry for the interruption.

Our good friends at Yakface.com and ImperialShipyards.net have teamed up to do a rather clever customizing challenge. If you have this gift, click through to see how you can participate in this cool event.

Anyone who has a heart knows what a travesty the SCUBAHSOKA figure turned out to be for collectors. (We don't care if it was a kids' toy – we wanted a decently articulated version of this awesome character.) JTA moderator Sjefke couldn't take it anymore and customized his own. Click through to see how he did it! The final result is brilliant! Hasbro, if you're watching, please take some notes!

Alejandro is back with what I personally feel is one of his best dioramas to date! (But why did you use that terrible Obi-Wan Kenobi figure from 2005, Alejandro?!) All jibes aside, check out this brillaint display of diorama perfection of the rescue of Chancellor Palpatine on the Invisble Hand!

OK you environmentalists out there! Pay it forward and create your own playsets with recycled or upcycled plastic waste! JTA reader Jamie D. alerts us to a cool GI JOE custom playset site that utilizes materials instead of throwing them away. While not exactly Star Wars related, it may give you some ideas for playsets that Hasbro just won't make for us! Go to instructables.com to get some ideas!

Carl (Boutros77) writes in to share another update with the readers of JTA! His focus this time is Jabba's Palace! Click through to see what Hasbro should be doing for collectors!

JTA reader Derek H. eagerly shares how he spiffed up his wife's Christmas Village for Christmas! Check it out!

Our good friend Justin Cook from Yakface.com has just posted a new chapter in his excellent Rykrof Enloe photonovel series. There's a lot of great custom work here and a well thought out plot. Don't miss it! Click through for the latest arc of the story!

Wow! Haters of the phase II helmet making your TVC clones look ridiculously out of scale to them (I am talking to YOU Justin!), check out what JTA reader Josh M. has done to "remedy" the problem! Who would have "thunk" it to "shrunk" it?

JTA's very own Sjefke has been busy making Ewok babies for all of the great Ewoks Hasbro has released for us recently. He has graciously provided a tutorial on how you can make a litter of your own woklings for your collection... of various sizes, shapes and colors.... just like their adult counterparts! We'd like to thank him for providing ALL the details to do this including what materials and tools you need and links on where you can purchase them for yourself. Ewok lovers: get ready to customize!

    

JTA moderator Bombadgungan got so tired of looking at the floppy soft-goods on his new Emperor's Royal Guard figure, so he decided to do something about it and iron them! Look at the benefits this action brings forth to this incredible action figure!

You've seen a ton of Alejandro's awesome custom dioramas here at JTA plenty of times, but this is probably one of his best. It's based on the Docking Bay 94 deleted scene from A New Hope! Check it out!

Alejandro send us a cool diorama of the Bespin gantry! Check it out!

Carl is back with an awesome new micro diorama: the Executor bridge! You MUST click through and see his latest works!

We have been sent unbelievable images of a custom Sail Barge created by JTA readers Willy and Wilson. While these images are about four years old now, it seems appropriate to introduce them here as we all will be begging Hasbro for the status of a Sail Barge vehicle for the 3.75" line. Click through to check them out! Thanks to JTA reader Manny M. for passing them along to us!

Frank Diorio finally fully reveals the Sail Barge diorama! You must click through and check this out!

JTA's very own Matthew Ruch has published his latest photonovel in the forums at Yakface.com! Click through to check it out and be sure to comment in the forums and give him your thoughts on it!