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This Day in Star Wars: August 13, 2013 (Well, Yesterday Actually)

Yesterday afternoon, I saw this image of a TIE Fighter on the Gentle Giant Facebook page. And as I was thinking about how old the date on the picture made me feel, the UPS truck pulled up and dropped off the first of three boxes with the new Star Wars Black Series action figures from Hasbro. There’s nothing like toys to make you feel young again!

Thinking that this must be the workings of the living Force, I decided to add another auspicious date in Star Wars history. You don’t want to know how long it took, with me bumbling around in Photoshop. Suffice to say, I feel old again.

Incidentally, it’s Amazon that started filling orders first (and I don’t know why they shipped my order in 3 separate boxes) – I had found it available for pre-order there first, and then at ToysRUs.com later, and ended up with orders with both. I went back to check, and it looks like all the Star Wars Black Series 6-inch figures are back in stock at Amazon, for the regular $19.99 price. If you are still looking, that’s the best way I’ve found to get them individually (letting you army build the Sandtroopers.) My wallet has a bad feeling about this.

Have You Entered All of Sideshow’s Comic-Con Giveaways?

Each day in the month of July, Sideshow Toys opened a giveaway for an awesome collectible, to celebrate San Diego Comic-Con. And while July is over, there’s still time to enter the Sideshow contests and giveaways that are closing in the next couple of days. The latest four giveaways, closing tomorrow or the day after, are for:

We’ll be kicking off a giveaway of our own tomorrow. Good luck!

Hasbro Reveals New Black Series Figures at Star Wars Celebration Europe

It feels like we just got with Hasbro unveiling a bunch of upcoming Star Wars Black Series figures at San Diego Comic-Con. But there’s no rest for the weary (in this case, Hasbro) – they just unveiled more Star Wars figures from both of its Black Series lines at Star Wars Celebration Europe. In the six-inch line, it’s Obi-Wan Kenobi from Revenge of the Sith (we got a preview of Obi-Wan in the Hasbro booth at SDCC), a good old-fashioned army builder Stormtrooper, and Luke Skywalker from Empire Strikes Back. Presumably these are from the third wave, which should hit retail in 1Q 2014.

In the 3 3/4-inch line, it’s Mace Windu, Darth Plagueis, Vizam, and Commander Neyo. Mace features Clone Trooper gauntlets in which he kicked ass in Clone Wars.

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SDCC 2013: Sideshow Collectibles Instapics

SDCC is pretty busy, and I don’t often have enough time to just walk around and look at stuff. The Sideshow booth is one location where I definitely love to spend time just soaking it all in. I don’t usually take pictures of the larger items with my “real” camera – it’s somewhat torturous because there’s so much goodness there, and I would just be killing myself processing pictures of stuff that is way beyond my means to collect. (I did capture most of the Hot Toys displays at Sideshow in an earlier post.)

Still, I couldn’t resist snapping some shots with my phone camera. With no polarizing filter, it’s impossible to get a shot of the glass displays without getting some reflection of lights or other things in the shot. And I guess for these pictures, the glare and reflections are part of the fun.

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Hasbro Star Wars Black Series Wave 2 Pre-Orders Are Up

I wasn’t lucky enough to find the first wave of the Star Wars Black Series, but while these aren’t the figures I’m (currently) looking for, you can pre-order the second wave of figures now. Cases of Star Wars Black Series Wave 2 are up for pre-order at Entertainment Earth and BigBadToyStore for $79.99.

Since there’s no army-builder like the Sandtrooper in this wave, cases (which are evenly packed with one of each figure) may be the way to go. But if you want to order them individually, then BBTS has listings for Han, Leia, Greedo, and Boba Fett (although he is already pre-sold out.) Both venues list wave 2 as coming in November this year.