New Deluxe Class Vehicles hitting shelves

The newest line of Deluxe Class Vehicles is hitting Toys R Us stores and include some of Hasbro's best Vehicle/Figure combos of the line yet.

Finally you can pick up Castas (one of the remaining ill-fated characters from the Rise of Boba Fett story arc) along with his speeder bike featured in the show.

Also available in the wave are the Republic Scout Speeder with ARF Trooper, Attack Cycle with General Greivous and the Separatist Droid Speeder with Battle Droid.

Toronto Fan Expo 2011

Well, I'm all set. Anthony Daniels will be making an appearance this year and although I already have an autograph from him it will be nice to get one in person. I've had the pleasure of meeting Carrie Fisher, David Prowse and Peter Mayhew at previous Fan Expos and shaking hands with a 4th member of the original cast will be an honour. Mark Hamill where are you? Honestly... you were at SDCC last year. How about visiting TO for a change?

Rumor has it the new K-Mart B-Wing Exclusive will be offered at the FanExpo. I'm counting my pennies. Sorry William Shatner... though I love you to death I'm not forking over $150 for your autograph and there's the B-Wing (and possibly Masterpiece Rodimus Prime) to add to my collection.

It's here!

The Hasbro Big AT-AT is finally on shelves and ripe for the picking.

Sign here please....

The annual November through March lull in the Canadian Star Wars supply is in full swing and I've taken to picking away at autographs for the 2009 Topps Clone Wars Widevision cards. I'm a cheap bastard and it has taken me a while but I've managed to get most of them off of eBay for around $10... much better than the $20-30 price tags I've seen dealers selling them for. According to the checklist I'm still missing a few (Ashley Eckstein, Anthony Daniels, Corey Burton, Terrance Carson, David Acord and a second Matthew Wood) but they have yet to make up for auction. They're not bad as far as designs go and they are fun to collect.

Size matters not?

Well, more pictures are surfacing of the supposedly large AT-AT and every geek is going Miami CSI on it to determine how large it really is.

What gets us geeks in a tizzy?

Every year it happens... top secret info leaked to the public... prototypes uncovered early... store SKU numbers being combed through... speculation... anticipation... it's really quite crazy.

2010 is seeing all sort of rumors about an unconfirmed large-scale AT-AT (that's an All Terrain Armored Transport if you don't speak geek) being made by Hasbro for the 30th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back.

We have a winner!

Congratulations go out to Snowtroopers member Richd, winner of the Snowtroopers.ca Diorama Contest, with his massively spectacular "Battle of Hoth" entry. Click on the link to view more photos of Richd's diorama or visit the contests section to view some of the other outstanding entries that made judging this contest such a daunting task. Thanks to everyone who participated and an extra special thanks to Snowtroopers member Ambasah for donating the Darth Maul Bloodfin statue that our winner will receive.