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.

Gotcha!

It's not often a figure eludes me but I do find humor in the fact that this particular one happens to be a bounty hunter. Well, after two weeks of hearing reports that he was hitting the shelves, I finally tracked one down. Phew.

I know the staff at my local WalMart, Zellers and TRU stores were getting tired of seeing my face.

A Season Gone By

November 3 can't get here soon enough!

Admittedly I have the complete Season One already burned to DVD and nicely stored in custom cases but their viewing quality is only passable at best and they serve the mere purpose of staying my fix until the real deal arrives on Blu-Ray.

Who cares if I don't have a Blu-Ray player yet? This is the reason to buy one. (PS3 anyone?)

Honestly, I think I am as excited about having the full-roster of HD episodes as I am about all the bonus features that come with it.

• Seven Director's Cut Episodes:
  • Rising Malevolence
  • Shadow of Malevolence
  • Lair of Grievous
  • Rookies
  • Storm Over Ryloth
  • Innocents of Ryloth
  • Liberty on Ryloth
• 22 Episodic Featurettes that go behind-the-scenes with Supervising Director Dave Filoni and crew about the making-of each episode
• Spectacular 64 page production journal that includes early sketches, artist notes, and concept art from each episode from Season One
• The Jedi Temple Archives (BD Exclusive) - An extensive database exploring test footage, early concept art, 3-D character and object turnarounds and early animation. The Archives is a rare look at the assets in various stages of creation for The Clone Wars, with a wealth of surprises and never-before seen moments sprinkled throughout.

I'm also very pleased to see that there are director's cuts of my two favorite episodes; Rookies and Lair of Greivous. They are by far the best of the bunch although the three-part Ryloth series is an exceptionally well-done story arc as well.

I can't wait!