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The Khetanna : Jabba The Hutt’s Sailbarge
In 2018 Hasbro announced a special division of their toy making empire would be devoted to something unusual. Haslabs was…
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Making Episode IX : A Childhood Dream Comes True
Reece Lawlor is just like you. A lifelong Star Wars fan, collected the toys, read the books. Dreamt of one…
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Warwick Davis Launches Tenable Board Game
London, January 22nd, Warwick Davis zips up on his Segway to launch the Tenable board game at Toy Fair 2019. …
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Star Wars Sweded
The word Sweded comes from the 2008 Movie ‘Be Kind Rewind‘ starring Jack Black and Mos Def. Two bungling video…
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May The Toys Be With You
May the toys be with you! Yep, you read that right. Toys, not the Force. Toys. It’s safe to say…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
Less than two months after The Last Jedi drowned out its detractors with the sound of cash registers ringing up…
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Meeting The Maker
Continued from part one “Okay, thank’s a lot, that’s really great, okay, bye.” The Skype call with Omaze ended and…
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The greatest moment of my life
The story of the greatest moment in my life. Some people will tell you having a child is the…
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The Beauty Of Speed
“Faster, more intense” George Lucas was born May 14th 1944 in Modesto California (pop 16,379 – 1940 census), a…
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The Emperor’s Shuttle
Or, Retcon of the Jedi. The Emperor is dead. Overthrown by his chief henchman and Sith apprentice, Darth Vader. …
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The Collector Awakens
“A mastery of the art of toy begging” Much like the Force Awakening, when I was about five years…
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The Universe Expands : Part Two
The E.U. is dead. Long live the E.U. By the time Return Of The Jedi had faded from the…
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The Universe Expands : Part One
“You must unlearn what you have learned” October 30, 2012. The Walt Disney corporation announces it is buying the…
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London Film And Comic Con 2017
Toys, lots of toys. One of the biggest conventions in the English con circuit, this years London Film and…
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San Diego Comic Con Top Three Reveals
Star Wars Black series dominates Every time the big conventions reveal the coming years Star Wars merchandise, I look…
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Meeting Star Wars Royalty
“She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly” A woman in a white dress looks…
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The Elite Series
A Premium line of die cast action figures. In the period leading up to the release of ‘The Force…
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A Second Chance At Love : The Star Wars Special Editions
“For an entire generation…” “There’s more cheese in that movie, than what’s on this pizza.” I can hear Alan…
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The Last Jedi Behind The Scenes
It’s about family. And that’s what’s so powerful about it. Another Star Wars trailer making me cry, this should…
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Did Yoda Have A Plan ‘B’ ?
“Hidden, safe the children must be kept…split up they should be” This is how Yoda explains his plan to…
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The Greatest Exposition In Film History : Obi-Wans Hut
When I was a child watching Star Wars, this was the boring-est scene of the boring first act…sand, droids arguing,…
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In The Shadows
(Or, Why Disney should bring back Shadows of the Empire) The second Death Star explodes in a shower of…
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