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It seems the last few waves of both Legacy and Clone Wars figures have been scarce on toy shelves these past few months, but in time for Black Friday new toys are hitting and hitting hard. Be it the new revision of the Ughnaught, Cad Bane, the A New Hope ...

Christmas is coming, and the toy aisles are humming! From Hasbro figures to vehicles, to Christmas decorations at Target, gift packages at Toys R Us, and lots of party supplies at Factory Card Outlet. So much Star Wars everywhere, and we try to run down ...

The battle continues on Geonosis as padawans Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee go up against super-tanks! And also on this week's episode, the first part of our interview with Obi-Wan Kenobi himself, James Arnold Taylor, including a clip of him performing a ...

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First books, then DVDs, and now toys...with the American economy in a slump, unemployment topping 10% for the first time in a quarter of a century, stores are fighting harder than ever for each person's expendable income during this holiday shopping ...

Flamethrowers! Lasers! Lightsabers! This week's Clone Wars episode, Landing at Point Rain, was all about the action as Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ki-Adi Mundi return to Geonosis to launch an attack on a weapons factory. Listen to the roundtable participents of ...

A mint on card Vlix. A life sized bronze Yoda statue. A custom action figure of Steve Sansweet in an Ewok outfit. There are some collectibles that we collectors will never get, either due to cost, availability, the fact that they are one of a kind, or ...

It's the biggest Star Wars novel to be released this year, with the biggest promotional push behind it--Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber featuring the first hard core horror Star Wars novel ever, with violence and gore that would earn any film ...

Since San Diego Comic Con, Star Wars Action News and other Star Wars collecting sites polled you Star Wars fans to determine which Star Wars figures you want made most. Hasbro has compiled all the results into a final list, and voting is open now. Who ...

On this week's Republic Forces Radio Network we finish our interview with Yoda himself, Tom Kane, and discuss this blasterless, lightsaberless, explosionless episode of the Clone Wars series!

Cad Bane, in the employ of Darth Sidious, has been tasked with kidnapping future Jedi babies, and it takes the combined might of Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka to stop him! Listen as we discuss this episode, and present part 2 of our ...

It seems like it's been years while we awaited the new Star Wars novel coming out this week--Deathtroopers, and while the book jacket certainly looked grusome enough, evoking images of Hellraiser's Pinhead going to town on the Emperor's troops, and the ...

It's been several months but Star Wars: The Clone Wars is back and better than ever! Kicking off a new 22-episode season with two episodes both featuring Cad Bane, the baddest bounty hunter this side of Boba Fett, the episodes featured action, suspense, ...

While the new red packaged toys continue to show up in ever-larger numbers, perhaps one of the hottest items is still in blue--the Clone Turret Battle Pack. With Hasbro having said that this item is not planned on being rereleased, perhaps ever, due to ...

Week after week the hosts of Star Wars Action News talk about action figures, but something often overlooked is--where do you put the figures once you've opened them? While Hasbro is beyond reluctant to make modern-day playsets, there are options ...

Last week at Toys R Us if you spent $30 on Star Wars toys you got a free Clone Commander Training Manual, showing that Clone Commanders must be able to navigate mazes, decipher word jumbles, and have plenty of stickers in order to lead Republic forces! ...

Star Wars novels are having a bit of a renaissance lately. Deathtroopers is one of the most hotly anticipated books of the fall season, and recently released was Troy Denning's latest Star Wars work, the third book in the Fate of the Jedi series, ...

Since the 90s the Star Wars Essential Guide series has been a must have for Star Wars fans. For fans of the Expanded Universe they are good references, and for those who don't read the novels the Essential Guides provide a Cliff's-Notes version of the ...

For over four years, Star Wars Action News has been bringing you the reports of what toys are showing up at Wal Marts, Targets, and other nationwide chains. But as any collector knows, sometimes the best finds aren't at your local stores, which is why ...