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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 Clone Wars scene as seen in Back to the Future!

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 as much of it as we can on this week's Star Wars Action News. Then also this week we have some in depth reviews. Have you been eying one of the flying vehicles, either the Jedi Starfighter or the Gunship? Arnie and Marjorie do their "consumer reports" rundown on the flying Jedi Starfighter to let you know if it's worth your hard earned money. Then Jerry joins us for an in-depth look at Hasbro and Kenner 3.75" scale AT-STs. With the new Wal Mart exclusive super AT-ST, Jerry takes us back in time to the Kenner vintage original and then all the rereleases through the years. And finally this week, perhaps you've heard that the new book The Complete Vader has had its release date pushed back from October, 2009 to October *2011*! Arnie already got his preorder from Amazon, and he reviews this book and discusses the issues surrounding its recall. With your voice mails and what's new at Brian's Toys, it's all this week on Star Wars Action News!

Star Wars Action News' sister podcast, Now Playing, has been nominated for a Podcast Award and we need your votes to win! Listen to find out how you can help!

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 Republic Forces Radio Network discuss this show, and as an added bonus you can hear the scenes Dave Filoni wrote bridging the last 2 Clone Wars episodes as performed by the voice actors (and Steve Sansweet!) at Star Wars Fan Days 3.

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 season. And these price wars are now impacting Star Wars collectors. Listen this week as we discuss where the savings can be had on Star Wars toys this holiday season! Also on this week's Star Wars Action News, we review the Season 1 DVD Box Set of the Clone Wars Cartoon Series, tell you how to save 20% off your Kotobukiya orders, and run down the latest in store and online finds, including information on how to find some Wal Mart exclusives that may not have yet made it to shelves in your area! And we look at the future of book collecting with the advent of the Amazon Kindle and other eBook readers. With the beginning of the Star Wars Action News Sith-mas gift exchange, our continuing call for Christmas gift ideas, and more, it's on this week's podcast Star Wars Action News!

George Lucas tells the story about how he ended up with the merchandising rights and the rights to the sequels for STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE. CONNECT WITH AFI: http://AFI.com http://twitter.com/AmericanFilm http://facebook.com/AmericanFilmInstitute

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 perhaps simply because we don't know about them. But with Steve Sansweet's new book 1,000 Collectibles -- Memorabilia and Stories From A Galaxy Far, Far Away we can find out abot some of hese items, as well as some more common ones such as Monkey-Face Leia from 1995's Power of the Force 2 line. Arnie and Marjorie review that book, as well as the Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary, on this week's Star Wars Action News! Also this week, rundowns on he latest toy bargains from Toys R Us and Wal Mart, your voice mails and a recounting of the horror that was Matt Lauer in a blonde wig. All this and more on this week's Star Wars Action News!

Laurence Butler Rayne's lost love ballad from 1980, written and intended for the soundtrack of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back".

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 an R rating. This week on Star Wars Action News, Arnie sits down with Joe to discuss the creation of this book, talk about the challenge that is doing Star Wars horror the right way, and finds out the troopth about the Deathtroopers promotional CD that was rumored to have been handed out at New York ComicCon last February. Also this week, Star Wars Action News correspondent Scott from Tulsa has attended the Star Wars in Concert, and he gives us his review of that show as well as some of the latest comic packs hitting stores. And speaking of comic packs, Star WArs Tales author Nathan P. Butler let's listeners know his behind the scenes take of the release of the Hasbro comic figure 2-pack based on his comic book Equals and Opposites. With a UK report, a Hasbro Q&A, and a contest where you can win a copy of Chronicle's The Art of Clone Wars book, it's all this week on the Star Wars Action News podcast!

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!

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 are these 30 characters fans cannot live without? Find out on this week's Star Wars Action News. Also on this week's show, Owen Cheddar gives us a kid's viewpoint of Clone Wars: Republic Heroes for Wii, Brock updates you on what's hot and new at Brian's Toys, and Reverend Strone joins us with a review of the new Art of the Clone Wars book. And after his review listen to find out how YOU can win a copy of this new book. With your voice mails, a store report, and more, it's all this week on Star Wars Action News!

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 interview with Master Yoda himself, Tom Kane!