“Hi Troops. I'm back from Boston to visit my folks in Ohio. I knew that my home state would come through for me. At only my second stop today, I found #57-#63 at Wal-Mart. Oh, yeah! I picked up Commader Bly and Commander Gree. Sweet! They also had a bunch of Green Clone Commanders and Black Clone Pilots (which I never saw out on the East Coast). Ohio rules! Did I mention that they were all also on sale? Wal-Mart rules too! I even picked-up some extra Clones so that I could try to do a few customs while on vacation. Heck, they were on sale. Why not? What a great start to my vacation. Trooper Jon out.”KaperJB@aol.com
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It’s been pretty hectic near the pegs in the Lake County, IL area. Target has been heavily stocked of late with Evolutions Stormtrooper, a wide variety of deluxe figures and the new way over priced TIE Fighter. I still would like to see some of the many unmade prequel vehicles before seeing another TIE but you take what you can get. The figures are hitting, Sandtrooper Jason a.k.a. Dead Hero reported finding figures #57-63 at the Antioch, IL Super Wal-Mart last night. I believe he said he picked up a set for trade. I’ve searched high and low but have yet to find the Jedi Temple Assault pack at any of the area Kmart stores. This is one you just have to hope starts showing up by the caseload. Hopefully you Troopers are having the same luck and the fuel prices are beginning to drop so fueling up the Dewback can actually be near affordable. Good luck to you Troopers in your neck of the woods, drop us a line and let us know what your latest run produced. United We Find! 
There's some great news for all the LEGO fans out there. The 
It was one hell of a weekend at the Chicagoland Entertainment Collectors Expo. I’ve just had a chance to summarize our trip. There were many highlights and we’re still recovering from Saturday night’s post charity dinner bash! I’d like to thank Paul and Dianne from 
The latest news involving the upcoming video game, "Star Wars: Battlefront II," is that there is a downloadable beta version of this game. LucasArts and IGN Entertainment are offering to those interested the chance of playing this game before it's released in stores on November 1st. To learn more about how you can get your own beta copy of this click 
Opening tomorrow is the show called "Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars," which will be held at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles. The woman behind the costumes in all three prequel films, Trisha Biggar, will have more than one hundred costumes, props and photographs on display in a building that has almost 11,000 square feet of exhibit space. For more information about this event click 
The journey has begun for Lucasfilm, who has reportedly started their search for screenwriters for the planned TV series. The show is expected to run at least fifty hours, will involve a combination of live-action filming and CGI special effects, and should start filming sometime in 2007 in Australia. Of course no one has any idea as to what the show will be about, but it sure is nice knowing that Star Wars isn't ending anytime soon. Read more about this 
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Hey Troopers! You wanted to learn more about all the Clone Troopers that were in Revenge of the Sith? Well, you'll now be able to with the latest edition of Star Wars Insider that will soon be on store shelves. In this issue, the authors Karen Traviss and Ryan Kaufman go into great detail about all the different clone units, the weapons they use, and the heroes under the armor like Captain Fordo, Commander Bacara, Sergeant Fox and Captain Jag. What's really cool about this month's issue is that there will be three different covers, each one sporting a different Clone Trooper on it, including Commander Gree, Commander Bly and Sergeant Fox. This issue will be shipping to Fanclub members this week, and it will start shipping to newsstands September 26. You can read more about this 
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Fellow staff member Boba Binks has brought to us a couple updates to the 
Next up is another incredibly detailed and accurate statue from Gentle Giant, which happens to be R2-D2's best friend... 
Even though movie ticket sales have been on a continuous decline since the Summer of 2002, movies like Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, have been one of the few films to help keep movie theaters from going out of business. Revenge of the Sith brought in approximately $380 million between the months of May and August, while other films like War of the Worlds, Batman Begins and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory also contributed to helping out ticket sales. Not one of the top ten films this summer came anywhere close to making the amount of money that ROTS brought in. These days more and more people are either watching television and/or DVDs in the comforts of their own homes, but to me it's still a lot of fun going out to watch a good movie once in a while. Read more about the decline in Summer movie sales 
"Some more good news from Central Texas today! Target in Killeen has the new Star Cases, Large Wing TIE Fighter, Wookiee Flyers, Clone & Sith Evolutions and some Battlepacks, but still no new figures past #44 in several months now! Both local Wal-Marts have received numerous cases of Clone Trooper & Sith Evolution sets, but some look like the boxes went through a train wreck, all bent up and crushed. Still no new regular figures in three weeks now. K-Mart had the 501st Clone Battlepacks, but they were gone right after being put on the shelf, or so that's what I've heard. Plenty of the Throne Room packs left. TRU still has no basic figures past the originals released on April 2nd, but they still have some of the Asaaj Unleashed wave left, plus Wookiee Flyers and other odds and ends! That's pretty much all from Central Texas for now. BTW, I am looking for a Troy Aikman NFL Legends figure in the blue jersey, any help obtaining this would be appreciated. Thanks Troopers, starfox signing out!"
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Coming back to Burger King are the Super-D toys that were hot sellers back in April. This time there will be four new categories of these (four toys in each category), which include Cosmic Cruisers, Shadow Casters, Galactic Spinners and Jedi Wisdom. A total of seventeen new toys will be available from November 7 through December 11. Wait a minute, didn't I just say there were four toys per category? Well, I did, and the reason why there are seventeen toys instead of the sixteen described above, is that there will be a Darth Vader chase figure! This figure will come with a sound chip, and is expected to be much harder to track down this time.
StarWarsShop.com has recently added what they're calling "One-of-a-Kind" artwork from the successful animated Star Wars micro series, Star Wars: Clone Wars. A brief description of these pieces mention the following: Your one of a kind hand painted cel will include the original line drawing from which it was transferred, presented against an acid-free laser reproduced background. This setup will come matted and include a Lucasfilm seal and certificate of authenticity. Overall measurements with matte are approximately 13" x 19". Prices on these range anywhere from $400 to $795, and all of these are expected to ship in thirty days. Set your coordinates to 
