Star Wars Collectors Love To Collect...

There is little initial hesitation for Star Wars collectors to jump right on on a new line -- especially if it involves lots of inexpensive items in blind random packs. It puts some fun and adds some challenge back into the art of acquisition.

Spin Master released their product "Mighty Beanz" in 2003 and it's going strong. Researching some of their existing line, I'm finding some of their more rare and popular beans sell for $5-$10 each. Today they have joined the Star Wars universe.

Whether by design or by chance, their Star wars collection has a veil of misinformation around the contents. The introduction of the set is a television commercial / website from which you can order a Darth Vader storage container with five exclusive beans for $24.95 plus Shipping, Handling, and in most states tax. Since the storage canister without the five exclusive beans is available at retail for $19.95, five bucks for five exclusive beans is a great deal. To get yours, Click Here and then come back and keep reading...

UPDATE: Photos added to checklist. Click through to see new additions. Details of Darth Vader #4 and Darth Vader #80 are also shown.

UPDATE #2: From WordPress reader Rory Wade: "I bought 6 packs today at a Walmart in Oregon and found the 6 Clone Wars beanz are inserted 1 per pack and the packs have a label on the left side indicating they are a Clone Wars Wal-Mart exclusive." **Thank you, Rory!

UPDATE #3: Patrick has written in to guide us to a pictorial checklist which allowed us to fill in the missing gaps up through Beanz number 60. Thank you Patrick! For those of you who are following along, our checklist has been updated.

Disney announces a spectacular collectible!

For those of you who may not be familiar with Disney Racers, they're approximately 1:64 scale cars, sculpted with the traits of our favorite Star Wars characters.

Currently there are nineteen cars to collect from the Star Wars galaxy. Fifteen are individually carded: AT-AT, Boba Fett, C-3PO, Darth Maul, Darth Vader, General Grievous, Imperial Guard, Jango Fett, Jawa, Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot, R2-D2, Skiff Guard, Stormtrooper, Tusken Raider, and Watto. Four of them are only available as exclusives with their Darth Vader carry case: TC-14, Shadow Trooper, Shadow Guard, Wedge Antilles.

Lucky car design number twenty was announced tonight on the StarWars.com news feed. It's a nickel plated beauty and it's being produced in really low quantities.

Buy The AT-AT Now And Save Ten Dollars!
Action Figure Included

The Big Millennium Falcon (BMF) flew off the shelves as the first re-tooled enlarged vehicle in Hasbro's new Star Wars arsenal. Having mastered the distribution nuances, the AT-AT has been much less scarce at retail, making it harder and harder to resist temptation at every encounter.

If you've managed to avoid buying one of the new AT-AT's (or if one just isn't enough for you) then listen up! For a very short time only, Hasbro's new huge AT-AT is $10.00 and has FREE SHIPPING. Save money, save gas, and save the stress over being able to find one on clearance later. Buy NOW and SAVE.

With all the attention recently on the Star Wars Might Beanz, there's been a flurry of Google searches for visual checklists. No doubt with the Star Wars Celebration V starting this week, the collecting bug has run rampant.

Every year Disney releases a new series of collector packs; blind sealed bags with 3 random characters inserted. In 2004 series 4 was Star Wars and last summer, the summer of 2009, our favorite theme returned. Using the old-fashioned method of collecting, we opened up pack after pack to obtain a full set.

The Force was strong with us, as we also came across a secret figure! Not being die-hard Disney collectors, we had no idea they engaged in such hijinks. So we are proud to provide you with the visual checklist for Disney Collector Packs Series Nine Star Wars figures... including our ''special find''.

Celebration V Starts The Renewal Process

This Thursday is the first day for Star Wars Celebration V -- the first Star Wars Celebration I've attended without exhibiting a new edition of the book - The Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book, or the Star Wars collector's database.

At each of the previous Celebrations I've chatted with hundreds of fellow collectors and there has been one common theme in most of their stories -- collecting alone. Nearly all have family and friends who go with them to conventions and on toy runs, but the true nature of collecting, the joys and discovery and everyday conversation, just wasn't there. Others participated with them, but they just didn't understand.

Star Wars Insider is offering readers a free digital sampler edition of the Insider, the official magazine of the Star Wars saga. The special issue is packed with sensational features including...

Transform your Jedi's favorite sandwiches into high-energy fuel for lunches, snacks and parties with Millennium Falcon and Darth Vader’s TIE fighter sandwich cutters. Created by the Jedi Kitchen Council to celebrate the Rebel Alliance's victory over the evil Empire, these cutters are fun and easy to use -- just press and cut.

STAR WARS FANS UNITE TO BEAT LEUKEMIA

Heroes Landing, along with Star Wars Action News have joined forces to host a Star Wars Trivia Night to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Central Florida. The event will be held on August 11, 2010 at 7:00 pm. This event will be emceed by Marjorie Carvalho and Arnie Carvalho, hosts of Star Wars Action News, a popular Star Wars podcast.

Yak’s Pub is a web strip that started in Sept. of 2006 on the YakFace.com forums. It takes place somewhere in between the real world of action figure toys and the Star Wars Universe as created by George Lucas. In early 2010 the web strip was featured in an article in the 5th edition of the Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book. Niktom, the creator of the pub, had been on break from the daily strip for several months. Today, to pub doors are open again and already the hottest place on Tatooine is jumping with customers.

Choose to view the Star Wars galaxy, or the Earth's own night sky

Uncle Milton has enjoyed a well earned success with their Star Wars scientific / educational toys series. Hot off the truck today Entertainment Earth has marked the Death Star Planetarium 'in stock'! With all of the pre-orders shipped, now is your chance to order yours!