TFN is reporting that McDonalds will be having a “global Star Wars promotion” in the fall for The Clone Wars.
In the News: TFU, People, Merchandise
San Francisco Chronicle on The Force Unleashed. They also feature Ray Harryhausen, who is awesome. (Star Wars content, not that you should care: Quotes from Dennis Muren, lots of ILM mentions.)
- People: MSNBC counts down Natalie Portman’s coolness, Seth Green talks about Robot Chicken: Star Wars.
- What? We hate Moby? Apparently he got a lot of flack from Star Wars fans while dating Natalie Portman. But he’s the only person I’ve ever seen on Cribs with actual books! (Okay, him and Hanson. I know, right?)
- Toy Fair leftovers: Variety looks at high-end toys.
Indiana Jones and some random merchandise of doom?
StarWars.com reports that the Topps Indiana Jones Heritage trading card set will come with Artist Sketch cards. Read more about it here. Or go here to see a list of the artists. And there’s also Vintage Sticker Magnets. The cards are supposed to be coming out at the tail end of February – probably this week!
Meanwhile, who’s the most adorable adventurer with a whip and fedora? I think the Mighty Muggs version of Indiana Jones might be the winner here – check out that Mola Ram with flaming heart accessory! and you thought the Star Wars Mighty Muggs were cute.
And speaking of Mola Ram, here’s what he will look like in the upcoming LEGO Indiana Jones video game.
But if a cool statue of Indiana Jones in that classic scene from the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark is more to your taste, you can get one of those too.
New licensee to make costumes and armor
Museum Replicas’ Windlass Studios will make replica clothing and armor for Star Wars fans. They’ll have booths at the International Costume Show Las Vegas, San Diego Comic-Con and Dragon*Con. I’ll be interested to see how this is received by the costuming community…
Hyperspace members big on math
At least, that’s the impression one gets from winning entry for the 2008 Hyperspace Shirt Design.
This week in The Clone Wars
- Concept art: General Grievous.
- Voices: Discovered at swclonewars: A pair of new voices on IMDB.
- Toys: Up close and personal with the The Clone Wars LEGOs. And for your old-school Clone Wars action, Sideshow is coming out with an armored General Kenobi.
- Need to catch up? Check out the EU Cantina’s Clone Wars knowledge center.
TOSblog does Toy Fair
The official site has a man on the inside! StarWarsShop’s Matt Martin reports on Monday and Tuesday.
There’s even a tidbit of book news in the latter! Check it:
My next meeting was with DK Publishing, a company who didn’t actually have a booth at the show but since I knew they would be attending I managed to set up an appointment to go over some of their upcoming books. Slated for this summer is Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection, which is, obviously, a book full of blueprints of vehicles and other items from the entire Star Wars saga. I was given a sample of the foldout Death Star schematics and it looks great. They’ll also be continuing their great “Visual Guide” line with The Clone Wars in the fall and in the summer they’ll be releasing a guide to Indiana Jones as well!
We knew about the blueprints, and Visual Guides for The Clone Wars and Indy IV aren’t a huge surprise, but they haven’t been announced yet, either.
Hallmark cards now slightly less vomitastic
It’s nothing new to see Star Wars cards at Hallmark (How many of you received that musical one for a birthday?) but now there are more of them. Whoo.
Toy Fair: And the rest
The Toy Fair coverage is getting a bit too hefty for poor little non-collector me to keep up with, so I’m just going to point you towards the TOSblog and Rebelscum. Of interest to the EU fans – Hasbro’s The Force Unleashed collections.
For your further amusement, some life-size LEGO figures.
Toy Fair: Hasbro, Gentle Giant, Muggs and etc.
Rebelscum has the Hasbro presentation. Comic pack details start at slide 16. There’s also some new figures of interest in the Evolutions line – X-Wing fans, you can finally have a Hobbie to hang out with your Wes and Fel.
- TOSblog has upcoming Mighty Muggs, along with a (slightly) closer look at Hasbro’s Clone Wars vehicles (including ‘the big one,’ a monster AT-TE,) comic packs and the Legacy Collection (nothing to do with either the comic or LOTF: they’re all OT figures. Genius.)
- Rebelscum goes a little nuts with Gentle Giant, with separate galleries of statues, Animated Maquettes, Classics busts, Mini-Busts, Kustomz and a video tour. Not to mention they’re teaming up with GG for an exclusive.
- A new licensee: Diamond Select Toys. They’ll make action figures, busts, and banks. How this makes them drastically different from Sideshow, Hasbro, Gentle Giant and the rest, I have no idea, but here are more details from the show.
- Yakface now has a LEGO gallery.