It's time for a new Give-Away!



In our first SDCC'11 loot give-away, JediDefender.com is giving you the chance to win the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Indiana Jones 30th Anniversary Figure Set (aka the Raiders of the Lost Ark "lost wave") from Hasbro! Check out the new Give-Away page for all the details on how you can enter for your chance to win!
 
Give away ends Sunday, August 28th, 2011.

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Looking forward to better pic of this - was a great episode and really neat to get the spider in figure form - looked like the set comes wth the big Assassin Spider Droid, two 'lil spiders and two clones.

LEGO gets full DC license

Oh man, I know two five-year olds who are going to freak out over this news...  not to mention their dad, who will be even more excited for his LEGO booth tour at Toy Fair next year.

Oh man, I am soooooo tempted to buy this. 

It's unanimous (like the other owners were ever going to turn down that $60mil fee ).

Welcome back to the NHL, Winnipeg.

Case list from EE...

1x CW04 Destroyer Droid
1x CW16 Super Battle Droid
1x CW45 Anakin
1x CW48 Clone Commander Wolfe
1x CW52 Red Leader ARC Trooper
1x CW55 Savage Opress (shirtless)
1x CW58 Jedi Even Piell
1x CW59 Savage Opress (armored)
1x CW62 Rex (jet pack)
1x CW63 Kashyyyk Warrior
1x CW64 R7-D4 Plo Koon Astromech
1x CW65 Jar Jar (87957/87638)

Production Peek: Dewback Sixth Scale

I wasn't sure where to put this since it's affected Clones/Troopers from Waves 2, 3, 4, 5, and apparantly 6. Thought it'd be easier to start a new thread...

On the topic of yellow/green helmets - I've read a few anecdotal stories around the 'net that the greening/yellowing is being caused by something introduced during the molding process on the helmets - I don't know if it's a mold release agent or a plastic residue, but apparently, it's 100% reversible/removable!

I had a guy (toydoctordude - thanks, man!) send me an e-mail over at hanshideout.com with some simple instructions on how to de-color the recent Vintage Collection 'supposed to be white' trooper helmets -

[disclaimer - hot water is hot.  Don't burn yourself!]
1. heat up some water to near boiling
2. soak the helmet in the HOT water for 3 minutes
3. dip a dry cloth in the HOT water
4. remove helmet from water (carefully, it's hot!)
5. rub/polish/buff the helmet with the wet cloth

Simple, right?  I tried it with one of my worst greenish helmet Ep3 Clones and I'll be damned if it didn't work.  After a few minutes, it didn't look perfect but it looked a whole lot better.  A few more minutes of buffing with the cloth (it helps to rub hard, but obviously not hard enough to remove the paint) and the previous green color was almost unnoticible.

A caviat - it only seems to help with the helmets, not sure if it will do anything if you've got yellow-thigh Sandtroopers or whatever...  I'm also not sure how long it will last as I only just tried it myself tonight (for all I know the green will come back in a few weeks).  And, obviously, it doesn't help the carded collectors out there.

If I had known it was going to work so well, I would have taken some before pics - here's the after pic anyway.



Anyone out there have a yellow/green trooper helmet to try it out to see if you can duplicate my success?