Starts today! 

We'll have pictures eventually, not sure when they will start rolling in though.

And, just an FYI - The Hasbro Panel is on Friday, July 27th.

11:30 am (Pacific) - What’s New and What’s Coming from Hasbro:
Come for first announcements about Hasbro’s products that you might not hear anywhere else, plus a special sneak preview of the 2008 product line. Meet members of Hasbro’s Star Wars marketing and design teams, the talented people who work on the company’s Attacktix, Titanium, and Star Wars action figure line. Q&A time included

According to NewForceComics, the wave 4 cases (including the UGH assortments) are on their way to the USA...

From New Force:
While we are in SD for the Con, we got notice that hasbro has shipped quite a bit of new assts to us (UGH, etc). We will detail contents and allocations as we return next week.

Time to start hunting again... 

I guess it's now really official:


Indiana Jones License Granted to Sideshow Collectibles

Sideshow Collectibles is proud to expand its relationship with Lucasfilm with the announcement of a new licensing deal to produce collectibles from the Indiana Jones film series. The adventure series began with the 1981 release Raiders of the Lost Ark, followed in 1984 by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. After fourteen nominations and seven Academy Award wins for the film franchise, the adventure continues with a much-anticipated fourth installment yet to be titled, set for release on May 22, 2008. Sideshow's product line will be inclusive of all four Indiana Jones films and will include 12-inch Figures, Premium Format Figures, and Life-size Busts that will range in price from $69.99 to $599.99


You can read the whole press release here. 

Sideshow has revealed the next piece in the line...

‘Look Sir, Droids’ Sandtrooper Enviorama

12" Ilum Padmé Amidala Figure

Priority Pre-Orders will start Thursday July 26th!

Remember, you must be a registered Sideshow newsletter subcriber and account holder by midnight tomorrow to be eligible for priority pre-ordering!

Yay for Scott!  Thanks for the cash... 

Hopefully it will be fixed soon, we have top men working on it. 

Everything seems to be working again.  Here are the questions & answers just in case though.


1. In your Marvel Heroes line, you guys are doing a few large scaled Marvel characters (Sentinel, Galactus). Is there any chance of carrying the idea over to Star Wars for a Rancor or a Bantha pack in the Galactic Heroes line? Our Galactic Hero Wampa and Taun-Taun need some more friends!

**That's a good idea, and we are looking at how we can keep adding to the creature/vehicle play pattern. While those ideas are not the first ones in the queue, we are hopeful they will get into the mix at some point.


2. The Entertainment Earth "Mystery Pack" has many fans talking. It seems like there is a back story developing with the figures announced thus far. Just who is behind the back story to the "Mystery Pack" figures? Is it Lucasfilm's doing completely (perhaps based on some upcoming or existing EU continuity) or are the creative minds at Hasbro writing up all the background on the figures in the "Mystery Pack"?

**It's a bit of both. Some of the characters are existing (or will exist) from publishing, and some of the characters were proposed by our team and added into the storyline as it came together. To go back in time to the specific point when the idea for the pack began, the starting point was a Star Wars Insider feature a couple years back by Karen Traviss. This story really intrigued us, and provided a jumping in point into a previously unexplored area that became the basis for the sets. More details will be revealed at Comic Con, so stay tuned.


3. Pictures of the upcoming AT-RT Patrol battle pack have surfaced, but it's hard to tell from the picture exactly what we're getting. More specifically, the sculpts on the AT-RT Drivers included in the pack - are they the original AT-RT Driver pack-in figure sculpt or are they based on the basic carded AT-RT Driver sculpt (RotS #54)?

**Details will be revealed next week at Comic Con, but the figure used in this pack is based on the carded figure, and not the reduced-articulation pack-in driver.

The latest Hasbro QnA has been posted.

- Can we get a Galactic Heroes Bantha or Rancor?
- Who made up that EE Mystery Pack anyway?
- AT-RT Driver Sculpt?  (obivously, we asked the question before we got the pic yesterday  )