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While in attendance last month at Star Wars Celebration, I was fortunate to grab a couple moments inside the Funko booth with their very own Mark Robben! Mark is super nice — we had a fun little chat about what it's like to set up their booths at shows, which exclusives are picked as shared[...]

Barzinga is back, and This past week Henn and I were at Disney World with his family, kicking it up in the warm Florida sun. Disney is always a great

Last weekend was Star Wars Celebration, and we already gave you a fair whack of cosplay from the event, but we're here to give you just a little more. On the Saturday the Jedi and Sith alike came out in force to show off some amazing cosplay! I personally loved the mash ups, such as the Maleficent Sith, Ghostbuster[...]

Kenner perfected the action figure with their Star Wars line of action figures back in the late 70's and early 80's. They sold millions upon millions of

At last weeks Star Wars Celebration in Orlando there was a rather unusual location for some of the best humor highlights of the show; the men's room No, not some swanky room filled with Jedi Master VIP's, Stormtroopers and Slave Leias, but the other one filled with urinals and stalls The place one[...]

However, fans didn't know this until Ryan Penagos hosted a Marvel Unlimited panel on Sunday and told us we didn't know the shirts were completely sold out because Marvel put in an emergency order to get more made for the rest of the convention so their fans would walk away happy. Flash forward to the present[...]

Video footage was shot by freelance photographer Denzel Eslinger. Follow him on twitter to see him talk about nerd stuff, toys, and soccer We got the

  Star Wars Celebration Orlando has come to a close and it's been a heck of an experience If you've kept up with our coverage over the weekend you'll know that our crew has been beating the bushes (and standing in lines) to bring you some of the breaking happenings throughout As with most pop-culture conventions these[...]

Unless you're coming to something like Star Wars Celebration It might be a little less unique in an environment like that. A backpack is something that has been floating around for years but a purse intended for adult use is another thing entirely These purses, wallets, and change purses shaped like R2-D2, BB-8, and more have[...]

The decision to have Star Wars Celebration Orlando over the Easter weekend presented a unique opportunity for the candy and toy makers Galerie Candy and Gifts While they are a company that makes products year round, the lack of a kinder surprise eggs in the United States have left the market wide open for the company[...]

Hasbro held their Star Wars Celebration panel Saturday in Orlando Arguably they had the most successful panel of the whole convention Collectors have been begging for a return to super-articulated 3 3/4 inch figures, the scale we all grew up with  It more on that later. The panel opened with a tribute of sorts to toy[...]

Just announced at Star Wars Celebration Orlando at the Hasbro panel, the 3 3/4 super-articulated Vintage Collection figures will finally be returning to store shelves everywhere in 2018 There was a panel shown of Rey on a vintage card, and they have announced a fan vote for the first figure, details on that coming shortly. #gallery-1[...]

The panel showcasing the fourth, and as we found out toward the end of the panel, final season of Star Wars: Rebels was packed full of fans of the

As a vintage Star Wars collector, you learn very quickly that this hobby takes two things more than anything: money and opportunity. Money more than

The idea of the convention exclusive has become a bigger and bigger deal as the second hand market has grown. Vendors like Funko, Hasbro, and LEGO have

It was one of the most hated moments from the prequel trilogy, which is saying something, because the prequel trilogy featured a lot of Jar Jar Binks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSNhMSaVgkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: I don't like sand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSNhMSaVgk) During the livestream of Star Wars Celebration Orlando, Hayden Christensen was asked how he feels about sand, to[...]

Immediately after the panel for Star Wars: Rebels a press conference was held with a majority of the main cast. When asked about whether or not we would

I gotta admit, by the late afternoon of Star Wars Celebration today I was feeling pretty rundown and out of it I love Star Wars so very much, but the long lines and other fans who go out of their way to make an experience a bad one ruin it for everyone Luckily, I was[...]

On the livestreamed "The Star Wars Show Live Presented By Verizon" from Star Wars Celebration Orlando, IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall gave an interview about IDW's recently announced line of Star Wars comics for young readers, headlined by Star Wars Adventures, launching in September Ryall shared some new details on the comic, including, perhaps most importantly, their[...]

Throughout the Rebels panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando, Dave Filoni was wearing a black t-shirt which asked the question: "Ahsoka Lives?" He was still wearing the shirt near the end of the panel, before they showed the trailer (watch it here): But when the lights came back on after the trailer, Filoni's shirt was different: Did the shirt now[...]

Warwick Davis is joining the cast of Star Wars: Rebels, we learned at the Rebels panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando According to Dave Filoni, Davis auditioned live onstage at Star Wars Celebration Europe, though Filoni didn't realize what was happening at the time They showed a clip of that, and then brought out Davis,[...]

I was fortunate enough to attend the Collectors Update Panel Friday afternoon at Star Wars Celebration, and there is some cool stuff coming from companies such as Hot Toys, Gentle Giant, Bandai/Tomashii Nations, Sideshow Collectibles, Kotobukiya, and more These are the busts, statues, and life-size collectibles that will make you the envy of all your[...]

The day might be over in Orlando at Star Wars Celebration, but that doesn't mean that news and updates have stopped emerging Fandango's managing editor Erik Davis managed to speak to Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) star Daisy Ridley about the film Sounds like she hasn't seen it yet, but that doesn't mean[...]

Star Wars Celebration Orlando is proving to be no different as the line to get into the panel for Star Wars: The Last Jedi started many hours earlier than it was originally supposed to While ReedPOP and Lucasfilm tried to keep people from starting a line before the originally announced 8pm starting time, there were too[...]

That being said it appears that the people handling Star Wars Celebration Orlando were unprepared for the sheer amount of Rebel scum that descended on the Orange County Convention Center. The chaos began late last night with stories of the overnight stay being unorganized and several hundred people cutting in line That mean that people who[...]

There were a lot of high profile guests at the Last Jedi panel hosted by Josh Gad at Star Wars Celebration Orlando today Mark Hamill Daisy Ridley John Boyega Director Rian Johnson New addition Kelly Marie Tran Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. But the biggest star of all? The adorable, merchandise moving, click baiting BB-8, of course[...]

At the Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando today, Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson revealed that he was the only other person on set besides the official photographer who could take photos without being tacked Bringing his trusty camera along, Johnson took lots of shots of the cast and crew[...]

Thursday afternoon, I got to attend a really fun and interesting discussion and tour through the various collectible food and drink packaging throughout

Brand new "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" poster is released during Celebration, is AMAZINGLY gorgeous.

  Well, for months we have begged and pleaded for anything, literally any glimpse of Star Wars The Last Jedi, the new saga film coming out this December, and now we have it straight from the Last Jedi panel at Star Wars Celebration in Orlando It's got Luke, Rey, Lightsabers, the Force, The Falcon… Ok, time[...]