In the week of May the 4th...

As per the annual hum drum that is Star Wars day, May the 4th we have had an expansion of this annual phenomenon to week long proportions.

currently there are give aways all over the internet:

Lego has their traditional May the 4th exclusive give away to coincide with a release of the next UCS set (this year it is the Sandcrawler).  the give away consists of a Darth Revan poly bag and a poster as shown below (there is also a competition where once a product is purchased you go in the draw for a 6 set prize):

Sideshow collectibles is also running a May the 4th special which releases a new product for the few days leading in to Star Wars day starting on the 1st which was a life size Boba Fett, there are several sets to be release over the coming days.  Not only will new product be released but there is the opportunity to win yourself a life size bust of Darth Vader with no purchase required. 

Amazon also gets in to the act this year by having a select number of the Star Wars Rebels t-shirts for order along with some other specials...

Perhaps the biggest news of the week is reserved for Starwars.com which has shown a picture of the cast from Episode 7 sitting down and doing a reading of the script.  

Also here in Asutralia we have the major cinema's doing there own tributes to May the 4th with both Hoyts and Village screening Star Wars Episodes I-VI over 2 days....

However you choose to spend this weekend, may the 4th be with you!

Star Wars the Black Series and sneak Peak of some Lego 2014 sets

The black series has been in Australia for around 2 months now and so far all that has been seen retail wise is series 1 and 2 of the 3.75" and series 1 of the 6", series 2 has already dropped in the US and can be found here at on line e-tailers in most countries presently.

Series 2 of the 6" is rather impressive, I think the character selection is stronger with Boba Fett being there, Greedo is a far stronger character than Biggs and has been long overdue also, both Han and Leia Speak for themselves too.

My criticism of the 3.75" line has been its rather week character selection wave 2 does nothing to refute this idea either, clearly Pablo Jill, Mara Jade Skywalker and Luminara Unduli are the strength of the wave although this has also been tempered by a sub par Mara Jade figure, the full wave can been seen below:

Personally I feel that Hasbro have thrown far too many troopers into the first two waves and really should have thought about some other characters to break it up a little.  

A list of the current waves and the pending third wave can be seen at Yakface in their toyguide section, several other figures from the second half of this year can be seen there also.

Jedi Temple Archives have had some images up of some of the third wave of figures coming out in the black series 3.75" the more impressive figures are Darth Plageuis, Vizam and Merumeru, suffice to say that Rex and Neyo are the only clones of this wave too, hopefully this trend continues next year.

Lego:

Someone on the internet has shown some images of the upcoming lego sets for next year as you can see from the clip the figures are place holders only, these are working images one would imagine, on first impression I think the cannon lacks, the little 'chibi' vehicles look rather good, the AT-AP which has been previewed at SDCC looks rather good but its a little light on as a wave, personally I believe that this is the wave suffers from being the first of Disney's involvement since the takeover of Lucasfilm and its subsidiaries, hopefully it is only a glitch.