Clone Wars on ABC3 in Australia starting the 4th of May.

According to 'The Age' in Melbourne  Season 5 (the last of them after Disney announced they would no longer continue with the animated series sometime ago mentioned below) follows the paths of numerous characters that people have come to love...  Who will fall is the mantra of this season and one can only wait to see how the last of this series plays out... and who may be left standing at the end.

Lego Toyfair UK Star Wars Sets 2013.

This weekend past was the UK toyfair and present was Lego.

Lego had previews of all their upcoming sets for 2013 (2nd half of the year).

As this blog is concerned with Star Wars I will only talk about the Star Wars sets based upon the information that has already been published.

75015 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid  

This set comes with a new Jango, finally from descriptions it is based upon the 7748 set from 09 (shown below).

This set will also include a battle droid and a clone trooper.  Being an AOTC set hopefully we get the reddish battle droid and a phase one clone.

75016 Homing Spider Droid

Another set that is similar to one previously created being the 7681 spider droid from 2008 packaging line (shown below).

This set is supposed to come with a clone trooper, 2SBD's (Super Battle Droids) and Adi Galia, although this may be Stass Allie.  Depending on which way Lego goes with the last figure it could either be an AOTC or a CW set?

750017 Duel On Geonosis 

This set features Dooku and Yoda (both reported to have new sculpts) from the end sequence whereby the two fight against one another.  There is apparently some scenery from the hangar and a new pilot droid (possibly for the Solar Sailor) along with a Poggle the Lesser:

75018 Jeks-14 Stealth Starfighter 

This is from the new Yoda's Chronicles short, not too much info apart from it looks a little like a Z-95 is reported to be Red and Black and comes with Jek-14, Separatist Bounty Hunter, Special Forces Clone Trooper and a droid called R4-G0.

75019 AT-TE 

Another PT set straight out of AOTC, this AT-TE doesn't sound to be too much different from the 2008 7675 (shown below) 

This set is purported to contain, Mace Windu, Clone Trooper Gunner, a few Battle droids and Coleman Trebor (a jedi who dies at the Genosion arena in AOTC, shown below)

75020 Jabba’s Sailbarge

Quite possibly the most anticipated set for 2013, judging by the preliminary pictures that have been shown on the net (seen in a post below) it will be filled with a few new minifigures.

Contaiend within this set are: Jabba, Max Rebo, Leia in the slave costume, a new Weequay, and R2 with the drinks tray.  This set also includes Ree-Yees, so for OT fans a little bitt more love has been shown to Jabba and his minions.

The ship is reported to open out revealing Max Rebo's keyboard. 

75021 Republic Gunship

Another ship that apparently has little change from the 2008 model except its swapped from Clone Wars theme to PT theme.  This set is supposed to include a new Obi Wan, Anakin and Padme in her white outfit (according to fbtb ) it also shows the midriff after the nexu had a swipe.

75022 Mandalorian Speeder 

This set remains an unknown quantity to me as I am not too sure what the speeder will look like, hopefully New York , this set is described as having Maul with his Cyborg legs and 2 new Mandalorian Super Commando's.  Not too sure how this will work but I'm guessing its been comprised from the current Clone Wars  as seen on StarWars.com

75023 Star Wars Advent Calendar

This year will feature both a young Boba and a Santa Jango, not too shabby in my opinion.

Information was compiled from: fbtb, brickfanatics and Eurobricks.

Clone Wars Season 5 Trailer

This the season for previews for shows that will be released later in the year.  This year Star Wars the Clone Wars is in to its fifth season (a long time since the cringe worthy 'Skyguy" comments).

Currently the trailer has been posted on a number of sites so I thought I'd post it and talk about a few of my observations.

As a fan of the EU I like the fact that we see some Falleen, with some suspicion that it may include Prince Xizor, leader of the Black Sun Criminal Organisation appearing in this series.  If this is true it would be a great addition to the Clone Wars while bringing in some fans who liked the earlier Expanded Universe introduction in Shadows Of The Empire.

Another grab from the clip appears to be a young General Kota, if it is in fact General Kota (another character that has a strong EU presence) it would be interesting to see how it were to be sold as from the computer game The Force Unleashed I and II we know that he escaped the ensuing Order 66 from Revenge Of The Sith.

I like that Hondo Ohnaka is included, I think he is a little underused in the series as a whole, he has a level of wit that is reminiscent of Han or Lando in the original movies.

A list of the first few Episode Titles are also out as shown below:

• A War on Two Fronts
• Front Runners
• The Soft War
• Tipping Points
• An Old Friend
• The Rise of Clovis
• Crisis at the Heart