It's a one year anniversary of sorts, as LEGOLAND celebrates the launch of the Star Wars Miniland expansion in their Carlsbad, CA park. The 1:5 scale dioramas represent all 6 films and The Clone Wars television series utilizing over 1.5 million bricks. LEGOLAND held their ribbon cutting ceremony this morning and invited 22 kids from The Make A Wish Foundation. Members of the 501st Legion were also in attendance.

It's Qui-Gon Jinn with Kenner-esque shoulder and hip joints, the best head sculpt ever, and a light-up lightsaber.  How oddly delightful!  Should you get one?  I think so.  Read on!

We have uploaded over 220 photos from this morning's LEGOLAND Star Wars Miniland Expansion launch event. Spanning every episode of the Star Wars saga including a theme from The Clone Wars, LEGO's Star Wars Miniland is truly a sight to behold. 

Sideshow reveals their next Sixth Scale figure to be the Tusken Raider! Check out their preview page and look got a production blog to be posted on April 3rd.

Sideshow has begun taking pre-orders for their Darth Malgus Life Size Figure! The scourge of The Old Republic is priced at $5,999 with a $1,200 non-refundable deposit and scheduled for release in July.

From a semi-recent Battle Pack, Colonel Dyer is, for all intents and purposes, our best update of the Kenner Imperial Officer figure. Black uniform, gloves, and a blaster... he's our guy!  So is the set worth your while? (Yes.) Read on!

Our sponsors at BigBadToyStore have posted some brand new pre-orders and their latest arrivals for your online shopping consideration

New carded photos of the upcoming Grand Moff Tarkin, Galen Marek, Shae Vizla, and Nikto have been posted by Sandtroopers.com! That Kenner style Tarkin Star Wars card is simply sublime!

Star Wars sales continue as the ramp up for Easter hits its peak; both Toys R Us and Target are both having half-off sales on Star Wars this week. On the latest Star Wars Action News podcast Marjorie and Arnie run down the sales, including how to maximize your Fighter Pods purchase, and where you can get an Ultimate Force F/X lightsaber for $10 shipped!

It's not the update to his singular Star Wars Action Figure Archive that we've been waiting for, but Steve Sansweet will be releasing Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection: 35 Years Of Characters this October. I'm an unabashed fan of Steve, his knowledge, and his prose, so this one I can't wait for. 

Sideshow has posted up an awesome preview photo gallery of their upcoming Life Sized Darth Malgus Statue. Pre-orders will begin this Thursday, March 29th from 2-3 pm PT. The statue ain't cheap at a price of $5,999.99 and  a non-refundable $1,200 deposit. Pray for a nice tax return!

This Battle Droid is the first release of the new 2012 Movie Heroes line-- the second is red.  So this is just different to make you mad, particularly because it's from a cheap 2-pack mold at $9.  So should you get it? No, but read on!

LEGOLAND^®California’s Master Model Builders, Gary McIntire and Ryan Ziegelbauer, installed a new LEGO^® model of a Jawa sandcrawler in LEGO^® Star Wars™ Miniland today as the family theme park prepares to reveal the expanded area to the public on March 29.

This Jedi Padawan is a sort of nameless extra from a recent Star Tours set.  Not specifically from the movies or ride, he looks like he's based on an actual person but nobody really knows who it is.  Do you?  I don't.  Anyway, read on!

So what's going on now that Toy Fair is over? Is it time to pretend the sky is falling again? And what's going on with the Attack Recon Fighter? Good question! Should you expect a reissue of the Imperial Shuttle in vintage packaging? Hahahah no. All this and more in this week's Q&A!