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The very limited and highly anticipated Target exclusive Empire Strikes Back vintage 9 figure set has hit store shelves. I just saw a good quantity of these tonight at my local Target. These are reissues of figures I already own so I decided to pass on it. If you don't have these individual figures already it's a pretty good deal for 9 figures in cool retro packaging for $49.99. If you can't find it on the shelves at your Target store it might be in the stockroom. Jut punch in the following DPCI number on any of the store's price scanners: 087-06-1620. Happy hunting!

Back in the days of the original trilogy Kenner released an incredible amount of figures, vehicles, playsets , and accessories so incredibly awesome that to this day many of those items are better than anything produced in recent years. Some of the molds for the vehicles were reused countless times for the modern era line which kicked of in the mid 90s and is still going strong. Unfortunately the last couple of years Hasbro had seemed to run out of ideas on how to bring back a sense of excitement to the original trilogy product line and I truly lost interest in Hasbro's Star Wars offerings. Most of the Clone Wars stuff is just terrible and it seemed to become the focus of Hasbro's product output. Fortunately this year Hasbro has gone back to the original trilogy characters and vehicles in a big way in order to help celebrate the 30 th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back. To end the year a third wave of vintage figures has just started to show up on the pegs based on Ret...

Both Target and Toys R Us are celebrating the 30 th anniversary of EMPIRE and the new season of Clone Wars with major resets to their shelves in order to focus on new Star Wars products as well as great deals and exclusives. The Target reset takes place on the 17 th of October but most stores in my area already have everything up. I was able to pick up their exclusive vintage packaging Rebel Snowspeder and the Attack & Defense of Hoth battle packs. You can also get Saga Legends and Clone Wars action figures for 5 bucks a piece 'till Sunday. Toys R Us also has a great display at the front of the store and they have the exclusive vintage packaging Snow AT-AT from Empire available. For Tron fans a lot of merchandise from the upcoming TRON LEGACY is popping up at both Target and TRU . I found some Target exclusives at my local store too. Happy Hunting!

I've never really talked much about Legos in any of my previous posts so I thought I'd start doing so since I have been playing with Legos from a very small age and in the past couple of years with the introduction of more sets based on some of my favorite movies like Indiana Jones and Star Wars I've started to get back into them again. For my first official Lego post I'll be taking a look at some of the Lego Star Wars sets you can use to recreate one of the coolest scenes in The Empire Strikes Back. This year is the 30 th anniversary of what is perhaps the finest film in the Star Wars saga and most of the Lucasfilm licensees will be celebrating by offering tons of new Empire merchandise like the upcoming definitive book The Making of The Empire Strikes Back by J.W. Rinzler and Hasbro's ESB vehicles and vintage style action figure line. Over the years Lego has offered multiple sets featuring vehicles and play set pieces from ESB . In this post I will be utiliz...

In the previous installments of this series of posts I went over some of the pieces I have displayed from my Star Trek collection , my Sci- Fi Collection, and my DC Superheroes collection . Now its time to go over my Star Wars display. Star Wars is one of the collections I have the most items in, though I mostly collect the Hasbro and Kenner stuff. I would say the stuff on display is only about 1/4 of my entire Star Wars collection. Most of the newer stuff I have had to pack aways since I ran out of room to display Star Wars stuff a long time ago. I'll update this post when I rotate the items in the display in the near future. Now let's take a look at the most recent display for Star Wars.