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May 3, 2013 Phil

Dark Horse Digital: May the 4th Be With You Sale!

DARK HORSE DIGITAL: MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU SALE! A galaxy of Star Wars comics for $30 or $100: reader’s choice! MAY 3, MILWAUKIE, OR—Dark Horse Comics is joining in on the May the 4th festivities with a very exclusive limited offer to their digital comics readers. Get blasted into a galaxy far, far away with two amazing May the 4th MegaBundles! One MegaBundle is for devout comics readers, and the other is for the younger Star Wars fan in all of us!

May 1, 2013 Phil

Hasbro Rules the Roost with High-Flying Angry Birds Star Wars Toys and Games

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HASBRO RULES THE ROOST THIS STAR WARS DAY WITH HIGH-FLYING ANGRY BIRDS™ STAR WARS ® TOYS AND GAMES PAWTUCKET, R.I. (May 1, 2013) — How do you make the greatest pop-culture holiday in the universe even better? Put some birds in it! For the first time since their debut last fall, ANGRY BIRDS™ STAR WARS® toys and games from Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) are available for all your May the 4th celebratory needs! Released in agreement with LucasFilm and based on the wildly successful mobile game from Rovio Entertainment, ANGRY BIRDSTM STAR WARS® toys and games are the perfect way for kids and parents to spread their wings

February 10, 2013 Phil

Toy Fair 2013 – Day 1 Recap – Hasbro News

As we gear up for Day 2 of Toy Fair pictures, let’s step back and take a look at Day 1 in review. Yesterday was the annual Hasbro Fan Media Event, a great way to kick off Toy Fair for us toy lovers. A two hour presentation covered My Little Pony, Transformers, GI Joe, Star Wars, and Marvel toys, and afterwards fan press members were allowed to see Hasbro’s show room. In addition, Hasbro provided the media with press images of toys seen and not seen at the show. Take a gander TRANSFORMERS Beast Hunters Bot Shots Construct-Bots Generations Kre-O MARVEL Marvel

January 11, 2013 Phil

Review: “Star Wars” #1 from Dark Horse

See the preview at http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/19-812/Star-Wars-1 So, when I walked into my local comic shop (Neptune Comics – give them a try! I don’t make money by linking them; they’re just good people.), I wasn’t sure I was going to buy “Star Wars” #1. I knew the story — this takes place shortly after Episode IV, and it could be a continuity mess by treading in the waters of the established “Expanded Universe”. However, after I decided to pick it up, I jokingly told the owner, “Well, they can’t screw it up any more! And they may just burn it clean

January 11, 2013 Phil

My Take on a Live-Action “Star Wars” TV Show

So, the news came out yesterday that Disney is still looking at the live-action Star Wars television series. Here’s my quick take on it. They’re going for grim and gritty. They want to explore the “seedy underside” of that galaxy. They want “Deadwood” in the Star Wars Universe. Listen. The most adult/grown-up channel Disney owns is ABC. They don’t own a Spike, or an FX, or even an AMC. ABC. Grim and gritty is going to be sanitized a lot for ABC. Ron Moore’s attachment brings some good news, but even “Battlestar Galactica” and “Caprica” had some real clunker plotlines. Take the bad

October 24, 2011 Phil

NYCC 2011: Transformers and Star Wars Presentations Slides Online

We’ve got the high-res presentation slides from both the Transformers presentation and Star Wars presentation from New York Comic Con! Thanks to Hunter PR and Hasbro for the pics. Check them out in the Geekly Rewind Gallery via these links: Transformers: http://www.asmzine.com/gallery/conventions/New-York-Comic-Con-2011/hasbro/transformers-presentation-slides/index.html Star Wars: http://www.asmzine.com/gallery/conventions/New-York-Comic-Con-2011/hasbro/star-wars-presentation-slides/index.html Don’t forget, you can see other NYCC pics in the Geekly Rewind Gallery: http://www.asmzine.com/gallery/conventions/New-York-Comic-Con-2011/index.html

October 21, 2011 Phil

Hasbro News: Star Wars Fans’ Choice Poll Now Online

The official Hasbro Star Wars Fans’ Choice Poll is now live on Star Wars Insider’s website! Fans can vote for their favorite character from among the Top 20 vote-getters from last month’s open polling on Star Wars fan sites. The winning figure will be included in Hasbro’s Star Wars action figure line in 2013, in time for the 30th anniversary of Return Of The Jedi. Voting is open on the Star Wars Insider website until December 1st. The winning character will be announced at Hasbro’s 2012 Collector-Fan Media Day event at Toy Fair in New York in February 2012. Click

October 13, 2011 Phil

NYCC 2011: Hasbro Preview Night Thoughts

While ASM wasn’t at Hasbro’s Preview Night yesterday (congrats to the lucky ones who were!), that doesn’t mean we didn’t go searching the net for pictures of what was on display. Here’s a quick smattering of thoughts from me. Transformers From TFormers.com’s gallery (see it here), I think I’m most psyched about Cyberverse. I used to hate having characters in multiple size-classes. It ruined scale, plus it meant that in my completist days, I had to buy the same character over and over. Well, my completist days are over, and now I love the idea of Cyberverse. If you are

April 1, 2009 Phil

Cool Star Wars Mini-Rigs!

Rebelscum.com has some pictures of Star Wars Deluxe Mini-Rigs. Holy man, these things are awesome, especially the Speeder Bike looking thing. Hasbro? More please!

March 4, 2009 Phil

An Extremely Uncomfortable Star Wars Pack

The folks at EndorExpress.net posted a picture of a new set of Star Wars figures called the “Jedi Training Academy 5 Pack”. This set will be sold at upcoming Star Wars Weekends at Disney World. What’s so uncomfortable about it? It features a Jedi, three younglings… and Darth Vader. Those younglings are so doomed.