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It’s the greatest new Jedi from the Clone Wars series, Nahdar Vebb! Order yours today. (before Mark buys them all..)

Go to hasbrotoyshop.com for the order form and details.

It’s official! LucasFilm announced today that the ultimate official gathering of Star Wars fans will happen in sunny Florida next year. C5 will celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back.

Star Wars Celebration V will take place August 12-15, 2010, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. A website, www.starwarscelebration.com, is dedicated exclusively to the event, and tickets to Star Wars Celebration V will be available for purchase online starting Thursday, December 10th. As always, Celebration will bring together the best of the Star Wars universe in one exciting, dynamic event! Click here for the announcement on starwars.com.

This is the seventh in a series featuring our members.

Name: Chris Crothers

OSWCC Treasurer

* Age: 35
* Hometown: Cincinnati
* Occupation: Assistant Facilities Manager for EMCOR Facilities Services
* Time in OSWCC: Member since 2005
* Family: Wife Laurie, daughter Jaina, son Caden
* Favorite Movie: ROTJ
* Collecting Focus: 3 3/4″ and Titaniums
* Star Wars fan since: 1980
* Favorite character: OTC - Fett, Prequels - Maul, Neyo
* Favorite item in your collection: AT-AT Prototype
* Originals or Prequels: Originals
* Favorite quote from the movies: “I didn’t see you playing with your dolls sir…” oh wrong space movie… let’s try “Never tell me the odds!”
* Loose or Mint on Cards: Minty, minty
* Vintage or Modern: Modern
* Collection location: Felucia
* Novels or comics: Novels but will try and pick up Legacy this summer
* Dark Side or Light Side: Dark baby….dark
* Star Wars dream job: Facilities Manager at Skywalker Ranch or Rancho Obi-Wan

Here’s a look at two great new Gentle Giant mini-busts of Darth Talon from Star Wars: Legacy & Bounty Hunter 4-LOM! Our friends & OSWCC sponsor Razor’s Edge have them both available for pre-order. Check them out today!

The club received this email from Justine Moore, Assistant Producer for New Media….Yeah, we know it’s Jar Jar but if there is interest then let’s spread the word.

Hi! My name is Justine Moore and I am a web developer at CET in Cincinnati, which is a public television station. Wednesday, April 15th marks the first day of our annual “Action Auction”. I wanted to email your club as we have an item that will be auctioned off that I feel is something that would strike a chord with your members. It’s a life-sized statue of Jar Jar Binks. Being a Star Wars fan myself, I know Jar Jar is by no means a fan-favorite, but I thought perhaps from a collector’s point-of-view, it may be of some interest to someone out there! He gets auctioned off on Saturday. Being a tv station, this would be directed more towards the members in the Cincinnati & surrounding area, but I’m sure if someone outside of our viewing range really wanted him, we could accommodate.

Here’s a link to a video for more information on Jar Jar :

http://www.cetconnect.org/Events/2009/A … temID=1625

DCSWCC NOW FIVE YEARS OLD

A long time ago, in our nation’s capital region.

August 19, 2008 marked the fifth anniversary of The Washington DC Metro Area Star Wars Collecting Club (DCSWCC). Back in the summer of 2003, Mike Kurtz
convened 18 local die-hard Star Wars collectors in a library basement.
DCSWCC is now one of the largest and most active Star Wars collecting clubs
in America, with over 110 members. The club meets monthly and holds special
events such as socials and “Roadshow” appraisal events throughout the year.
DCSWCC members have attended all major Star Wars events and held prominent
volunteer positions at JediCon in West Virginia, Celebration III in
Indianapolis, Celebration IV in Los Angeles, Celebration Europe in London,
and Celebration Japan in Tokyo.

Throughout the last five years, DCSWCC and its members have contributed
significantly to the Star Wars fandom and have supported children of the local communities. Mainly through sales of exclusive Lucasfilm-sanctioned
cloisonne lapel pins featuring Yoda, Chewbacca, and Boba Fett, DCSWCC has
raised over $14,000 for charities such as DC Children’s Hospital, The
Children’s Inn at NIH, the Aluminum Cans for Burned Children Program, United
Mitochondrial Disease Fund, and the 501st’s Katie Johnson Fund. In
addition, members have donated countless canned goods and toys to local food
pantries and Toys for Tots campaigns.

DCSWCC’s latest charity pin drive is still underway, with less than 200 pins
remaining. You can help them reach their goal of $6000 — please visit http://store.dcswcc.org and order your pin now!

Happy belated birthday, DCSWCC!

For more information, visit the club’s website at http://www.dcswcc.org

Hasbro just released the all new, extremely improved Falcon and customizer Peter Clute saw even more potential to improve it. More paint detail, motion and infrared sensors and some LED’s and it goes from pretty cool to darn near the real thing. (Shooting model, not the real real thing..)

Check it out over at Gizmodo.

Apparently we’re not the only people excited about the new Indiana Jones figures and toys that are now hitting store shelves. Check out this article about the man himself shopping for Indy toys in Los Angeles.

Image courtesy of thisislondon.co.uk

ENGINEERS at the University of Warwick are helping to design ‘R2D2′-type robo nurses which could be in hospitals by 2020. i-WARD is the name of the £2.6 million collaborative EU funded three-year project.

It stands for Intelligent Robot Swarm for Attendance, Recognition, Cleaning and Delivery.

Collaborator Simon Thiel, of Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart, Germany, said: “We are all big Star Wars fans.”

Read the complete article here.

From the Coventry Telegraph

Remember those Star Wars cake pans your mom used to make your Darth Vader birthday cake when you were 7? This guy took it a bit further with his Death Star wedding cake. Read on over at Gizmodo.