Archive for the 'Deals' Category

POP QUIZ!!!

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Please note that this is not a blog post — we just need this format for responses. [EDIT: Yes, we have a winner, and details will be forthcoming tomorrow. Stay tuned!] The PRIZE is pretty big. It’s an AT-TE courtesy of the HunterPR team (thank you Joe and Danny) and Hasbro (thank you to the [...]

There’s a cash register ringing, and it weighs so heavy on my back… (AGAIN!)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Thanks to one of my home crowd heroes here in Atlanta on the ASWCC (Atlanta Star Wars Collectors Club), there’s a deal to be had. How good is this deal? Try a Turbo Tank for pennies less than $65 shipped! Atlanta’s Darth Pharaoh writes: "Target.com has a deal online only. 10 off Hasbro purchase of [...]

I Can Have Both

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

The Ballad of Stormy Sevenspire… "Stormy Sevenspire was a Jedi archaeologist ("picker") who survived Order 66 through sheer miscommunication and went to ground when Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi sent out their order to do so from the Jedi  Temple on Coruscant. Using archaeology, instinct, and unfettered skill, he lives to find other Jedi who heeded [...]

Has the Perrier gone straight to my head?

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Most people think that we (the collector media) go to Toy Fair for swag, which may be the case. (Stuff is sold on eBay here and there, and hotels generally run about $200/night.) This year, however, was a lean year. At Hasbro we received USB "thumb" drives with pictures of product, and that’s it. Well, [...]