The trailer for the sequel to Family Guy’s Blue Harvest Star Wars parody is out – “Something Something Something Dark Side”. Love it already.

A friend of mine alerted me to this story – seems the StarWars.com folks have got a fundraiser on for Make a Wish Foundation, auctioning a range of custom-made Mighty Muggs from prominent artists. Called “The Empire Muggs Back“, the exhibition and auction will take place at San Diego Comic Con, but we’re told to keep watching StarWars.com for “in-depth Empire Muggs Back coverage, info on the online charity auction, Mighty Mugg crafting tips and artist profiles.” Can’t wait!

A friend of mine found this on some Japanese site called Biglobe (anyone know it?) – it’s a pretty rockin’ paper model for the Millennium Falcon. I can’t read Japanese, and the model itself doesn’t have any clear design credits (in English anyway), so if the creator if this is out there somewhere and wants to touch base, I’d gladly let everyone know. I haven’t made the model up yet cause I’ve used up all my good paper-toy card on a recent batch of Cubees, but rest assured once I do get this sucker made, you’ll be reading about it here! You can download individual pages from the Japanese source site here, or otherwise you can get a combined PDF that I created from here.

I’ve bought Mighty Muggs from quite a few online sources now, and one of them has been Yogee.com.au. They have a pretty good selection of the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Transformers lines at the moment, but they’re also running a special offer until June 30 – buy 3 Mighty Muggs and you’ll receive a randomly selected 4th Mugg for free. The selection will be made from one of the four Muggs from Star Wars Wave 5, which included Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress and Capatin Rex. Happy shopping!

I know this has been a bit of a Mighty Muggs site recently (when I have had the chance to post – which unfortunately hasn’t been that often!) but hey, it IS what I’m collecting a lot of at the moment. I’ve actually had a bit of a break from any mass purchases, but the pocket money has been building, and yesterday I saw that my favourite online shop Saga Central had received their shipment of Waves 8 & 9 of the Star Wars Mighty Muggs lines. So out came the fantastic plastic and Wave 8 should hopefully be arriving at the man-cave here fairly soon. Included in Wave 8 (as picture above) is Wicket (the Ewok), Qui Gon Jin, Imperial Guard and the Wampa. I’m most excited about Imperial Guard, as I had this guy as an original action figure when I was a kid and he was one of my favourites. Something about the long mask and robe that was just always so cool.

That’s right, Toy Tragic has finally made his eBay purchase of a first wave Han Solo Mighty Mugg. Woo! And for not too much either – I’ve seen him online for sometimes over AU$50 which is way too much, even for a first wave Mugg, but this one came in way under that, and about the same as what I would pay for an exlcusive here in Oz. I’m so happy to finally have that one in the collection – now I just need Darth Maul (v1) and the early Star Wars Mighty Muggs waves are done!