If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that toy manufacturers will always make more things for you to buy. So for now, I’m celebrating a possibly short-lived achievement, but an achievement nonetheless! I just purchased the last Star Wars Mighty Mugg I needed to complete the Star Wars series of Muggs in my collection – and the winner is, “Biker Scout”.

I reckon he’s one of the best looking SW Muggs they produced, and I had to end up getting one from the States so I could rule a line under all the SW Muggs there are to collect (including exclusives!). I’m still missing a number of Marvel characters, Baroness from the GI Joe series, the 3rd wave of Transformers and a couple of the very early SDCC exclusives that are now very rare and very pricey!

Anyway, I’m happy with my complete set of SW Muggs for the time being, and will be saving my pennies again to start on the remaining few I need overall. Huzzah!

Something from my collection which I haven’t actually looked at for a while are a set of Star Wars Chubbies that I picked up at the Star Wars exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Sciene and Industry in 2008. Chubbies are basically Russian nesting dolls themed with Star Wars charaters, and are produced by Hot Toys. One of the cool themes though is that they represent a lineage for certain characters, showing their progression or heritage through the Star Wars timeline.

My set of Chubbies (that just sounds wrong on many levels) are for Anakin Skywalker. The smallest doll is of Anakin as a child in Episode I. He then fits inside th next biggest doll which is of Anakin in his turning-dark-side phase in Episode III. The largest doll of course is then of Darth Vader, somewhat fittingly consuming both the other dolls. There’s a similar lineage given to characters such as Obi Wan Kenobi, the Clone/Storm Trooper, C3-PO, Jango/Boba Fett and General Grevious.

Not sure where you can find them these days, but I really like my Anakin series and would like to find some more some time. As the marketing tagline for them says, “The circle is now complete”

Recently I moved city from Brisbane to Sydney, and had to make the decision what parts of my toy collection to bring with me. As it turned out … I brought all of it apart from two 30″ Batman and Superman action figures, including about 4 packing cartons full of Mighty Muggs. Now that I’ve settled into the new digs, I’ve turned my attention towards growing the collection a little further. So today I happily purchased Ghost Rider, Hoth Luke, Storm Shadow, Iron Man MkVI and War Machine. Check them out on my Mighty Muggs page.

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.