Saturday I attended ToyPaLooza, by far western Pennsylvania's best toy show. It was quite a productive morning:
With these new Dengars I now have enough for my full run, so I'm happy to announce today that my next Droids Custom will be none other than the mummy-wrapped bounty hunter. I got some stuff I gotta tackle for the 25th anniversary PSWCS Summer Social before I can begin, but know he's on his way.
I'm not so happy to share that ToyPaLooza is leaving it's Bethel Park venue (less than 3 minutes from my house) and "upgrading" to the Monroeville Convention Center. Sure it's bigger. But the parking sucks just as much. And it'll now take me 40 minutes to get there. The glory days are truly past...
At last, we will have our Revenge – celebrate Sith Day with PSWCS.org by supporting our 15th
charity medallion. Grab your 2025 Charity Medallion today to find your way to the dark side!
With less than 350 remaining medallions, PSWCS.org, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Star
Wars Collecting Society (PSWCS), encourages you to support Special Olympics PA with their 15th
charity medallion, Darth Maul. You too can help revenge the Sith and celebrate Star Wars the
entire month of May!
https://www.pswcs.com/charity.cfm
Since CreatureCantina.com wasn't at SWCJ2025 in an official press capacity (I didn't even bother applying, if such an application was available at all), I don't fee obligated to write a big, long recap of the festivities. Instead, I'll share some of my favorite photos from the show!
Hard to believe it, but I've been running this site for 24 years. Here's how it started:
And... well you can see how it's going. You can actually still read almost all of the original "The Cantina" comics right here (minus a couple where the images got corrupted over a server migration years back). And you can read all our original articles, from back when we still used to try (and when the staff was more of a "we" than a "me") in the Archive search. I probably shouldn't promote that... lots of legally actionable stuff to be found...
So to celebrate our 24th Anniversary, I'm here to announce that I won't be publishing any articles over the next FOUR WEEKS because I'll be at Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025. As if we needed any further proof that CreatureCantina.com SUCKS!!
"GRAIL TALE"
There are few phrases used in this hobby that are just simply overplayed, "grail", "holy grail" "grail piece" being one of them. In my so humble opinion, a grail piece should beyond rare. Maybe not one-of-a kind, but we're definitely talking like less than 10 - 20 known examples. ...
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I've put it off long enough... I guess it's time to reveal my swag for Celebration...
I honestly debated doing swag at all. It's become so overblown now... used to be just kind of a cool thing that the hardcore folks participated in. Now there's a registry out there of 2000 different swag items that'll be available at Celebration. And that's just the people motivated enough to actually submit to the registry! That probably means I'll have 2000 people asking to trade for my patch, which has a run of 100 pieces...
I wanted to go with something understated and "artistic," and I think I succeeded. But then, the couple people I've shown it to had no idea what I was going for and I had to explain it, so maybe I went a bit too understated. At the end of the day, I like it. And if you really, really want one, track me down in Japan.
I haven't been to the North American International Toy Fair, or just Toy Fair to you and me, since 2020 and to say it was a more interesting Toy Fair would be an understatement... Rumors of a new virus coming out of China was just circulating and all the Asian ...
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PSWCS.org asked folks to fork over some of their green on St. Patrick's Day. While that was a couple days ago, hopefully my readers here are still in a giving mood.
https://www.pswcs.com/charity.cfm
PSWCS.org would like to celebrate a little bit o' luck with you by having you supporting our 15th charity medallion. Grab your 2025 Charity Medallion today to find the pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow! With less than 500 remaining medallions, PSWCS.org, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Star Wars Collecting Society (PSWCS), encourages you to support Special Olympics PA with their 15th charity medallion, Ray Park's legendary Darth Maul. Grab yours today to help an athlete win their gold!
Last week we proclaimed Jazwares the winner of Toy Fair. This week I'm gonna take you through some of the other cool stuff we saw. Let's start the fun with LEGO!
We weren't allowed to photograph any of the new Star Wars LEGO sets, but ...
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There really wasn't a lot of new Star Wars product at Toy Fair this year. Some of the vendors cited the lack of any theatrical release this year, expecting much more for 2026 and 2027. So LEGO had a few new sets to reveal, which we weren't allowed to photograph. ...
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