Rusty Rail's Crunch Bot
While we wait for Beedo to start publishing his next batch of AF&TBs, I came across something that I figured warranted a review to whet your appetites.
Crunch Bot is a "caramel peanut" imperial brown ale with an ABV of 8%, and it's a really great quaff! It's just perfectly balanced. It gives you really strong peanut notes, but not peanut butter. It's fresher and less processed tasting, if that makes any sense. The caramel offsets the nuttiness with just a touch of sweetness, in a very subtle way. And it's nicely and gently boozy. You might think you'll be getting a peanut butter milkshake kind of experience, but it actually is just a smooth, pleasant, delicious delight.
To pair with this treat I went with a Vintage EV-9D9. It was an obvious choice, because not only is EV-9D9 a "bot" - she's also the only Vintage Star Wars action figure with an articulated jaw. So if there was any figure that could potentially "crunch" something, it's this one!
And yes, I know the Rancor also had an articulated jaw, but I don't really consider Rancor, Dewback, Wampa, or Tauntaun to be "action figures." What would I call them? Beasts, maybe? I don't know... they're just not action figures.
Drink this if you also like: Delicious, nicely-balanced strong dark beers.
I hear a tons of suggestions on what Tony Gilroy should do after Andor. All of them are stupid. There's really only one series that he should make:
Now given that "streaming is dead" according to Disney, it's unlikely they'll give him another $650 million to make the series. But I can dream, dammit! I can dream...
This was my first foray into AI image generation, and I gotta say it was kinda fun. I'm half-tempted to ask it to take a crack at my next Droids Custom just to see how it turns out.
Regal Robot's new limited, numbered edition prop replica is now available to order! The stunning new replica is a faithful, 1:1 recreation of the gold-tone angel sculptures, or Cherubim, as seen atop the Ark of the Covenant in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Last week we were treated to the series finale of Andor, wrapping up the best Star Wars content we've had in decades, and probably the best Star Wars we'll ever see again. In the last episode's closing moments, we saw a montage of clips revealing the fates of core characters, where we learned Lieutenant Supervisor Dedra Meero ends up in a forced labor camp. It was a fitting end for an evil character.
But if you think to the future, her punishment probably ended up being pretty light. In four year's time, the Empire will have fallen. It's a near certainty that the New Republic would work quickly to free political prisoners. Dedra is nothing if not clever, so she could effectively and credibly argue she was instrumental in delivering the original Death Star plans to the Rebel Alliance. "I snuck those plans to Lonni Jung so he could get them to Axis!" Who would know it had played out any differently? Luthen never revealed any specifics. And the timeline works nicely in her favor. As soon as the Empire realized the plans were stolen, she was arrested.
So don't feel too bad for Dedra. After her short stint she probably lived out a comfortable life as a hero of the Rebellion!
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!
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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. ...
Click here to read the WHOLE story!
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.
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