Originally I had no plan to make a post until next weekend, but I didn't want a month long break from the page, so I'll just be doing a quick blog post. Yesterday I attended the St Tammany Collector's Convention in Mandeville, Louisiana. It's a small, but growing convention in the area and is known for finding good deals on some new or older figures, comics or other collectibles. I had a small budget of $200, and I am proud to say I came in under budget! So for what I found Star Wars, and non Star Wars related, read on!  1. MOTU Origins Cartoon Collection King Randor & Queen Marlena I missed out on the preorder for Marlena a while back, and while Randor was at the only Wally World that had a mid aisle collectors section, Marlena was never there. This haul coat me the most at $70. I really needed a King Hiss as mine suffered a snapped knee joint, and no luck on finding one. Or any OS Star Trek Playmates figures. But I'm happy I got these 2. Although I may use bo...

 My March Madness picks may be both controversial and angering to some of the collectors. To that, I say good! I could use some more views for that! But why have I voted the way I have, and why do some votes cancel each other out? I'll explain why in this post. Also, I have finally watched Andor S2, and will give my thoughts on the entire series, and what figures I'd like to see. And none of the figures I want are named Luthen Rael. I'd only want Luthen if there were 3.75 inch SA Avengers movie figures easily available (hard to get some of those made back in the day, and no Spider-Man or Guardians of the Galaxy movie versions available). But besides Cassian, there are 3 named characters I want. Plus 2 other named characters we already have that need updating.  Round 1 I have already covered. So today I'll cover the 2nd and 3rd rounds as at the time of this writing, we're at the Elite 8. Winners images posted by Tyler @ SWTVC from his Disqus account, and they are not...

 Today, March 8th is International Women's Day. So for today, I have 2 female action figures up for review. Both Shaak Ti and Padme will be reviewed. So what do I think of both figures? Read on! And for how I voted for Round 1 of March Madness, I have it in my Lagniappe section.  SHAAK TI  With the HasLab Gunship, comes a focus of The (First) Battle of Geonosis where we see one of the Jedi recruited by Mace Windu to go there was Shaak Ti. She survived the battle, and went on to Kamino to supervise the training of Clones like Rex, Cody and Clone Force 99. In Legends she survived and dressed like a stripper in The Force Unleashed video game. That version of Shaak Ti was in the Solo Kids Legacy Collection wave and goes for a VERY high price. Before her VC debut, the best Shaak Ti figure was in the animated Clone Wars line (2009 if I correctly recall was when it came out).  I just opened her this morning, and I'll get to my minor gripe in a bit. But so far for 2026 Hasbr...