This week in Star Wars Q&A - Clone corpulence! Should these guys be hitting the Soloflex? Do we have any jokes that aren't dated? Also what does the line say about us as a culture?

Also, we're out of questions for next week. We will, however, be posting old questions with new answers and commentary all week long! Send in new questions or I might just dip back into the archives.

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It's time for another Q&A flashback! The present is blah, so let's roll around in the mud of yesteryear like the hogs we are.

Today: The end of the line? (From 2011!) It's not coming any time soon, and it's been a great run so far.

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It's time for another Q&A flashback for me to celebrate me writing about toys for 30 years! How self-centered!

Today: Vehicles - why do people pay so much for old ones? (From 2011!)

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It's time for another Q&A flashback for me to celebrate me writing about toys for 30 years! How self-centered!

Today: Ziro the Hutt? (From 2012!)

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Luke Skywalker (Yavin, The Retro Collection) . This is the sixth and final figure left to look at from this year's set, and maybe this looks to be all we're getting for Retro for the year. Luke doesn't look quite like the 1978 figures out of context, but placed next to the other original action figures he seems to fit a lot better. He stands, he sits, and for some reason he feels a lot like the similarly not-quite-right Rebel Fleet Trooper.

These sets may still be in a Target near you. Weirdly, one near me just put them out for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I'd recommend the set as part of a larger collection, but I don't think anyone is buying these as one-offs. Read on!

It's time for another Q&A flashback for me to celebrate me writing about toys for 30 years! How self-centered!

Today: Saying names correctly? (From 2003!)

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It's time for another Q&A flashback for me to look back on the decades and ask big questions like "what was I thinking?"

Today: Could one big retailer kill an entire line?

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Imperial Officer (Generic Human Male in Gray, The Vintage Collection). You've seen this sculpt before, you'll see it again. The figure is from 2023 and with any luck you'll have a big playset in which to put him some day. I don't think he's modeled after a specific character, and if he's based on a specific real person we haven't met him yet. But it's a nice figure. Read on!

Today: Rebel, Rebel? (From 2016!) No, not the Hamburglar.

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All-new! All-different!

This week in Star Wars Q&A - Lets talk Geonosis and the Gunship! Do we know anything? Not really. Blockade Runner speculation! Ditto.

Everything this week is HasLab-related, so if you love that kind of talk? You're in luck, because now we know what a $1,000 LEGO Death Star looks like.

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It's time for another Q&A flashback for me to celebrate one of my favorite topics: my decades of blathering!

Today: Missing electronic lightsabers? (From 2005!)

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It's time for another Q&A flashback for me to celebrate me writing about toys for 30 years! How self-centered!

Today: The return of action features? (From 2007!) (Somehow, action features have not returned.)

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It's time for another Q&A flashback since I've been writing about toys online since the Clinton administration! How self-centered!

Today: A rumored set of POTF2 Jabba's Palace aliens? (From 1999!) People were hungry for Jabba the Hutt's entourage then... and little has changed.

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Via the Star Wars Galactic Hunter Figure of the Day Blog: Moff Gideon (single card, Epic Hero Series). This one was released about a year ago, and was marked down about nine months ago. I haven't seen one since January or February, but it's a decent enough figure especially for the price. It's sturdy, shiny, and generally feels great. And now that The Vintage Collection one shipped, odds are our people will ignore this perfectly good footnote in toy history. Read on!

I've been writing about Star Wars toys since I started a newsletter back in August of 1995. So let's take a look at some old questions in the mailbag to see if we had any good updates!

Today: THX-1138 toys? (From 2004!)

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