DSTChuck is here to answer your pressing questions, this week revealing when we’ll see the first armored character in the Star Wars Ultimate Quarter Scale line as well as the odds of seeing Jubilee in the Marvel Select line - plus more on the fate of the Indiana Jones and Transformers product lines - so check out the full list of fan Questions and Answers after the jump! (more…)

Young Jedi Master!

Oooo…He looks creepier in the box! If that’s even possible.

Own yours today!

I gotta say, playing with the Original Series Phasers was pretty durn cool… (more…)

Here’s Part Two of our AskDST catch-up session - featuring your questions about Marvel Select, Indiana Jones, Star Wars Battle Beasts AND DSTChuck’s take on the Disney/Marvel deal!  We’ll be back on Monday with our next batch of Star Trek questions, so enjoy this double-dose of AskDST and check back Monday morning for more! (more…)

Best part? The Dorman Painting on the side of the box.

Luke’s expression? “Don’t piss me off!”

Look for it in stores!

Meh, it sounded funnier in my head, but let’s go with it.  The point is, the time has come at last for our bust bank line to branch out into the wonderful world of Clones and the almost limitless possibilities for variants.  The lead-off release is, obviously, the basic Clone Trooper.  Much like the R2 bank, the Clone is based on digital scan data and was painted by Ed Wires.  Look for him at the start of 2010.

Once he put his pod racing behind him, Anakin Skywalker got himself some fancy new threads and a swanky Imperial job.  Here he is as he looked in A New Hope, just after vaporizing Obi-Wan.  Sure, he was a friend and mentor, but you can’t expect a Sith Lord to ever forgive being called Little Annie.

True confession time again - A few people have been wondering why the R2-D2 figure bank seemed to be roughly 6″ while I’ve been telling you that it is 1/4 scale.  Well, to be honest, there was a teeny tiny miscommunication when we were ordering materials.  Some dimensions got crossed and lost, and no one knew anything was awry until I opened a very small box and saw a very small casting.  These things aren’t cheap, so I made the call to get as far into development as possible and hopefully only need one replacement casting for the factory.  To assure everyone that all is well, I’ve included a picture of the piece you have all been seeing (in catalogs and at shows) standing in the shadow of the sculpt that is going to the factory.

Here we have the approved paint for the R2-D2 figure bank (what I am unofficially calling the “Quarter Scale R2″).  Personally, the droids were some of my least favorite characters, but I have to admit that Eddie really did a great job on this little fella.

Here is the sculpt for the R2-D2 figure bank.  Based on Lucas digital data and slightly modified to fit the rotocast process, this little guy is not so little.  His finished height should be a little under 11″, making him a perfect visual fit on the shelf where you keep your Ultimate Quarter Scale action figures.