Dear Readers,

It’s me, DST-Jen, back again with some more Star Wars news, don’t you just love it! I got Mace Windu on my desk this week and by god he is incredible. I had not one but two people come over and comment on how awesome the likeness was and how they plan to buy one to turn it into either a custom Pulp Fiction figure or a snakes on a plane figure. This doesn’t bother me any, I mean common it’s Sammy Jackson! Everyone knows Mace Windu is low on the list of awesome Sammy “J” roles. None the less he is still amazing and you will be blown out of the water when you see his face and how close the likeness is, I mean really I kept seeing him out of the corner of my eye on my desk and it was a little freaky, I was waiting for him to come alive and start yelling about snakes on a plane or ask me what counrty I am from. I shot him and got him all clipped out so expect to see a gallery up soon with lots of great pictures!

getting excited for the UQS!

DST-Jen

Dear Readers,

This is a two part blog post, I want to talk about the Ultimate Quarter Scale Box for a minute and I also want to shout out to the Star Wars fans and giggle about our Q&A this week.

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Dear Readers,

I am not sure how many of you guys are actually here every day reading and keeping up with the new UQS line of Star Wars figures, but I am going to imagine it’s the first thing you do every morning before brushing your teeth. I will also picture all of you in bantha slippers and Jedi bath Robes, okay? Early this week you may have read about finishing up the packaging and having some issues with it. You may also remember me mentioning a bit of a surprise and leaving a big blank out of the posted picture as to keep you on the edge of your seat. Well sit on the edge no longer!!!

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Dear Readers,

The UQS box is making a lot of headway this week. It has been through two rounds of corrections with Lucas and is looking like more and more of a possibility to get this to the factory this month which I believe would put us dead on for our schedule for the line. It’s very exciting to get these moving, for me at least because the sooner they get made the sooner I get mine! The box will have the Clone Wars style guide art, as we have gone over before, we are approving some special art work as well, that is top secret but will make the box a nice collector piece in itself. If you were wondering at all about any of the problems we were facing with the box itself, I did have a problem with the window size and the factory not thinking it would hold up in transit and the bottom of the box was not strong enough to hold the figure in, all those problems have been fixed and are looking perfect at this time, so YAY. go us!

DST-Jen

Dear Readers,

We received our production Darth Maul piece form the factory this week, for those of you not in the loop about what production, pre-production, paint masters, and T-1’s all are let me tell you all you really need to know and that is: the production piece is the most exciting , awesome, nice, close to finished piece.

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Dear Star Wars Fans and Readers,

I just got done reading the Q&A for this week and i am so, so very disappointed in the Star Wars fans turnout for this one. As the resident Star Wars junkie (aside from DST Schaff) I am deeply worried about this. Star Wars fans are notoriously involved and passionate. I also think that Star Wars fans while passionate are also very honest and are a kinder/gentler fan, unlike the one guy who sent in a question this week. I may have to start getting on all the Star Wars boards and forums to generate some hype amongst the Fans to start getting their questions in. I have a feeling once the first is released the mail will come in dump trucks but until then we should still be dealing with more than one guy who clearly has no idea what he’s talking about (the clothing on our UQS is of the highest quality and probably nicer than anything you could buy at a department store right now). So this is my plea, If you love Star Wars, if you are excited about the line plan we have, if you can’t wait to get your hand on these UQS figures then please, start getting the word out, start asking those probing questions, and help me prove that Star Wars fans are the best kind of fans, seriously, you guys are letting the trekies take over and it’s embarrassing me.

DST-Jen

Dear readers,

The Ultimate Quarter scale box for the first in our awesome line of 19 inch Star Wars figures is almost done! You know what’s more is I almost like it, I normally get frustrated when I am constricted to a style guide but this time it seems to be working out fairly well. I need to finish up the back of the box tomorrow, which is ultimately the hardest part to get done then I can send her on out to the team for review! I love when things get finished; I love it even more when they get finished early!

DST-Jen

Dear Readers,

I am as far into my Star Wars Ultimate Quarter Scale box as I can be right now, meaning I am done aside from the fact that the factory hasn’t approved my die-lines and DST Matt hasn’t written my box copy yet. I have to say I don’t hate it, I like it a lot. I think you guys will like it too, expect it to be just like most of the other clone war style packaging only I made mine a little more blue rather than white and It has a ton of nice window for you to check out what is inside! Speaking of Clone Wars I did go see the movie, for free (thanks Steve Geppi) and it wasn’t too bad. It was totally made for kids, not even kids, like little kids, toddlers even. It’s just that I want so badly for Star Wars to never end that I get my hopes up on stuff like this and I assume it will be awesome and tailor made for me: The ultimate Star Wars fan. It wasn’t made for me, it was made for my 6 year old nephew, but that’s ok I still was glad I went. I will do my best to get these boxes ready for viewing, hopefully we can show you a sneak preview before they hit the street!

Your favorite Star Wars Fan,

DST-Jen