Master Replicas, which was recently acquired by Corgi International have announced that they will not be renewing their liscensing agreement with Lucasfilm. Master Replicas made a name for iteself by producing high quality Star Wars replicas. They created product for other liscenses but Star Wars was by far their biggest product line.

Regarding the parting of the ways, Howard Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing said, “We deeply regret that we and Corgi could not come to terms on a new agreement.” And Corgi CEO Michael Cookson said, “We have enjoyed our six year relationship with Lucasfilm, Ltd. and the work that we have done with (them) to help grow and expand the Star Wars franchise. Jointly, we have developed some of the highest quality and coolest products for the core Star Wars fans. At the same time, Corgi is committed to building a healthy, profitable company.”

You can check out all the Master Replicas products we currently carry at http://www.youbuynow.com/category/244

Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum have had a long standing relationship. It was the perfect fit, Diamond had the distribution and marketing resources, Art Asylum had digger and his team of very talented artists.

Effective immediately, Diamond Select toys announced on May 16, 2007 that is acquired select assets of Art Asylum. The result? Now DST has their own, high quality design house to work underneath their growing umbrella of products and services.

Art Asylum was founded in 1996 by Digger T. Mesch and Donna Soldano as a development and design house, and quickly became home to some of the most talented designers in the toy industry. They sculpted much of the figures that Diamond sold under the DST moniker including the most popular mini block figure on the market today, the minimate!

“Art Asylum made its mark on the toy industry with its unique style and top of the line development,” said Director of DST Chuck Terceira. “We are excited to have access to all the tools that built the company and utilize them to help grow our business even further. The acquisition takes DST’s level product development and production departments to new levels, and we are excited on all fronts.”

Yahoo has posted an exclusive trailer for the Transformers movie and it is friggen fantastic! I am so pumped for this movie, check it out here.

Haha, this is fantastic, the Star Wars toys that never made it to production.  Check it out here.

Spider-Man 3 drops 60% at the box office this past weekend but still earned an impressive $60 Million and despite it’s drop, still dominated the box office and remained at #1.  Is such a steep drop a sign that some of the lackluster reviews are having an affect?  Personally, I haven’t seen the movie yet.  I am a huge Spidey fan but have been so busy lately I just haven’t been able to make it to the theatre.