2022 Holiday Gift Guide {{Video Podcast}}

This is Star Wars Action News, hosted by Marjorie and Arnie, helping Star Wars collectors collect

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Hello, welcome to Star Wars Action News annual holiday gift guide. I'm Marjorie, and this

is Arnie, and this is our 18th annual holiday gift guide. Yeah, quite a many of these. And

Black Friday sales guide. This started off just as our Black Friday sales guide, going

through the ads on Thanksgiving morning when they...

They weren't all leaked ahead of time, and scouring for where the exclusives were. And

I remember going to Walmart on a Wednesday before Thanksgiving, seeing those eight-figure

Clone Wars multi-packs, and being able to record about it Thanksgiving morning so that

everybody knew to go out and hit Walmart or Black Friday to get some of those hard-to-find

figures. It's a very different collecting landscape now than it was even back in 2010,

2011.

Yeah. Black Friday sales on toys are kind of a thing of the past, and finding an exclusive

Black Friday item is even more difficult. I don't think it's been five, six years since

we had something, maybe even longer.

StarWars.com published a list of Black Friday Cyber Monday sales ahead of time, but mostly

it's like Corksicles having 25% off their entire website. It wasn't like this exclusive

item or this...

Yeah.

This specific item was on sale, so much as it's save up to X percent if you go to this

website. So we'll link to that StarWars.com article. But as far as what is being advertised

in Black Friday sales, not a whole lot. If you shop at Kohl's, then you're overpaying for your

toys to begin with, but they are having select styles of Star Wars toys, Mission Fleet and

Roleplay Sabers. The young ones, not the FX Sabers. On sale, they say normally $9, and

they're on sale for $6.75, not even 25% off there.

But you can use your Kohl's cash for that.

Over at GameStop, they do have the new LEGO Star Wars Skywalker Saga for Nintendo Switch

for $29. And that just came out earlier.

So that's not a bad price. JCPenney, where toys are overpriced, they do have 25% off select

Star Wars toys, but didn't exactly say which ones.

And you can't use your JCPenney coupons on it, which then again, you're probably still

going to overpay with the 25% off.

Yeah, because don't they usually text like a half-off coupon?

Multiple times. There are many, many coupons. If you're paying full price at pennies, you're

doing it wrong.

Yeah.

Target has it.

As an older game, if you wanted the PS4 version of Jedi Fallen Order, it's down to just $10.

This is a great reason why, if you're not going to play the games immediately, don't

buy the games immediately.

This is about $50 less than it used to cost.

And that is it for Black Friday sales.

I said it was going to be a short list, and it was.

But that brings us to what I consider the more fun portion of this show.

The holiday.

The holiday gift guide.

The entire Star Wars Action News team got together, pitched in their ideas for what

would make a good Star Wars gift for the fan in your life.

And again, with the assumption that with a Star Wars collector, you don't know what Black

Series figures they have.

You don't know what vintage collection figures they have.

It's impossible to buy those types of things for a collector.

We stayed away from action figures by and large.

That people probably...

Probably already have, or there's a high risk they already have.

And also, virtually everything in this list is still available to order online, and you

won't have to go to eBay.

That is the other condition of it.

Yeah, you don't want to go to eBay for a gift.

There's always drama with eBay anymore.

I haven't had too much drama.

I've had more drama at Facebook Marketplace than I have on eBay.

Yeah, maybe so.

But...

But first item is action figures, but a different type of action figure.

The retro collection of Star Wars figures from A New Hope, these were a Target exclusive

wave back in the day, and really impossible to get.

If you remember, Marjorie, we were checking.

It was like around Father's Day.

Some stores were putting them out in the Father's Day section where you could get ties and things,

and really just a...

It was a problem to try and get this set.

They re-released it, and now you can get the entire wave on Hasbro Pulse in a special retro

collector box for $70.

Yeah, and this is a really good gift, I think, especially if you know the person doesn't

have it already.

But it's got a nice packaging.

It's very nostalgic.

And I, you know, even down to the package, it's nostalgic with the worn edges.

So this would make a great gift.

And even if they don't collect Star Wars figures...

If they had them as a kid, this will really trigger some positive memories and nostalgia

for them, as Marjorie said.

And if they do collect action figures, especially retro collection, and want to keep the cards

nice, figure shields.

Definitely.

You have, like, an ongoing supply of these coming into the house because they keep your

cards so nice and minty.

And you can save 15% off if you use the code SWAN.

Yes, full disclosure.

I am friends with the owner of the company, but I'm also a customer outside of just being

his friend.

I buy a lot of these.

And every time a vintage collection figure, a Droid Factory figure from Disney Parks,

or a retro figure shows up, I just have a whole stack of these figure shields.

It goes straight out of the box.

And assuming it wasn't crushed and coming from Target, Walmart, or Amazon, if it's in

decent condition, it goes directly into a figure shield.

And again, if you know that you're buying for a figure collector, even if they have

some of these, you can never have too many.

That's why I buy whenever there's a discount like this one and buy in bulk.

They also have them for Black Series 6-inch figures and some of the wider figures there.

So again, if you buy a figure shield from now till Christmas, save 15% with code SWAN

for Star Wars Action News.

Now, Daryl, one of our staff members, put one of his favorite items that would be a

good gift, a Beast Kingdom Boba Fett with Han and Carbonite.

These are cute because they're just kind of weird and small and weird proportions.

And these always make good gifts because it's something you probably wouldn't buy for yourself.

Yeah, I don't have this one, FYI, Marjorie, if you're shopping.

And so one of the Han and Carbonite items I don't have is the Egg

Attack, and I like that it's the pairing of them, Boba Fett and Han.

Han looks pretty happy to be frozen in Carbonite, though.

He does.

He seems very happy.

Now, another pick from Daryl is from the movie realization line where they take Star Wars

characters, usually armored ones, and put them in samurai-type armor.

And this, you get a Ronin Mandalorian with Grogu.

I like how Grogu just...

He's in his regular outfit, and he's not wearing a special costume.

He's got a topknot, though.

Oh, he does!

That's kind of cute.

And Daryl said that this is a callback to the Lone Wolf and Cub series,

which was part of the inspiration for the Mandalorian series.

So it ties in in multiple different ways.

But I actually really kind of went for these movie realization figures when they started coming out.

I picked up a couple of them.

The Darth Maul one was very cool.

And, yeah, this would make a great gift.

Moving on to LEGO.

Steve the Ginger Prince really liked the LEGO Boba Fett Throne Room.

Now, this set is about $100 MSRP.

It's right now $85 on Amazon.

And he points out that it comes with a lot of minifigures.

I absolutely love the Gamorrean Guard there.

And the different...

One's there.

You get the Boba Fett in the new armor.

And he said there's a lot of different display options.

And it looks like it comes with about as many accessories as that Hasbro one.

And then Andrew, who is our LEGO Focus collector,

recommended several sets, including these new little mini diorama sets that they've been coming out with.

This is the Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader set.

It's $50.

And...

It has playset action features as well as being a cool display from the Obi-Wan TV series.

You know, and LEGOs are a fun Christmas gift because it's always fun to have something to put together

or a project to work on when you've got a Christmas gift.

It's something to do the rest of the day.

And also that little guard guy looks like Baymax.

He kind of does, like a yellow Baymax.

And I love that they give you all the translucent fire bricks so you can recreate the fire that separated them.

Nothing says Christmas like a flammable playset.

And then another playset with action features the LEGO Trash Compactor.

And it really compacts.

The walls will slide together.

Is there a Dianoga in there?

I don't see one.

I don't see a Dianoga.

I do like that they gave them that really long piece of metal that they tried to wedge between the two.

And it looks sort of accurate.

And it's LEGO.

And in this picture, Chewbacca's holding it.

Yeah, this is a fun set.

I really like this one.

I think I see a Dianoga right behind Luke.

See that little pop-up thing?

It looks like a one-eye.

Okay, I see it.

I was going to say, how could they do that without it?

I like that they have little quotes on the plaques in front, too.

One thing's for sure, we're all going to be a lot thinner.

Something not usually said on Thanksgiving.

Then there's the LEGO Luke Skywalker.

Skywalker's Landspeeder in the Ultimate Collector Series.

This is a big set.

It isn't as expensive as a lot of the UCS sets are.

It's $240 for 1,890 pieces.

That's a really big commitment.

And it's kind of cool.

But wow, that's a lot of pieces.

Andrew has built it and said it's a really fun build.

And yeah, it's one of the Ultimate Collector Series

that isn't going to break your credit cards to buy.

And finally in the LEGO Series, another one in the Diorama Series,

the Trench Run.

This one being vehicular instead of minifigure-based.

This one's kind of cool, but looks like a briefcase.

There is a lot of detail to it, though.

Look at all of those pieces in the background

to try to give the Death Star surface

kind of feel.

Yeah, no, it has an incredible amount of detail.

And I like the TIE Fighters with the lasers coming out the front.

And this one goes for about $56.

Retail is $70, but on Amazon it's $56.

And it's 665 pieces.

This one was actually suggested by Curtis and Andrew.

And as for me, I think I mentioned this last year

with the gift guide.

I'm new to the Advent Calendar game,

but I know LEGO's

has been coming out with the Star Wars ones

for quite a while.

And I always bought them

because they are a limited item.

They're calendar year specific.

But only recently did I actually get into opening them

and really enjoying them at the holiday.

Because I love it when you put holiday sweaters

on C-3PO and Darth Vader.

And then you also just get some regular Star Wars

tiny ships and minifigures.

It's 24 days of building something.

And it just takes five minutes,

sometimes a little longer.

The instructions are sometimes a little bit

difficult to comprehend.

But I absolutely love this

and think it makes a good early Christmas gift.

Something that people can enjoy

throughout the season

and then have all the minifigures

and the toys after.

I wish they would have left the pieces

for a surprise though.

Because that's part of the fun of an Advent Calendar.

I mean, granted, I guess you could say

you don't know where these are going to be

in the calendar.

But it's better.

It's better when they're a surprise.

I agree.

By the same token,

every so often I'm trying to build a ship

and I like having a photo reference

to see if I'm putting the pieces in the right place.

I get it.

There is another Advent Calendar

that was on ShopDisney.com.

This is a Droid Factory Advent Calendar

and was $70.

And this was kind of cool

because if you know the Droid Factory at Disney,

they have the pieces that build the different droids.

And this has the pieces to make five full droids.

Plus it comes with a gonk

that's wrapped up like a package,

the green and red gonk.

So you get six droids in total,

all of which have some holiday theme to them.

Unfortunately, it is sold out on ShopDisney,

but is still available at the California Park

and might still be available

in the Florida.

Florida Park.

Chris went the other day

and wasn't able to find one in Florida,

but that's where the Droid Factory specializes.

So hopefully you can still get this

and not have to go to eBay for the set.

But it is a great Advent Calendar.

You get a droid piece each day.

That's fun.

Especially since you get to build them.

I like that they have little hats

and the R4 unit has mistletoe

and the gonk that's the little present

is just hysterical to me.

Likewise, not available anymore

on ShopDisney,

but available in the parks

is this year's holiday droid

R6 SNO.

This is super cute.

He's got a little scarf.

He looks like he's got a little carrot nose

kind of.

And the coal

and the top hat.

The top hat is what makes it.

And his legs are even brown like sticks

like when you make a real snowman.

And what's fun is

you could take the hat and scarf off

and now you just have,

have another droid to build out a diorama and then at the end of the year put the hat and scarf back

on now from suzanne the ginger prince's wife comes another item from shop disney an ewok figure pen

holder and he comes with the pen that looks like a spear this is really cool and i think this would

be a great gift especially someone who's a fan of the original trilogy or the ewok movies because

it's really unique and it's nice to see the ewoks finally getting a little bit more love here and

there this is just 25 so a nice small gift to give and it was on sale at shop disney right before

thanksgiving so keep an eye out and maybe you can get that for as low as 17 now an item i put on

here another desk item is a brand new star wars license i absolutely love having fun chairs for

my office because when i'm podcasting or when i'm working from home

it just

makes it better if you're in a chair that you absolutely love and a company called secret labs

has just released two empire themed star wars chairs there's the stormtrooper design and then

what they just call the empire design which has a dark red and a black look to it no these are

really nice it's a little bit pricier however it is a nice gift and they do make a fun addition to

your home office

yeah i was a little put off the very first time i bought a gaming chair

because of the price these start at 450 and go up but they are a little bit customizable in that

you can pick your size of chair they have regular to extra large chairs and the two designs i'm sure

more designs will be coming later but these are available now and really cool i love the stormtrooper

i mean this thing is just so shine and this is my favorite thing about this book is that it has a

lot of interesting details to go into so i'm really glad that i've had a chance to spend more time on

it and i wanted to give it a try it's really cool to never want to live outside but it's really fun

yeah and if it isn't i'm not reading the book for a long time yeah i'm glad that you guys know about

it and a lot more of this stuff we've seen it's fun and it's fun to read but i also really like

so if this is for anyone you know who's as passionate about rock but Laura finally sees its

first book the first book is rock with the prince of the world and it has so much of a magic behind

it and i love the first book because it's very scratchy and it's very

humbling to read it it's just like the library of things i've been to the library of the woods

the first one is Brotherhood a story of Obi-Wan and Anakin when Anakin was his Padawan

done for the 20th anniversary of Attack of the Clones that anniversary didn't get a whole lot

of love this year it did not I think it's like the least favorite of the prequels for some reason

he also recommends Shadow of the Sith which is currently $15.34 at Amazon for a hardcover

and it ties the disparate plot points and details of The Rise of Skywalker better together than

anyone could have expected for surprisingly good read I challenge Brock to that I am going to read

this book because I think nothing can tie together The Rise of Skywalker I'm sorry now the next books

that he recommends are more gifty books or coffee table books if you will not necessarily like a

reading book I mean you can read them obviously but they're more of a

gifty book if you know what I mean first up is The Art of Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 2

which he says has phenomenal imagery and neat behind the scenes view that is $15.50 at Amazon

an incredible bargain for that book I mean these things usually run 40 and up and we're going to

get to the $40 and up also he recommends the Star Wars Legends audiobooks Darth Maul Shadowhunter

and the first four X-Wing books by Michael Stackpole now the prices on

those are variable depending on what avenue you're going to get them via physical media streaming but

they are free with an Audible subscription so that's something else you could give somebody

an Audible subscription for a year and that would make a really great book now these are actually

kind of special they're older books but these became audiobooks when they were on audio cassette

and were heavily abridged and now you're getting these books unabridged for the first time I

remember loving Darth Maul Shadowhunter I remember loving Darth Maul Shadowhunter I remember loving

Darth Maul Shadowhunter I thought that one was unabridged when it came out on CD but the Michael

Stackpole X-Wing books were definitely heavily abridged and now you can get those unabridged

and yeah Audible's kind of my go-to place even if I can't download them and back them up it's

a very convenient way to listen another great collectible book is The Bounty Hunter Wars which

is a Barnes & Noble exclusive collectible edition that's about $45 but it is a really beautiful

hardcover book it compiles the three K.W. Jetter Legends books The Mandalorian Armor

Slave Ship and Hard Merchandise Broxody hasn't read it but he has heard great things about it

but he says that the shelf design is terrific and likewise a Barnes & Noble exclusive Tales of

Kenobi which has the book Kenobi by John Jackson Miller which is honestly one of my favorite Star

Wars novels of all time that and Darth Maul Shadowhunter are a couple of my favorite books

of just the gems of Star Wars fiction and also brings in The Approaching Storm by Alan Dean

Foster a book that came out as like a prequel to Revenge of the Sith and it wasn't that great

but I'm glad Brock put these on the list because I didn't know of these I knew Barnes & Noble

had these compilations with the nice leatherish covers and the cover art but I didn't know about

those two until he put them on the list and so now my Star Wars library is once again mostly complete

now if you have a Marvel Comics Star Wars fan there is a nice hardcover book called Marvel

Comics Star Wars War of the Bounty Hunters it is $96.50 for the hardcover at Amazon but you can

get for $35 on Comixology and it's all issues of the comic crossover event for the Marvel series

Star Wars Darth Vader Dr. Aphra and Bounty Hunters it comes out on Twitter at Star Wars

December 13th so you can still pre-order it and have it in time to gift on Christmas

now of course Comixology is the e-comic version but this is a comic omnibus and if you haven't

seen those those things are huge these things are like unabridged dictionaries of nicely reprinted

comics the page quality in there the printing is superb I'll tell you

you have to pretty much read them at a table because your arms are going to get tired of

holding this up you might want both the omnibus to put on your bookshelf and the Comixology to

actually read because your iPad weighs a lot less than this giant book but a comic omnibus

is a great gift absolutely now Andrew's wife Michelle also suggested a book Galactic Baking

and I have to say the cover looks rather tasty that looks like

Morse TIE Fighters she says this is a nicer book than the Wookie Cookies books and the recipes are

fun and really well themed so I love themed food and themed restaurants so I might have to be

picking this up so that we can have some theme nights and it's cheap it has a cover price of

$23 but Amazon has it for $11.79 right now it has some seriously cute BB-8 cupcakes in it too

now something I can recommend because I'm wearing one right at this moment

Moby Fox has Star Wars watch bands that work on both Apple Watch and Android smart watches

and these are pretty high quality rubber watch bands I used to be of the mindset you never buy

a watch band that isn't Apple brand because there were a lot of problems with them they would slide

off back in the first and second generation of the era and they would slide off back in the first and

second generation of the era and they would slide off back in the first and second generation of the era

of Apple watches the third party makers just weren't doing very good but Moby Fox I can say

I've been wearing it for well over a month and haven't had a single problem it comes with a

couple different adapters to fit different watch sizes and they say it fits virtually all smart

watches and I mean that x-wing design little garish but I absolutely love it and I'd also

like to point out you have been wearing one that's off-white and it has a little bit of

dirt repellent but it has not gotten dirty so I don't know if they're dirt repellent but at least

if you do buy a lighter color one it might stay looking nice and also you get a QR code with them

and you can download their app and get a lot of exclusive watch faces that match your wristband

now this was recommended by Curtis and I absolutely

love loathe love hate

this idea

Star Wars designed patterned pajamas that have little like cute c-3po r2 stormtrooper

all kinds of characters on them they're coming in sizes for men women and dogs

I don't know our dogs may need those rompers oh they've also got scrunchies

and hats they've got everything

yeah I just if a pajama design theme night is something your family would enjoy including the

dog then I guess you head over to smashtease.com and the prices start at fifty dollars Canadian

and go up I'm sorry it's smashtess.com I guess Tess is getting smashed

along the same lines Curtis suggested Star Wars ties you can find a lot of these at cufflinks.com

be a little careful with that website I've tried buying some stuff there and it

was a little iffy it's sometimes a third-party seller on cufflinks.com

but as Curtis still has to go to the office wearing a Star Wars tie is something fun and

I like these designs like the one in the background that I'm wearing right now I'm

not using a lot of house

art but it's still a nice little tie and as you can see it's a little tight

you can still tell what it is but it's not in your face the way some of them are a lot of Star Wars

ties are along the lines of that dead fish tie you know what I'm talking about they're just too

colorful too much I kind of like these more subtle pattern ties now Andrew has a really great idea

anywhere from $50 to up to $500. And if you buy one of the gift sets, they come in really nice

wood boxes. And we've got one, Arnie, remember? Yeah, we ordered one a while back and the

packaging was really nice. I'm not a wine person, so the wine may not have been for me. I can't even

stand red wine. It's just not my thing. But man, was the packaging glorious.

Yes. Now, along that same line, the Ginger Prince also recommends the original Stormtrooper beer,

which has all kinds of gift packs. Looks like it's available in England only, but they've got

some fun themed gift packs with Stormtrooper beer. They've got like an Imperial Thirst Aid kit

and super cool designs on the cans. Like, really neat. Some of the

craft beers really go well with the beer.

All out for the package designs. And this is great. There's like little wine glasses. You can

get tons of choices here, but it does look like to be England only, but that's okay.

They ship international. It does? Yeah. Oh, so it does ship international. Okay, so there you go.

And I love that they even have Shadow Stout with a Shadow Stormtrooper helmet with the silver eyes

on it. Yeah, no, these are really clever. And whatever artist did these,

was really, really clever and talented. And knew their Star Wars. I mean. Yes.

And I like how the Stormtrooper Galactic Pale Ale reminds you of one of those

propaganda posters with the troops, all the troops lined up.

Really great packaging there. Now, you're going to need something to put that beer in or the wine in.

Daryl suggests the Star Wars Tiki Mugs. Entertainment Earth,

has a number of them. The Gamorrean Guard is like super duper cute.

A lot of these are cute. The Admiral Ackbar is just too precious with his buggy eyes.

These are great. And they're a fun, like, gifty item too, that, you know, everybody needs some

kind of cups or something like that too. The nice thing about the Geeky Tikis is if you get somebody

one and they actually happen to already have that one, it's still a cup. You can still drink out of

it. And in fact, maybe you're not going to get a cup. You're going to get a cup. You're going to get a cup.

You're giving them one to drink out of, whereas the one that they bought may just be sitting on a

shelf. Very true. Now, along that same line, Corksicle. I'm like a huge fan of their products.

At first, it's like, eh, I don't need something like that. But then you bought me one and it is

like so awesome. They feel more expensive than they are. Like they've got a nice rubberized

coating on the outside and they do keep your drinks cold and they don't sweat, which is really,

really nice.

Because that's really awful when you get a nice like tumbler or something and you put a cold drink

in it and it sweats. They have really fun designs. I think the C-3PO and the R2 are like the best

they've got. They've got wine tumblers. They have water bottles. I love the C-3PO one. It is like

pure metallic gold reflective bling. It is tremendous. And yeah, they're doing a number

of gift sets. Like you can get several tumblers together for $9.

They also stay hot. You don't have to use them for cold items. They will stay hot for three hours

too, which is kind of cool. And the wine tumblers don't tip, which is great when you're tipsy.

Hand wash only, but so worth it. Marjorie has gotten so much use out of the ones I got you.

I do. I use that probably at least twice a week.

And if you do want a cold drink, how about a Darth Vader ice mold?

These are fun. I love ice molds and glasses like this.

Way back when Kodo used to do a bunch of stuff like this.

Yeah, this is a Williams-Sonoma product. And what Curtis says is they work a lot better than some of

those old ice molds we used to get. And he's just happy he can have his bourbon join the dark side.

Also keeping your drinks cool, igloo coolers. Now there's a number of Star Wars igloo coolers of

all sizes. But given that we're talking about a dark side, I think it's a good idea to have a

we are star wars action news and the action is for action figure i couldn't believe they have a

vintage action figure design shown here that has vintage greedo and darth vader tuscan raider

even biker scouts and things all vintage figures with that vintage kind of oval-ish

rounded corner rectangle i suppose behind them just a tremendously retro and fun design

and it's yellow like luke skywalker's lightsaber was in vintage you know igloo is really hitting

it hard and has a lot of interesting collabs you could also buy notorious big coolers which is

kind of crazy that they've got like random collaborations like that iron maiden who would

have thought star wars and iron maiden

together at igloo iron maiden is selling out or just making money now if you want to give a really

deluxe gift the most expensive gift on our gift guide comes from steve the ginger prince

regal robot it is a company that yes they make various things and every so often there'll be a

small thing like the jabba's ds

magnets but a lot of this feels more bespoke you know it feels more like you order it and

then they're going to buy it and this includes the not cantina screen accurate but cantina

inspired seating that you can have in your according to regal robot your home your office

or your fan cave i think that price is for one chair yeah fifteen hundred dollars per chair

but steve i mean that is a heck of a gift and if you need some new chairs it's a hefty price but

you get a level of quality and star wars design that you can only find at regal robot

similarly custom made steve suggests a lightsaber box there is an etsy seller who will custom make

a lightsaber box for you and he's going to be selling it to you in the next couple of weeks

and he's going to be selling it to you in the next couple of weeks

engrave it on the top we were having a conversation about this some of the team and me about how do

you display your lightsaber hilts these days especially if you're going to the disney parks

and getting some of those hilts or the fx sabers that don't come with the display stands how do you

display your lightsabers and you have to find there are some custom acrylic stands out there

you can buy but having it like this makes it a lot more comfortable and it's a lot more

it makes it feel like maybe where obi-wan kept anakin's lightsaber with a little bit of burlap

for all those years between the time that he picked it up on mustafar and he gave it to luke

on tatooine it's really cool and that would make a fabulous gift now andrew as he said on our last

episode a former hot toys addict not so former as he did put several hot toys on the list here

the number one hot toys addict is the number one hot toys addict is the number one hot toys addict

from him was the captain rex hot toys he talked about it's got a lot of great detail a couple

cool accessories sideshow has a lot of hot toys available in stock several of them right before

thanksgiving we're on a buy one get one half off sale and i mentioned this on the marvelicious toys

gift guide when marjorie bought me my first hot toys figure it made me feel like an eight-year-old

again as an adult

it really made that entire christmas and you can give that same kind of feeling to somebody if

they've never had a hot toys figure this captain rex is one they have in stock that andrew highly

recommends likewise curtis didn't put this on the gift guide but curtis just got his boba fett

in the repaint armor with the throne and he was gushing about it so much

i'm like he probably would have put this on the gift guide if he'd gotten it before we did the gift

guide and he talked about how the throne's a little big but it looks good when it's on there

and the paint was really nice and that it made a tremendous display piece so again if you so got a

fan in your life who likes boba fett or and likes the mandalorian series this one is in stock

shipping now for three dollars and a half so if you're interested in buying one of these hot toys

three hundred and ninety now this next one might be an unusual place to buy a gift unless you

specifically have a stamp collector in your life but daryl points out that usps has a star wars

droids guide to the galaxy far far away that you can order now and it's a really cool like droid

passport and it's a really cool map of the different solar system and you get actual

stamps with it that are droids which i bought a sleeve of those the other day and it's a really

cool stamps plus you get to put like coolness on your envelope when you mail something but

the passport is foil stamped and it says it's got the most memorable droids from the film but

it looks really cool and even if someone doesn't collect stamps i think this would probably be

well liked i mean it's useful and it's got some fun keepers in it i don't collect stamps but i

keep a sheet of the star wars stamps that they come out with and yes i always love it when there

are star wars stamps available so when we send them to you they're always there and they're

always there to send out our holiday cards people will know it's from us even before they

check the return address by taking a look at the stamps although if we're sending to our star wars

collector friends it's funny because we're probably all using those stamps and then curtis

suggests it was already mentioned earlier as being on sale lego star wars the skywalker saga

i love lego star wars i think that they were the best games around and they are so much fun

and so inventive and they really do a great job of working in the stories the characters the

backgrounds it's immersive and i swear nothing beats playing a new hope level and lego star

wars is just so fantastic and curtis also recommends a more gamey game and andrew seconds

this recommendation it's called star wars the clone wars but it's using the

game system and the pandemic system is a popular zombie style game whereas here it's a survival

game where you're a jedi and you're fighting off hordes and hordes of droids that actually

sounds like a lot of fun it does it does sound like a lot of fun and likewise andrew recommends

fantasy flight games outer rim and this sounds like an in-depth game you

pick a scoundrel recruit a crew buy a ship and become more famous than your competition

dripping with lore and theme this is a game he loves and then you can add on as a gift

the expansion unfinished business that adds a ton of content to the original game and another

layer of complexity more characters more jobs more thievery i think we may have to try this

out with andrew on our next game night and i love that they put she's or

cover here with dengar yeah you'll do she's or uh stuff anytime won't you he doesn't get enough

love he doesn't yes wait until the edgelords find him though now in the home decor section

curtis points out that pottery barn kids is a great place to find decorative stuff for your home

that's star wars now don't be thrown off by the fact that it's pottery barn kids because they

like this star wars christmas pillow that has an adat in a snowspeeder it says merry force be with

you super cute because the snowspeeder is stringing lights around the adats legs christmas lights

and the ad has little reindeer horns that pun works so much better spoken merry force be with you

yeah i don't think it was until you said it out loud that it fully hit me that mary maybe yeah the

snowspeeder looks like they've got some christmas bedding too that's star wars so

not maybe necessarily a good christmas gift but maybe a pre-christmas gift or like you know a lot

of people do christmas eve gifts that are like pajama themed or something like that and that

would probably be a really great idea another great idea is to take a shower every day i

recommend it and you know maybe more than one unless you have really really dry skin i suppose

i know some older people who say doctors tell them not to shower daily but most

most listeners unless you have a specific skin condition should shower daily and you could make

it fun with dr squash soap they have series two available now and i know daryl must be buying this

because there's some emperor sinister scrub you got kylo ren's suds of darkness

resistance rinse with ray and legendary lather with luke you notice they're doing an alliteration

thing there

we just recently got some dr squash soap and it's pretty good don't you like it

yeah i do it is very clean and that's what's important

and finally to finish out our gift guide curtis suggests some sideshow art prints two that he

called out one is called the minimalistic x-wing and indeed that is minimalist it's only half an

x-wing

and the other is going the entire opposite direction with an incredible level of detail

an obi-wan art print where it's got him on the eop like he's riding away from the homestead you

can see the homestead in the background and a really nice desert weathered ewan mcgregor

likeness there these are eighty five dollars ninety five dollars unframed at sideshow you

can get them framed and you can get them framed and you can get them framed and you can get them

framed from sideshow which makes an even nicer gift because then the person can just immediately

hang it on the wall i mean we're talking nice art prints not posters that you get a little poster

putty and just put up that's a really nice poster too but the obi-wan one i like it it's very

thoughtful you know like he's deep in thought and ruminations and i like the tones of it it

would complement several rooms in our house honestly yeah the yellows and

tans in it it's just a really really nice piece i actually do like the minimalist

x-wing though i like the star field of it and it's very 70s yeah it is i'm not saying that in a bad

way no star wars is very 70s and that's a very good thing and that is our 2022 gift guide hopefully

we gave you some ideas of things to buy or as going through the gift guide often does for me

things to buy for yourself

yeah it's super fun to go do this every year always some great ideas from other people the

things that you might not necessarily think about yeah so hopefully you're having a good

thanksgiving you're spending it with us and we're thankful for you downloading the show and listening

to us for all of these years that we've been doing the holiday gift guide and black friday

as for black friday i suggest you sleep in just let the turkey coma walk over you sleep in tomorrow

don't worry about the turkey coma you're going to be fine you're going to be fine you're going to be fine

don't worry about those sales but follow us on facebook and twitter because as the online deals

hit we'll be posting them there so that you're aware of the best bargains for star wars stuff

in the coming weekend from black friday through cyber monday so that is it for this episode

we'll be back soon until then may the pegs be stopped and the horse be with you

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