Part 1: LIVE From San Diego, It's Star Wars Action News!

Star Wars Action News was honored when asked by Kotobukiya to perform a live show on Koto's new booth feature--a stage featuring hourly entertainment. But being a live show we couldn't help but bring along some guests to talk about their being at San Diego Comic Con International.

First we have Lucasfilm's Steve Sansweet discussing a small snafu from earlier today when Hasbro's web site mentioned a certain Star Wars Celebration convention in 2010. We get Steve's response, talk to him about the Make-A-Wish Foundation fundraiser The Empire Muggs Back, his new book, and more.

Then we have Barry Jones from eFX Collectibles giving us the rundown on many products, including pricing and availability of the McQuarrie Vader Helmet, the FOUR upcoming TIE ships, stunt sabers, a new smaller line of vehicles, and more.

We also have some of the Emmy Nominated writers from Robot Chicken Star Wars II including Robot Chicken head writer Doug Goldstein, Mike Fasolo, and Dan Milano, discussing their work on Robot Chicken Star Wars past and future, as well as some Star Wars video games.

Finally we have Frank Supiot from Kotobukiya giving us the scoop on some upcoming releases in their vehicle line, their 1/7 scale Art FX series, and their Art FX Plus Statue Series.

It's like having four ComicCon panels right in your earbuds on this week's special ComicCon Coverage by Star Wars Action News!

Part 2: San Diego ComicCon 2009 Postmortem

It is with mixed feelings that we look at the closing of 2009. One of those feelings is pain. Sheer, utter, physical pain, as our backs are strained from days of backpacks, our feet our sore from days of standing on the world's most unforgiving of cement floors.

But there is also some very happy memories created both between lines and while standing in lines. From meeting Mark Hamill and getting the signature of the man who will always be Luke Skywalker, to seeing Hasbro's product releases for the rest of 2009 and into 2010, and meeting up with friends old and new.

On this week's Star Wars Action News, we share with you our memories of San Diego Comic Con 2009, from the author signings to the full-body contact sport that was getting the Hallmark Exclusive Ornaments.

And for our next week's show, we want to know what YOU think about all the new products revealed at SDCC. Call our voice mail at 415-508-JEDI or send us an audio clip at show@swactionnews.com so we can find out what items from the con are hot as Mustufar, and which are cold as Hoth.