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Arnie Carvalho: Producer & Co-Host
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Forum Handle: |
arniec |
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Email: |
show@reviewstarwars.com |
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Birth Date: |
September 12, 1974 |
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Collecting |
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Primary Collection: |
Hasbro 3.75" modern line |
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Other: |
Gentle Giant mini-busts, Gentle giant statues, Master Replicas lightsabers, blasters, and
studio scale vehicles. Sideshow Premium Format statues. Books. CDs. Kubricks. Bust-Ups.
Hasbro Titanium. Hasbro Transformers. WOTC Minis.
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Real Life |
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Job: |
Computer Systems Engineer |
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Family: |
Married |
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Hobbies: |
Podcasting, Star Wars, photography, music, movies, writing
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Location: |
Pawnee, IL (just outside of Springfield) |
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Favorite Collectible: |
Wedding invitation (mine) signed by Carrie Fisher, Jeremy Bulloch, Billy Dee Williams, and others the
weekend before our wedding.
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Miscellaneous: |
Also host of the Star Wars Action News Book Club and host and producer of
Propaganda: The Official Master Replicas Podcast
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Marjorie Carvalho: Host & Public Relations
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Forum Handle: |
marjoriec |
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Email: |
majorie@reviewstarwars.com |
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Birth Date: |
August 1 |
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Collecting |
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Vintage: |
Kitschy items |
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Modern: |
KUBRICKS!!!! All kinds |
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Hasbro: |
I like hunting for them... |
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Other: |
I tend to favor Japanese toys |
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Special: |
Starbucks city mugs; Antique Pyrex bowls |
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Real Life |
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Job: |
Dilberville |
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Family: |
Married to The Arnie |
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Hobbies: |
Gardening and knitting if I can find the time
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Location: |
Cornfield |
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Favorite Collectible: |
My Toronto Maple Leafs Yoda, customized by my darling husband.
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Jason Spieth:
Staff Writer & Webmaster
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Forum Handle: |
Darth Prime |
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Email: |
darthprime@reviewstarwars.com |
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Birth Date: |
April 10, 1977 |
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Collecting |
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Hasbro: |
Hasbro: 3.75" lines, vehicles, creatures, and the like. Galactic Heroes.
Titanium Series. Star Wars Transformers. 7" Unleashed.
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Other: |
Gentle Giant Mini Busts, select statues and maquettes. Selective Master Replicas
and Sideshow Collectibles products.
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Special: |
Anything and everything Darth Vader
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Non-SW: |
Marvel Legends, Spider-Man, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, Debt
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Real Life |
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Job: |
Software Engineer |
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Family: |
1 Padawan Boy |
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Hobbies: |
Drawing, fencing, camping, and the great outdoors, teaching my son the ways of
The Force to become a Jedi like his father.
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Location: |
Rochester, Minnesota (USA) |
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Favorite Collectible: |
I love them all, but have good memories of getting my first SW celebrity
autographs in my New Essential Guide Omnibus.
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Miscellaneous: |
Has aspirations to get a Darth Vader costume good enough to
join the 501st.
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Jakob Conkling:
Roving Reporter/Correspondent
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Forum Handle: |
Smash Das Robots |
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Email: |
rootbeer@reviewstarwars.com |
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Birth Date: |
May '77 |
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Collecting |
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Vintage: |
Loose, complete 3.75” Kenner figures |
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Hasbro: |
3.75” line, Galactic Heroes, Attacktix |
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Other: |
Star Wars Kubricks, TOMY Remote Controlled Astromechs |
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Non-SW: |
Comic Books, Playmobil
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Real Life |
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Job: |
Reprographics |
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Family: |
One wife who is hellbent on naming our future child Endor |
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Hobbies: |
Writing, Philosophy, Drawing, Music Composition, Listening to Poorly-played Punk Rock
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Location: |
Los Angeles, CA (USA) |
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Favorite Collectible: |
My collection of Star Wars Kubricks because they make death and destruction cute.
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Miscellaneous: |
My blog – http://smashallrobots.blogspot.com
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Scott Reed:
Staff Photographer/Reporter/Correspondent
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Forum Handle: |
KrispyKenobi |
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Miscellaneous: |
Scott live in an area just outside Tulsa, which gives rise to his call in handle
of "Scott from Tulsa." Scott started out with SWAN from leaving frequent phone message to
SWAN's voice mail with store reports. Apparently everything runs through Tulsa.
Having done frequent and humorous store reports, Scott was made a correspondent and
official store scout. Scott even had the opportunity to cover the new Hasbro products
at San Diego Comic Con in 2006.
Scott retired from being a staff member on October 30, 2006 because of some
things outside of the Star Wars world that he is focusing on.
His contributions have been invaluable to the show and we all wish him the best.
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Steve:
Roving Reporter/Correspondent
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Forum Handle: |
TheGingerPrince |
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Miscellaneous: |
Steve is our official UK reporter. He kicked off his tour as a SWAN staff member
by giving us an in depth reprot from Celebration Europe. We look forward to his
continuing segements detailing collecting across the pond.
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Brock: SWAN Book Club Liaison
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Forum Handle: |
Brock |
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Miscellaneous: |
Brock lives in New York City and collects the 3 3/4 Hasbro figures primarily. He still has all the figures and
vehicles from the first time around, but they are all very well played with. He has been collecting the new Hasbro
line since the first wave of the restart in 1995.
Brock also collects and likes to read the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels. Brock's most prized piece
is his framed Revenge of the Jedi one sheet.
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John Howard: Forum Administrator
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Forum Handle: |
THX-182 |
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Miscellaneous: |
John lives in Fort Worth, TX and work for an architectural firm in downtown Fort Worth.
He has always loved Star Wars but didn't start collecting until the Revenge of the Sith stuff hit.
He has been with the SWAN forums since day one.
He is pretty much all day, every day so that is how I became the forum Admin.
Arnie and Marjorie figured since John is on all the time and has the most posts out of anyone else there,
he could help them keep the place nice and friendly.
John can have a hot temper sometimes but all in all he like to have fun with all the forum members.
He really likes to go out of my way to make the forum members have a good laugh and enjoy coming to the forums
and feeling welcome there. He considers himself to be the goofiest member on the forums and takes pride in giving
other people a laugh.
The forums are his arena and he welcomes anyone to come and take part in the huge family we have there.
What's better than listening to Star Wars collecting? Talking about it!
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John T. Racek: Forum Administrator, Spam Bounty Hunter
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Forum Handle: |
Red5 |
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Email: |
jtr1974@yahoo.com |
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Birth Date: |
August 23, 1974 |
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Collecting |
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Vintage: |
12 backs |
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Modern: |
ATC Figures
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Hasbro: |
Galactic Heroes and McQuarry Concept figures
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Other: |
art and lithographs, Star Wars CCG
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Special: |
any exclusive action figure, Autographs
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Non-SW: |
Comic Books, Spawn Statues
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Real Life |
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Job: |
Stay at home Dad, Irrigationist |
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Family: |
Married to Jennifer for the past 7 years, daughter Cassidy |
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Hobbies: |
Customizing figures, Comic Books, Reading, Gaming, yard work, Costuming, Ti Kwan Do
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Location: |
Mckinney, Texas |
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Favorite Collectible: |
Sideshow statues
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Nathan P. Butler: |
Story Collecting Segment Contributor |
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Book Club "Continuity Ambassador" |
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Forum Handle: |
Nathan Butler |
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Email: |
nathan@starwarsfanworks.com |
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Birth Date: |
October 17, 1979 |
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Collecting |
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Vintage: |
continuity story materials |
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Modern: |
continuity story materials |
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Hasbro: |
none |
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Other: |
archival Star Wars fan audio materials |
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Special: |
none |
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Non-SW: |
DVDs (particularly season sets of television series); Babylon 5; 24 |
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Real Life |
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Job: |
High School Social Studies Teacher |
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Family: |
Single with immediate family in Indiana |
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Hobbies: |
Audio production; writing |
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Location: |
Fairburn (Atlanta Metro), Georgia, USA |
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Favorite Collectible: |
My own personal binder of materials from when I wrote for Star Wars Tales (drafts, pitches, artwork, contracts, etc.)
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Miscellaneous: |
Published credits include writing "Equals and Opposites" in Star Wars Tales #21 (collected Star Wars Tales
Vol. 6) for Dark Horse Comics, a self-published novella and audiobook (Echoes), an article on the Star Wars
Super Collectors Wish Book, 4th Edition, and other materials. Fandom efforts include StarWarsFanworks.com, the
Star Wars Timeline Gold, five Star Wars radio shows (including one of the earliest, ChronoRadio), and various
Star Wars fan audio dramas (including the first ever released online, Second Strike).
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Mark: Forum Design Administrator
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Forum Handle: |
Yodasnews |
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Miscellaneous: |
Mark was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA and has his Bachelor's degree is Fine Arts with a concentration on
Graphic Design. He is married and has a 3 year old daughter.
Mark takes care of the technical end of the forums as well as some graphical design elements and animations
for the site. Mark is also the administer and owner of several collecting websites including
Yodasnews.com,
Starwarsminigames.com and
Voldemortsvault.com.
Mark has been involved in the collecting online community for over 10 years and in addition to running his
collecting sites, has also built his own collection room in his home to house his Star Wars collection which
includes thousands of items on display from Vintage Carded figures to the latest Gentle Giant releases and
everything in between.
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Gary Price: Graphic Designer
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Forum Handle: |
GaryX |
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Miscellaneous: |
Known to the rest of the civilized world as Gary Price, Gary X is one of the foremost collectors and
experts on autographs from the Star Wars films. He is the founder of
Wattographs, having splintered it
off from the highly popular Autograph Central website in 2000. His Star Wars autograph expertise
(and second-to-none rolodex of Star Wars actors) found Topps Trading Cards calling on him to help get
the 25 signers for their Evolution card set.
Gary X is also the author of the forthcoming Collecting the
Autographs of Star Wars: A Reference Guide. He is also recognized as a "super collector" contributor to the
Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book
by Todd Carlson, providing autograph pricing and articles.
Gary X handles graphic design and celebrity contact for SWAN. He resides in the Denver, Colorado area.
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