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Arnie Carvalho: Producer & Co-Host

Forum Handle: arniec
Email: show@reviewstarwars.com
 
Birth Date: September 12, 1974
 
Collecting
  Primary Collection: Hasbro 3.75" modern line
  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.
 
Real Life
  Job: Computer Systems Engineer
  Family: Married
  Hobbies: Podcasting, Star Wars, photography, music, movies, writing
  Location: Pawnee, IL (just outside of Springfield)
 
Favorite Collectible: Wedding invitation (mine) signed by Carrie Fisher, Jeremy Bulloch, Billy Dee Williams, and others the weekend before our wedding.
 
Miscellaneous: Also host of the Star Wars Action News Book Club and host and producer of Propaganda: The Official Master Replicas Podcast
 

Marjorie Carvalho: Host & Public Relations

Forum Handle: marjoriec
Email: majorie@reviewstarwars.com
 
Birth Date: August 1
 
Collecting
  Vintage: Kitschy items
  Modern: KUBRICKS!!!! All kinds
  Hasbro: I like hunting for them...
  Other: I tend to favor Japanese toys
  Special: Starbucks city mugs; Antique Pyrex bowls
 
Real Life
  Job: Dilberville
  Family: Married to The Arnie
  Hobbies: Gardening and knitting if I can find the time
  Location: Cornfield
 
Favorite Collectible: My Toronto Maple Leafs Yoda, customized by my darling husband.
 

Jason Spieth: Staff Writer & Webmaster

Forum Handle: Darth Prime
Email: darthprime@reviewstarwars.com
 
Birth Date: April 10, 1977
 
Collecting
  Hasbro: Hasbro: 3.75" lines, vehicles, creatures, and the like. Galactic Heroes. Titanium Series. Star Wars Transformers. 7" Unleashed.
  Other: Gentle Giant Mini Busts, select statues and maquettes. Selective Master Replicas and Sideshow Collectibles products.
  Special: Anything and everything Darth Vader
  Non-SW: Marvel Legends, Spider-Man, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, Debt
 
Real Life
  Job: Software Engineer
  Family: 1 Padawan Boy
  Hobbies: Drawing, fencing, camping, and the great outdoors, teaching my son the ways of The Force to become a Jedi like his father.
  Location: Rochester, Minnesota (USA)
 
Favorite Collectible: I love them all, but have good memories of getting my first SW celebrity autographs in my New Essential Guide Omnibus.
 
Miscellaneous: Has aspirations to get a Darth Vader costume good enough to join the 501st.
 

Jakob Conkling: Roving Reporter/Correspondent 

Forum Handle: Smash Das Robots
Email: rootbeer@reviewstarwars.com
 
Birth Date: May '77
 
Collecting
  Vintage: Loose, complete 3.75” Kenner figures
  Hasbro: 3.75” line, Galactic Heroes, Attacktix
  Other: Star Wars Kubricks, TOMY Remote Controlled Astromechs
  Non-SW: Comic Books, Playmobil
 
Real Life
  Job: Reprographics
  Family: One wife who is hellbent on naming our future child Endor
  Hobbies: Writing, Philosophy, Drawing, Music Composition, Listening to Poorly-played Punk Rock
  Location: Los Angeles, CA (USA)
 
Favorite Collectible: My collection of Star Wars Kubricks because they make death and destruction cute.
 
Miscellaneous: My blog – http://smashallrobots.blogspot.com
 

Scott Reed: Staff Photographer/Reporter/Correspondent

Forum Handle: KrispyKenobi
 
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.

 

Steve: Roving Reporter/Correspondent

Forum Handle: TheGingerPrince
 
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.

 

Brock: SWAN Book Club Liaison

Forum Handle: Brock
 
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.

 

John Howard: Forum Administrator

Forum Handle: THX-182
 
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!

 

John T. Racek: Forum Administrator, Spam Bounty Hunter

Forum Handle: Red5
Email: jtr1974@yahoo.com
 
Birth Date: August 23, 1974
 
Collecting
  Vintage: 12 backs
  Modern: ATC Figures
  Hasbro: Galactic Heroes and McQuarry Concept figures
  Other: art and lithographs, Star Wars CCG
  Special: any exclusive action figure, Autographs
  Non-SW: Comic Books, Spawn Statues
 
Real Life
  Job: Stay at home Dad, Irrigationist
  Family: Married to Jennifer for the past 7 years, daughter Cassidy
  Hobbies: Customizing figures, Comic Books, Reading, Gaming, yard work, Costuming, Ti Kwan Do
  Location: Mckinney, Texas
 
Favorite Collectible: Sideshow statues
 
Special Thanks To

  Nathan P. Butler:  Story Collecting Segment Contributor
  Book Club "Continuity Ambassador"
Forum Handle: Nathan Butler
Email: nathan@starwarsfanworks.com
 
Birth Date: October 17, 1979
 
Collecting
  Vintage: continuity story materials
  Modern: continuity story materials
  Hasbro: none
  Other: archival Star Wars fan audio materials
  Special: none
  Non-SW: DVDs (particularly season sets of television series); Babylon 5; 24
 
Real Life
  Job: High School Social Studies Teacher
  Family: Single with immediate family in Indiana
  Hobbies: Audio production; writing
  Location: Fairburn (Atlanta Metro), Georgia, USA
 
Favorite Collectible: My own personal binder of materials from when I wrote for Star Wars Tales (drafts, pitches, artwork, contracts, etc.)
 
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).

 

Mark: Forum Design Administrator

Forum Handle: Yodasnews
 
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.

 

Gary Price: Graphic Designer

Forum Handle: GaryX
 
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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