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In their pre-toy fair press release, Screenlife celebrates the 10th anniversary of ‘Scene It?’ with their announcement of 2012 ‘Scene It?’ games, ‘Scene It? Star Wars’ and ‘Scene It? Movie Night’. Both games feature the high quality and trivia questions and video clips that players have come to expect from the ‘Scene It?’ games. New for 2012 is the addition of streaming gameplay, where the video clips can be accessed through the included DVD or over a networked device. Both new versions of the game will be available this fall. After the jump you can see the full press release with the announcement and for more information on Scene It? Star Wars, Scene It? Movie Night, or any other Scene It? game, visit www.screenlifegames.com.

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Quite a busy day of news from the  UK Toy Fair.  Earlier this morning rumors started leaking about the next “big” vehicle in the Star Wars line being the ‘MTT’ (you know, the thing with the Battle Droids on it) from The Phantom Menace. By noon this was confirmed via scans of the Hasbro UK booklet. Scans were posted over on TheRedShadows.com.

The other big (literally) news from Hasbro were details on the vehicles in the Avengers line-up. While a Quinjet has long been rumored to appear in the toy line it is now confirmed. As is a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Which is sorta cool. Check out the scans below, and expect more detailed information in a few weeks from New York Toy Fair!

Hasbro’s kicked off a new coupon campaign, with a bunch of pretty solid coupons. The highlight is a ‘Buy One Get One’ coupon for Star Wars figures – which is perfect with the Star Wars reset that’s going on. Also of note are coupons for $3 off a Transformers Dark of the Moon deluxe, $8 off the Optimus Prime Kreo set, or $5 off Hungry Hungry Hippos. You can find all these coupons by following this link. Please note, registration and installation of a coupon printer are required to get the coupons.

Mimoco essentially invented the designer USB flash driver, carving out a nice niche for themselves.  Today they unveiled their Mimomicro line – a smaller drive that can be used as a USB flash drive, or as a microSD card reader.  The Mimomicro drive – smaller than 2″ H by 1″W features a flip-out USB plug, a built-in keychain and an LED light. Launching in March of this year, initial offerings will include Star Wars (Darth Vader,Yoda, C-3PO, Chewbacca, the Millennium Falcon) and DC Comics (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman).  along with characters from DC Comics including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Check out images below, or head to www.mimoco.com for more information.

Super7 has teased their 2nd release in their Super Shogun series.  Released a few years ago, the Super Shogun Stormtrooper will be joined this year by a Super Shogun Boba Fett.  The teaser image implies that he’ll have firing wrist rockets. Looking forward to seeing more details of the finished figures; but really wish it was a Darth Vader. Check out the teaser image below.

As new 2012 ‘The Phantom Menace’ figures start to hit Target the vintage style cardbacks promote a new contest where you can win a life-sized, George Lucas signed, Darth Maul statue!  The contest will have a site, DarthMaulGiveaway.com, but that’s not live at the time of this article. To enter, simply send in the form included in a figure – or send a 3×5 card with your name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number and date of birth (and a parent’s signature if you’re under 18) to Star Wars Darth Maul Giveaway PO Box 513, Elmhurst, IL 60126.  All entries must be recieved by August 31, 2012 – and you are limited to 1 entry per person per day and only one entry per envelope.  The prizes include the Darth Maul statue (valued at $3100, apparently) and 100 first prizes of a Force FX Lightsaber.  May the Force be with you!

With this holiday season having the first Lego Star Wars advent calendar, Lego has set-up a small Star Wars holiday site featuring a Santa suit clad Yoda. On this site, Lego has 3 free holiday e-cards and as an incentive for sending them to your friends and family, for each card sent Lego will donate to Toys For Tots!  This is a fantastically easy way to make a difference for a child this holiday season – and the middle card is pretty awesome to boot!  Head over to www.legosantayoda.com, send a card and help a kid.  Couldn’t be easier!

Toys R Us is kicking off a 2-day sale today and one of the highlights is a ‘buy one get one’ deal on Star Wars figures and playsets.  With this printable coupon, you can buy one and get 50% off the second. If you’re a Joe fan, they are offering a free figure with a $25 G. I. Joe purchase.  Happy shopping!

HasbroToyShop.com, Hasbro’s online store, is offering a special Friends and Family discount – 25% off and get free shipping! There are some exclusions, but this is a chance to save a few bucks; it does look like there’s a few new Marvel Universe figures available as well as some of the online only Iron Man figs.  Go to HasbroToyShop.com to browse and use coupon code FSFAM11 to save some coin.

With Halloween now a distant memory (3 days gone!) the retailers are ramping up for the holidays with sales popping up frequently in the toy aisles.  As part of their ‘Super Wow!’ deals – this Friday from 3PM to midnight and this Saturday from 8AM to 1PM, Toys R Us will offer a deal on Star Wars figures with them ringing up as 2 for $11.99.  Vintage figures are expressly mentioned in the online ad – so this is a great price for two figs.  In order to get this price, you do need to print your Wow! savings card which you can find here. Happy shopping!

To celebrate their NYCC debut – Hasbro is offering a 10% discount on their HasbroToyShop.com offerings.  At check-out; use code NYCC2011 and you’ll save some dough!  I’ve been told there are exclusions to this coupon, but as I don’t have a physical copy (last time I don’t go to NYCC!) I’m not sure what they are.

So head on over to HasbroToyShop and try it out.  They did post the NYCC exclusives and at ‘press time’ the only sold-out item is Compound Hulk.

Thanks to Adam16bit for the scoop on the coupon.  Check out 16bit.com cause its great, and he’s a good dude.

Straight from Hasbro – enjoy their presentation from the Star Wars panel.  Here you’ll see all the news and reveals from the show; including details of the continuation of Vintage, the 2012 focus on Episode I and the new Movie Heroes sku.  Click here to download the material and may the force be with you!

The fantastic Funko folks have sent out an update of some new upcoming products due in December.  Kicking the month off – their Pop! vinyl line expands to include 2 figures from Microsoft’s Halo franchise.  You’ll have the opportunity to pick up both a Master Chief and a Grunt in Pop! vinyl form.  These have a release date of December 1st.

On December 16th their Star Wars mini Wacky Wobblers will be released.  Standing at a wee three inches; these have all the fun of a full sized Wacky Wobbler shrunk down into a smaller size.  Initial offerings include Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Yoda, Chewbacca, C-3P0 and R2-D2.

Also being released mid-month are a Wacky Wobbler and Pop! vinyl of V, from the graphic novel turned film V for Vendetta.  As nothing says revolutionary like a bobble head or deformed vinyl toy!