What's New: TRU Promotions!

Thanks to Chrise for sharing some of the latest in-store promotion by TRU in Malaysia, do drop by your local TRU for more details:

AT-ST Sneak Peak

Finally got this over the weekend!

The review will be coming shortly.

A WORD.

A Reader Wrote:

"Sorry to the open cold honesty here, but the blog is quite boring now. Hope you get settled soon at your new house and start to get serious pics up again. BTW, why you don't came clean and say you are the E-bay seller? I mean, the pics are the same for Luke's sake! we are not blind, ya know? I loved your long detailed reviews, that's all... don't get mad at me now. Take care! :) "

Hey Dude, Sorry to post up your comment, however this are very important points which i felt that i have to address, not only for you but for my other readers. But truly thanks for your, cold honesty!

Here are my replies and its not only to you, but to my daily reader, as i know they feel the same
Question 1: Sorry to the open cold honesty here, but the blog is quite boring now. Hope you get settled soon at your new house and start to get serious pics up again
Personally i too feel the way...however i have been really swamped with work here and the only thing i want to do when i come back from work.....its to go to bed....last week i worked through the weekends and didn't even sleep on Sunday as i was rushing for a meeting at 8.00am.

Plus in SG, the Starwars collection here is really dying.... finding SW toys are like finding pockets of resistance's.

The local collectors here love collecting vintage figures and nobody really buys them new SW figures. As most Toys shops i have been too, only want to sell Transformers,Slide Show Collectabile's, Hot Toys and Gundam.

And they dont like me taking picture of their shops, so i can't even do toyshop reviews! like i did back home.

Question 2: BTW, why you don't came clean and say you are the E-bay seller? I mean, the pics are the same for Luke's sake! we are not blind, ya know?
As for this statement... i would have to disagree.

i will say this once as i am really not EBAY SELLER and have no money in doing this blog, the only thing which i invest heavily here is my personal time. (with no returns, only the praises/comments i get in fan mail/forum replies & comments on this blog)

In my early days of starting this blog, i found it really hard to find sponsor's for SW toys and i had to go from Toyshop to Toyshop asking if they would/could sponsor my efforts in doing reviews. (even if i were to find a sponsor for my reviews it would be false, as i have to promote their shop.

After having no result, i decided to purchase them myself and taking the toys i have bought as adding them into my own personal collection.

However one day, i found an e-bay seller asking me something about one of my reviews, which i help to answer some questions. which then led me to check out his e-bay page and i was shocked!! as he had collections of the latest/newest SW figures!(plus he was in Malaysia)

So i then approach him, asking if he would be my sponsor and help to kick start my blog!

To keep it short....STARWARS I LIKE is what it is because of this kind sponsor which is asking nothing return! with his products my daily visit jump from 25 visit a day to 500++ visit's a day from 94 countries, i know as i have embedded Google maps into my blog, check out the map:

SO i really THANK THE FORCE THAT I FOUND HIM.


To Sum Things Up:

i really wish i was back home.....with all my SW collection,family,friends back there....

Some morning i feel if i would just open my eye's to see my malaysian room filled with my SW Collection, which does give me a great sense of happyniess each day coming back from a crapy day at the office.

However its really not the same here and be in Singapore the rooms are small as land is expansive here so i cant bring eveything over...and also because i wouldn't know when i will say F*&K this shit and pack my bags for home.


As for my review, whatever i have previously reviewed are only coming out now, as you can see from my last few post, so its kinda of a dry session now. Even most SW website/forum have no new announcement on new arrivals.

So for now please bear with me...Keep Collecting and the Force Be With You! and may the Emperor be with me..

What's New:TRU

Here's the latest Intel from Ng on the latest arrives at TRU in Malaysia:


Here are some of my reviews to help with your decisions:

Echo & Fives:
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/07/cw-fives-echo.html

Clone Trooper with jet packs:
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/07/cw-clone-trooper-jet-back-packs-opened.html

501st Trooper with BARC speeder:
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/07/cw-clone-trooper-barc-speeder-bike-un.html

Turbo Tank Support:
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/06/cw-turbo-tank-support-squad.html

What's New: Latest Arrival of Legacy Figures

The New Wave of Legacy are in at TRU Stores in Malaysia!

Thanks to Ng for the update! here some of the stuff he Bought:

For my review on this latest wave, kindly check out my review:

Biker Scout
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/09/sw-biker-scout-bd12.html

Han Solo
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/08/legacy-collection-bd02-han-solo-in.html

Darth Maul (shirtless)
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/08/sl-bd05-darth-maul-bad.html

Palapatine on hologram
http://starwarsilike.blogspot.com/2009/07/sl-darth-sidious-hologram-preview.html

It's Zombie Wars!

Here are some pictures sent in by NG, Enjoy:

HAPPY Halloween Guys!

Starwars I Like Outpost in SG!

Beside heading down to china town over the weekends, i also made a pit stop at IKEA for the second time with my room mates to get a few more stuff!

As i am waiting to get my collection started here, i decided to prepare some sleeves in my new room for my newly acquired figures in Singapore.

Whereby i got some great bookcase at very low prices, as seen below.

They each cost about SGD29.00 (model: Laiva Bookcase) and being IKEA they were fairly easy to put together!

But what's most important, i needed to start back my reviews!Which i got my new studio in-order.

I constantly have a fair bit of readers always writing in and asking how do i produce my picture, i will show you in my next few pictures:

1) The Base: i decide to get an VIKA CURRY TABLE table which cost a total of SGD 39.00 (SGD 19 table top and SGD 5 each for the legs)

2) Spot Lamps: Tertial & Work SGD 14.90 each! Its freaking cheap! and SUPER flexible.

3) The Bulb: i am using a 14w Philips Cool Day Light Bulb, which carries a white and blue coloring.
Nearly There... Here's one which was installed!

I Personally feel that one is not enough,i think the best is get 3 lamps which really offers great light coverage.

Its Completed! here's how the studio looks after its completed, you could add a background to have the focus more on the object.

Unfortunately i didn't bring any SW figures with me, so i had to use the Cobra Trooper for the Object.

Here are some sample pictures:

Picture 1: Slightly dimmer take (both light are position above the subject) and camera focus is on the weapon:

Picture 2: One lamp face the figure and another directly above it. i didn't set the camera correctly so the blue color has a higher output.


Well that's that,and i hope this helps!

i have made some a arrange for new arrival to reach me here in Singapore, so hopefully we would be seeing a few new characters.