From Fox Home Entertianment:

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (January 22, 2013) – 

After a record breaking debut on Cartoon Network, The LEGO Group and Lucasfilm announced today that LEGO® Star Wars™: The Empire Strikes Out will release on DVD this coming March 26, 2013. The 22-minute original standalone special will bring the same tongue-and-cheek humor fans know and love in a brand new epic adventure featuring everyone’s favorite LEGO Star Wars characters. Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the DVD will include an exclusive collectible Darth Vader LEGO minifigure and is available now for preorder at www.foxconnect.com/awesome.

Yesterday afternoon LEGO unveiled their newest Star Wars building set at the annual San Diego Comic Con. "The Rancor Pit" includes Lego-fied versions of the Rancor, the Rancor Keeper, Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, and Gamorrean Guard. It is unknown at this time if this new set is able to connect with the "Jabba's Palace" set that was unveiled at the 2012 Toy Fair in New York City.

Below is a portion of today's press release from LEGO Systems, Inc.:

SAN DIEGO, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON -- LEGO Systems, Inc., the world's leading construction toy manufacturer, unveils its largest ever San Diego Comic-Con presence with a "theme of the day" calendar of events that celebrates its top licensed properties including LEGO® THE LORD OF THE RINGS™ and LEGO THE HOBBIT™, LEGO Super Heroes, LEGO Star Wars™ and LEGO NINJAGO. LEGO Systems welcomes show attendees with displays of life-size models, first-ever "reveals" of LEGO building sets and limited edition giveaways. In addition, attendees are invited to help "build" a section of its booth each day that features 7.5 feet tall mosaics of Comic-Con favorites at booth #2829 of the San Diego Convention Center, July 12-15.

From Lego.com:

Use the force this May 4th and 5th and you'll receive some fantastic LEGO® Star Wars™ gifts plus free shipping when you spend $75 or more at a LEGO Store or via shop.LEGO.com. 

You can qualify for these offers and also earn an instant VIP Reward when you purchase the brand new R2-D2 ™ Exclusive. This great addition to the LEGO Star Wars™ theme measures over 12 inches high by 7.1 inches wide and will keep even the most devoted young Jedi busy for hours… happy building! 

To help launch the 3D premiere of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in Germany, an ad agency created a one-of-a-kind Star Wars-themed barrel organ containing well over 20,000 Lego bricks. The company, Serviceplan Campaign comissioned the organ to be built in such a way that when cranked buy hand, the Lego bricks and minifigures trigger levers that strike keys on a keyboard which in turn, plays the main theme from all six Star Wars movies.

To check out up close pictures as well as a video of this amazing structure in action, check out cnet.com's full coverage on their official site.

The cool kids over at From Bricks to Bothans have done it again. While watching a video on an unrelated Lego product, they happened to notice an often rumored Lego model of R2-D2 standing off to the side minding his own business. While they report the item number for this is 10225, there is no mention of when this might actually be "officially" announced or when we could expect it on store shelves.

With San Diego Comic Con and Star Wars Celebration VI only months away, here's hoping that all the juicy details regarding this awesome-looking set will be revealed sooner rather than later.

Our full coverage of the 2012 New York Toy Fair is now live. Thanks to each and every one of you for your patience. We had a blast covering the show and hope you enjoy the photos and reports.

Transportation, reservations and press passes have been secured and in under two weeks, the staff here at CollectorsCantina.com will be attending our first Toy Fair at the Javits Center in New York. Along with checking out the newest offerings from Hasbro and Lego, we'll be walking the floor of the con on the lookout for any and all new Star Wars merchandise that may have slipped in under the radar.

So keep your web browser locked on us beginning Saturday, February 11 for all the news and reviews at Toy Fair 2012 as it happens.

While taking a look around the official Lego website today I came across a page of new Star Wars building sets that are currently available for pre-order. The new sets cover all aspects of the Saga, original trilogy, the prequels and the animated Clone Wars series. Among the new products available is a new line of mini building sets which include a minifigure, mini-model, display stand with name plaque and a small plastic globe which looks like it can either be displayed or used as a container to hold the disassembled pieces.

While all the new sets are available for pre-order right now, they do not begin shipping until January 30th.

Over the weekend our friends over at FlyGuy.net posted some great images of some new Lego sets that will be hitting store shelves in 2012. Included among the typical building sets, there is a new series of Lego Planet Series sets. These new sets each include a mini-figure, mini-vehicle and plastic mini planet based on a particular theme. Series one of this new wave include a TIE Pilot with a TIE Interceptor and mini Death Star, a Naboo Pilot with a Naboo fighter and a mini Naboo, and a set featuring Sebulba with his pod racer and the planet Tatooine.