WELCOME BACK JAWAS! We are happy to announce the re-opening of the site, as we venture into a new era at The Jawa! A great man named Stephen Palmer founded a popular Star Wars website known as www.thejawa.com over ten years ago. The primary goal of the website was to accurately price and identify Star Wars toys & collectibles for fans across the world. The Jawa team primarily used checklists to cover this, however the daunting task of updating price guides seemed to get passed over and finding a volunteer to update them was a task in itself. Over the years the names and faces changed, but www.thejawa.com would continue to be a mainstay in the Star Wars community. The gentleman who would lead and maintain the site for several years never lost his love for Star Wars, but Chris Delvecchio instead would focus his energy to helping the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and doing his best to help find a cure for his son Christopher. We know he’ll always remember his Jawa years fondly. We thank him for all his did while he was here, and wish him the best on his journey and there will always be a light for him at our Sandcrawler. May the Force be with him and his family! In 2007, a former staple of the Jawa / Sandtrooper community returned and made an offer to purchase www.thejawa.com. All responsible parties agreed it would be in the best interest of the community to sell the website to Chris Spice, who would re-merge the forum and bring the community back together again. However, what to do with the website? Does the hobby really need another collectors site? Probably not a new one, but we felt we should take care of the sites that have history. We are going to do our best to bring the original goals of the site to fruition. Until then we will use it as the ultimate weapon alongside www.sandtroopers.com as we have a assembled a team of dedicated fans to implement new features to keep collectors interested and try to assist our armored partners any way we can. Our team will focus on a many differet facets of Star Wars collecting. Our prototype section will be one of our areas of major focus as we feel collectors might find it interesting to see the very beginning of production stages. We also plan to showcase video game review, custom and diorama work and many of the topics where the Jawa used to excel. We'll also be working on comic book and novel reviews as Travis Blakney a.k.a. Durodude will take the controls of the crawler for these segments. We look forward to the future of The Jawa as we will continue to scavenge the galaxy, spreading peace and creativity while uniting collectors worldwide. Uttinni!