Thanks for the feedback Jesse, and thank you Jim -- pics would be great. I'm pretty much already sold on these, particularly the second AVP set with the build-a-queen. And I'd buy the set with the Marines no matter what the scale when it comes down to it -- they look really promising.

To weigh in on Marvel Showdown: Good character selection, nice detail, but very poorly engineered/constructed. I'm a sucker for SA figures in this scale, so I have most of them, but I'm really hoping they improve upon their overall stability in the next two waves. Scale-wise, they seem a bit too tall for some Star Wars figures (less noticeable standing against taller figures like Vader or Chewie), but almost head-to-head with Microman (Cap and Micro Batman are about the same height).