Now does Pilot Luke include the electronic lightsaber, too?  IIRC, the MH version of Hoth Pilot Luke has that winch backpack.  And I believe I had seen word of an electronic lightsaber version of Luke, too.  But they can't have combined the two features into one figure, right?

I got Pilot Luke yesterday (before the mob attacks, I wanted another pilot Luke figure and figured I might as well for for a different one) and there is no light-up saber. I too remember hearing that it would be light-up, but I guess it didn't pan out on Hasbro's end or it was just mixed-up reports from other parties. Hopefully we'll get a light-up farmboy Luke sometime soon... I'm not sure how well Luke's other outfits would work with their skinny appearance.

I finally found the three Dollar General Joes I wanted - Duke, Storm Shadow, and Cobra Trooper

Last time I hit Dollar General about two weeks ago, they had a couple of full sets on the pegs. It looked like the Joes were part of their Christmas toy section. I got my set back in September, but I'm glad to see that they are more widely available. Hopefully the variants/repaints won't start out as hard-to-find as the first wave was.

Nice score Greg!  Ebay?

Yup, got them on ebay. I managed to win the lot with all six for about the same (maybe less) than what the Slaughters and Zaranas would have cost me individually. I already had the Jinx figures from HTS so I'm working to sell off the extra pair to subsidize the purchase. All in all I'm very happy to have all of the SDCC figures... I'm thinking about tracking down the Transformers/Joe crossover sets, but that wouldn't be any time soon.

Also, I had a lot of fun doing this:

I set up a little "drop" scene today with the Dropship rigs and some clones:



I really love the sci-fi vibe of the ship, and it's easily my favorite mini-rig since the AT-RT. My only gripe is the tiny cockpit. It's a shame that normal sized figures can't pilot the ship. Hopefully Hasbro retools the cockpit for next year's release, or at least scales down the included AOTC Clone Pilot.

Got me some SDCC Joes:



I'm very happy to have the camo Sarge... the others are just gravy.

I managed to find a fresh case of Wave 2 last week @ TRU and scored a minty Shane and Rick. So I'm all good on that wave now.

Even better, I finally won an ebay auction for the SDCC Michonne exclusive for $30, which was a great price.

Now I'm just waiting on them to release that B&W Zombie 3-pack...should be any day now.

Glad you were able to get those Wave 2 figures, and that's a terrific price for the Michonne. Hopefully you get decent paint apps on that figure... I saw a couple in-person at a toy show a few months back, and they looked very sloppy.

In a post-apocalyptic world burying when you can burn is a ridiculous choice.  It was done for one reason - ceremony.  Honor their dead.  And if they're gonna dig one useless grave, might as well dig 3.

But yeah - pretty dumb.

I think in Season 1 someone mentioned the group buries the ones they loved, and burns the rest... I'm guessing since there was nothing left of two people they intended to bury (Carol and Lori) they just put their possessions in the graves.

As for the rest of the episode, I enjoyed it. They pulled off Penny and the fighting arena really well. The only things I dislike about the show are the pacing and ambiguous fates for characters. I'm still used to full episodes of Rick's group, so I feel shortchanged when those characters wind up with half an episode due to Woodbury... and they need to stop with the offscreen/ambiguous deaths. Did Carl really shoot Lori? Did Lori really get eaten? Is Carol really dead? After the Andrew incident I'm a skeptic about every death on the show... if they don't show it happen, the character is still alive!

Busy couple of days...



The older figures came from a guy on anotheR Site, the TVC Guards and Troopers came from Amazon, Snaggletooth 3-pack from Target using their $5 off coupon, and the AT-ST Drivers are obviously from K-Mart ($14 for both sets after rewards points... woohoo!).

I was sad, but not shocked to see T-Dawg come to an end.  As edgy as this show is, I don't think even they would want to veer into what a racist (Merle) would do to an African American, and it is inevitable that the prison crew collides with the Woodbury crew soon.  It would either come off disingenuous and out of character, or they would have surely made some headlines.

I thought about the possible Merle/T-Dog meeting, but watching the third episode I realized Merle might have been forced to overcome (or at least stow away) his racism to work with the Governor. I know there was one prominent black guy in the Governor's group, along with a couple of hispanic guys, that Merle was working with. I did expect Merle and T-Dog to inevitably meet, so the events in the last episode were definitely an unexpected curve ball.