Oh Dave, I'd KILL for bootleg Star Wars in the U.S. that was half as nice as stuff like this.  It just is dangerous water for a company to tread.

With militaria, they can copy without trampling on toes, so long as they don't directly copy licensed material, like plane names, vehicle names, historical character names, etc...  Like 21st has the license to reproduce Gen. George Patton, which was rather expensive.  As well as a license to repro Dodge products frm the war.  I guess BBI has the rights to "Humvee" though.

Contrary to popular belief, these little licenses cost TONS to these small toy companies, and have much less/shorter earning potential than Star Wars does to Hasbro.  In the end they're equally expensive, if not more so, but the companies shell out big bucks for them.

Plane names, squadron insignia, and I guess noseart are also all copywritten materials as well.  I learned a lot from my long discussions with some of these companies over the years.  They give you some really good insight into the industry that Hasbro rarely ever shares, and they give it to you from a truly costly perspective due to their size.

That's a good Q.  It's, more or less, what the pre-order was for, but in different packaging.  What if yu just pre-ordered one figure though?  Hah! 

I couldn't really tell you fair prices.

I tried selling my Panther one time and had no buyers, ya know?  I'd likely sell it for $60 though...  It's a cool tank, but I don't even have it displayed anymore.

The Tiger was REALLY widely available, and there's repaints supposedly coming (WInter one anyway) so I'd hold off on buying that one myself. 

It's a nice tank thugh.

I love that guy.  Tore into me a couple times in PM because I was from Pittsburgh.

He spiced it up over there.

Matt, if ya wind up with an extra, I may take it off your hands unless someone from somewhere sans K-Marts needs it.

You know me...  I'll take crushed boxes usually.

This is a set I'm definitely not wanting to miss out on, and hopefully they arrive in Pitt soon.  I'm keeping my eyes open.

BA:  "It's a coin on a necklace foo!"

G(g):  "No, you see, it's a collectible medallion."

BA:  "Take your vitamans" **Commences smacking the crap out of G(g).  "And that's for contradicting me foo!"

Nothing here in Pitt yet.  Soon though I hope.  Soon...

Remember openers for those damaged.  I'm an opener and will take anything I can find personally, and even the extra damaged stuff just to help out the minty's out there.

Took a damaged VOTC the other day just because it was gonna sit, I could tell.