Yeah Hasbro busted the holster up pretty much.  Ironically, the Veers figure's holster is pretty much what you'd want... P roblem there is that they cheated with it, and it is hollow on the opposite side and the skirt covers it perfectly...  Can't do that on the Stormie.

Hasbro COULD do a better holster on Stormies...  I'm alright with the VOTC one but it's not really a holster like we'd all want.

I got a couple Sun Fac's today at Target.

Of course no Clones to be found.

Scored tons of other great goodies at the Toy Show...  But Sun Facs were a bit of a surprise.  That whole wave has been a pain to find here irregardless of character.

I was reading the forums elsewhere and saw major hooplah over the Coruscant Wave showing up.

The wave's hot due to Cody, and I really think he turned out to be a great figure.  I'm the last guy to knock articulation complaints, obviously, but even I don't mind the shortcomings Cody has (shoulders and ankles).  To me he's pretty great...  Near perfect actually.

I'm really excited to not find these figures!

Even if it's not to scale (heck, what really is in most toy lines anyway)

BBI and X-Treme Detail for starters...  Both of which make incredibly complex vehicles out of more parts than probably 10 Hasbro toys combined and for prices that rival Hasbro.  I've never seen Hasbro as having an "excuse" with vehicles, and the way they factor size and price they actually don't make an excuse either.

A ship is often scaled to the packaging more than the figures...  price maintains at a constant ($15, $20, & $30 if we're using ROTS as an example).  The ship is made to fit a "standard" they've set for the box though...  Could they deliver more?  Sure, but it would require deviating from presets which they won't do...  If it's to-scale by coincidence though it works, like the Tri-Fighter, JSF's, etc... 

Thankfully they get off their ass now and then and do something pretty spectacular though like the TIE Fighter last year or the Saga Landspeeder.  I only hope things like AT-ST, Snowspeeder, and some others get redone...  Otherwise I've come to expect little out of them with their vehicles.

When you open a $20 halftrack from 21st Cent. Toys and compare it to anything Hasbro made though, there's simply nothing they have that has come close to that quality level...  No matter how big or small the Hasbro ship is.

For me, ships are so collector-focused these days anyway (honestly, look at the exclusives...  Unless its a movie year, ships generally go to the adults) and sell so poorly overall (I blame a bit of burnout on the "same old same old" here) I think they'd be better off doing less and less vehicles within any year and they should  focus producing all-new and "collector-focused" ships every whipstitch as exclusives (like the Landspeeder)...  Preferably ones that can be repainted and re-released as something totally new ala what the military lines do to help the costs.

The figure is indeed great.

I was reading around forums tonight to play catch up from the weekend...  I really see a lot of anger, and I can understand a lot of it, but it's making the hobby just fill up with the less favorable these days...  People angry over nothing, people fighting over silliness...

The VOTC look great, they're what I'm really anxious to get this year because right now the basic figures just look like they're going to fill everyone with rage and hate in this hobby.

At least VOTC have SOME chance of maybe being findable.  The $10 pricepoint has always proven the slower seller, so maybe that'll work out for those of us wanting to unload heavy scratch on these figures.

Actually he comes with the #43 Wookiee's Bowcaster...  My Wookiee's hold that fine.  The thumb fits in the hold perfect.

I hate the big gangly "feature" piece on top though.  I've been cutting them off for a realistic bowcaster instead. 

Yeah, if you had Hills, you had these things in droves for $20 or even less.  I bought tons...  Was gonna customize but the scale of it just turned me off eventually and I sold them.