If Target's doing it not even so much as their exclusives in the past, but as regular things that'll have dedicated shelf space, that's weird...  I wonder if the novelty will wear off?  Will they be higher production then?

Strange stuff, lotta questions...  The SW brand overall is seeing a weird turn between Hasbro's relationships with retailers, what Hasbro's thinking of making...  Stuff's just all over the place right now. 

I actually like the figure too Matt, but the point stands that he's littering pegs in a film-used costume, so the silver paintjob "Commander" isn't a GREAT idea.

My like of the figure is that I think it looks good, and the Neimodian Gunner was a nice figure, he just isnt' popular.  I disagree with you some Michael on it NOT being an army builder because the character sucked, I think Hasbro over-estimated is all...  I've bought a handful, and will pick more up (especially come an expected clearance on these). 

The figure's not perfect, but he's pretty close...  SHort of some knee articulation he's really poseable.  I have mine doing an assault on some Clones using Battledroid guns till I find a suitable rifle replacement for them.

He's a good figure, just a bad figure to re-release...  I like the new paintjob even, but like the Grievous Guard he's EVERYWHERE.   

I will say, my army builder glut are dwindling.  The Neimodian's lagging behind the Wookiee and Clone Pilot, but all 3 are moving VERY slowly.  In my neck of the woods, Bail and Mas Ameda are reigning pegwarmers.

This Neimodian's one of those figures where, as much as I love the figure and want more of it, I gotta just bite the bullet that what i want isn't what's good for retail at the moment.  Way WAY too many of this guy around for most.  He's not a bad figure though...  Give him the right gun and ball/socket knees and he'd be damn near perfect.

So they had one of these things at the Hasbro Q & A panel down at Comic Con last weekend.  The Hasbro reps were all amped to show it off, and... the thing didn't work.  At all.  They fidgeted with it for a good 5 minutes in hopes of fixing it to show off to the few remaining folks at the end of the Q & A, but to no avail.

Looked real nice though, with a nifty little lightsaber remote and all.  Hopefully they'll work a little better than that when we finally get them in person... 

So, in some distant manner, you guys witnessed a modern day, and tiny, reinactment of Lucas's prop guys pissing around with the original astromechs as they would topple over, go off track, break, and just not work.

Probably killed the batteries in it...  RC in this tiny scale eats batteries.  My gf's kids got these little RC cars from Radio Shack and they tend to not last real long.  I definitely see possibilities in those little cars though for moving droids. 

I want an RC Mine Layer droid from the Sandcrawler now.

Hah, more Clones.

I'd actually like the Eopie re-released as a "beast" in an assortment perhaps down the road, as I'd like the QGJ that rides him...  However, I'd not mind seeing it repacked in some Tatooine pack...  It would be a motivating factor for me to buy repacked figures actually.

Lots of Eopie's on Tatooine, and I'd like a handful myself for just that reason.  Seeing it packed into a TRU styled 4 (or 5) pack of figures would be nice...  Dunno what else to pack in with it, but a droid and 3 or 4 other figures wouldn't hurt. 

I look at the Bacara and TE Gunner's thing as a Pauldron...  Seems like the Clones just had a variety of them (as far as their "look" or physical construction)...  Why that is, I'm totally clueless.  Maybe the Clones made them on their own by their specific legions, but the Empire stripped them down to a specific uniformed style for all troopers with the colors meaning the same across the board.  

At least that's how I'm looking at things right now.

On the "skirt", I think it's more means of a Commander establishing himself as unique among his men, and perhaps paying some tribute to the Republic's most elite Clones too...  I dunno.  I wouldn't think it would hinder movement or be a "problem" for troops and movement.

My buddy's with a group who are starting a local TV show called "Its Alive".  He's doing make-up effects for it I guess.

Anyway, Pittsburgh used to have a show called Chiller Theater with a guy called Chilly Billy that hosted it and stuff...  It was a late-night bad horror film show, it washosted, had skits and stuff...  This new show my buddy's a part of is trying to resurrect that...  I guess Chiller Theater was the first show of its kind, and their concept for their show is very similar but some modern twists too.

You Zombie guys would like the commercial they did for Phantom Of The Attic Comics here in the city.  Zombies attack the store's owner and stuff, all shot just like original NOTLD footage.  Funny.

My buddy's annoying as hell about talking about the show, but it actually looks interesting to me now that I've seen its website.

I missed the Myth Busters episode that was gonna pick apart the Jaws films.

Did they figure out if a great white could be blown up by shooting oxygen tanks?