In the shameful proud tradition of JD and Hooters...

Group #1 (Wednesday Night)



From Left to Right):

Jesse #1 [JesseJames] - red/white shirt
Jeff [Nataku] - orange/blue shirt
Jared [Tydirium] - hiding behind Jeff
Adam [BigDumbWookiee] - tan shirt
Mr. jadesfire - hiding behind BDW
Beth [jadesfire]
Matt [JediMAC] - always near the girls
Brent [Morgbug] - hoarding the yellow bag o'treats
Jamie [jjks] - now with White Hat!
Chris Berry - standing next to Jamie (YEP, that's Chris)!
Ms. JesseVader08 -sitting in front of CB
Jesse #2 [JesseVader08] - standing near his lady
Jason [HoloElvis] - the head above Jesse #2's head
and last (and least  ), Dale [DSJ]


Then, we got this shot of Matt and his best pal Shannon (Princess):




Group #2 (Friday Night, after Smokey Joe's):



From Left to Right):

Brian [soggybottomboy] - standing
Brent [Morgbug] - with fancy Canadian mustache
Dave [jokabofe]
Jeff [Nataku]
Ed [Landothescoundrel] - making sure his gal is cool with him being soooo close to Hooter's gal #1
Hooters Gal #1
Chris Berry - one can only imagine how many ways we've warped him after this trip. 
Hooter's Gal #2
Matt [JediMAC] - distracted by Hooter's gal #2
Shannon [Princess] - wearing her shirt again for Matt
Apokolips - GH dude slumming with the JD crew.

Celebration 3 Vader - In Stock

It says limit 4 on one part, and limit 2 on another part of the text.

Why the hell did I bust my ass bringing these back for people?   

On one hand it's cool for those that missed it, on the other hand it sucks ass because I wasted 5 hours of my life getting my figures before they started spreading the word you could buy them later.   

At least I know mine are minty-mint and I con't have to worry that they will come all mangled...

Jeff

Time to update my list... new people in bold.   

OCB (Scott)
Wuss-Boy
Infinitifett
chuckles
JediMAC
Tydirium
Knashdx
Valin Kenobi
Bob Dylan SW Fan
Chris Berry
jjks
Tennessee Daniel
HoloElvis
Morgbug
jadesfire and "friend" (Husband?  )
JesseVader08 and Cara (sp?)
DSJ
Jesse James
jokabofe
BigDumbWookiee
Princess
JoshEEE
Mike Sullenger
Spirit-of
Apokolips
Mousedroid
Musasa/Andrew
Membraneman
Adam Pawlus
BillCable
bobafett14
CorranHorn
Famine
Frank / NiubNiub
Nicklab
Kneel Before Zod
LandotheScoundrel
SirSteve Comenzo
Dan Curto
Philip Wise
Mark Hurray
Mr. Kris
Darth Broem
Darth Kenobi
SoggyBottomBoy3469
Isaac Lew
Tom Derby
Oscar Didier
Darthshader

They are mostly in the order that I met them, I think.   
And, like everyone else, I met Sooooooo many new people, please don't be offended if I for got ya.   

Jeff

I think they set up the packaging so that the back side to chnage the battery can be opened.

Yes, the part that holds the battery DOES stick out through the back of the car so that you can remove the battery without damaging the product.

I think you can thank Steve Sansweet for that - it's the kind of tiny details that gets corrected for when you have an uber-collector helping you design the toy!

Jeff

"5 helmets for 3 different clones!" Um...what does that mean?

I believe Jeff said there were multiple helmets packed in to the figure box ala the AT-TE Gunner Figure

YES.

You can see them barely in my crappy Hasbro QnA picture:



The Ep2 Yellow Clone comes with a regular helmet and a pilot helmet.
The Ep3 Clone Commander comes with a regular helmet and the AT-TE Gunner attachment.
The Sandtrooper just comes with his helmet.

At first, Hasbro was saying that the Sandtrooper WOULD have a removable helmet, but then later in the day they were saying he WOULDN'T have one.   

So, I guess really it's only 4 helmets for the 2 clones if the Sandtrooper is not slated for a removable helmet. 

Jeff

Well that's just great news, I could've gotten it online and wouldn't have to make Vator wait in line.

JediMAC, or anyone else in line, was it REALLY that long, or are we overexagerating a bit?

I waited in line for 5 hours on Thursday for Vader, Jared and a few others had a 9 hour wait.  The average wait time for the C3 Vader has been around 6 hours.   

According to the RS Q&A posting the following is TRUE!!!!

The Darth Vader Celebration III figure will be available online after the show

As for on-line sales, be careful - Hasbro said they will try to do it, but it would be VERY limited quantity and there would be no guarantee on condition of the figures.  I think RS may have been reading into the comment a bit too much... 

Jeff

Well,

I don't usually get into the whole "food promo" area of collecting, but when one of the gals at my office offered this to me for FREE (thanks to her husband the Grocery Manager), I couldn't refuse! 



It's the Frito-Lay RotS/Vader display, fresh from the box!  I just got done assembling it and it is really cool.  You can kinda see the pictures from all parts of the saga (OT too!) in the back plate/sections. 

Vader stands about 6ft high, the back sections are about 8ft high.  Now I've just got to find a place for it in the SW Room! 

Jeff

Upon closer inspection, I'm not thinking the ships may be all new as well...  They seem bigger than the original MM ships.  Maybe they're even from the same molds as WM's Titanium series?  I have no idea.  Anyone know?

I heard they were molded using the larger "X-Ray" versions of MM, like these.

The X-Ray ships were a bit larger than the standard MMs were.  I don't own them to compare for ya, but that is the info I last heard from Target...

Jeff