After some consideration, I've decided that this is what I'll be buying from the OTC:

8x OTC figures (Dagobah & Bespin waves, plus the "new" clean Bespin Luke)
24x vOTC figures (1x to open, 1x to keep carded)
1x OTC Falcon
1x OTC Sandcrawler (because of my $50 GC from SWShop.com)
1x OTC Cantina Scene 3-Pack from K-Mart


Here's what I'm passing on:

The 30 OTC re-hash/re-pack figures not mentioned above
All 4 TRU exclusive Jedi Council Scenes
All 3 Wal-Mart DVD Commemorative packs
TRU OTC Endor 4-Pack w/Speeder Bike
TRU OTC Naboo 4-pack w/Kaduu
OTC TIE Fighter
OTC X-Wing
OTC Darth Vader's TIE
OTC Y-Wing w/Gold Leader
All 12" figures
All OTC buddies
All OTC Lightsabers

That leave only the OTC Slave 1 from Target and the OTC Emperor from SWShop.com are left for me to decide on... I'll wait for more info on that for me to decide.

Jeff

Maybe they mean NEW the same way NBC does...

If you haven't bought them yet, then they're NEW to you! ( a la re-runs)

Here's a brand NEW reality show and by NEW, we mean that we took parts from other reality shows and crammed them together to get this one!

Notice they don't mention the fact that all the figures are re-packs on either this set or the DVD comemora-dreck sets.

Jeff

Official Hasbro Announcement:
http://hasbro.com/starwars/pl/page.headlines/id.1061/dn/default.cfm



Jeff

The other thought was that this could be some sort of Clone Wars 12" Figure....

Either something that got canned for the already-run CW series OR maybe something to go with the Clone Wars cartons next Spring?  Sort of the last transition to Ep3.

Maybe Gen Grevious will be all over the sneak preview packaging to introduce him to those who haven't seen the cartoon?

Lots of possibilities...

Jeff

Markus Naslund in EA SPORTS' NHL 2005

As Wild fan, and therfore an anti-fan of the Canucks, I was happy to read that Naslund will be the cover boy for the NHL2005.  

With Bertuzzi out indefinately on his suspension and the EA Curse hanging over Naslund's head, it should be a banner year for the Canucks!

Let's just hope that the curse hits NASLUND only and doesn't spill over into the passengers of his car like it did with Dany Heatley last year...  

Jeff

Clue #1 It's going to be the biggest thing to hit the net since Google opened its doors.

Clue #2 It takes two, baby

Clue #3

Clue #1 - On-line
Clue #2 - Multiplayer
Clue #3 - Bowling

On-line Multiplayer Bowling!  YES!  Finally the MMORPG has embraced the Pro Bowlers Association (PBA) for a Massively Multiplayer O-line game!  I can only hope that I can model my character to match my all-time PBA hero, Earl Anthony:



Sweet!

Jeff

My pal here at work got his Dagobah figures in the mail yesterday.  He ordered them from one of those high priced shops (over $90 for the 4 figures including shipping).  He was kind enough to bring them in so that he could gloat show them to me.

Anyway, I actually got to hold them and it was great.  Luke's head is little strange, but somehow the vacant stare looks alright.  Yoda was SUPER-COOL.  Obi-Wan and R2 were excellent as well.

The packaging is SOOOOOO sweet.  As others have said at various times, when you get that OTC package in your hands, it's a thing of beauty.  

I can't wait to get these myself...

Jeff

Silver exclusive figures are going to be phased out. Apparently after the Sandtrooper, we probably won't see any for a while, if ever

Good.  I am tired of the Silver Figures... I throught it was played out with the TRU clone, but I can handle one more (the Sandtrooper).

I sure hope that the exclusives don't move to being simple re-cards though, but I fear this is where they will head... OTC Emperor, OTC Ephant Mon, OTC Tat Luke, OTC Anakin, etc.

Jeff