YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaw!

LAkers are next!

Ah-wooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Jeff

In what way do you mean?

In the way that people who use copyrighted/trademarked character names for their own benefit without giving something back to Poppa George tend to get a nasty letter from the Lucasfilm lawyers.

Egad!

I guess you have evidence that would seem to confirm that there are currently TWO packaging variants...

Back in February, the big H said in a Q&A that we'd get the heads and arms together, but it doesn't surprise me there are packaging variants.

I think you should go front page with the photo news saying that it seems there are TWO packaging variants of Dagobah Luke: Handstand from Lee's and Backpack from GH.com

Then, we can watch the crazies go crazy over at Scum complaining about variants and Hasbro and such...

Jeff

I think that who ever has "The Big Unit" on their roster should get bonus points in the JD.com Fantasy Baseball league for his perfect game...

Jeff

The original Saga 03 re-releases sold through very quickly, but the Hall of Fame versions are starting to peg warm here in MN Target stores.

Vader/Stormtrooper/R2 sell very quickly...

3PO/Han/Chewie/Luke sell eventually...

Leia/Maul/Anakin/Yoda/Obi-Wan are sitting now....


Jeff

I would agree.

Would anyone have guessed that the juggernaut MotU/He-Man line would die off so quick?

Simpsons WoS figures sold like hotcakes, then nothing - blah.

Even the Marvel Legends line that was so hot seems to have died off.

With the current economy, more and more toys are feeling the hurt.  Collectors don't have the money to throw around so willy-nilly anymore and are more careful about what they buy.

I'd have to opt for pessimism too.  I think we are on the downward slope of the Action Figure collecting world.  The big companies overwhelm the fan base with a TON of crap and the fan base dies off.  It happens to everything (baseball cards, comics etc.).  

Remember the hype of a few years back when it seemed like every dang Independent comics character was getting an action figure?  Now they are all piled up in a giant $2 bin at my comic store, including the HTF or "rare" crystal/glow-in-the-dark/nudie chase variants that came along.

I think that Action figure days are dying.  Every movie that comes along spews AFs into the aisles and then the figures just sit.  It's just taking a year or two longer to kill off SW because the Fan Base is that much larger.

It's sad, but I am starting to see the writing on the wall.  I'll take September 2006 in the JD.com SW Death Pool.  I don't expect ther to be ANY new Star Wars figures in the back-to-school Toy aisle resets that indicate we are heading into the start of the Christmas 2006 shopping season.

I wonder though what the next big thing will be?  Cards to Comics to Action Figures to ?  


Jeff

Egad!

93.9 cents/Litre (Canadian)
=
67.6 cents/Litre (US)
=
$2.56 per Gallon

Did I do my math correctly? (3.79 L to 1 Gallon)

That sucks... $35 to fill a standard 14gal tank.

Jeff