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I just got an e-mail notice that my Endor Generals case has shipped from NewForce.  Now, I've just got to wait it out until June 1st for them to get here... which probably means I'll see tons of this wave at Target this weekend

Jeff

ps.
Anyone still looking for the Star Destroyer wave or Endor General Han or Madine, I've got extras from the case for sale here.

and why didn't Hasbro do this with the OTC version to begin with instead of wasting money on the POTJ Obi???

I want a non-Spirit Obi-Wan!

I guess they went with PotJ Obi-Wan because they were already molding him for the cup sets?  That's the only reason I can think of for doing that.  It would have made a lot more sense to re-use the mold like they did for Luke.  Oh well...

Jeff

Hey, wait a minute:
Do you think they've fixed the rocket/button atrocity or they just used an old pic for the list?

I don't think so.  I think that the figures on the checklist MUST be taken with a grain of salt.  Hasbro is being awfully liberal with the "product may vary" statement lately.

If you take a close look at the cardback from the HoF R2-D2:



You can see that the R2-D2 pictured is the BaR2-D2 figure with the drink tray removed (the third leg is the give-away).  Since, we know for a fact that the figure is definately a repaint of the PotJ R2 (Naboo Escape) figure, we can only assume that they were just too lazy to take a new picture.

This photo from the back of the Hall of Fame R2 is the one used for the OTC checklist.  This is causing some people to assume that the OTC R2 (#12) is not the PotJ Naboo one, because the pictures don't match.  That makes no sense to me becuase they've already given us an R2 figure that doesn't match the picture once.  What's to stop them from doing it again?

Another example is the figure with cup Hoth Pilot Luke.  Again, what we got doesn't match the picture.  The photo shows a removable helmet Luke, but we got a PotF2 head.  Lazy or cheap?  You decide.

With that in mind, I also noticed that the picture of Fett on the Bar2-D2 card is the same as the OTC checklist picture, with the "good" rocket on the pack but that's not the figure we got.  I'm going to have to go with "re-used old photo" and the standard Hasbro "product may vary" crap.

The whole OTC line screams of lazy/rush job to me, so I highly doubt that any re-tooling is done.  The only changes we've seen so far (Hoth Vader, Bespin Luke) have been minor changes (+/-) to paint decos.

Jeff

The more I think about the T-wolves/LAkers series, the more I think it's gonna go exactly like the Sacto series...

Game 1 - LA
Game 2 - T-Wolves
Game 3 - T-Wolves
Game 4 - LA
Game 5 - T-Wolves
Game 6 - LA
Game 7 - T-Wolves

Of course, by stating this aloud, I may have just jinxed our squad... if so, I'm sorry Scott  

Eh, I still think they'll steal one in LA.  The LAkers still seem annoyed by the game 2 loss and I think it'll take a game 3 loss before they get really mad and destroy us in LA in game 4, bringing it back to the State of Hockey all tied up at 2-2.

Jeff

Yeah,  it looks like I'll be changing my pre-order to get 3 cases too (wave 1, wave 2, wave 2.5), so that I can practice CYA on these.

Based on what I've seen so far, Hasbro will probably do something stupid and go with the following for wave 3/3.5:

[FUN SPECULATION, not fact]
Wave 3
2x Boba Fett
2x R2-D2
1x Vader
1x C3PO
1x Han
1x Luke

Wave 3.5
2x Chewie
1x Han
1x Luke
1x Lando
1x Yoda
1x Vader
1x Stormtrooper

 

That way they can split up the cases again and ensure that the only Army builder is just one per case...  

Jeff

Twins lost bad yesterday to the White Sox and are now in a tie for 1st with them.  The team that is absolutely sucking is the Royals.  WTF happened to them???

Royals Starting pitching:
4-19, team ERA = 5.01

That is pretty poor.  Looks like this year's Royals and Tigers switched places...

Jeff

Thanks,