I saw ID4 2 Friday night, and I agree, it was an awful, awful movie. Like every sequel nowadays, they kept throwing in references to the old movie, or even downright re-doing certain scenes! 20 years this, 20 years that, 7300 days ago, we get it, the original movie came out 20 years ago!

And the PACING. One of the worst paced movies I think I've ever seen. I don't recall ever seeing a movie that built up so many major battles and then showed hardly any action.

Too much focus on the awful new characters, all of whom were comedic. It's like if TFA had Rey fall in love with Finn simply because the script called for it. And if Daisy Ridley and John Boyega had no charisma or talent.

This thing is heading for a Batman vs Superman level bomb and I hope it kills all plans for the sequel.

I believe more casuals, i.e. women, were buying figures too, if the #wheresrey movement showed us anything. And they were not the people buying Sarco Plank figures.

Awful news, Rob and Matt, and I'm sorry to hear it. I feel like you made the best choice though, Rob, since it sounds like her last few months were rough.

Found an Ahsoka the other day at WM (which I'm giving to a local collector buddy), and last night I found the new Lightsaber Variant Rey at a local comic shop. I made the dumb decision to buy it... for $30.

The comic store looked to have ordered some of the revision Wave 1 cases, since they also had the FO Stormie and Chewie, two figures I haven't seen on the pegs in ages. I think they buy wholesale product from Entertainment Earth as well, which explains why they have it.

Or as my generation knows him, Woodrow.

So for 6 inch (basic) Rey releases, we have:

- Original Force Friday edition with inaccurate BB-8
- Revision with retouched paintjob and accurate BB-8
- Revision 2, same as Revision 1 but with a lightsaber

The original already goes for like $30-40 on the secondary market, maybe the new revision will bump the first in price too. Then I can retire off of them in a few years.

PM sent Brian.

Are these ever planning on showing up in stores? Feels like outside of the random findings in April, these haven't actually shipped.