After reading some people's comments on bare pegs at various stores, it got me wondering further about where everyone is having the best luck this year.  From the online reports, it looks like Target is most often ahead of the game in Star Wars collecting this year...and many Wal-Marts are behind, or empty.  Although I do think I've managed to find quite a few of my figures at Wal-Mart (I've only found the first three waves, no sign of Coruscant yet), I think I must have just been fortunate enough to stop in at the right times...because they have had bare pegs (or overtaken pegs) the rest of the year.  Looking back on what I've bought this year, I think this is how its broken down:

Carkoon Wave - Found at Wal-Mart
Hoth Wave - Wal-Mart (AT-AT Driver, Snowtrooper, Derlin, Veers) Target (R2-D2, Vader)
Geonosis Wave - Target (Poggle, Sun Fac), Wal-Mart (2 Clones, Scorch)

It kind of surprises me that overall I've found more at WM so far, because the pegs are literally empty every other time I've stopped there.  In fact, our closest WM now doesn't even have pegs for basic figures, instead filling those pegs with the smaller (regular) Transformers.  Plenty of SW Transformers, Unleashed BPs, and Force Battlers on the pegs though.  Our WM also doesn't carry Galactic Heroes so far.  In fact, they don't seem to be too crazy about action figures in general so far this year, as the ML pegs have been mostly bare (aside from a couple Black Panthers), they don't carry JLU or DC Superheroes thus far, no sign of Fantastic Four Classics or the X-Men lines, and a smaller action figure section overall.  Of the lines that actually have figures on the pegs at WM now, I think its something like this:

Power Rangers (large section)
TMNT (large section)
Transformers
GI Joe - Sigma Six
"The Batman" Animated Line
Superman Returns (just arrived this week)
Marvel Legends Showdown
Marvel Legends (very few figures right now)
Spider-Man Classics
Fantastic Four Movie

Overall, I enjoy shopping at Target much more.  Its actually one of the wife and I's favorite stores, to just shop for a variety of things.  Plus, we never seem to leave angry or frustrated just from the "shopping experience" like we do at WM.  Although they don't have the size/inventory of WM, our Target does carry a variety of action figure lines - more so than WM actually - and seem to be better at stocking, at least so far this year.  I'd probably skip WM altogether if I could, but it is quite a bit closer to us and easier to stop in at and check things out.  Our closest Target is further away, so its often picked over by the time I can get there.  One I've forgotten to mention is TRU, which hasn't really been too bad I guess.  They don't usually have a whole lot of Star Wars basic figures, but have had more than WM overall (they stick around longer at least).  They sometimes have some of the "other" lines stuff first (Titanium Ultra, Titanium figures) - even though I'm not necessarily interested in those things.  Also, they are the only place in town that carries the Fan4 Classics and X-Men lines from the Marvel side of things.  They also have a healthy stock of the DC stuff most of the time.  Anyways - back on the TSC subject, what stores have been the best to you this year?  Where do you prefer to shop?

Odd title, but I didn't know exactly how to say it.  I was thinking, in the days of the original trilogy, the vintage line (aside from variations, etc.) basically had 85 figures in it for the three movies put together.  Things were repackaged/re-released, but as far as individual figures, 85 covered it for the three movies.  Aside from a few (Tarkin, Han Stormtrooper, Fleet Trooper, etc.) the characters seemed to be covered pretty well for the most part.  I was thinking, if you tried to do that today, who would you include in a "vintage-styled" prequel lineup?  If you had 80-90 figures to cover the three movies, who would you include?  Which background characters would make the cut and which wouldn't?  Could you limit the main characters to a handful of versions each, like Luke/Han/Leia were in the vintage times?  I was just curious who you would include in the lineup...whether you want to suggest just a few, or list all 85 of them.

There's a few different vehicle threads in the forums, so forgive me if this is redundant at all.  I was just wondering how many of you collect the vehicles, and if you do, if you display them.  Are there only certain ones you buy (maybe OT or PT, or just new ones or properly scaled ones), or do you buy anything that is new or different?  Also, do you (and how do you) display them?  I have been looking at my vehicles lately, and while I do have them all out, they are tough to display sometimes because of their size and I'm pretty much out of room at this point.  With some more rumored this year that I'd like to pick up (Snowspeeder, AT-AT), as well as some other OT vehicles that I'd like to eventually pick up (Imp. Shuttle, Cloud Car, Y-Wing, Skiff, Sandcrawler, TIE Bomber), I know that space will be even more of an issue.  I've considered packing up some of the PT ships, but I really like some of them too.  Anyways, I was just wonder how many of you collect the vehicles.  If you have them, do you display them in a particular way or have to pack them up?

Besides the obvious answer of "AOTC Boba Fett" .  I was curious, what character from the prequels do you feel is the "Boba Fett" of that trilogy?  With the OT, it seems like Boba was the character who many fans liked, and many kids thought was "cool", despite not having an overly large part in the movies.  He "looked cool" and that was enough really.  Do you feel there was a character in the prequels that has the same time of appeal?  Would it be someone like Darth Maul, who was technically a "main character" although he wasn't in the movies all that much.  Would it be someone like Commander Cody, who has a "cool" design, but is not much more than a supporting/background role?  Do you keep it in the family and go with Jango Fett, who had the same type of look?  Maybe one of the Jedi...Mace, Plo, Ki Adi, etc.?  Someone else entirely, or isn't there a character that necessarily fits the mold?

I was curious what your favorite part of the overall "prequel era" of entertainment we've seen so far?  Did you like one of the movies the best, the prequel trilogy as a whole, or was the animated Clone Wars series something that seemed the best to you?  I really like all of it, and enjoy Revenge of the Sith the most of the movies, but something about the Clone Wars cartoon just seemed really cool to me.  I know many people mentioned that they seemed to get the relationships of Anakin/Padme and Anakin/Obi-Wan to almost come across better than they were portrayed in the movies, even with what little time they had to do that sort of things in the toon.  I kind of agree with portions of that, and I thought that the animated series was done well overall.  Not to discount the movies though, they all had high points, with ROTS being my favorite personally.  What did you like the best from the prequel offerings?

Does anyone here collect the vintage topps Star Wars card sets (or maybe already have them all)?  I bought some packs of cards as a kid, and those basically got ruined by the time I went looking for them as an adult again, so I've been interested in picking them up again if possible.  I picked up the ROTJ set a few years ago on ebay pretty cheap, and now I've turned my sights on the ESB set(s).  I'm not quite as familiar with these overall (didn't have many of these or ANH ones), so I've started researching them (mainly on StarWarsCards.net).  Are any cards, or card sets, particularly tough to find?  Anyways, just wondering if anyone else here collected these, or was interested in them at all...past or present.

I don't know if everyone has already seen/downloaded this, but a few weeks back on Saturday Night Live (Jack Black hosting), they had an SNL short titled "Lazy Sunday".  I was lucky enough to have watched that night and saw this, which I think is one of the funniest things I've seen SNL have on in quite some time.  Anyways, if anyone is interested in seeing this, I found it online HERE, or I think you can download a clearer version on iTunes.