A couple more reviews, courtesy of the GH forums....Fantastic Four Box Set as well as Ultimate Rhino.

While on the subject of Marvel figures, I was curious which figure you guys would pick as your favorite (or favorites) overall from any line (Legends, Spidey/Hulk/X-Men Classics, movie lines, etc.).  Is there any one figure (or a few) that really stand out to you?

For me, my favorite of all my Marvel figures would probably be my Parachute Spider-Man.  After the helpful suggestions of many of you here, I picked this one up for my "comic" Spider-Man...and since he's my favorite character, it is also my favorite figure.  I also really like the "super poseable" movie one, for a movie version of Spidey.  Others that I really like include:

18" Movie Spidey (great figure, and my wife picked it out herself for me, so its special that way to me as well)
Spidey 2 Magnetic (another fun figure, hanging out on the fridge now)
Marvel Legends Beast (Beast and Iceman were my favorite X-characters, and this figure is really nice.  Another gift from the wifey a year or so ago too)

I haven't picked up a whole lot else outside of Spider-Man and X-Men things, but I'm hoping to get some more in the future.  What are some of your favorites...or your top pick (if you have one)?

I'm not sure how many comic readers we have here, and I'll admit that I am just getting back to comics after a long lapse...but I saw this while visiting Marvel.com today, and thought it sounded interesting:

Avengers Disassembled

I personally haven't really read any Avengers comics since I was a kid, but this sounds pretty interesting.  Sounds like it is a big crossover...and I'm sure many of you know much more about it than I do.  Anyways, I thought it looked interesting.

Recently, I've kind of started getting back into comics.  Outside of Star Wars, it was one of my favorite things as a kid, and I have found (at least so far) that I enjoy them quite a bit now too.  After advice from people here and at GH, I have picked up Ultimate Spider-Man TPBs 1-8, and just finished with the Venom arc (#6).  This is a really good book, and I'm glad many of you suggested it.  I'm trying to get caught up.  I also recently subscribed to Amazing Spider-Man.  I hope that it is a decent book...it was my favorite as a kid, and as silly as it might sound, I kind of like "getting something in the mail", so I thought I would subscribe.  I'm kind of interested in getting a few more titles here and there (checking out an X-Men, Avengers, and/or Fantastic Four book), but I spend enough on Star Wars (and Marvel) stuff already, so I'll probably limit it to Spidey for now.  Anyways, any of you reading comics (past or present ones)...or anything you are looking forward to?

Surprisingly, I received my copy of Insider last Friday, and I really like these pictures as well.  It seems like the more OT elements that make their way into the prequels, the better I like that particular prequel movie .  These pics definitely whet the appetite for Episode III, it is shaping up to be a good one from what we've seen.

I haven't picked up anything new (found Dagobah and Bespin waves last weekend), but I did see a few OTC here and there (at Wal-Mart).  From what was left on the pegs, I saw 1x Lobot, 1x Cloud Car Pilot, 1x Boba Fett repack and that was about it.  Everything I saw last week when I picked up my figs was gone, so they seem to be selling pretty good so far.  On a side note, when I checked the figs at Wal-Mart, I did see an about 6-year old boy pick up a Fett and a Wicket and ask his parents if he could get those (and they said yes).  It was nice to see a young'n interested in Star Wars, especially the OT.  I also saw 2x of the Jedi Council pack at TRU, but couldn't bring myself to spend $20 on it.  I do want to get it so I can have the whole circle though, so maybe another time.  It just felt like I was buying some old Episode I figures (which you basically are with that set).

I'm not usually a 12" collector, but thought I would post this for anyone interested.  I just received the latest issue of Star Wars Insider in the mail today (#77, the new "look" one), and they have confirmation (and a pic) in there of a KBToys exclusive 12" Chewbacca.  It doesn't look too bad from the pic they show, I think I might actually have to pick it up if I can find it too.  If you have the insider, check the Hasbro toys section.

I haven't seen this at retail yet, but I have seen where some people have (there are some pics on the RS forums if anyone is interested).  Anyways, are any of you going to pick this up?  Although I already have the POTF2 Falcon, I was considering getting the new one since it looked like the new electronics, etc. might be kind of spiffy.  After seeing some of the pics, I'm not sure now.  The "redesigned" cockpit isn't as nice as I thought, and it looks like there is no "dashboard" anymore.  One of the pics at RS has VOTC Han in the cockpit, and it doesn't look as if Chewie is going next to him, but I could be wrong.  Anyways, are any of you picking this up, definitely not, or waiting and seeing?

I'm not collecting this line (although it has been quite tempting a number of times), but I see that EBGames has the Backstage Playset up for preorder, shipping in September.  If I was into this line, I'd be so psyched for this playset.....plus, it has a "regular" Rowlf...my all time favorite Muppet  If only I could get the figure without spending $50 (not that the playset wouldn't be worth it, but where would I put it?)