Mine arrived today. It's interesting, they have moved away from the plastic-free packaging on these (at least for this set). There is a molded-PET insert for the droids instead of the cardboard & wax paper inserts, but they still have the blasters in a wax-paper baggie.

I seem to remember when they were first introducing this set, they said the droids would be made of a more rigid plastic. After opening one set, they seem gummy as ever... but it is also 100-degrees outside today, so I may have to wait for these to cool down a bit and see if they stiffen up. If not, I may return a few of the sets I bought.

I will note that it is nice that they varied up the weathering on each of the three grunts a little bit, making each of them unique.

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EDIT: I checked these again today after letting them cool off for the weekend, and they do feel a bit more rigid when compared to previous carded versions. The all-new leg sculpt is a bit more bulky to further help make the droid more rigid, and the added ball-jointed knees & rocker ankles help make it much more poseable and stable. The new hips have a bit wider range of motion, too.

This is actually a surprisingly significant upgrade over the previous version.

I also grabbed three, would have loved 5+ but am glad to have gotten any at this point.

It's a very nice touch to include the battle-damaged panel.

$140

I take it back... 

This one is incredible. The new sculpt really highlights how dated the old one was looking. It's a very nice touch to include the battle-damaged panel. The new Vader card is really nice, and I'm glad there appears to be no changes to Vader so that I only have to buy one of these.

Small stream today, but all good things. I'm fully support moving back to 6x9 cards for all deluxe if they are going to use the standard numbering. That way they physically fit into people's carded displays and star cases. I didn't hate the POTF2 Vader's TIE, but man after seeing this reveal it is crazy to see how dated it really was. The new one looks incredible. We knew the snowtroopers were coming but its still good to get official confirmation. And I'm really happy to hear the Cantina & Stormtrooper set will go back up for preorder. I'm definitely setting an alarm this time to make sure I don't miss them again.

Yay... This is definitely my least favorite of these lately.

The singles I bought from Amazon were also bumped, but mine are back to September 12th. I feel like a lot hit fairly recently, so I guess a little break is ok.