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The Prequel Trilogy / Re: 41st Elite (Legion or Corps?)
« on: October 3, 2005, 03:33 PM »
Well, I'd guess that Commander Gree is the leader of the 41st Elite, which is part of the 9th Assault Corps.

At the time of the Battle of Kashyyyk, the 9th Assault Corps was under the Command of General Luminara Unduli, but then maybe Luminara assigned Gree and his 41st Elite to protect Yoda during the battle of Kashyyyk or something.

Wasn't Luminara there on Kashyyk with Yoda?  They are both Jedi, so they both probably got to boss around Gree.


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Revenge of the Sith / Re: Target's "Attack on Coruscant" Clone 5-pack
« on: October 3, 2005, 03:24 PM »
I see that one of the local MN scalpers has this set on eBay...  >:(

Guess it's time to start pestering the nice ladies at the Target Service Desk to see if I can nab one to bolster the Clone Army.   ;)

087-06-0228   SW Clone Trooper Attack 5-pk


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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL Regular Season 2005-06
« on: October 3, 2005, 03:13 PM »
Quote from: Rob on October  3, 2005, 03:04 PM
I couldn't be happier with the way things have shaken out so far this season. :)

You mean how the schedules worked out and you get to play 4 games against the hopeless NCF North this year?

The NFC North is bad, bad, bad.  Three teams with one win and the Packers (0-3) play tonight to try to join them.   :(

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL Regular Season 2005-06
« on: October 3, 2005, 02:34 PM »
Daunte Culpepper - 2 more INT.

At this pace, he'll throw 40 INTs this year... will Blanda's record 42 INTs in one year be in danger?   :P

Guess we'll all have to keep watching.


The Vikings suck.  They knocked Vick out of the game and STILL couldn't stop the Falcons from running all over them.  Sure, the Vikes have 5 injured Defensive players, but come on - even Matt Schaub got off a few long runs on them.  He had almost as many yards as Vick on the same number of carries...  :-\

The Offensive line was horrible (again).  What happened to the team that showed up against NO last week?  Too bad they were replaced once again by the team that played against Cincinatti 2 weeks ago.   :(




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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NHL 2005-2006 Thread
« on: October 3, 2005, 02:21 PM »
Guess no one else is ballsy enough to make some predictions... lame Canadians all claim to love the sport but are afraid to make any brash predictions.  ::)  :P

I'm getting pretty excited for this week... should be fun to have the NHL back!

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: MLB Regular Season - 2005
« on: October 3, 2005, 02:15 PM »
Time to see how I did...

Quote from: Jeff on March 31, 2005, 09:59 AM
Jeff's Picks for 2005:


AL East - Boston
AL Central - Minnesota  8)
AL West - California (I refuse to call them LA or even Anaheim  :P)
Wild Card - New York

NL East - Atlanta
NL Central - St. Louis
NL West - San Diego
Wild Card - Florida

Well, in the AL my Twins failed me and I mixed up the order on the Red Sox and Yanks (but they did make it a close race).  Not too shabby.  Over in the NL, the fish let me down, letting the Astros sneak in there instead.  Eh, 75% isn't too bad.   :)


My playoff picks...

New York over California
Boston over Chicago

St. Louis over San Diego
Atlanta over Houston

Boston over New York
St. Louis over Atlanta

St. Louis over Boston - time for the Red Birds to avenge last year...

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Other Collectibles / Re: Attakus Star Wars Dioramas
« on: October 3, 2005, 01:52 PM »
Quote from: Jared on October  3, 2005, 01:12 PM
So, after a few days to digest the price, and even though it's not really in my price range, I'm going to do it.

I've heard that StarWarsShop may be getting in a few of them to sell, you might want to keep an eye out to see if they can do better than the European prices (although the shipping might kill you).   :-\

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Kubricks / Series 5
« on: October 3, 2005, 11:39 AM »
I'm going to stick with my earlier guess for the chases this time around...


Quote from: Jeff on August 29, 2005, 03:03 PM
These are my guesses for the chases on Series 5...

Dagobah/Dirty R2-D2 Chase (from the Yoda Box)
Blue Snag (from the Red Snag Box)
Boushh (from the Slave Leia Box)

I don't really mind when they throw out a brand new figure as the chase - it kinda makes it more fun for me.  I'd rather pay the cash for a new figure than a variant I guess. 

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Original Trilogy Collection / Re: Carded Wedge, finally!
« on: October 3, 2005, 11:28 AM »
Quote from: Darth_Anton on October  3, 2005, 09:43 AM
I am so stoked that he includes the propper helmet now!

ditto!  And, I'm still glad that this figure got changed from that original plan of just re-releasing the first PotF2 Wedge. 

I'd love to see a 2006 Internet Figure for Biggs using the same set-up - Dutch Vandar Body w/Biggs head and removable helmet!   :)

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Revenge of the Sith / Re: #65 Tactical Ops Trooper (501st)
« on: October 3, 2005, 10:59 AM »
Hasbro must have heard that all the fans aren't planning on buying as many of these as the once thought...

I was checking EE this morning to look for new stuff and I noticed that they made a few changes to the case assortments for wave 6. 

Most notably, the wave 1, revision 0 case no longer will have 3x #65 501st Clone.  Instead there will be 1x #18 C-3PO and 2x #65.   That seems like a really strange substitution... take out a clone, add a 3PO?  :-\

Also, the revision 1 case which had 2x #65 and a bunch of repacks was CANCELLED.   :-\


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Revenge of the Sith / Re: ROTS Recent Purchases
« on: October 3, 2005, 10:54 AM »
Quote from: Jared on September 30, 2005, 12:21 PM
And I take it that the Collection 2 "find" that GH posted a few days ago is looking like BS more and more? Has anyone actually found these?

It's looking more and more like that was a fraudulent report, especially since he said they were 3x per case in the case he found.  A quick look at EE this morning shows that Hasbro CHANGED the case assortment - the 501st is not at 3-per-case in ANY of the case assortments now...

Jeff

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Customs Community and Group Projects / Re: Monthly Customizing Challenge - Month 5 - Bounty Hunters and Terrorists!
« on: October 2, 2005, 10:20 PM »
OK, so I'm a little late, at least I got my WiP in on time.   :-[

I thought about fiddling with the skin color for my BH, but I really like the shade of green now.  I did go back and touch up the pants a bit and also re-painted the torso and touched up the chestplate and dry-brushed the arms a bit (cn't make it out too well in the pictures though).  Here is the finished product -



Bounty Hunter Torpas P'hil, one of the most dangerous Salamandro Bounty Hunters to ever work for Jabba the Hutt.

OK, so a "dangerous" Salamandro is like saying a "dangerous" bunny rabbit.  As Phruby guessed, I was shooting for a bit of "Marvel" for my inspiration - one of those classic Marvel Bounty Hunters that probably any of us could escape from!   :D

This guy found his way into Jabba's employ when Jabba helped his tribe "acquire" some medical supplies they needed.  To pay for the supplies, the tribe sold Torpas to Jabba.  Jabba was a bit concerned as to what to do with Torpas here, until he discoverd Torpas' ability to "see" where others couldn't. 

For instance, he had an uncanny ability to "see" where prey was likely hiding, even in the most crowded cities..  Maybe it was the force, maybe just keen eyesight with those big eyes.  Jabba often sent Torpas along with the "real" bounty hunters when a particularily nasty mark goes off the grid. 


So, there's the story on my Bounty Hunter.  On to next month!  :)

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JD Fantasy Basketball 2005 - Choosing a Draft Date
« on: October 2, 2005, 09:36 PM »
Looks like we've got 10 teams (or soon will once the 10th adds his team).

Now, on to a draft day...  From what I read above, it sounds like Sundays will work out best for everyone involved (Wednesday being the second choice).

I'll check out Yahoo and see what we can get...


OK, looks like Sunday is out unless we want to draft in the morning.   :-\

How about this?

Draft Day (via Yahoo LIVE DRAFT):

Date:  Wednesday, October 19th
Time:  9:45pm EST (8:45pm Central, 7:45pm Mountain, 6:45pm Pacific)

That will give us about 2 weeks to get the rosters set and up and running.  It also gives us time in case we encounter technical difficulties on draft day and need to move the date.

Everyone on board for the 19th?



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Other Collectibles / Re: Attakus Star Wars Dioramas
« on: October 1, 2005, 11:50 PM »
ToyPalace has posted some new info on the sets...

http://toypalace2.shoppingserver.de/start.mv?L=English

"Attakus Metall Diorama Millennium Falcon - PREORDER 12/05 

Limited to just 400 pieces. Comes with excl. Mouse Droid Metall Figure. Measurements of the Diorama: ca. 120 cm x 80 cm. Weight: ca 20 kg. Will be shipped in three large boxes free of charge to any destination in the world (only with DHL, no UPS shipping possible !). Also available: Death Star Hall Diorama (can be connected to the Millennium Falcon Diorama) and individual Metallfiguren, which you can purchase seperately from us. Pictured Metal Figures are not included except the non pictured Mouse Droid."

Yep, JUST the Falcon portion will run you $2400 US.   :o

And then there is this...

"Attakus Metall Diorama Diorama Death Star Hall - PREORDER 12/05 

Limited to just 400 pieces. Comes with excl. Luke Stormtrooper Metall Figure. Measurements of the Diorama: ca. TBD cm x TBD cm. Weight: ca 20 kg. Will be shipped in three large boxes free of charge to any destination in the world (only with DHL, no UPS shipping possible !). Also available: Millennium Falcon Diorama (can be connected to the Death Stars Hall Diorama) and individual metal figures, which you can purchase separately from us. Pictured metal figures are not included except the non pictured Luke Stormtrooper metal figure."

This portion will set you back about $750.

Similar prices at a few other European e-tailers...  :(

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Clone Wars '03-'05 / Re: Volume II DVD promo Wal-Mart 3-packs? Speculation
« on: October 1, 2005, 11:26 PM »
From Chinese-Starwars (where RS got the pics from):



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