I'm calling it now, the Gree Mighty Mugg will cost $25 (due to the "Special SDCC Packaging") and the Executor Chamber will be $50. Meaning that SWS.com will sell them afterwards for, oh, double the cost.

I don't know, I'm not expecting much from the Chamber. Sounds like it'll be a rehash Vader on a small platform with the OTC Holo Emperor over a flashlight.

I successfully kept track in 05 and 06 but failed to keep track in 07 (and 04 too) so I'm going to do my darndest to keep track in 08 and raise my record to 3-2.

So far: $9.69

Yikes! Let's do some updating...

January:
Scapegoat Wax CD "Okeeblow"
V For Vendetta DVD
Snakes on a Plane DVD
Idiocracy DVD
Tennis Court shoes
TAMU baseball cap
January Total: 115.44

February:
Family Guy: Blue Harvest DVD (used gift card, not counting)
Top Gun DVD
TAC Torture Rack Han
TAC Hawkbat Clone
TAC Kamino Dining Clone
February Total: $28.91

Finally found a good set of Wave 8 today. No McQ figs but I got the Dining Clone, Muddy CW Clone and Torture Rack Han. We're so behind here in Texas...

Gawd, i can just see a bunch of scalpers at midnight madness (if that even happens), trying to cash in. Boy, are they going to be surprised.

The sad thing is that while this UGH is even MORE lame than the previous two, there are still going to be the OCD collectors who HAVE to have these "special" cards, and would gladly pay top dollar for them on eBay if they have to.

(no offense to the JDers who collect packaging variations)

I made this to sum up my thoughts...

Just finished reading this for a US History class:



Insanely crazy stuff and it really shows you how bad it was in the country back then.

So, I couldn't help but notice all of the droids that were shown off at Toy Fair. Now I'm a huge droid enthusiast who's been waiting a decade for new droids that aren't C-3PO and R2-D2. We're getting the new Droid Factory sets, and the Build-A-Figure will consist of Protocol and Astromech droids. Now this is all fine and dandy, but I can't help but think back to the early days of AOTC and ROTS when all we were getting was white Clones. Hasbro started to pump out the colored Clones based on ones in the film, and around 2006/2007 they started going overboard with the colors. Now it's to the point where it seems like Hasbro is just making up colors, slapping together a backstory for a Clone Squadron, and putting them on the shelves. I'm scared that this same thing is going to happen with the droids.

Now granted, there are probably hundreds of millions of droids in the galaxy, so it's believable that some color schemes could actually exist in the "real" SW world. I'm just worried that Hasbro is going to start offering us "Felucia Camoflauge Astromech Droid!" or "Imperial Shadow Protocol Droid!" instead of something we'd all like to buy. Same thing that happened with the Clones; I'd rather not see Hasbro oversaturate the market with droids, since they appear to be pretty popular with everyone.

Hopefully I'm not coming off as negative, since I'm pretty pumped for these new sets. This is just some food for thought.

Loving it, I'll be sure to pick up the SA OT Indy and all of the KOTCS figs. Some of the headsculpts though... yikes.

I second the comments about the Shia LaBeoff figure. It's accurate... for a figure of him based off of his Disney Channel days. He also looks to have the scale of TPM Anakin and AOTC Boba Fett. Hopefully it's just the pictures and they'll give him the stubble and a reasonable height.