Good news for Power Team Elite fanatics...
First, lemme say their stuff translates well to Star Wars, super hero stuff, and of course G.I. Joe... The figures are so-so, but really they're probably the best "cheapie" figures on the market ultimately. The gear though, it's fantastic and the prices are unbeatable.
Anyway, PTE has restocked now, a couple times over, at Big Lots stores...
My nearest store went from having:
-Humvees, Littlebird choppers, a few figure play packs,
to having:
-Chinese AFV's, Chinese Tanks, Chinese Dune Buggy/car thing, U.S. Dune Buggies, SWAT Deluxe Figures, SWAT 3-packs, Navy SEAL Deluxe Figs, Navy SEAL 3-packs, all the other military 3-packs, F-18 Fighter Jets, Deluxe Military Figure Sets (bivouac, horse, camel, etc.), Lookout Towers (my personal favorites, as these, with some paint, really look Star Warsy IMO. Or really any military looks good with them), Chinese helicopters, and the biggie...
The bombed out Mid-East building! For a cool $30, you cannot beat it. But people are also reporting finding the "Pizza Hutt" looking command center playset as well.
So far though, no reports of the Bridge Playset, which is my all-time favorite item they ever made I think, and no reports of the Deluxe 2-Figure Sets... Like the bunkbeds/footlocker, the full-sized tents, etc. I miss those sets a lot.
Still though, I've probably spent $200 on PTE stuff in the last week, and sell the figures off to recoop a small bit of that back. I use the gear with SW figures, and my military figures, so it works out. I bought my second of the bombed-out building. It looks awesome out of the box, but a little paint would go miles with it to spiff it up even more. And if you wanted to go the extra mile, it could be customized a bit to look even more Star Warsy. It's a very cool looking run-down Tatooine Building. I use it to display a Sandtrooper Patrol inspecting the building and stuff. I'm going to add to the new one, and build the inside up a little bit as it's sparse. For $30 though, you get a big assed 3-story building with damaged pieces, windows and doors, lots of places to just display figures. It's worth it for that alone.