C3 had around 30,000 attendees... they probably project more for this year being the 30 Anniv. and all.

So they have to plan for a good portion of those attendees to buy 2 or more of the Exclusives. Couple that with the the exclusives they have to produce for the Celebration Europe and I forsee a fairly sizable total production run.

Picking these up at a reasonable (non-scalper inflated) price should be no problem from e-tailers like SWS.com or HasbroToyshop.

I'm not sweating it.


Yet. 

Yeah, and that's definitely a good thing - regardless of how this helmet turns out.  I'd still like to see OT troops, like the Stormtrooper, Snowtrooper, and Biker Scout, available on the pegs as often as we've seen clones over the past 3 years.

Since we are getting some large pack-ins this year, it'd be nice to get a nice Speeder Bike along with a carded VTSC Biker Scout

Surprised by Palmer's change of direction. Cool about Lennox bugging Daniels. And I wonder what is motiviating Ricky Schroeder to cover Milo's tracks?

Maybe he still suspects Nadia, so he could be just trying to draw her into making a mistake if she thinks he's "on her side"

Here's an interesting item/bootleg I came across this weekend....

I punished myself by visiting my local K-Mart, as when I was heading out the door, a strange yet familiar Easter Basket caught my eye. It was packed with G1 Aerialbots including all the components to create Superion. They are obviously bootlegs as they do have any Autobot symbols, but they are molded is the same colored plastics as their G1 counterparts. So they look essentially fresh from the 80s. There were several of the baskets so it wasn't a fluke type thing.

So if anyone is missing a component for their Aerialbots check out your K-Mart. The whole set can be had for $10.

My 2¢...

Jabba's Palace Luke
Use the Endor figure as the base and include:
- battle damaged hand (from the Toyfair fig) and black glove hand
- lightsaber hilt and ignited saber
- soft goods belt (to be able to tuck the hilt behind ala swinging from the barge)
- Jabba Goon Blaster
- Jedi Cloak
- Bone accessory to use on Oola Rancor 

SA Death Star II Jedi Luke:
Use the sculpt from the Toyfair Figure (sans soft goods) include:
- black glove hand
- retooled belt (minus the stupid holster)
- lightsaber hilt and ignited saber
- open flap

and just for ***** & giggles
- funeral pyre with torch

My dogs will probably try to hump my Bantha, then try to kill it 

There are also:

1. Insert Variation with the Vader Figure from Vader w/Coin Album.

2. #04 R2-D2 with Blue Jet Flames or Purple Jet Flames

3. Some of the figure include the mini catalog others don't