I get the feeling that you may have the legs on the wrong attachment points.  I'm having no problems with the legs on my own AT-TE.

I won't agree that they favor the larger markets becuase the Jets don't really get any love. They do tend t do the same figures over and over again but i dont think its the market that determines it.

The Jets haven't gotten much love over the past few years primarily because the team has been weak.  Make the Jets contenders in the AFC East and I think you'll see them get some love in the Sports Picks line.  But as long as they continue to be whipping boys for the Patriots, they're going to get overlooked by McFarlane.  The Pats on the other hand don't get overlooked.  How many versions of Brady have there been?  There's also been Tedy Bruschi, Corey Dillon and Adam Vinatieri made.  And now Randy Moss as a Pat is on the way as is another version of Brady.

When the Jets were in contention they got sports picks figures:  Pennington, Curtis Martin and Wayne Chrebet.  But that's not the case anymore.

Got around to putting mine together last night.  Very, very cool.  It assembled pretty easily.  The one hitch I've run into is that the main cannon doesn't hold on very securely.  I need to dig out some clones from my storage bins to crew the thing now!

Scored one earlier this afternoon.  The box is quite heavy!  I only wish I had time to open it up before I had to head in to the office today.

Not really enthused by the Marvel offerings...even if they do have new Mandalorians.

The people who take the figures home and either do a swap of a figure or just take a part/accessory are obviously the worst offenders.  I saw some GI Joe vehicle packs that were the victims of this last week.  The degree of effort that's put into that is so ridiculous that you've gotta scratch your head over where that person's priorities in terms of toys/money/time may lie.  But I think the new packaging might deter people who are trying to just rip open the packages in the store.

The only people who are going to put a real stop to this are the retailers.  But sometimes when you're dealing with an employee who barely makes more than minimum wage, they're not going to care that much.

As for the droids allocated to each wave?  The poster indicates their release sequentially, as each BAF droid is numbered on the poster.  And the astromechs listed were shown in Hasbro's powerpoint presentation at Toy Fair, and were allocated to wave 1 and 2.  The best indication of the droid assignments will obviously be a carded sample, but Hasbro seems to have given us the sequence for the droids already.

I don't regard the wave as perfect by any stretch, Adam.  "Not bad" is somewhat open-ended.

Hasbro seemed to respond to the call for the Coruscant Clone Trooper.  And that's really one of the last on-screen Clones to get Basic Figure treatment from REVENGE OF THE SITH.  And that's a positive to me when you compare this clone with the two off-screen repaints from those TSC waves you mentioned.  Those were only ever seen in reference materials and not a movie.

Jodo Kast is a positive step forward for the EU fans.  And in that regard it's a positive step forward in pushing the EU in the basic figure line.

The two Jedi are okay, but not perfect.  The sculpts are a little dated, but getting versions of these two Jedi on a card and with lightsabers is a positive move.  Especially if you think about collectors who might have come late to the game and missed the Jedi Council screen scenes of 5 years ago.

I dig most holo figures.  And I think the combination of parts for this Dooku is good.  Although the missing skirt is a little curious as is the lightsaber, I think it's a good character choice.  Especially since we actually have seen Dooku as a hologram in the original Clone Wars series.

The Saleucami trooper is admittedly a little weak.  I'd be more receptive to a straight reissue of the Target exclusive trooper with the same unit markings over this.  Especially with Commander Neyo having been released in Saga Legends just a couple of months ago.

As for the Imperial Engineer?  That's not great.  I think the TSC Death Star Gunner was a great figure, even with the angle cut elbows.  As for trading this figure's slot with a repainted droid?  I could think of a couple of decent substitutions (Red Leader's R5 unit).  But I think Battlefront as a brand has some traction, and there might be an effort at work to promote the video game figures.

I think that offering more off-screen clones or EU droids might not be the best move at this point.  Even if they are the easiest fodder for repaints.  I think Hasbro is probably aware of the collector term "skittle clones" and might be trying to reshape their strategy.  And droids might be somewhat more limited since the entire basic figure line (for this year) is designed around trying to give us more droids.  More droids in fact that might not be good sellers on their own.