Would anyone have even bothered with these if Target had gotten their original request of having the Target Logo on the chest?

That was really a suggestion? The Target logo?  Bahahaha.

Wow, and then Wal-mart could counter with their logo on some separtists. Those would sure be some exciting battles. 

Counting down... 0 days 14 hours 2 minutes and 8 seconds as of this post

This is just like Christmas Eve, counting down and looking forward to a booty of Star Wars toys.  Now I'm waiting just like a little kid for this movie to get here!

Its so true. I'm usually the first guy to suspect anecdotal evidence about who's buying what in the toy section.  Every time I see a report of "the scalper at this Target" and how that means scalpers are buying everything everywhere, I don't believe it. But time after time when I'm showing up at the Star Wars section, I see kids out the wazoo.

Kids having light saber battles, kids trying to buy figures while mom is having to limit the number that they can get, kids discussing Star Wars....I keep seeing this over and over, at multiple stores. The other day a group of three kids saw some new figures, and one goes "this is what so-and-so had on the bus!".  I can't explain it - it seems like I never had to dodge kids on toy runs, but now I'm pleasantly surprised that yes, I'm now competing with kids instead of hot wheels guys!

In the city, or metro areas:

Wide range of pegwarmers so far. Clones sell most, but yes, #6 is still hanging around at one store in high numbers just 10 miles from the center of town. I suppose the all the Obis and Anakins outnumber everything else, but usually 32 and below can be found among 3 stores or so.

In rural areas:

Holy Moly! I took a highway route, far from the interstate, on my way home from Mother's Day yesterday, and this road is a Wal-mart paradise, if you can say that. 40 and below were easy to find at every store (except tank gunner for some reason). Multiples of Clone Comanders and drivers, plus #6 Clones everywhere you look. One store had no less than 5 displays of figures, all bursting to capacity. This is going to be helluva clearance spot. These stores are usually the places for me to hunt, because Wal-marts dot the rural countryside way more than the urban areas, and the population of collectors/scalpers must be a fraction of their urban counterpart's.

These are the places I found clearanced VOTC stormies for $5. Or was it $2, I forget.

I've been reading all these things about yogurt lately, and how its good for you this way and that.  These smoothie things are actually really tasty, have some calories to tide over hunger, and this kind is organic, so it doesn't have questionable looking ingredients.

There's a new Star Wars cereal out? I'm there. I don't care how un-organic it is.

I saw this up last night, Hasbro toyshop.com, and it looks like its still there.  When I saw this, I thought I had been missing out on the AT-RTs because of this bonus clone, so now I'm hope I catch it on the second go around.

I finally picked up a Clone cup. I see them ever so often, so I decided to grab one because sooner or later they'll dissappear. I've passed on all the previous plastic cups, since I still use the superior collectors glasses from years back. Star Wars as well as some nice Smurf ones I found. (Beer goes well in a Lazy Smurf glass).

The Clone cup is actually kinda cool looking.  I'm going a little overboard on clones anyway.

Cool, I got mine too earlier this week.  What a surprise, I didn't even know they were going to do this. This is my second free figure from DST.  Kind of belies the opinion that a company can't do free promos.