Actually, after viewing your latest collection pics DBK, and seeing pics of your some of your comics framed, I'm kind of interested to see if I can pick a few from the Marvel run up on ebay.  I really enjoyed these when I was a kid, and they hold that sort of nostalgia that the vintage toy line does as well.  Anyways, are the regular release comics pricey and/or hard to come by?  Are there certain ones that are rarer or tougher to get than others?  I really have no idea about this stuff, but thought it might be neat to have a few to read and possibly frame like that.

I hope to pick up several wookiees.  I usually don't have huge armies, but like to build little ones.  Plus, I really enjoy Chewbacca, and wookiees in general, and I'm glad we're seeing more of them (in action) in the next movie.  I hope they make several, and I'll be happy to buy them .

According to TheGD.com TTT Series 3 has now started to show up...in Japan.  Not quite here yet, but should at least be on the way.  Some might not be too excited about these, but I've been waiting to get an Aragorn and Frodo for my collection, and there are "super poseable" versions of each of these included in this wave.  Looking forward to them.  Wave includes:  Super Poseable Helm's Deep Aragorn, Super Poseable Frodo, Gamling, Boromir: Captain of Gondor, and the Isengard Orc.

More than likely, those Han, Leia, and Ben figures will still be sitting around when Ep. III hits, and probably after that.

Or, I'm wrong, and everybody will go nuts over these in late September. Could happen. Not bloody likely, but it could happen.

That's something I was kind of wondering about too, if those initial figs (Han, Ben, Leia) would end up sitting around or not.  Checking the stores this weekend, it seems like...for some reason...that the VOTC sells out when it comes to TRU, but there are TONS of Han, Leia, and Obis hanging at Wal-Mart (which is basically right next to TRU in this particular instance).  Target usually has a couple Hans, and a couple Obis hanging, but not quite as bad as Wal-Mart.  Curious if these will start to sit, I guess if for some reason they get clearanced, its a good chance to pick more up.  Maybe the DVD push will help them sell more.  On the other side of things...I rarely see any regular OTC basic figures sitting, they are selling out wherever they show up...and selling out quickly.  Price point just might be the big sticking point on these for many people, and the "casual" collector.

Yeah, I've noticed this too, and it has become quite annoying.  Just looking for vintage figures and running into VOTC everywhere.  I've also noticed it looking for other items, lots of "vintage" Episode I stuff out there, as jokabofe mentioned.  Like you said, there's a "vintage" and a "modern" Star Wars listing area, you would think that would be simple enough .

Talking with some friends this week about this, it is amazing how "into" these different sports we can get during the Olympics.  Some of these sports (gymnastics, diving, etc.) we would never watch normally, but find ourselves watching every night this week.  We've especially been enjoying watching swimming, gymnastics, sand volleyball, ping pong, and of course basketball.  Here's hoping that Team USA can turn things around and play well.  The second half vs. Australia looked a little better.  Track and Field starts this weekend I think, that's always entertaining too.  I don't know if it is the country pride, or the fact that it is every four years, or that we just get to see sports that aren't normally televised...but so much of it seems so neat to watch during the Games.  Plus, for the most part from what we have seen, there has been a nice comraderie between countries as well...gracious winners/losers for the most part, which is nice to see too.

Thanks for the pics, looks pretty cool.  I agree with you guys though, the original pictured one looks better...the one you actually receive just looks kind of....plain.  Still neat, from a nostalgic standpoint, and a cool item to have in your collection.

An observation I have had lately with my Marvel figures is that many of them seem to have loosening joints over time.  Have any of you had that problem?  I'm not really one that poses and re-poses my figures all that often, particularly not Toy Biz ones since I'm worried about loosening joints, but lately (within the past two weeks or so), I have start to have quite a few of my Marvel figures starting to fall over because of loose joints (particularly ankle joints).  I've seen it happen with Magneto, ML Series 3 Wolverine, Carnage, and a movie Spidey.  I'm not saying that I don't like the figures, but the falling when just having them in a "standing up" pose does get kind of annoying.  I haven't noticed this happening nearly as much with my LOTR figures though.  Just curious if anyone else has had this problem?