I think the key difference for me is in the motivation.  Hunting is permitted in many cases because animals would face overpopulation and starvation.  Talk all you want about the horrors of being shot in the head - that's a mercy killing compared to an animal starving to death across several weeks during the winter.  Most of what's killed is also used for food, which is at least better than what happens to the bodies of those that starve or end up as road kill. 

I'm no hunter.  I don't think I'd enjoy any aspect of the process and I don't think I'll ever truly understand those that enjoy the "sport" of tracking and hunting animals.  That said, I can't believe people would put this in the same sentance as what Vick did.  He raised dogs purely to fight other dogs - their sole purpose in life to hurt/maim/kill other animals.  He's not just a killer, he's forcing animals to kill each other too.  And when they are no longer of use, he drowns or hangs them - two forms of death that are (from what I've heard) some of the most frightening and painful ways to exit life.  I really don't care if you're talking dogs, cats, deer, cow, or kriffing turkies...drowning and/or hanging a deer to kill it still seems a hell of a lot less humane than trying to shoot it from afar.

Vick's motive was not to control the dog population or feed his family - it was a sick perversion for inflicting needless pain.  I could really care less that he lost millions or did jail time - whatever his punishment so far, it was not enough.  Letting him play football again is a total joke.

I took his line in ROTS about "going into exile" or whatever as his understanding that the course of action he'd been taking (direct confrontation of Palpatine) wasn't the direction the force was directing him to take, so he was taking that direction.  Basically he'd come to realize that he couldn't match power for power and another approach was necessary.

Maybe.  This is just another case where Lucas should have added a line or two to provide more connection to the OT.  It would have been easy enough for Yoda to just say something like, "Into exile to meditate on our next course of action I must go.  Foresee I do, possibility of a new hope in the distant future."

Trying to look at that invisible picture makes me ill as well.   

Quote from: JACKOFTRADZE on August 13, 2009, 03:30 PM

I was not aware the Qui-Gon coupon was included with the animated figures. I really dig the Clone cash because I by so much of it, it's nice to see them give back. I may apply this to the Imperial Arc that I have been on the fence about buying.

I think Jayson reported that multiple Clone Cash Coupons could be used on one purchase. Maybe try that if you're after the ARC-170. It's overpriced even after $5 taken off. Getting suckered into the purchase only gives Hasbro the impression that repainted ripoffs are something the line needs more of. Vote with your dollars! Vote "NO" on proposition 170!

My experience has been that you can use a coupon per star wars item at Target.  If you are buying 4 figures and an Arc-170, you can use 5 coupons, but they won't let you use the five coupons on the ship itself.  I tried using multiple coupons to pick up a Turbo Tank the other day, but their system flags an issue with awarding the second coupon.  Receipt also shows which item the coupon was used for - I bought 6 figures a week or so ago and noticed that 5 rang up on one line with the 6th on a seperate line linked to the clone cash I used.  Not sure if Wal-Mart might work differently, but I have yet to hear about the big ships at Wally World yet.

Quote from: JediJman on August 12, 2009, 12:44 PM

Quote from: Master_Phruby on August 12, 2009, 12:29 PM

I don't think Leia kept alot of different outfits on the Falcon. Chewie doesn't wear clothes. As for Han, I think alot of us look pretty much the same from day to day as far as what we wear.

Not sure about you, but I have more than one shirt and pair of pants, so I will likely look a little different from day to day.  I can guarantee that if I was trapped on a ship for a month - a ship I used as my home, I would have a change of outfit and look different than I had a month prior.  The fact that the characters all look pretty identical to when they were in the asteroid suggests that they weren't habbling along in space for quite that long. 

I would assume that Leia didn't have a change of clothes at all - she wasn't planning on leaving Hoth on the Falcon.  That was a last-minute change when she was unable to get to her transport.   

I'm totally in agreement on Leia's outfit, though I'd argue that month(s) of wearing the same thing would make her clothes look a little disheveled.  Likewise I think her general appearance might look a little more haggard based on your arguement - she wouldn't have had time to grab a make-up kit or lipstick or hair products either, yet she looks about the same when they get to Bespin as when she left Hoth. 

Has anyone scored that new Luke/Lumiya set? And is Lumiya the same color as in the comic...Hasbro said that they would do her that way.

And one question regarding Lumiya (I thought I'd put it here since I'm already talking about her). Luke shoots her ship down, and she's severly injured, which is how she becomes a cyborg. But in the Essential Guide to the Force book, with Luke and Vader on the cover, Lumiya is shown with Vader, and she's being treated by a medical droid. In this pic her body appears whole, even her arms, which are described as cybernetic in many novels, look real - is she a cyborg in this picture? How come she appears relatively unharmed? Did Vader and the droids fix her cybernetic body up to look real? Or is she still 100% organic here? 

That's actually addressed in the novels.  Not sure which picture you mean, but her cybernetic parts are made to make her look like she doesn't have any physical damage.  She uses a lengthy process to hide her head wounds as well and is something of a master of disguise further down the road.  They even talk about her ability to use the force to cloud how others perceive her, so that she can move around in public without showing any kind of disfigurement.  The figure, I think, is meant to be her cyborg self after being shot down and trained by Vader.

I just got my Han Trooper and S1 ROTJ Fett from Stealthtank in the mail.  Thank you sir - they look great!