I NEED that Vader head one and the Hoth one.  Those are sweet, thanks again for pointing those out.   That Vader head one is simply too iconic not to have on the display shelf.

Here's my list Scott...  I'm hopefully remembering what I wanted before and what's getting made now.

1)  Super Articulated Rebel Fleet Trooper...  SA, removable helmet, working holster, removable vest...  The works.  I'm ok with no ankle joints if he has neutral posed feet, other than that, I want perfection god dammit.

2)  LN Mining Droid...  Long time coming, and one I've forgotten in the past.

3)  Garouf Lafoe (Cantina Snitch)...  I want a human from the Cantina other than a main character and Wuher.  I want the snitch who rats on Ben for cutting down the thugs. 

4)  Super Articulated Death Star Trooper...  Long time coming for this one, like the Fleet Trooper.  I'd be ok if they even re-used teh POTF2 head and helmet, but they need SA for this great army builder.  A grey uniformed variant would be quite nice.

5)  Grand Moff Tarkin Resculpt...  The good leader of the New Order needs redone I think to really do justice to one of the original trilogy's greatest characters, and a great actor too.  If he could sit and came with his chair from the Death Star table, that would be really nice.

6)  Bom Vimdin...  The alien I want the most from the Cantina.  I love this guy, he's such a freak.

7)  Chief Bast...  Removable hat, nicely articulated...  He'd be the perfect start to making generic Imperial Officers that Hasbro could repaint and rerelease into the line as new guys.  Veers and others don't cut it, but they could always just do a single new sculpt that has great articulation and keep moving it out the door to army builders en masse.

8 )  Biggs Darklighter (Rebel Pilot)...  While I want him in his academy uniform, I think this is an opportunity for Hasbro to make a great highly articulated Rebel Pilot in an "average" height sculpt.  Dutch is too tall, Luke's too small, so Biggs needs resculpted anyway pretty badly and could be the template for the future pilot resculpts.  One sculpt, new heads, Hasbro saves and we get good poseable pilots of all kinds throughout the line if they'd do this intelligently.

9)  Han Stormtrooper (Super articulated)...  Name says it all.

10) Luke Stormtrooper (Super articulated)...  Ditto.

If all non-SA figures had a standard of 12 points of articulation (2 shoulder joints, 2 angle-cut elbow joints, 2 wrist joints, 2 hip joints, 2 ball/socket knee joints, a neck joint and a waist joint) I'd be perfectly happy with all the non-SA figures listed above.  Everyone, in 2006, should have that kind of articulation as a minimum at this point unless something obstructs the knees like a long skirt or robe piece...  Otherwise the skirt extension should be flexible enough to move with the figure like on Jedi.

Hasbro does that list up and man my ANH wants would be covered for this film really.  There's other stuff I'd like, but not enough to really be upset if it didn't get made.  Stuff on this list is a necessity to me though, especially the army builder figures listed.

Our WM's are dead out here yet in Pittsburgh.  One store hasn't had a figure on the pegs since its initial couple shipments of Hoth Wave.  Not one figure.  Sad.

I'd say I agree with that too.

If they're going to pack-in holographic miniature figures, they need to act as an accessory, not just another sub-sub-sub-line of crap.  Vader should be posed, hands on his hips, and neutral.  Perfect for Veers...

Obi-Wan should be posed neutral for talking to the council, etc...

I want a complete set of these, as I like to have one full set of all pack-ins, but these things are pretty dumb to me personally.  Tack onto them the fact that the figures are plastic, cost something to tool up and produce...  To me they're an expense above and beyond Commtech chips (The chips used one design, thus fewer molds), they certainly don't cost what Freezeframse, Force Files, or other little gimmicks cost in the past then of course.  Give me less crud like htis, and instead put knee joints on figures that could use it to make them better toys... 

BTW, I still haven't seen Yoda...  Anyone got one they wanna get rid of?   I want to be done with these silly little things.

Since our WM stores have literally nothing on the pegs, nothing has changed either, but our Target stores are $5.89 yet.  I'm happy with that.

A lot list Rebel Trooper (Hoth), and I always wonder...  Would you want the brown vested guys, or would you want a true white uniformed Hoth Rebel soldier?  Me I'd want the true film-accurate Hoth Rebel over the brown vested Officers/Crewmen.     Especially in a VOTC format where articulation is going to be unreal on it.

sacrilege perhaps Paul, but the Scorch figure sucked enough ass below the waist that it needs done.  I look forward to this one.  The Microman body is gonna lend itself better to this project I think...  The poseability is cool and the armor should help conceal it some whereas on bare skin it's a little different looking for my tastes.

For me, I'd go with this for a Luke Evolutions:

-ANH Farmboy Luke...  While he has a lot of figures, he hasn't got a defnitive version of himself in that outfit.  Considering the importance of Luke in his farmboy clothes I think that's a sorely missing item in the line.   His extras could include a (good) removable Stormtrooper belt w/grappling hook, stormie blaster, blastshield helmet, saber (clips to his belt), and softgoods poncho w/floppy hat.  Lot of that stuff they already have sculpted, save for a good stormie belt really.

-ESB (gets harder to choose here) Bespin Luke...  Luke spends most time in his ground pilot uniform, so it's my choice for an iconic "growth" of Luke look.  Include a removable belt/holster, and if Hasbro wanted to get creative, I think they could pull of a removable Bespin Jacket.  It would cover Luke on Dagobah AND Luke on Bespin.  While some may not like that, I think that they could do it right and it'd look pretty spiffy to me.  Include a saber (hooks to belt), blaster pistol...  Removable hand for Bespin, of course...  If they wanted to get really really really creative, a "damaged" head would be cool for his battered and bruised look on Bespin.

-ROTJ Luke...  Personally I'd like superarticulated Luke with a removable softgoods vest.  Underneath that he'd be in his Death Star duel duds (if they could make the chest flap a "heat/cold activated decal" like the damage on Stormtroopers, that'd be simply amazing).  Pack in, obviously, his saber and a softgoods vest w/Endor helmet and that'd be Luke for all seasons in ROTJ really. 

I'm amazed, at this point in the line, that a truly great DS Duel Luke doesn't exist, same with Bespin Luke who has had some pretty half-hearted efforts in my opinion.  For that matter, Hoth Luke's been short-changed a bit despite a number of versions of that figure made.