Not too bad of a difference there especially with the wheels on the RC-D2 elevating him a bit.

Astromech platform heels I guess.

He fits in good with basic figures...  I really think a "course" for him to roll around on that looked like the Death Star or a Mos Eisley maze would be funny.

Pens had a rally over the weekend that, unfortunately in a way, got overshadowed due to the Steelers and their weekend, but the Pens rally got a lot of support and local sports teams are throwing a lot of backing to the Pens...  It's all to put political pressure on Governor Rendell to give the Slots License to Lemieux's backers...

There's a lot of bi-partisan support so that's good but it's all local.  It should be, however Rendell isn't local so he may not "care" quite as much.  I dunno.  We'll see how things go.  I maintain optomism, but it is getting close to crunch time I guess.

Good review Hunter though I think I'd disagree on some points that I found to be problematic...  They're little specific things.

For instance, I'm a huge detractor of the molded-on hat.  It would have been extra, but I think the way the helmet sorta bows outward because of the hat and less than "perfect" fit, it just should have been a removable Officer's Kepi in my opinion.  Plus as a customizer, I have to wish for that.  I think it's a law, I'm not sure.

Also it makes the helmet lack a chin strap which was in the movie I believe, and looks better with it as recent figures have shown us.

Anyway, I'd also note that no back piece to the armor is disappointing.  Again, it would be that little "extra" effort for Hasbro to do this, and personally I think they could have without a LOT of extra effort and made Veers truly perfect.

And last I think knees are a huge detractor on Veers for a couple reasons.  First, they made his boots swivel for no real legitimate reason...  This took "extra" on their part that easily could have been ball/socket knee joints.  Now why are knee joints SO important?  Well because Veers is a GOOD template for future repaints if they had done him right.  As he stands now though, he is not in my eyes a good re-usable sculpt.  If they'd done the knee joints, I personally would have loved for Hasbro to have just done a new head/helmet for hima nd given us a Death Star Trooper.  Use the body again and make generic grey-tuniced Officers with various heads...  That would have cut costs on those potential future uses of the sculpt, and made up for anything incurred making an extra accessory or two.

A minor gripe one could make I think is his height...  He is a bit tall.

Still, he's got lots of positives.  I think his likeness is amazing, his sculpt is sharp and the best of any Impy to-date (despite the height), and while I'm not a huge fan of the arms being posed the way they are, I find them to be adequate.  I'll probably even get an extra Veers for parts, I just won't be army building Veers like I KNOW I would have if they'd articulated and accessorized him like I personally think they should have. 

If I had to give it a 5 star rating I'd say he's a 3.  right in the middle...  Good, but not "amazing" tot he point I want to buy tons of these for any particular reason.

I dropped a PM to you Scott.

Jeff, sorry for the late reply, but congratulations man...    You deserve all the happiness I'm sure parenting gives you, so really I hope everything is safe and healthy for your wife and children, and that you don't stress too much as a father if you have a little girl...

I've got a number of neices...  I can only fathom what I'd feel if i were their father instead of just their uncle.  That's been stressful enough!

First, I'm ecstatic.     This has been a LONG time coming in Pittsburgh, and the city is in a freaking frenzy right now.  Tons of celebrating obviously, only 8 arrests the news said, and no real rioting or anything but just good heavy celebrating.

The game was a rollercoaster...  My stomach's eaten to bits at the moment I think.  I gotta get some Pepto.    Seriously though, this was fun, I'm glad it's over, I'm gonna maybe make the rally downtown (or "DahnTahn" as they say here) on Tuesday...  I thought the game was really good in a competitive way on both team's parts, but at the same time I thought both teams played below their potential on some levels and at their potential on others.  In that way it evened out and that's what made it competitive...  Nobody was mistake-free tonight though, and believe me I was Mother F'n the television a number of times. 

I'm happy as a clam right now, I'm loving this...  The last champion we had was the 92 Penguins team and god knows they're not near that this year.  The Pirates have sucked since about the same time too and haven't won a championship in as long or longer than the Steelers.  So this was nice...  It was also nice that they won again because my dad was a Steel Worker all his life, and a die-hard fan for the Steelers, so I'm glad for him since I know it's a good time for him.

Also the fans in the city are just loving this, it's insane...  Plus guys like Myron Cope (Long-time Steelers announcer who just retired due to failing health) has got to be loving this...  This is f'n great.

Now we just need to keep the Penguins here.   

On the specifics, I'm not going to disagree that officiating in the NFL is sporatic at best Dave, but I do disagree that both plays cited were bad calls.

Jackson pushed off because if you watch his defender's feet, they're both off the ground yet he still moves backwards while leaning towards Jackson...  It wasn't a BIG push, but a push nonetheless by my eyes...

On the Roethlisberger run, I thought it was a TD by watching him in the air in slow...  The rule is he just has to have the ball on the line in any capacity, not over it, and when he's in the air it looks like it to me, and that he's hit and pushed back away from the line...  It was close, but I'm trying to be unbiased in my opinion as hard as that is and I still think it was a TD...  That will be examined and re-examined for a long time I think though.

There were holds and stuff on both sides though that were not called or were iffy calls...  It wasn't the greatest officiated SB, but the playoffs have been a trainwreck this year with officiating so I'm not surprised, and if anything I think it was better than the Pats got in their loss and the Steelers had with Cincy.

As far as Porter's comments, I'll have to go look back if I can and find the quotes.  I don't recall him saying he was gonna hurt people but then again I don't think Porter's shown that he's a "dirty" player either for any quote he made to be considered that way either.  If he said, "I'm taking (Seattle Player's Name) knees out, that's it" or some asinine stuff...  Yeah, that's dumb, but you also don't go into football saying that you're gonna lay the other team down softly when you takcle them...  I think Porter did what he always does, which is talk ****.  The irony is POrter wasn't a big issue in the game today.  He was part of the D overall but not a shining example by any means...  It was all a non-issue and some say around here that it was even perpetuated in an attempt to draw media off Roethlisberger who looked visibly scared prior to the game's start today and who said he has never been so shaken and nervous...  Either way it was a very much non-issue anyway.

My concern with that technique CHEWIE is the size of the Commando armor.  It's a bit "bulky" compared to the basic armor it seems, so I'm wagering the figure's when compared side-by-side would show that Commando's armor is substantially thicker.

Just a guess by my eyes on this one though, I could be wrong.  I know I'm highly bummed he doesn't have knee articulation though so I'm gonna be looking into "fixing" this Hasbro FUBAR myself.