The breakdown does NOT include chase figures...  There's a number of rares, usually repaints or exclusive accessories, that were blind packed in S1.  I don't know if S2 ran chases or not.  I don't recall seeing any.

There's also a Hot Toyz exclusive Alien from S1...  The HT exclusive has a white brain inside the head, it's very odd. 

I, out of dumb luck, got a chase alien in my case I ordered of S1.  It's not listed anywhere I've ever seen.  It's a blood red alien.  Veyr weird, and I've never opened/built it.  It's the basic warrior alien though cast in a dark red color, and stands out.

I believe the chase Predator in S1 was the Eldar predator which was re-released as a basic in the S2 wave of figures.  The Alien however, which was the blood red one I have and which as I noted has never been really listed, hasn't seen re-release.  It makes it a real gem to me in that regard.

Not with an avatar like mine I don't, obviously.  I'm a walking one really.

VOTC 3PO in my opinion looked like the best 3PO,would you rather have a buff 3PO than a normal non-buff one?Also the Commtech Stormtrooepr was ok.

Of 3PO sculpts that exist, I think ONLY the POTF2 sculpt is worse than the VOTC (off the top of my head here)...

I prefer the following WAY over the VOTC sculpt:

-Vintage (ironically, it seems better to me in proportions)
-POTD 3-pack 3PO
-Rem. Limbs 3PO
-Tusken Attack 3PO (Flashback)
-ROTS 3PO
-Escape Pod 3PO (The sculpt is fantastic...  Paint's so-so, but represents a dirty 3PO well)
-MMC 3PO (my favorite "Classic" 3PO at the moment, though the Ewok Throne one should replace this)

That's a pile I just think are better than VOTC...  I just had my review of VOTC 3PO posted in my Review-A-Thon here last week, so check out the reviews section of our site here at JediDefender.com for my in-depth reasoning as to why VOTC 3PO sucks, but the short version is:

-Caved-in Chest
-Skinny scrawny sculpt
-pin-head with completely inaccurate detailing
-goofy, unnatural pose

The paintjob's not bad on him...  Probably the most accurate one so far for a dirty ANH 3PO (not good for 3PO in ESB or ROTJ though).  The pose I see where they were going with it, but it really ultimately fell flat...  Mostly the "walking" legs kill it over the arms.  I'll add to my sculpt dislike the fact that the arm pistons from the bicep to forearm aren't "separate" whereas they are on other figures and that looks better and more realistic.  No C-3PO has that yet though,just R-3PO for some reason if I'm not mistaken.

And of course articulation's a mess on this overpriced figure...  This C-3PO managed to have less articulation than a number of others when joints are easy to do on figures like this, they just require a pin & socket style of joint built into the figure...

Anyway, VOTC C-3PO is one of my all-time worsts I think...  It's up there with Buff Fleet Trooper and Monkey Faced Leia for me.  Just attrocious.  Fortunately 3PO has a lot of versions of himself available to pick from that are better, just none are ever truly great...  Even the Endor 3PO coming up isn't spectacular...  Give him swivels at his biceps and wrist joints, and I'd sing some better praise on him I think.

I'm just buying what I see of Sandtroopers...    Great figure.

I'm a little bummed on Garindan and Arcona for articulation but they're still 2 of the most interesting/anticipated figures this year to me despite lacking poseability (especially after the 2004/2005 Cantina Wave that really kind of set a standards bar a little higher and now, meh).  The Sandtrooper's amazing though, obviously, and so it's high on my list.

I'm really liking this wave...  They're gonna be hitting soon, but I could still use a break for a while.  At least the pegs aren't overflowing anywhere with stuff, well not too bad anyway, so these may show in big numbers.  That'd be alright.

I've been tinkering with this .opt program lately for ship scratch building...  It's a little hard to explain but it rips .opts from games and you can basically get mesh or skinned profles and things of them.  Gives you some good imagery to work with to make new ships...  I know the Republic Drop Ship is somewhere online in .opt format to use... 

I was just looking over plans for a Stormtrooper Transport myself...

I worked with Doug a bit at C3, we had a fun time...  i'm supposed to be heading out to Columbus for the WSMI tour...  Hopefully get to talk to Doug while I'm out there a bit, and maybe run into you.  I'm just a hop skip, and bit of a jump out here in Pittsburgh.   Should be a typical dull drive out 70, haha, but worth it for the show I think...  I can get some good photos of props for future projects I figure.

Did you catch the front page stuff on the new minis starship game?  I'd hear a bit on this and reported on it back in February.  This game's sounding interesting, especially if the "relative scale" is really accurate...  It'd make for an impressive looking game with tiny fighters and huge ships like SSD's...  Should be interesting to see the minis though, and how they do it.  I mean I could see really tiny fighters, and then HUGE craft like the SSD's and then a mid-size that encompasses the more common capital ships and such.  Ships have such varying sizes though that it'll be interesting to see how they do it and keep stuff in-scale if that's the plan.

There's huge variances between snubfighters, Corvettes, Frigates, Mon Cal Cruisers/ISD's, SSD's, and the like.  That's a minis game I may pick up from the beginning.

Yuppers, this week we are taking an in-depth look-see at the new Vintage Saga Collection: Sand People (Tusken Raider)

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So what makes this guy great?  A number of things really...  But not the price.  If there's one constant flaw in the "Vintage" deluxe line, it's a $10+ pricetag that really kills the joy any collector must feel opening these rockin' figures up... 

That said, you do get the most Star Wars figure you ever have gotten for your money with these.  The Tusken here features the weakest articulation in this 5-figure set this year, and if this is the worst than consider yourself blessed because the Sand Person is fantastically poseable.  The elbow joints are his only real weak spot.

Some loathe softgoods, but I find this figure's to be among the best and my review details why...  It's also nice to see 2 pack-in weapons as opposed to just the pike.  The rifle's a nicely painted weapon too, and I've got my Tusken sniping away with it.

This is a figure Hasbro could repaint and re-release again and again in the line, and I'd be dumb enough to buy it again and again.   It's the army builder in the VTSC line that's flying under the radar.  You'll want a couple trust me, and you'll maybe want to replace your previous sculpts with this guy.  It's just a fun figure to play with, so enjoy the review and drop your thoughts here with us too.

My other collections consist of 1:18 scale World War II and modern military figures.

Hey Spec, how's it going?  I hope well...  Do I happen to know you from another site perhaps?

Glad to have you aboard and looking around...  Feel free to join in.  If you're into "what if" kind of discussion in the SW universe too, I'm definitely a fan of applying earth military theories and facts to the SW galaxy and coming up with logical (and illogical at times, but necessary it seems) ideas of how SW WOULD work if it were real...  There's a couple other military buffs here that like to do that.

Anyway, good to have another 21st/BBI guy aboard no matter what...    Check out the forums and if you have any questions or anything just drop one of the staff a note, we're around and active here pretty much all the time.

VOTC Boba's a good one...

I want a new Gam Guard that's more poseable, and same with Pruney...  I'd like a Prune Face with a removable eyepatch and a full eye underneath, that way you could have him double as the other prunies.