Didn't see those.  But I have been noticing a new trend of ads for sites and items I browse popping up in top and side banners recently.  Perhaps your wife has been using your laptop for some browsing on sites you might not otherwise be checking out?

The choices for TPM are really starting to dwindle outside of Mos Espa and the Pod Race.  But seeing how we've been living with TPM for 13 years now you had to expect that Hasbro would exhaust a lot of the character choices.  I really had to search for some interesting choices for my own list.

Still there are some characters that I think would be good honorable mentions:
-Ebe Endicott
-Ark "Bumpy" Roose
-Nobot
-Eeth Koth resculpt
-Depa Billaba resculpt

Darth Maul's return in Clone Wars is going to be a significant storyline, no doubt.  Some of the art that's been going around has prominently featured Anakin dueling with Savage Opress.  This has left me wondering if there's going to be a rematch between Maul and Obi-Wan.  Especially considering some of the dialogue from the bts video.  But a duel between Maul and Anakin would have some really interesting implications, too.  Hmmm....

I wasn't a fan of the new Cap uniform as much, too.  I thought the original uni was actually pretty awesome.  But seeing it in context now, it seems to work.

From a political standpoint there's a lot more going on in the PT.  But that kind of intrigue isn't really what put the OT over back in '77 - '83.  There were pretty clearly drawn lines of who was good and who was bad in the OT, to the point where the look of the Imperials was deliberately done in order to made them look like space Nazis.  So in that respect the story of the PT is more sophisticated, but the dialogue (like in the OT) wasn't all that strong in order to convey all of that.

Otherwise I'm stoked for these guys. That Mon Cal pilot is damn cool, and Colonel Cracken is a bad ass mutha!

Those two figures really are the stars of this wave for me.  The Luke is kind of interesting, but the Sandstorm figures are a little boring IMO.  That is, unless Lando comes with his Skiff Guard helmet, too.

Liam Neeson's scene was amazingly funny.  Glad that HBO picked this up.

This totally looks like an Ultimates Thor.  What about the look that was established in the Thor film?  Or are we going to see something like what we saw in the Iron Man II movie line?  A movie collection, a comic collection, and a concept collection?