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« on: September 7, 2006, 05:00 PM »
I was working for a comic distributor at the time, capital city if any of you can remember them. So I was always up on the new toys/comics/games/hobby stuff. Those were good times. When the new line came out I think they hit K-Mart first (after direct sales-I think these hit comic shops before retail) and then trickled down to Wal-Mart and everywhere else. Leia was a pain to get as was C-3po. Early cases pretty much only had Luke, Vader, Obi-wan, Han and R2. I think Leia and C-3po were 1 per case additions to the second wave and then it just snowballed from there. Then there was the variant phase where everyone was freaking out about the short/long saber/tray deal. I remember it got muddy after that. Green cards and orange cards looked like they were shipping out at the same time and then they added the holo's. You could open a case and find two of the same fig but one would have the holo and one wouldn't. Then the Freeze Frames started to hit and I'd had it by then. There was a frenzy going on at that point to get the new waves so I got sick of it and stopped getting them. I didn't pick the hobby up again until ROTS. I wanted to collect not fight the masses. That said, I have every Wizard that I ever bought while working for Capital (and later Diamond). I started there in 93 I think so I'll see if I can locate one of the earlier wizards that goes into the POTF2 release. If it existed I'd have it. I think someone mentioned it was in the 50's and my collection should go back to the 30's-high 20's issues. I know I have them, just not in order and not in the same places. I probably even have the Advanced Comics catalog with the pre-order info on them still. I kept all that crap because most of it came with trading cards and I wanted a price reference for the future.