Right now it varies from what I see.

One Target has more Geonosis Wave than anything which suits me fine since I buy a Sun Fac every time I'm at Target anymore.  Poggle's a major pegwarmer at almost every Target and some TRU's though.

Wal-Marts I hit still hardly even have pegs for figures, much less figures.  Some of the western Wal-Mart stores in the metro area have pegs and some figure remnants I hear but I only hear of 3 WM's really getting anything.  Of the 5 - 7 I hit semi-routinely, no WM has a single figure...  I'd say that half or more of those stores don't have pegs for figures, so they're dead in the water obviously.

Target I see that weird mix though of Hoth, and Geonosis...  Yoda from the COurscant Wave too is sitting and not going anywhere soon.  I did notice tonight a ton of Carkoon at Target though, from I assume repacks as there were smatterings of other "new" old stuff too.

Hoth I saw in mass abundance at TRU till this sale.  The thing of it is, is that TRU won't be bright enough to see they can move product and profit off it with a simple sale like that.  But stores that had 12 pegs (or more in some cases) full of Hoth wave with smatters of Geo/Coruscant/Carkoon waves, but predominantly Hoth figures, are now barren of ANY basic figures.  $4.50 moves toys.

I'd certainly be far less inclined to bitch about the quality too.  $4.50 seems to me to be about what we get in figure for the price, at least by my estimations.

Picked up 3 of the 5 today at TRU.  The ones at TRU are taped and not heat sealed.  Time to go hunting you package freaks; Matt.   

Interesting...  At least though someone might get a nice, displayable loose set then.  I'm planning to use some of my leftover VOTC packaging I have lying around to display them so they all look alike, as my set was heatsealed.

Mangles the hell out of the cards, but the bonus is that perhaps people will feel they're less desireable that way and maybe those ones will be an easier find.

Of course, these could ship in droves and just be all easy to find since they're one wave released to (assumedly) all retailers.

I'm not bothering with the UGH but trying to help those who are...  I've yet to see ONE UGH figure on the pegs.  Or in person for that matter.  Not a lot is shipping in heavy quantity around here right now though from what I hear, so maybe that's part of it. 

I ordered from NewForce a while back...  I think Commtech days maybe it was.  I'd written ordering online off for the most part because I generally found what i wanted in stores anyway but NF had come through for me.

Current fears of them being unreliable have me concerned though about something I did order off them.  It's always something, I tells ya. 

I thought someone had mentioned to me the Senate Pod was from something else already, and wasn't something they had to retool...  And now I can't remember where I was told this but I brought up a similar point about it being re-released.

I've heard stories that go far beyond space perks other clubs got and they ultimately had no need for it...  Though space was a huge problem for us all weekend.  Other issues clogged up the works though no doubt.  It was handled piss poor from the get-go.

The Con was fun, but there's gotta be better ways to do that crap than what they did.  There has just gotta be.

I think that, had this been 2004 and all these were what we were getting at that time at those prices, I likely wouldn't be this persnickity about articulation on EVERYTHING.

I've paid $7 for most every figure I got this year though...  That's outrageous at this point, to pay that and get basically something that has a little bit of poseability at the arms and NOTHING at the legs.  Veers is my best case for this...  You're getting a GOOD $5 figure....  You're getting a **** $7 figure.

It's not so much that I dislike the Veers figure, as I dislike the price I paid to get a figure that is about as poseable as a vintage figure is from the waist down.  The helmet bowing outward and lack of back armor flaws aside, it's a passable 2004 figure.  Veers would've gained high marks that year at the $5 pricetag I paid for most of 2004.

Then 2005 came, we got a movie year packed with figures I consider high quality like almost anything out of Collection 2.  IT was a great year for most of 2005.  Hell, even the OTC ended with the Cantina Wave...  How freaking great were those figures, and at $5 to $6 you got a deal on those IMO.  HOlsters, guns, articulation, booze...  They had it all plus scupts and paint aps that rivaled teh best work Hasbro has thrown our way.

Now jump to today, and we get Derlin...  He's not bad for 2004.  He's **** for 2006 and $7.  Same with Veers...  Sora Bulq goes right in that category.  Few figures are getting the pass because I know Hasbro can do better because they DID do better and for the love of god they charged us less on top of it!

I'm not so much bitching about $7 for a figure as long as I get a $7 figure, not something that falls FAR short.

Sora Bulq didn't even fall far short...  He's like a milimeter from greatness to me.  Just that someone at Hasbro...  We'll call him Hasbro Monkey #3.  He said, "Hmmm...  Why give him knee joints?  Let's put the investment in those into his ankles instead!  Because ankle joints really are versatile for poseable toys!"

Ankles are cool articulation points, no doubt, but when you don't articulate the knees...  Then wtf is the point?

It's like articulating a figure's elbows but NOT his shoulders, ya know?  Well what good is an elbow joint if the shoulders don't move?

The ankles can be omitted...  They're expendable articulation points on most figures (not all, just most).  The knees however, as with elbows and wrist joints, should really be a line standard, especially when you're raping your consumers for $7 a figure.

Well..  Spell checker is your friend?  I don't know.

Seriously though, taking time to spell things out completely instead of abbreviating will go a long way towards people taking you seriously around here, as we're a little strict in regards to that compared to some other sites.  We encourage people of all ages to join in, but we also run a site that we like to cater to more adults, and the lax spelling doesn't generally fly well.

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