Hmmm... I'll be damned.  It does exist.  Someone else pointed me towards some nice pictures of the different versions as well.  I have seriously probably looked at nearly 1,000 Vaders, and have never seen one.

That last auction you just pointed out bummed me out Thomas.  That seller lives about 10 minutes away from me, and his "clenched" hand Vader only got one bid for $6.99.  Argh!  Wish I knew about this sooner...

I had seen the reports, and even several pictures before, but since I had never seen one or knew of anyone actually owning one, just figured it was a hand positioning change which created an optical illusion.  Guess I was wrong!  Time to start searching now...

Oh.  I thought it was going to be next year because of the release schedule on the other two films. Thanks for letting me know.

The films have always been released 3 years apart from eachother.  TPM was released in May of 1999, AOTC was released in May of 2002 and Episode 3 is due out in May of 2005.

Same went for the Original Trilogy:  ANH was released in 1977, ESB was out in 1980, finally followed by ROTJ in 1983.

Unfortunately all of them have been three years apart, so we've still got a couple years to go for some more fun.  Those spoiled Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter fans get to have their fix every year.  Not fair!

Truly heartbreaking to witness another terrible tragedy like this.  Just a horrible story to wake up in the morning to find waiting for you on your TV.  My deepest sympathies go out to all of the friends and families of the seven heroic astronauts who lost their lives.

I hope that NASA is able to pinpoint the cause, and rebound with their space program soon...

The Spider Droid isn't terrible, but of course seeing that big, nasty, white, wind up dial protruding to activate the walking action feature is NOT cool.  It also looks pretty small, scale wise.  But like I said, it's not the worst thing I've ever seen - not half bad.

The Trade Federation Tank was a pretty nice vehicle it's first time around in the Episode 1 line, but I know that it was very hard to find for many people, so for that very reason I'm all for seeing it re-released.  Besides that fact, it's an "army builder" vehicle, so I'm sure some people would like the chance to pick up a few extras as well.  Bring it on!

Oh dear...  I didn't expect that quite so quickly or harshly Brent!  But welcome aboard anyways!

At least my boys spanked Sacto pretty badly tonight while the silly little Celtic gals got annihilated by 52 points by the Pistons - at home!     Wow!  Haven't seen a blow out like that in many years...  And this 1-15 shooting Antoine Walker is actually an All-Star?!

Anyways, glad to see you stop by B.  Now go slap a copy of your trading list in the forums, and I might just hook you up with that Holiday Droid set!  

Welcome to JediDefender!  Glad to have you aboard.  I'm also a Star Wars freak!  Hope you enjoy the place, and please don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything we can do to better suit your Star Wars needs...

But I should warn you, you might want to wait until 2005 to show up at Celebration 3.  If you go next year, you'll likely be the only person to show up!  

Greatly looking forward to C3 myself.  I'll see ya' there!

Well, unfortunately this is on a store by store basis.  Right after I posted my question above, I got a tip from a buddy that a local Walmart had them, so I rushed over and snagged a couple.  I held my breath as the cashier rang them up, but was sadly disappointed to see $28.64 pop up for both of them.  Bummer!  Oh well...