Weazel needs some more love.

I wish I'd cast a vote for Weazel.  Especially considering Warwick Davis's new show on HBO!

That is the first time in recent memory that Hasbro has sent out C&Ds for SW though...I've heard there has been a regime change on the SW brand and this is probably a good sign of things to come

Really?  I know there was the news about the layoffs in Pawtucket.  And I also know that the brand manager had been promoted to the VP level within the past year or two.  But this is news to me.

I don't think anyone was really complaining about lower Walmart prices, were they?     I think the discussion has been more around surprise that WM is clearancing things already and just overall errors in pricing with their systems (like the $4 Vintage).  You have to admit, for the nation's largest retailer it is a little surprising to be finding some of these crazy mistakes.

I don't see it here so much as at some other sites that seem to think that individual store reports are indicative of what's going on at retail on the national scale.  And then they go on to post those things on their main page AS NEWS.  It's hysterical, anecdotal and doesn't establish any kind of real patterns or trends that are going on with the major retailers.

WalMart's status as the largest retailer in the country absolutely makes them a big deal.  But the lack of standards and consistency across the chain has always made shopping at WalMart a far more aggravating experience than patronizing either Target or Toys R Us.  And that's why I've always preferred Target & TRU over the years.  And the WalMart stores have always been a mess, too. 

I used to keep all of my cardbacks, and a lot of that was because of the now defunct Jedi Master Points.  And some part of me was enamored of the old character bios that had been on some of them. 

But then I had a couple of major things happen in my life.  First, a flood in an old apartment of mine.  It made me realize just how much stuff I had, and how a good deal of it served no useful purpose.  Among that was a lot of old cardbacks.  When had I even looked at some of these in the past 10 years?  And then I moved into a bigger house about a year later.  Again, I was left wondering "Why am I moving this box full of old cardbacks that I packed up who knows how many years ago and haven't looked at them since?"  So a lot of them went in the trash.

Fast forward to last month:  I was getting ready to send in my redemption forms for the Prototype Boba Fett mailaway.  I knew about the mailaway so I was stocking up on some TVC cardbacks as well as the CW blister inserts.  The CW & SL blister inserts have the UPC's on them, and if I opened up a CW or SL figure I would save the insert with the UPC and toss the cardbacks & blisters.  Then if I clipped the UPC from either a TVC card or a CW/SL blister insert the remaining cardboard would go in the trash.  There's no good reason that I can think of to hang onto the leftover cards or blister inserts.

The $4 figures at Walmart seem to be at an end in my neck of the woods.  At one store I visit on a regular basis they've actually put the pegtag stickers (complete with barcode & price) on the basic figure card, and IIRC that was $8.96 per figure.

What I think is hilarious is the way some people across the community are freaking out over the inconsistencies in how Walmart is handling Star Wars.  I mean, we are talking about WalMart here.  There's not a great level of standardization in how their stores operate.  We're not talking about Target, which runs a pretty tight ship nationally and manages their inventory ruthlessly.  We've only seen minimal Star Wars price glitches with Target in the past year or two.  WalMart is a mess in comparison, and has been for some time.

Quote from: Morgbug on March 17, 2011, 05:31 PM

I must confess, I do like me some Scotch Whisky:

No Glenmorangie?

Or Johnnie Walker Blue for that matter?

I'm thinking they're TRU exclusives.  It fits the theme of the Battle of Endor figures they did last year.

As for the droid?  Check out this pic:



It looks pretty similar to R5-D4 from the get-go.