Really?  I freaking hate it.

I like the challenge of figuring out which one is more likely to win - but I absolutely hate picking one and then having him not play at all.  Drives me nuts.

Before and After:

I love the "Anger" sign.

And the graffiti on the beach is kind of funny too: They even have jerks in New Zealand.

Yep - but not many.  The entire country is pretty much clean as hell.  Everyone thows their trash away, everyone recycles, for the most part, everyone really takes care of all that natural beauty they've got going on.

Thanks everyone!

One question, what the hell is that hairless thing with the buck teeth?

No idea - I'm 99% sure it's fictional, but damn it's freaky.  Some kind of bat-like monstrosity?

So I spent a lot of time over the last few months finally processing all the photos I took in New Zealand back in May - and since pretty much just my family and co-workers were seeing them, I thought I'd share them here too.

My hope is that this can become sort of a Jedi Defender photography thread where everyone can share their photography and we can all pat eachother on the back.  If that never materializes, at least I'm sharing mine.

So anyway, here are most of them more or less in chronological order.  They get better as they go along.  There are lots of images here, so you'll have to forgive me for the load time. 

Additionally, the images from 'the farm' can't be posted now because they may be published at some point in the next year or three - but they're some of the best pictures I've ever taken... 

If you make it down to where the snow-covered mountain (volcano) images are, that's where they shot a bunch of the Mordor stuff for LOTR.

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Thanks for looking!

I can say this much... I think there are some pretty good things on the horizon - it's been slow lately, and quite frankly, I've enjoyed it.

Last year with ROTS was completely excessive.   WAY too many new toys for one year.

This year's been terribly busy as well - until a few weeks ago.

With the Naboo and Endor figures hitting now, Kit Fisto's Starfighter, AT AT, TIE's, Snowspeeder, Dagobah X-Wing, New Battle Packs, and 22 'final' saga figures on shelves between now and the end of the year - it's setting up to be a disgustingly jam packed few months coming up.



And if the rumors for the first three waves of next year's figures are accurate - I think colletors will be just as excited as they've always been by 3 or 4 months from now.

I would think a last wave would need to be 1 figure from each film - and you probably wouldn't get anything but major characters.

But since we're being hypothetical, I'd go ANH and ask for

Bom Vimdin
CZ-3
Crispy Beru and Owen two pack
SA Death Star Trooper
VOTC Stormtrooper
Grand Moff Tarkin re-do
Rebel Sentry
And just for Jesse, a new Fleet Trooper that doesn't suck.

(as I understand it some of these are already in the works though...)