Target's clearance of the R/C Hailfire Droid appears to be in full swing.  I found a couple at a local store that were marked at $24.98 or so.  Given that price drop I was ready to pull the trigger on this vehicle.  And imagine my oh so pleasant surprise when I got to the register and to find that the current clearance price was ACTUALLY $14.98.  A nice score in my book.

The POTF2 Rebel Fleet Trooper immediately comes to mind.  What a piece of garbage that figure was.

An actual mouse droid figure on a card by itself?  That's probably the single coolest thing about this set to me.

Interesting proposition from Derryl DePriest's comments.  I'm not totally sold on some of the EU characters that were in the Fan Choice Poll.  SOME of those are probably going to happen.  But I think we're also going to see a mix of some comic characters that may have been in the pipeline along with some popular video game based figures.  KOTOR, The Force Unleashed, Republic Commando and Battlefront all have MAJOR fanbases, and I think Hasbro will want to reach some of that audience.

Wow.  The variant Jedi Luke card looks really good.  But it stinks that they'd keep on shipping that ****ing Sandtrooper!

Derryl really know how to get those wheels spinning, huh?

He and Hasbro appear to be relishing the opportunity to cash in on the theatrical 3d releases of the entire Saga.  Does that mean a movie themed big-ticket item related to EVERY movie?  I'm not so sure.  It's really going to depend on just how much hype the Saga in 3-D is going to generate.

So will Hasbro take the plunge on re-offering the Naboo Royal Starship next year?  Personally, I don't see it happening.  I could see them taking a chance on a deluxe vehicle line re-imagining of the Sith Infiltrator because of the tie-in with Darth Maul.  And taking into consideration recent events on Clone Wars this may be a possibility.  And when you also look at how so many collectors were extremely disappointed with the Sith Infiltrator that came out in the 30AC line, maybe Hasbro will want to make this one good.

Any 3-D release related offerings from Hasbro will probably follow a marketing plan which resembles what we'll see in 2012 for Episode I.  A Death Star would probably be the ULTIMATE offering Hasbro could make.  But that's 4 years off, and who's to say what will happen between now and then.  

Honestly, there are only a few Saga Legends figures I see with a good degree of regularity:  Episode III Anakin & Obi-Wan, the Phase I Clone, Phase II Clone and the 501st Clone.  The rest of the Saga Legends lineup seems to sell through pretty well in the NYC suburbs. 

Hasbro could certainly stand to tweak the character selection so that there's not so much overlap between Vintage and Saga Legends.  But I think you're going to find that the sales numbers for Vader on a Vintage card are pretty even with sales of Vader on the Saga Legends cards.