Quote from: King_Maul on October 20, 2009, 09:31 PM

I saw this vehicle for the first time at a local TRU today, and it felt heavier than I remember the other gunships to be.  I was surprised to see on the packaging the extra missile launchers Greg referred to above.  I don't remember any indication of that in the initial pics we saw (or may be I'm just getting old).  Either way, I thought that was as cool of a feature as the elongated doors.  It would have been nice to see the new mold in all it's glory out of the box, but I'll be patient.  I'll definitely pick it up later down the line.

Looks like you're in luck. This (and the Turbo Tank) will be on sale for $20 off starting on Nov 1.

Thanks for the heads up Jayson!  I'll probably pick up the Gunship at the sale price.

I don't think the Scanning Trooper has the coolness factor of something like the Spacetrooper.  When it boils down to it, he's a guy in a grey jumpsuit with a big blue box.  It's got fanboy appeal, but not much beyond that.

What the Scanning Trooper has in it's favor is the shortpacking strategy Hasbro is taking with the Legacy Collection.  Almost every case assortment I've seen lists every figure at 1 per case.  But that could also be a problem with some of the fringe character choices.

That being said, I think it's a great figure.  But does it have mass appeal?  That remains to be seen.

Good eye, Jayson!  I think that's the same blink scene where Hasbro found R3-T7 (from the Episode II preview wave IIRC).

Looks like the Yankees finally out spent everyone by enough to win another championship.  Yippie.

It was actually some of the role players that won last night's game.  Sure, Alex Rodriguez came through with a clutch home run to keep the Yanks in game 2.  But the guys who finally broke that tie were Jerry Hairston Jr. and Melky Cabrera, not the big names.  And Melky came from the farm system.

As for the payroll?  As a Yankee fan I look around the major leagues and regard some of the other teams.  Some of whom have very rich owners who could spend as much as the Yankees on payroll.  IIRC, the owner of the Twins is probably one of the richest owners in the majors.  Does he put a lot of that money into the team and onto the field?  There's some serious talent on the Twins, and they won their division.  But they didn't advance to the ALCS.  The Mets have a very high payroll, but poor management.  So spending doesn't equate to value.

George Steinbrenner used to drive me absolutely crazy, and when he got banned from baseball I was thankful that he had been shut up.  But he's got a committment to winning that you have to respect, and the willingness to invest in the team.  He sees the players as an investment to get more fans in the stands and to drive up revenues.  Now did the Yanks lay an egg with some of the high priced seats in the new stadium?  Absolutely.  I saw way too many empty seats near the dugouts this season.  Even during playoff games.  The Yanks responded by upgrading people's seats during the game to those seats in an effort to fill some of them, but they could only do so much.  And they're responding by lowering the prices on some of those really expensive seats.

As for Abreu?  I was really surprised that the Angels were able to sign him so cheap.  But he wound up being a solid performer for them this year and earned some of the incentives in his contract.

Glad to see Darth Sidious finally making his way into the CW lineup.  That was long overdue.

NOPE.

Check the website.  The poll has not gone live.  They still have the poll that was started in August posted.

If anything, it's likely to start Wednesday.  That's when Toyfare is delivered to comic shops.

Scored these using the DCPI today.  They pack out at 1 full set per case.

Just found these sets. Is the destroyer droid / yoda set just repacka with a cloth robe?  I'd love to only buy 5 out of the 6 sets.

The Yoda is actually a repaint of the Kybuck Yoda with a new softgoods robe.  This new robe includes the hood, which is indicative of the prequels.  All of the previous sg Yoda robes have had no hood, and that one was originally released with the VOTC Yoda.