I'm looking for one of these:

I snagged a couple extra of these yesterday at KB to help other collector's out, but they got lucky today too.  Let me know if you are still looking.

The arms are great, but he really needed a neutral pose, no action feature, and just good articulation.

I'd have liked a cloth hood and removable hat, but that's me.  It's doable. 

Not to sound all sappy....but "you had me at "neutral pose".....

The sad thing is both the blue and brown ones were encumbered with "Dynamic" sculpt and Action feature.

Coincidently those are two of the leading killers of Action figures today (suffocation being the #1 killer, since there are those who inhumanely leave them encased in plastic)

Reasonable is a very subjective term....one man's (sorry person's) reasonable time is another one's ETERNITY..

Isn't it clear that is the Titanic IV and he is "King of the World"

Ahh Best Products, what an awesome catalog store.

Then you'll appreciate this story......the first Year the MOBAT was in the Catalog I got my dad to take me there before one of his 2 week trips out of town,  needless to say there were none on the shelves.  So he (being an adult and knowing these things) filled out a form at the catalog counter, took it to the cashier who took our money and put the order in the "tube"and we waited.....

Five minutes later down from the second floor on the metal roller slide came.....MOBAT. Oh my goodness. If it was only that easy these days.

Ok in no particular order the places I got toys in the 80's and a single memory from each even though I have a catalog of memories from each store...

Target (where I got my X Wing Luke with 2 blaster pistols in the package)

K Mart (where I got my First Star Wars figures LUKE, Han and Darth)

Wal Mart (back when they were brown) (got Zartan and the swamp skier, I don't recall ever buying Star Wars there until 1995)

Toys R Us (I called TRU everyday for 3 weeks straight and got my first AT AT Driver there)

Circus World Toys (big chain)( I got most of the 1986-1989 Joes here)

Toys N More (mom and pop shop and my first "job") Bought my 2nd USS Flagg with my 25% employee discount.)

J.C. Penny's (My grandparents shopped directly from the Christmas catalog so mulitpack figues were under the tree every year)

Sears (I took music lessons next to a Sears and got my first of 2 Cantinas with Blue Snaggletooth's for learning a new song that my grandfather had loved called"Faded Love")

Montgomery Wards (more catalog), but they had a store in Downtown Fort Worth that had the coolest Christmas section ever, but that is a 1970s story)

Woolworths (Got my Dewback there)

Dillard's/Sanger Harris (they had toys at Christmas, I got my first Return of the Jedi figures there, even though I had decided to grow up and stop collecting toys)

KB Toys (I was just cruising through looking for squirt guns when I saw the GI Joe 1985 Cobra EELS and Footloose and got back into Joes, see above for why I was not collecting)

BEST (this place ROCKED...I got the MOBAT, Storm Shadow, Snow Speeder and Battle Damage Xwing)  they have gone out of business since.

Mott's Five and Dime (GI Joe RAM Cycle and Snow Job)

Skaggs Alpha Beta (now Albertson's) (it is a Grocery store but I got my Luke in Hoth and a Bespin Guard there at a time I couldn't find them anywhere...oh and my first Jawa too, cloth cape)

Winn-Dixie (Grocery Store, got Princess Leia and Chewbacca, I was able to get two because I told my grandmother that I didn't want Chewbacca to be lonely so she caved and got me the Leia and to this day likes to tell that story..she shared it with my daughter recently and now my own words are used against me in the Care Bear/Pony/Hello Kitty/Princess aisles)

GIBSON's...kinda like Wal-Mart before WM was cool...(the first R2-D2)


Basically I was a spoiled kid who got too much allowance or too much birthday $ and was allowed to spend it on toys when we went to town.  And I just realized some of this happened in the 70's so sorry to get off base...

Does this mean I have to buy four more to make sure I keep up with the Joneses?

Oh please no, I will concede the race for the sake of both of our wallets....(but I did snag a couple more yesterday).

If you think about it though Rob...between the two of us, we might have the most Loose VOTC Stormies in a 30 mile radius.  Does that make us winners .......or losers?

And I agree with CoranHorn we are setting a bad example for Hasbro..but I can't help it. I've been waiting for this Stormtrooper ever since GI Joe got the "Swivel Arm" back in 1983....so if you think about it, I've only bought 1.5 for every year I've been waiting....hows that for rationalization....