SA one was the Endor Trooper I was hoping for though...  POTF2's not poseable at all and the Saga figure's disappointing too...  There's work they need to do there I think.

The Luke is disappointing because, well, he just needs resclupted to be a good SA figure.  On ENdor Luke had the Jedi tunic on though over his outfit so technically he should be sporting the skirt and all that.  I think I'd have much preferred a resculpt on Luke too...  I think I'd have replaced the DSGunner with either of the other figures completely resculpted.

I'm gonna have to say to cut the political comments on all sides please.  That's a no-no 'round these parts whether you liked the monkey or lurch.

People have a right to dislike the opportunistic points of the hobby, but I say that reserving it for the scalper is better than the guy offering imported stuff.  The end result is that this is stuff not released yet and there's gonna be premiums paid to get that.

More power to anyone who wants to buy it though, and as I said before, "To Each Their Own" is the best way to look at it.  The buyer may regret the purchase or just finds satisfaction in being caught up nice and early.  No skin off my ass though, so that's fine by me...  The fat guy with mustard on his shirt that cleared Wal-Mart out of Clones though?  Yeah that schmuck should have the air let out of his tires...  Oh wait he can't afford a car.  Well someone should take his Filet 'O Fish off him.

I think I saw you at C3 and got your picture while I was back and forth between the show and the FFURG.com booth.

That is true Tamidala...  When a normal sized cart is about as maneuverable as a sopping wet sponge, a cart twice as big and heavy probably isn't much better.

Which brings me to my hatred of the carts at our grocery stores...  They all have sticky wheels, the handles are always sitcky from unclean people and their unclean kids, and they all pull to one side or the other.  No fluid movement.

Yeah I should've specified mimicing the SW line rather than just blanketly saying Hasbro...  But you got the point.

My take on Joes for fodder is that the gear sometimes appeals to me more for customizing than the figures.  The odd head does roll out of the Joe line that is good...  Scarlet heads have been some of the only decent female fodder heads outside of SW to show in a while so there's often something there to like but in general that's all I prefer...

Joes have a look I can spot too easily a lot of the time.  Especially older joes.  A lot used the old Joes back in the vintage days before these newfangled Star Wars figures, and early customs pre-modern line would have a Clutch or Grunt head on them and it just looked too "familiar" to me I guess. 

The joints/articulation stick out like a turd in a punchbowl too for me so it's not something I like to see really.  Mimicing Hasbro but improving it is something I like with customs...  So GIJ's very unique and easily identified arms/legs and articulation tends to be a detractor to me, but that's just my personal tastes with customizing too.  I've seen everything from non-poseable figurines to Stikfas figures used in customizing so to each their own.

OK...

So I have a good one about my gf's youngest son ( who got a Neimodian Commander the other night at Wal-Mart, and this also has a tie-in to a bad habit I have that's also kind of amusing to kids...  No it's not farting on command.

I do a lot of different voice impersonations, for no reason.  Laugh all you want but I've managed to perfect some mimics and it's been quite useful in wooing the ladies!  No, seriously...  Stop laughing.

Anyway, so my gf's daughter whines like Napolean Dynamite did, which if you saw that you know what I mean.  So the kids know/like that movie and when I hear her I'll kind of mimic her but in a ND voice...  OK, the boys laugh hysterically and the daughter gets pissed off which makes everyone in the car laugh but the girls.

Well my gf's son gets a Neimodian the other night...  He comes downstairs with it and gets me and his mom's attention and starts in with his own impersonations...  But this time it's "Neimodian Dynamite".  Yes, an 8 year old came up with Nemodian Dynamite all by himself and that's funny ****.  And at the same time he's going "God, that Vader guy sucks!"  and "Hey Vader, I bet you take that TIE fighter off some sweet jumps."

His mother was even laughing and she secretly loathes my hobby and that they ask for stuff when we're out looking for me.    I wouldn't have given him that much credit but man, Neimodian Dynamite sounds like a web strip waiting to happen.