I've been noticing something with wave 2 so far.  It seems that the Luke & R2 and Obi-Wan & Alpha sets are selling better than the Vos & Villie 2-pack.  I must have hit about 10 stores yesterday and that was the running trend at almost all of them.  I saw scattered numbers of Vos & Villie and very few if any of the other two sets.  In fact I only saw 1 Alpha & Obi-Wan set at all.

I hope that the lingering Vos & Villie 2-packs are just indicative of collectors not being able to make it to the store to buy these just yet.  Because if this is a symptom of a sense of disinterest in wholly EU characters, then this line may not be long for this world.  But I guess we need to let this play out.  And if wave 3's Dark Woman & A'sharad Hett 2-pack doesn't sell well (the other 2 sets feature movie based characters), then Hasbro might have to rethink this concept.

I think a shift towards Imperial and Rebel army builders would be a good thing at this point.  Hasbro has all but exhausted the ROTS era Clone Troopers, and spacing those out from here might be a good thing.  We all know this, and it's especially obvious if you've ever seen the ROTS Clone family photo that RS put together.  There are also some AOTC Clones that could stand to be done like the Evolutions Clone Trooper.  So here's what I think we should probably get in terms of the more popular army builders:

CLONE TROOPERS - AOTC
Clone Trooper - Evolutions - Clean
Clone Trooper Sergeant - Evolutions repaint
Clone Trooper Lieutenant - 30AC tin re-release
Clone Trooper Captain - Evolutions repaint
Clone Trooper Commander - Evolutions - clean version plus electrobinoculars
Clone Trooper - red Kamino training fatigues - NEW
Clone Trooper - blue Kamino training fatigues - NEW


REBEL ALLIANCE
Fleet Trooper - new sculpt, SA
Rebel Pilot - generic
Rebel hangar crew
Hoth Rebel Trooper
Echo base Rebel Trooper
Rebel Fleet Officer - ROTJ, Madine style uniform
Rebel Endor Commando - SA, similar to Sideshow Endor Rebels


IMPERIALS
Stormtrooper Officer - Imperial Officers with black tunics
Imperial Officer - Grey/olive tunic
Imperial Security Bureau Officer - white tunic, black trousers
Space Stormtrooper - from Falcon's approach to the Death Star
Death Squad Commander - Vintage figure redone
TIE Fighter Pilot - update on the OTC TIE Pilot, SA
TIE Fighter Pilot - Black Squadron with grey helmet markings
Bridge technician - grey jumpsuit & black cap
AT-ST Driver - SA, removable helmet, etc

Bought a case of the new Vintage figures.

Finally saw Quicksilver in person today.  This is one of the few figures in the current HML wave that I was looking forward to.  It's okay, but it seems to be kind of generic as far as ML figures go.  It was not worth the $12 that the store I was at was charging.

Bought 3 x Death Star Troopers, 3 x Rebel Honor Guards and 1 x red/brown Tusken Raider w/ Bantha battle pack today.

The only attractive figure in this set to me is the Elite Corps Clone Trooper.  And considering the fact that I passed on picking up 4 of them last night I probably won't be picking up this set. 

As for that silver Sandtrooper?  Totally out of place.  What were you thinking Hasbro?

Wow.  That took a while.