And great pics Rob, you did stellar work.  I wish you were taking pictures for my photonovels!   

 

Thanks!   I wasn't happy with some of them - but most of them turned out pretty good I think given the fast pace process of shooting, processing, and uploading as fast as possible.

The loose images you guys are seeing are definately Prototypes.  We were told the figures would resemble the pacakaged figures more than the Protos....

The carded Luke looked 10 times better, I promise.

The carded IG88 and Leia were in an area outside the Star Wars booth that had a wicked sun glare when we were taking photos. 

Leia's head is a bit odd and we did not get to see it very well.

On the snowtrooper helmet, the prototype definately had a removable helmet, but I could not tell on the carded version.  No idea what it looked like under there as we did not get a chance to take them off.

Uncle Joey is not dead...would a dead man be doing stand up tonight??

I know this is going to sound like BS, but I swear it's 100% true... I had a dream last night where Dave Coulier was at Reel FX for something and I followed him all over the building because I wanted to get my picture taken with him for the famous-people-you've-met thread because I knew all you guys would think it was hilarious.

Too bad it wasn't real. 

Left a shutout on the bench tonight...   

But Zetterberg came through with 2 goals, an assist, a GWG, and a +3.   

Picked up Flags of Our Fathers, Running with Scissors, The Science of Sleep, and Shinobi today.

Shinobi might be terrible, but I gambled for 9.99.

I also grabbed Training Day and Ferris Bueller's Day off for 4.99 each.

I was going to pick up Hollywoodland too, but I'm guessing that it's down to $10 within 6 weeks and I'm trying to be a little smarter about picking up obvious future-cheapies at $20.

Most of mine are mint - but none of them are graded.  They're all 15 to 20 years old at this point, in the same hard cases they were in when I put them in there as a kid.  Nothing too fancy - Frank Thomas and Ken Griffey rookies, crap like that.

It's only 100 or so cards (sold off the thousands and thousands of commons for $200 years ago).

I want to be rid of them - but I don't really want to throw them away.

I'm guessing I'd be lucky to get $20 for all of it if I take them to a card shop, but that's the way I'm leaning right now - I'd rather have $20 and them out of my house than to have them just taking up space.  And to think way back when the book value on these was probably 500 times what I can actually get for them now.

I've never had any qualms about cracking open a case straight from the palette when no one's looking.

If what you want to buy is sitting right there, why should a little bit of tape that hasn't been sliced yet come between you and success?