It gives you a chance to try some sort of new alien that is from your imagination... like Phruby's Mongo Beefhead!

Not to nit-pick, but wasn't that based on a Kenner protoype or something?  I thought the Mongo Beefhead was a "long-lost" Kenner idea that was once proposed for the main line, right?   


Anyway, back to the topic at hand.  I think the "aliens" thing really wouldn't be as hard as some might think.  Here's an example of something I did a while back that kind of fits with the theme (and if I can customize it, anyone can ):



The Alien Jedi in that photo was made from an old X-Men Ice-Man head, which I added to a skirtless Ep1 Boss Nass.  I added some paint detailing and my "fire" Jedi was born.  Kinda inspired by the molten men (Crystar!) and other fire elementals.

Like CHEWIE said, just have to think outside the box a little bit.  I've used heads from Star Wars to make new aliens too - cut the ears off a Captain Tarpals for a whole new look.  Heck, even ust painting a human head can sometimes give you a creepy new alien species!

Just take a strange fodder head and build around it.  There are a lot of different lines out there to pick and choose from, should be easy to find something to work with - Corps, Batman, Marvel, etc.

What's the SDCC exclusive?

I don't think it has been revealed for sure yet, but Sideshow has dropped a bunch of hints that they will be offering a 12" SDCC Exclusive figure.

The leading rumor I keep seeing is a "Sith Eyes" Variant of Anakin or a "Old Guy" Variant of Obi-Wan (same figure as before, but with a new head).

Watched a little bit of the Sweden/USA game yesterday - couldn't watch it all since we had lunch plans and was disappointed I only saw the 1st period since it looked like a good finish.   

Wow, are things going weird in this tourney. 

USA = 1-2-1
Canada = 2-2-0
Czeck Rep = 2-2-0

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Finland = 4-0-0
Slovakia = 4-0-0

Might have to revise those Gold Medal game prediction to Finland vs. Slovakia... 



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Congrats to the USA Women's Ice Hockey Team.  You got "Miracle On Ice"-ed by Sweden, but you pulled it together and spanked the Fins 4-0 for the Bronze.   

Nagano - Gold
Salt Lake - Silver
Torino - Bronze

Not a good trend... guess the rest of the world is catching up in Ladies Ice Hockey?   

RE: Daunte -
Maybe we can trade Daunte to the Raiders for Moss?   


RE: "Smokey" Williams -
   Gee, he has drug problems?  He didn't manage to stay clean despite saying he would?  To paraphrase from a friend - "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me 17 times, I'm a dumbass".   

What did the exclusive item turn out to be?  (can't get the page to load at work)

Was it a Fett Helmet?

Why is everyone guessing that it will be this Kir Kanos thing?  Have they hinted recently that they will be making him?

I must have missed the RS info too because I hadn't heard that (or at least forgot it if I did hear it previously).

Here's the RS nugget for reference:

"There will be a pile of collector oriented online and convention exclusives that I would get in trouble for talking about, so I won’t tell you that there is a new George Lucas action figure in the works or that a large e-tailer has got a very popular eEU Kiracter coming out soon. (Man, is my spell check broke? I think so, but I kanos say for sure…) I also won’t tell you that there will be any other convention exclusive cloning around this summer…"

I guess I can see how Kir Kanos can be done since it would essentially be a re-hash of the RotS #23 Royal Guard figure on a single card.  Maybe a new head w/Helmet and that's all it would take. 

Can someone give me the 30 second version of how to post a pic?

If you do not have them hosted on the net, you can e-mail them to me (jsmentek@jedidefender.com) and I can help you out...

Dammit...I just want to win a custom, is that so wrong?!? 

-DD

Hi DD,

Send your info to me (jsmentek@jedidefender.com) and I will forward it to the customgiveaway3 address.

I honestly have no idea what the problem is because lots of other people have entered the contest successfully.