One of the two Walmarts I stopped at this am had fairly fully stocked pegs of figures, with flags marking them at $6 each.  Might be worth your time to stop in.

The volume of stolen merchandise from Walmart.  Everytime I'm there I find a completely empty package of one type or another.  I'm frustrated that people steal the stuff in the first place, but also that Walmart does nothing to motivate their staff to do anything about it.  You bring it to their attention and they just put the stuff back on the shelf.

Also people who plow/snowblow/shovel their driveway out into the street instead of their lawn.

Quote from: JediJman on February 25, 2010, 03:08 PM

Quote from: Master_Phruby on February 25, 2010, 02:27 PM

- jedi academy six pack.

Aren't there only 5 figures in this set?   

One of the Padawans has a split personality.

"Hasbro was hoping you wouldn't notice" would also have been an acceptable answer.

Second, the punch-hole. If a figure you want is in the very back of the pegs, you have to take EVERYTHING off the pegs to get to it.

Please, someone who was at Toy-Fare, does Hasbro plan to have stick-on J-hooks or something?  I think the very feature Diddly is talking about is going to a huge problem for collectors at retail.  I'm not too worried about having to take 7 figures of the peg to get the 8th (ok, stop laughing now, I know its mythical to see 8 new figures at retail...).  What I am worried about is what is going to happen to the cards every time they are taken on and off the pegs.  Add to that the shoppers who will just tear the figure off the peg, and then won't buy the figure, so they'll end up in a pile at the bottom of the pegs.

I'm almost exclusively an opener, so I'm not too worried about the shape of the card, but there might be a few of these Vintage ones I keep carded.  Which seems to be a fairly common sentiment, if I'm reading the mood of JD right.  I have the distinct impression that come November there are going to be a lot of complaints from people who will be posting some variation of "I saw _____ at retail, only thing was the card was ripped off the peg, I'm still holding out for a card in good shape/not mangled."

Hopefully Hasbro will use plastic sticker style hooks that will come off the card cleanly or a similar solution.

On a different note - I have read both here and on other sites that people are interested in army building Dacks, I think I am missing the intent here.  is he that generic looking that he passes as  a non-specific pilot?  I guess it is just hard for me to take a figure with a somewhat significant name and roll and turn him into an army builder (plus I don't really army build).

I think its because the figure has what looks to be a non-customized paint job on his helmet.  IIRC isn't that same white paint job with blue rebel symbols seen on a number of unnamed rebel pilots?  Basically with his helmet on he looks generic enough to be an army builder, even if we all know better.

Its about 4:30, so there are a lot of other cars on the road and we're on one of the main roads thru town.  There are two lanes going each way, plus a center turn lane and its a 40.  I'm in the left lane and we're approaching a car sitting in the turn lane waiting to turn left across traffic (there are a bunch of lights, so this person will get to turn in a minute or so anyway..), the car in front of me comes to a dead stop from 40 to let the other car (without the right of way) turn left, but since its two lanes each way, we had to wait for someone in the left lane also to come to a stop.

Seriously?  Who taught you to drive that you have to yield the right of way to every car that is attempting to make a turn anywhere?  Do you stop at green lights to allow the cars stopped at the red lights to go through also?

Nice, I just got back from Disney, too bad about the timing, this would have been fun to pick up.  I wonder what the distribution for this would be like in the parks (some Star Wars/Disney stuff you can find throughout the parks and hotels, but other stuff you can only get outside Star Tours).  Maybe I'll be able to convince my parents to take a ride over to Downtown Disney and go through the toy store they have (its basically all Hasbro stuff...)