Quote from: Pete_Fett on April  8, 2008, 06:35 PM

I also thought that the Battle Rancor was supposed to hit around the same time as the Order 66 2-packs.

That was my understanding as well.  Jeff?

I just went back to the slide deck from Toy Fair and Hasbro dated the Order 66 2-packs for 4/15 but for the Battle Rancor simply put down "In-Store April"

So they aren't related. I guess the fact that the Aalya Starfighter, Kashyyyk Battle Pack and two GH sets were all tied to the same date, I was assuming that the Battle Rancor and Order 66 sets were tied to the same date.

So an "In-Store April" status could mean April 30th in the end. Oh well.

I actually tried the DPCI with this yesterday, it comes up as out of stock

Yeah - I keep trying it too with the same results. I also haven't seen any reports of it showing up which is odd if it was supposed to be on an endcap in the toy section on April 13th.

I think it's kinda cool.

Perhaps it's a good sign that they are showcasing it - it might mean that it's a predominent aspect of the series and if that's the case, then we might get lucky toy-wise.

I don't think the articulation is fine.  I think 14 points should be standard on every figure by now, period.

I think for a little guy that barely stands 2" tall, having 10 points of articulation is great.

I agree with Jeff - Hasbro really put some extra effort this time around as opposed to just cranking out some repaints.

With the three ARC troopers, they aren't just repaints of the Comic 2-pack Alpha - sure they use some of his common parts put they mixed up the kamas like Jeff said and the body of the yellow ARC that comes with Master Sev is actually the Evolutions ROTS Clone.

The Tsui Choi figure is great. I'm not sure if any of his parts are recycled from say a Yoda figure, but it doesn't matter since the figure is so sharp. The BARC Trooper is great and thanks to the SA body, can hold the heavy chain-like gun well.

I am extremely pleased with the soft-goods addition to the Anakin figure - it makes for a REALLY sharp figure. Goes to show how solid the Nelvaan Anakin figure is. Nothing overly special about the Palpatine except for the fact that he's now got the deathly gray skin-tone that he sported in ROTJ.

I think the wires at the bottom of the cloaks was something interesting for them to try. Not to pleased with the Obi-Wan figure, but the cloak is kinda cool.

I think out of all 12 figures, the only ones I'm kinda feeling ho-hum on are the Obi-Wan and Luminara. The rest are great additions to the collection.

I have now found two years running, getting a complete set (or in my case three complete sets plus some extras) before the "set date" is a fun challenge. So if they keep raising the bar on these and keeping the price $9.99, I would welcome a third series next year, but instead of Order 66, I could see Target getting their own wave of Droid Factory instead.

I'm looking forward to these, I'm hoping that I'll be easily able to score 3 of each so I can end up with two of the C-3PX build-a-droids.

I asked the cashier to let me ring up three order 66 2-packs at a time. Since that made the purchase $30 which qualified for the $5 off.