All this talk about protein and teabags made me wonder what direction the thread had taken. 

I had tea tonight...  MMMMMMmmm Tea.  I drink coffee, tea (just regular red rose tea), hot chocolate, Cappucino, other coffee/espresso drinks...  I just like stuff like that.

Love mixin' in some whiskey or whatnot too.  Not good to drink too much and get sick on, but good to definitely get a buzz going with some good conversation.

I saw a funny thing the other day about this televangelist who they take his show, and add farting sounds to it.  Anyone seen this?  It looked almost scripted it was so perfect, I laughed hysterically just thinking about it later in the day then.

If the holiday special is taken into account, the planet is under Imperial control, but it seems to function sort of like occupied countries do/did during WW2.  Daily life went on, perhaps a resistance movement, but Kashyyyk was relatively rendered neutral and ineffective.

I have this theory that the slave trade pertained to Wookiee's off-world...  That a law's decreed that Wookiee's are "outlawed" species that are to stay on their planet or face possible arrest and enslavement.  Perhaps the law keeps them out of the core worlds, and inner-rim, but they're allowed in the outer rim and less strictly monitored/controlled worlds on the frontier.

The Wookiee's seem to be accepted...  But their possible aiding of Yoda to escape, and how that is viewed by the new order, could really have had negative consequences.  I don't see the planet as being totally enslaved though.  I see outlaw Wookiee's off-world being enslaved due to a law, that'd explain some EU, and things...  It'd mesh with the prequals too I think, and just work well.

I'd say I agree with Josh...  to an extent.

I don't believe guys like Dave, Dustin, Philip, etc. are scalpers or support the notion...  Contrary to what they may think, the staff here doesn't truly hate their guts like that...  Dislike their actions?  Dislike how they treat their forum members who DID show loyalty and were an asset at their site, and not a problem?  Yes, some here feel that way, but I think this is how many here view the situation:

The site maybe doesn't have the mods it needs, but at the same time the staff are there, they are active, and they really just don't give two ***** when things come up that are big problems.  Unless it's trashing Rebelscum's actions, unless it's open criticism of the way things are run there, the Scum staff don't care about their forums near enough and it shows.

Scalping is let slide...  I don't think the aforementioned staffers are scalpers or support the notion, but I do think they have htis "meh, who cares" attitude sometimes, and that scalping's something they can't control on their forums by saying "we're too busy".  I'm busy too, but if it comes up here it's something any one of us will nip in the bud right quickly...  It's just not tolerated, and yes it does come up, and yes our staff is as busy as anyone...  Sometimes it seems moreso because we don't always seem to have the time to do our "jobs" here for the front page too.

So do I think the C2C motto is something they believe in?  Probably, I only know Curto really well and I know Philip didn't ask high prices on anything he's sold, even rare stuff, so that's cool he's a good egg like that, but at the same time their forums are neglected...  Youc an't leave what mods they have to make the decisions it seems, and if you're membership quality is so low you can't promote reliable help from anywhere in this supposedly vast pool of "talent", then to me that just says an equally low commentary about what goes on at your forums overall.  Not to say there aren't people I think you could trust who are there regularly, it's just that nobody's seemingly on the same page...  Nobody cares enough about the job except the few mods they do have, and they're not on the same page with the rest of the staff a lot of the time.  Thus people lose their "job" who were mods, mods are overruled at times by staff, etc...  Nobody cares from the top down, and thus the forums have suffered and are a sham in their overall quality compared to what they were several years back.  The BHC worked because it was run by guys like Burn, mousedroid, jedicrippler, etc., who actually gave a ****.  And like I've always said, some places run their site one way, others like it another way...  I think the "it's so big" excuse is getting old though.

I've gotten in the habit of really working (carefully) all joints on all figures for a time.  Some of the construction is done so that you have to just sorta wear it out slightly at first... 

With other toy lines it's that the finish/paint ap dries and if you try working joints too hard it'll snap the joint off because it's stuck.  That's a problem with the XD line.  SW doesn't have that, but they do have joints that are almost too tightly designed and need loosened up, or "worn out" a little bit to really be playable without breakage.  The Evo sets definitely had a fragile aspect to them though.  I'm cool with that for their quality overall, but yeah these were fragile for "toys".  Which is odd because the SA Clone basics were not that way.

I threw my vote in for a new Hoth Rebel Soldier...  Other stuff's cool, but to me at this point this whole thing's a big mess and without seeing some running results it's just a mess.  You could be voting for something NOBODY wants but you, or you could be voting for something everyone wants, or I've seen some peopel voting for **** we're getting. 

Commander Cody!?  WTF!?  Who'd do that?  But whatever.

Scott'll be pleased to hear that Curto threw his vote behind Wilrow Hood I believe...  I was browsing elsewhere and read that.  The ICMG has his support, I'd love tos ee him make the top whatever list.  If he does, and I doubt anything i really REALLY want does, then I'm all about voting for ICMG.

1) New Red Battledroid (Better plastic and articulation)

2) New SA Jango Fett (removable helmet, and pilot headset)

3) New SA Zam Wessel (removable arm)

4) Jocasta Nu

5) Toonbuck Toora

6) SA Clone (Red Training Gear w/Food Tray)

7) SA Mace Windu

8 ) Po Nudo (Aqualish Separatist Senator Dude)

9) SA Human Male Jedi (Random Generic, Padawan w/braid or Master, I don't care)

10) New SA Anakin Outlander Disguise (Dunno why, I just liked that outfit)

I'm going to speculate this articulation on Cody:

-Ball/socket elbows (I know that looks like a right arm angle-cut joint, but I think if you check out ball/socket elbows on Clones, the way the elbow pad is sculpted to hide the joint, it can be posed that way so it looks tricky).
-standard hips
-ball/socket knees
-ball/socket ankles
-ball/socket neck
-ball/socket waist/torso
-standard shoulders.  You can see the shoulders pretty clearly that there's no pin lines for a ball/socket on the right arm,a nd the flatness of the inner arm on the left arm is pretty clear too, so I think the Cos is right there.

I think Cody's close to SA, but his awkward shoulder armor kept him from really getting the full treatment...

BTW I'm sorta bummed they couldn't have made a removable mini-holo Palpatine for his forearm.