For Episode I, I didn't really do anything, although I did work for a store in our college town (Pamida, subsidiary of Shopko if you have ever heard of either), and we had the Episode I figures. One other guy and myself got to set up the display that night after closing, and were allowed to set aside anything that we wanted. That was really my first step of getting back into Star Wars collecting, and I think I bought 6 figures at the time {poor college student budget
}.
For Episode II, a friend and I drove to the nearest Wal-Mart (which at the time was about 40 minutes away), and got there about 11:45-ish. There was a handful of other collectors there, and they had the aisle closed off while they stocked the pegs, and then let us in at midnight. That was by far the most I ever spent on one collecting trip, picking up most of what was offered, except not finding the Dooku, Royal Guard, and passing on figures like Typho and the Battle Droid for the time being (got them later on).
This time, I was planning on bopping down to Wal-Mart around midnight, since it is only about five minutes away now since we moved to a much larger town
. Although, if Jeff is correct, I might wait until the next day and hit Target up. I enjoy shopping there so much more anyways. We'll see if I can resist, and how many people there are to "fight" in the aisle. I don't really enjoy that, the people at Episode II MM weren't overly polite, at least some of them...but hopefully this time will be different/better. I am looking forward to it though, plus, being up late on a Friday night/Saturday morning isn't nearly as bad as a Monday
.