I saw this for $60 and I left it.  It's tough to rationalize spending that much on another TIE Fighter.

I'm thinking the one ponytail/topknot Jedi is either of Cin Drallig or Joclad Danva (seen below)

It looks like Hasbro is picking up where they left off with the TSC Endor Rebel troops.  They recognize the need for some individuality, and we're getting a running change on the Hoth trooper.  NICE!  

I think one of the Hoth trooper heads has the big walrus mustache that you see on one of the Hoth rebels.  The other one looks clean shaven.  Plus, it looks like there are two different hats as well.  I like running changes like this in army builders.  I'll probably be buying at least 4 of each running change.  And with the different hats you can probably do some mixing and matching to break things up so that the Hoth rebel army doesn't look like a bunch of clones.

AT-TE's and Falcons are on clearance everywhere around me at Targets and WMs.  Does this bode well for the future of large vehicles?  Did they sell enough to recoup their cost?  Do retailers know there's more big vehicles coming so they're trying to make room?  Obviously Joe and TF should have a larger footprint this year - SW still has the CW cartoon so I can't see them scaling back shelf space.

That may just be a localized issue for you.  A lot of the reports I've been seeing locally as well as nationally indicate that sales were good.  AT-TE's sold through well, and Falcons sold too, but they're lingering a little.  I think that's price generated.

I don't know that we're going to see a huge shift in shelfspace for the GI Joe or Transformers movies.  There have been a number of movie based toy lines that have not performed well in recent years.  Transformers actually did reasonably well for the first movie.  GI Joe might be more of question mark for Hasbro.  The Joes have a big fan base, but will that translate to the kids?  Right now I've only seen about 4 feet of shelf space for the Joes at TRU stores.   And that's in an aisle that's totally devoted to military figures and toys.

As for Star Wars at retail?  The line is still one of the best performers in the boys toys category.  And with the success of the cartoon network series Star Wars is going to be more at the forefront.  Especially with kids getting into the Clone Wars line in a big way.  Star Wars may lose it's feature store at TRU stores to another movie, but I expect it to maintain a significant ammount of shelf space.

I never cease to be amazed by my fellow Northeasterners.  Snow is a semi-regular occurrance in these parts.  But somehow people always forget how to drive in the stuff.  Amazing.

Finally some images!

I've heard that this wave might be showing up at TJ Maxx stores.  I hit a couple today, but no luck so far.