From how far 3PO's legs are spread, I'm going to guess what we're seeing is the Coin one that was repacked in OTC.  As for R2, he doesn't have a chrome dome, but looks pretty normal, so perhaps he's the Naboo/OTC version?  I wish it were a plain R2-D2 with the R4-G9 body, but they really don't seem to want to give us that for some reason.

Am I wrong in thinking there's a packaging variation on this thing?  The pictures I've seen online show the dragonsnake thing under the wing of the X-Wing, and I think I've seen one in person like that, but today I saw one in the store where the beastie is out in the open, sort of in front of Luke.  Change in packaging, or figment of my imagination?

It would actually be really cool if that exact wave really was released on April 1st.

Quote from: Artoo on July 21, 2006, 02:53 AM

Just have to wait for tommorow & see

Uhh...today is Hasbro's Star Wars day...so we'll probably be finding out today.

...And he posted that last night, not today.

I agree with everyone, though, that I'm looking forward to what they show.

Well, I just got done going through the pictures here and at GH.  Man, that's a lot of stuff, and it wasn't all that's there.  Here are my tired ramblings:

- I'm not sure how I feel about the prequel tins.  Each has something new and cool (the clonetroopers and the astromech) and good rereleases (Evolutions anybody), but they also tend to have old things I don't want (Mace, Jango).  The tins themselves help to justify the price a bit, but it's hard to decide whether the things I want in these make them worth buying.  Maybe I'll just save up or something.  Looking forward to seeing the OT sets.

- Galatic Heroes are doing large sets of figures now.  That's pretty cool.  I think I'll be sticking to a pair here and there, though, which has amassed me quite a collection already.

- Titanium is getting to be quite a big line.  Tons of repaints on the vehicles (Naboo fighter, ARC fighter) and some surprising new ones (Padme's silver thing, the Ewok on speederbike).  It's tempting to get into them, but I think I'll try to stick with regular figures, as there are plenty of those already.  As for the Titanium figures, I've never been impressed by them, but a couple of these look really good, especially C-3PO.  But to counter that we have things like Grievous, who is really unimpressive considering what they could have done (such as a better sculpt and more limbs).

Okay, I think that's all for now.  I'm sure there will be more to see soon, though...

GH seems to be telling us what's in some of the tin sets.  Sounds interesting, but I'm gonna have to see which figures they used before I know whether I like them or not.

Somebody else already said it, but I'm not a fan of how some of the words are sort of facing different directions.  You have to tilt your head one way to read the "A long time ago" bit, and tilt the other way to figure out the "77-07" bit inside the partially-obscured "30".

Also...

"We chose a contemporary styling to the logo for a fresh look at the brand, and created a distressed architecture to celebrate its long heritage," says Pilot partner Chris Ford. "It was important to deliver an ownable shape to the action figure packaging in particular." adds Concannon.

Apparently they put a lot of thought in, yet didn't notice that it's just generally wobbly looking.  Of course, maybe this guy's just going over my head.  After all, I don't know what "ownable" even means.