Previewed a while back, the 1/6 General Grievous is up for pre-order out of the blue today!  A behemoth of a figure, I'm not quite sure where to place him in a collection...  He's a military guy, so I'd lean towards that side of things I guess but SS has him listed under Scum & Villainy...  that's odd.

I dig him, but $249.99 is a lotta moola.

http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=1000271

The exclusive version has a damaged mask portrait with it.

Wow, OTC no recent purchases thread?

Saw lots for sale at the Steel City Con this weekend...  Some, very cheap.  Got a loose incomplete Hammerhead for fun/customs bits.

I'm always looking for Combat Engineers, Fleet Security, Bren Derlin, and Power Droid and other figures from this series.  One of my favs. 

Hard to discuss a hobby that's kind of dead at the moment, but I've heard good things about realistic Clone Wars figures.  With Scum's rumor of Cody, does anyone have a list of wishes for realistic style Clone Wars figures?

Or are you a "mains and done" kinda collector?

For me I was thinking mains and done, but at this point I'd take quite a few CW characters done realistically even at 5POA each...  Lil Ahsoka, CW Rex of course...  I'm thinking a new Baby Boba and some Death Watch could look pretty damn cool too.  Pre Vizla in particular.

A realistic Oppress would be interesting, as would Kenobi in his bounty hunter disguise, and even Dengar would get my attention since he's so significantly different to his OT character's look.

Trench would be a must since he was a big want for me animated as well.

Since CW is kaput as an animated line it's all there is to hope for 5 POA realistic sculpts.  At the proposed price, my curiosity is at least there.  They won't be up to my personal standards but at least they weren't $10 as well...  and they may be pretty damn great like Ellors Madak still looks on my shelf.

Anyone have particular wants?  Anyone into an extensive realistic CW line even?

If they have removable headgear, I'm far more interested than before too.  Little features may have my attention more if they're included.

This was brought up to me...  I honestly cannot imagine Hasbro trying ANY vehicles save something tiny like a Speederbike.  Speederbikes are really not much more than a 2nd figure when you think about it.

Beyond that i'm not sure I could even see something like a Dewback or Taun-Taun...  I think this line would really need to take off before any vehicles were considered, and as it stands, I think this line's going to struggle to capture the numbers of people it'll need to sustain itself.

These 2-packs, at these prices, are more in line with what I think the line should be at, price-wise...  Would people be into more rounds of these?  I can't imagine there's going to be many no's to that query but you never know.

I was thinking, especially with the AT-ST Pilot sets, how cool future sets could be... 

My immediate want is Fleet Trooper/Stormtrooper sets.  Either 2 RFT's and 2 ST's or 1 of each in a set, maybe two sets with maybe slightly different decoes.  I love the packaging and would enjoy something like that, done relatively inexpensive with minimal new toolings and maybe different decoes or accessories.  Too bad these didn't happen till the end of the line.  This format has potentional I think.

My 2nd want would be "Death Star Trooper/Naval Officer" 2-pack...  Take the new DST, repaint the head with a new deco to the hair, voila... new trooper.  Take another of the new DST's, put a new head on it, put an imperial officer hat on it...  voila, make one of the random black tuniced officers (if you wanna be picky, add a rank badge, but I could live without it).

I'd dig a Sandtrooper/Sandperson too...  maybe make the Sandtrooper a unique deco/rank, new long storm/sandtrooper rifle (the one Chewie uses on the Death Star) and put in the Vintage Sandperson with a new deco, maybe some "war trophy" type accessories and stuff?

Simple sets like that would really be interesting to me.

Up for pre-order and the exclusive has an "angry" hulk smash kind of headsculpt as an extra!  Nice!

Go.  Buy.  Now.

Or you'll miss out on the extra noggin'!

Carded/Boxed Sets:

-Wal-Mart Exc. AT-RT (Red Deco)
-WM (AKA TJ Maxx?) Exc. Brain Invaders 2-Pack (Ahsoka & Scythe)

Loose Figures (Completeness Noted):

-Defend Kamino Echo (2 Rifles, Helmet)
-Defend Kamino Fives (2 Rifles, Helmet)
-Geonosian Warrior (Red Chest Dot, Rifle, Wings/back part)
-Geonosian Warrior (Blue Chest Dot, Rifle, Wings/Back Part)
-Deluxe Cad Bane (hat, sachel, rifle, pistols)
-Deluxe Scuba Clone (Rebreather/pack, 2 fins)
-WM (AKA TJ Maxx?) Exc. Brain Invaders Clonetrooper Scythe (Rifle, helmet)
-WM Exc. AT-RT Driver (Red camo ARF Trooper), (Rifles) x2
-Deluxe Rep. Scout Speeder ARF Trooper, Red Republic Markings (Rifles) x4
-Deluxe Brown Camo AT-RT ARF Trooper (Brown Camo) (Rifle)
-Attack On The Coronet Clone Troopers (No Droids!!!!) (Rifles) x1 of each paintjob

That is 16 loose figures + 1 packaged DVD 2-pack + 1 packaged WM AT-RT set...  I'd like $60 total, shipped, for the entire lot!   Just want the cost on the packaged stuff and less than $3 a figure on the loose guys.

Tons of army builders and other goodies.  Also I'll include some extra blaster rifles and there's a mix of stands, dice, and game cards too.  Some figures will have their card and some won't.

Send me a PM if you're interested, otherwise it's off to the local scalper store with them I think.