They're 50/50 with expressions.  The Marines have a mix of expressionless, slight expressions, and full on eyes-closed screaming faces.  The Japanese are the same as there's like 3 or 4 without any expression, 1 with a slight expression and the rest with mouths open.

Same with the Paratrooeprs...  Battle of the Bulge had expressionless figures, as did Series 1 Infantry, Vietnam, etc...  Modern figures sucked but the heads were nice and fairly expressionless.

BBI's headsculpts are better but most of them lack muchof a neck so customizing wise they're not as useful I've found...  Not without "work", which is ok for me but not a lot want to make a suitable neck for them.

Wal-Mart's not distributing evenly on 21st...  Each store has a variety I've found, like in my area Brad I can count 5 stores I visit and each has (generally) something different.

Some things get wide release like the choppers were everywhere here, and the current Humvee variants and the Weapons Carrier Dodge are at every WM I visit, but like the one that just opened has Imperial Marine (Japanese) figures, while one 15 mins away has Battle of the Bulge, Marines, and Pilots/Patton figures.

And 2 other WM's near me have just Marines (S1 and S2)... 

I see planes at various stores but they're various planes.  One has P-47 Bubbletops, one has the German Night Fighter, one has old Corsairs and Stukas. 

All had RC Panzers and APC's up to the holidays and they've since seen clearance, but only a few had regular model tanks.  Like one had Shermans back in the day, one had Tigers... 

One right now near me has Halftracks and nothing else.  Weird.

TRU quit with their deal with 21st because some self-interest group(s) complained that the toys glorified the Nazi Party as there were "Nazi" action figures.  Nobody takes the time to pick upa  book and read, so they just cry Nazi...  But, TRU did get the Merril's Marauders set for the holidays, so they're not totally out of it.

I'm amazed WM hasn't caught flack...  They have on the S1 Marine holding a Japanese flat and cigarette I've heard, and that figure is phased out, but they haven't on Germans.  They do sort of "generically" name them too though as "Ardennes Infantry", haha.

I wouldn't count on that.  You should ask around here to see what you can get for your Saga needs and beyond that I'd wait it out...

Feeding the scalpers at the show only encourages them though.

I go to just take advantage of them by getting stuff for less than retail that they can't unload...  Or vintage stuff I want and odds/ends on the cheap, but otherwise I go with the mindset that I'm not paying one cent over retail for this crap to one of the sleeze running a booth that will undoubtebly want in the $30 range for a Scorch or Utapau Clone.

If it's not to-scale I pass at this point...  Which is nice because I save a lot of $ these days.

For display, right now it's mostly packed away but I am pondering hanging some items.  I have multiples of some ships though, and as many as 6 red A-Wings and 4 Green A-Wings...  So those won't hang but I'll probably just shelf them.  I have a lot of TIE Bombers too and two Target TIE's I'll probably shelf somewhere as well.

The Jedi Fighters I may hang though simply because they'll be out of the way if I do that.

I used to collect 1:18 WW2 Airplanes however there's so many and they're so huge that I can't justify buying them. The armor pieces I still buy I'm trying to just display side-by-side since it shows scale, comparisons of pieces that would have matched up, etc...  But these things are all huge compared to most SW toys.

I dunno about that...  At $6.99 my local TRU's had literally a wall of Carkoon Wave at one store, HOth at another.  I mean, dozens.  The one-pers like Fett I saw at least a dozen of at my one TRU...  And they sat, and sat, and sat...  And this is one of the higher traffic stores in the area too right outside the city limits.

The $5 sale hit though, and that same store is down to only having Bib and Leia, and of the two there are only like a dozen total figures on the pegs.  When the sale ended, so did the sales for TSC at our local TRU's.  I'/ve been back and the same figures are sitting there, as well as Hoth Wave that restocked.  The only thing missing from the Hoth Wave restocks I can tell are the one-pers like Vader and the Gonk.  Veers, Derlin, Rieekan, Snowtrooper, and AT-AT Driver are all there though and not moving now.

Target is the same way.  They dropped their price and all the Hoth and Carkoon remnants finally moved...  Wal-Mart's been moving stuff steadily though Bib defies all theories and lingers like a fart in a car because he sucks.

I think when stores kick up prices there has been a noticeable difference in how those stores sell.  It happens with other lines where a store like KB or KM has stuff you can't find elsewhere simply because their price is always higher.  I know the "final 12" could only be found lingering at K-Mart around my area while they blew out at WM due to the $5-ish price.

Some of them actually sat here at KM though, like Passel Argente, the Grievous Guard repaint and the Neimoidian.

I also question how many parents are still buying Star Wars right now...  People say it's good to mix in main characters, etc., for the kids, and I don't necessarilly disagree with the notion, but at the same time when anything is one-per-case it moves simply because people want a full set (especially with the spiffier collector-focused packaging like OTC/TSC have had).  So are parents really out buying $7 for their kids en masse like they bought last year, or is it more that the "repacks" that are "for kids" are actually in most cases packed one-per-case and are getting the hardcore collectors to buy them?

I know my local clique is going ape**** trying to get both 3PO's from the Geo wave, the Vader (and some variant) from the Hoth Wave, and Fett from the Carkoon Wave plus his stand positioning variant... 

Not to mention the holographic figure variants people want specifically.

Personally I think the way nothing is out there to be found, that people are moving on that Hasbro claims to have the line focused on.  I know I see a lot less people looking over Star Wars these days...  Less kids already.  I know the kids I buy for are quickly losing interest.  ONe moved onto lego already because they seem to have their heads out of their asses and are able to put stuff out everyone can find easily without gimmicks and such.

The other is holding on, but considering I know my local buds need Jango and that's who he's desperately wanting to find, well at one-per-case I'm not hopeful of picking him up one unless I get the original Saga Jango on the cheap at the toy show this weekend for him...  TSC Jango's gonna be tough to find for a long time unless he suddenly gets packed heavier, and I doubt its kids getting him.

BigBadToyStore had a sale going last week that we advertised out on the front page of JediDefender.com, and so I went in and checked it out.  I ordered the BBI Sherman finally and WOW I love this beast.

Besides the gaping maw that is the Tanker's mouth, the thing is a beauty...  Oh and no interior to the tank.  Is it wrong to want a Sherman witha n interior?

The tank's awesome though.  Worth every penny, and only $33 really shipped after the sale price.  Their shipping blew IMO ($8-ish is too much I think, but that's me), but the tank's worth it.  I wish I could've afforded the Mustang too.  BBI's Mustang is awesome.  I don't collect many planes, but the Mustang's too iconic not to have, and I wanted the pilot figure too...  So sweet.

Next sale perhaps...

Oh, and in other news...

Tons of stuff is shipping, including Battle of the Bulge Series 2, so go shop dammit.

These have restocked here as well.  Local guy that works there said they got a few cases in actually.  I, of course, didn't get anything any good but I did see Ask Aak packaged with a couple of the Jedi figures so they did restock at one point or another...

And of course no TOT or Wookiee's for me.

I'd go with that too Paul...  They could dish out the R5 head then, which is sorely behind in the astromech running.  I want that orange R5 from Mos Eisley dammit, and I REALLY want the red/white/black R5 Rebel Pilot astromech for Red Leader... 

I'd buy at least one more set if they included those.  The really complex and unique looking paintjobs are the best reason to get the sets, then all the other less complex or outstanding paintjobs are kind of just gravy.