At a reduced price...  Hey, that'd be alright.  I hope that's the case really, but at the same time I feel bad for the people who did get trashed ones too.

"I can guess with the best of them..."

-Lewis Black

The F'n Lava Lamps I can't find for the life of me...  Check the SW Lamps thread for what it is I'm talking about, but definitely a bitch to find anywhere if they actually ever were sold anywhere.

The "bath" products are weird too...  I saw them just walking through Target.  The Hoop with a foam Death Star sponge was my favorite.

In a movie year there's always alot...  For me it was Burger King stuff actually.  I don't have a BK within a convenient distance so I didn't have the joy of clogigng my arteries for that ****.  The good Pittsburgh guys and some folks on here too helped me nab the plush mostly (I think you still have one for me Bob?), which was cool.  I got the main ones I wanted like the Chewie and Wampa...  I don't think I got the Jawa, it's the only one I really REALLY want.

The ornaments were easy misses if you don't browse the stores much...  Yoda Snowglobe was easiest to miss because it's the most "expensive" of the items I think, as far as quality,a nd subsequently the most desireable... 

Another I'd add to that is the Vader Ceramic M&M jar...  Hot item, gone if you didn't nab it in my area...

And yet another...  Star Wars shot glasses.  One of the Pitt guys mentioned seeing these at a grocery chain around here, and I never ever was able to find even one and I guess there's a set.  My buddy collects just shot glasses and wanted one...  I wanted a set...  I guess there were mugs too or something.     Between the Lava Lamp and these shot glasses I'm really disappointed in some of the "odd" other collectibles I couldn't find.

My thanks to John too...

He hooked me up with some Shocktroopers (which I've never seen at retail) as well as a nice Clone Evolution set for my army.  The ranks are filling up nicely... 

Thanks man, I appreciate the figs!

Joe, you got a PM coming your way...

The cheerleaders gone wild have been fired by the Panthers and removed from their website.  As I said earlier, Playboy, here they come.  They'll also most likely be guests on talk shows for a while.  I'm sure Ellen and Rosie O Donnell would love to have them.....on.  Maybe they'll even get a "reality" show.

Howard Stern was saying Monday Morning that he wanted them already for something to do on his new radio move...  They'll easily get work I'm sure. 

Hot as the story is, I think it's funny they got into a fight over it and hope at least one got a good slap upside the head.

With the massive reshipments for the DVD release I was surprised to see all-new droves of figures on the pegs tonight...

I saw a LOT more SA Clones, RT Drivers, Obi Pilots, Green Commanders and the like tonight...  Like I keep saying though, I bet these move steadily (albeit perhaps slowly on some of them) rather than being true "pegwarmers".

I saw lots of stuff I hadn't seen for a while tonight too like Clone Pilots in good quantity again at Target...  I also noticed that some of the final 12 are either on the verge of backing up into the system, or I just hit it lucky.  Given the tornadoe aftermath I saw in the toy aisle though, I'm wagering that what I saw were what hte Scalpers are giving up on because I saw none of the Wookiee Gunner, R4, or the 501st...  Remnants of the rest of the final 12 though, and really quite a few of the Magna Droid and Neimoidian Cmdr.

I'm going to label the ONLY two major pegwarmers in my area as the Neimoidian Warrior and Darth Vader...  Right now, they're the only figures I can positively ID as ones that have been there for over a month.  In some of these stores they were down to bare pegs till just a couple weeks ago so I'm not pulling the pegwarmer plug on some figures yet...  Sales for the line seem to still be quite strong...  I'm still even seeing lots of kids at the stores, or people who are definitely parents and not collectors because they're passing over stuff a collector would've grabbed in a heartbeat.  One guy even asked me if I could help him get a Chewbacca for his son...  I sorta felt bad he couldn't find one.

With all I keep hearing about people scoring full cases, I wouldn't be shocked if your area's been cleaned out Blackdog.  In two local Targets I believe I've heard about people buying ful cases or what was remaining of full cases.

I made it (finally) to a Target tonight and nabbed one so I'm kind of at "relaxe" time now since I think I can get more via trades and general help.  I had thought this store was out of them but they had some I guess in the back.

At the price, if it was like the Lava figures it'd still sit I think, but without them hitting shelves it's really hard to jduge how many of these are out there.  For what it's worth though, generally when things start hitting at one Target (especially exclusives like this) you can bet they're at just about all of them.  Keep your search up but if you can score one in our classifieds area it's perhaps worth a shot.