I guess the exclusive is the stump?  Anyway, I will have to at least pre-order it.  I may cancel down the line.  I don't want to kick myself when I see it "Sold Out" and regret it later.

That's kinda been my philosophy about pre-orders... if I'm even remotely intersted... order now... and can always cancel later before my CC is charged!

While I enjoyed the movie, I still have no idea why I had to pay 9.50 to see it.  There were MAYBE one or two things that would have needed to be cleaned up for network TV but that's it.   Oh well.. it was funny!

I got my email of the non-exclusive I was able to snag... then got another email saying that my wait list for the exclusive came through... I cancelled the former and am now happily getting the exclusive Asajj!

Jeff

I am THOROUGHLY pissed right now....
I was in Target tonight and found a few boxes of Topps 30AV trading card sets- it was labeled Bonus Box- full box trading cards- 7 packs plus 1 extra pack 7 cards per pack for 56 cards per box. Also talks about the special inserts- magnets, animation cel, puzzle cards. Retailed for 20.

I bought 4 of them.
I ended up with 5 different magnets, 11 puzzle cards (some dupes), 4 animation cells, 3 blue foils and 1 red foil. That's 24 cards and seems like a decent set of extra cards.  So we've got 200 cards left. ALL OF THEM were between 101-120. ALL OF THEM! So now, after spending $80, I have (on average) 10 cards of everything from 101-120.

That's ridiculous!  Out of set of only 120 (plus bonus) different cards, the sampling I have of 224 (200) cards yields a result of less than 10% of the possible cards? What the Force am I going to do with 9 extra copies of 101-120? Looks like another scathing email needs to be sent to Topps!

Anyone else had any distribution problems?

Jeff

Well.... I ended up getting a PS3... then decided I need to get an HDTV 1080p too!    An folks.... we all know Force Unleashed is coming out... I expect that the Lucas Arts team will be churning it out in 1080p (at least I HOPE so!)

So... COSTO had a 42" Magnavox LCD with 1080p for 999 plus tax/shipping. 
Magnavox

 I've had it for almost two weeks now and already have a single pixel gone.   I talked to them about this but they can't do anything without at least 4 pixels being gone (then Magnavox will come repair or replace it).   There's also an annoying display feature that I can't get rid of- whenever I change stations or imputs (and sometime just DVD sections) a small box appears "informing me" of the current format/picutre/source.   I'm seriously thinking about taking it back to COSTCO and getting something else because of both of these (90 day return policy!)

    I must say that Fifth Element in Blue Ray on this baby ROCKS!   Ninja Gaiden and F1 Championship are SCHWEEEET!!!

Only debate is whether to keep it or not at this point.   I "think" I'll keep it a few more weeks and see if any more pixels go out (and see what other deals come up)!

Jeff

I think I'm still gonna be using the cardboard set for my main Cantina scene and then work the various bar pieces in... but we'll just have to wait and see.   Right now, my Cantina is O-fficially under construction until I get these!

Jeff

the way i see it the Marvel packs just come with cool background characters.

Umm... Luke, Han, R2, Chewie, Obiwanx2 (PREQUEL), Anakin, Leia, Vader x2 , Fett, Tarkin, Bail..... what great background characters they were!
Using comic adaptations of the movies should not be considered EU for this project.  This is GREAT opportunity to give us something new and to promote the Expanded Universe which contains so many great NON-MOVIE characters they could make for us but they're too cheap/lazy to do it.    Sure.. there ARE sets within the comic packs that fit my view of the EU but I feel that opportunity is wasted on characters we already have a bazillion of (cut it out with the stormtroopers in these!).

Happy Friday!

Jeff

Quote from: Oboewan on August  1, 2007, 12:58 PM

  A new Thrawn should have been at the TOP of the list, there's Daala, Isard (both of 'em!), Rogue Squadron Pilots, ... the list is all but infinite! 

Uhh, you have noticed that both Tycho and Hobbie are on tap for this year, right?

Yeah.. should have said "rest of" in there.. I'd love to see some of the non-human pilots for a change