Actually, I'm happy with both figures, so far.  Of course, Hasbro didn't give us an angle where we see the button (or whatever) that activates the action feature.  I love the 2004 version and agree that a holo Luke accessory would be awesome.

Well, I haven't seen one yet.  In fact, I haven't found any new Walmart exclusives since I moved from St. Louis to Long Island.   Either there is a densely populated Star Wars collector base here or (as I suspect) the distribution here is terrible.  Luckily, I found the POTJ version in St. Louis, so I'm not too worried about this, but I would like to at least see this version in person to make it MY decision to buy or pass on this one.

As much as I doubt that this was done fairly, I couldn't care less after knowing the outcome.   Now if they would have done something like this instead of only putting out the sketchtrooper, I wouldn't have cared about being stuck with that instead of getting Madine.   Hopefully, the rumors I've read about Madine are true and he will come out in 2003 or 2004.

I don't have too many complaints.   I, too, am sick to death of the action features.   I think the suck and make the look of the figure considerably worse.   I can't stand all the rehashes, when there are plenty of good characters, droids, ectc, that have never seen the light of plastic(?) [okay, light of day].  

I am so thankful, that I am not a completist, especially after reading today's posting on Hasbro.com about the re-release of the POTF Han & Leia.   Personally, I could care less about the card back or front, even though I do love the old vintage cardbacks with the checklist and picture of the figures.   I was hoping for a return to the POTJ line of thinking now that we are no longer in a movie year.   That was the highlight for Star Wars figure lines, in my opinion.

If they would just cut out the action features and put out some characters that we haven't seen multiple times, I'd be much happier.   For the first time since I started collecting in the POTF2 line, I haven't been able to find every figure I wanted, eventually.   I have never found the Cantina Sets or the Trash compactor sets.   I'm still waiting to see the first of the 2003 figures, but know I will eventually find them.  I also agree with JediMAC and would like to see some movie accurate playsets for the OT.  Even small, connecting sets would be nice.

I found and bought the vintage Village on ebay.  I couldn't believe I found it at a reasonable price where a bunch of morons didn't bump up the price to some insane price.   Still, I would love to see an updated version, but like others, I would buy another even if it was the same version.   We definitely need new ewoks and still need some of the vintage ones remade.  After seeing the rehash POTF Han & Leia that they will be releasing in a SAGA card on the Hasbro site today, I wouldn't mind seeing even the vintage ones that haven't been updated released on a SAGA card.  I open all my figures anyway, so it would just be great to have a Romba and the others.

This is almost impossibly difficult for me to choose.  My top choices are a near tie, but if I had to choose an order, then I'd order them as such:

1.  Rappertunie  (Rebo Band's harmonica player)
2.  Yarna d'al' Gargan  (Jabba's FAT dancer)
3.  Klaatu (Palace version)
4.  BG-J38  (Maintenance Droid and champion holochess player)
5.  Hermi Odle  (Jabba's slob of a henchman)
6.  J'Quille  (Whipid spy)

I really can't believe I put Hermi so low and probably 2, 3, & 4th places all are in a near tie.   I definitely would like Rappertunie the most and the (I think) WeeQuay drummer with his drum & gong.

I'm not listing all I have, but I know I'm missing the Padme Ascension gun and the Pit Droid 2-pack out of the regular release figures.   I never bought the 4 foriegn 2 packs with a battle-droid and whatever figure it came with.   If you are missing figures, is it because they were impossible to find or because  you didn't want them?

I just remembered there were a few other figures I passed on like a 8th anin