It's close, but looking at it the other day (two weeks after putting it on there) I realized there's one more "ring" to the octagons so that the center is actually red.

In the movie it's more centered on the floor, but here I had to stretch some of the octagonal walls to fit the hallway outside so the center had to shift a bit.

Still, yeah, it's pretty accurate.

JesseVader, I think the "I gotta have it" aspect of the Sacul figure is the George-freakin'-Lucas likeness...there was no chance a figure like that would ever be released to the retail world, and a figure of Lucas was one of those fanboy dreams for quite a while at that point. At least I'd heard it fantasized about more than I've heard people calling for a "Talking Vader" figure.

I have to say (against the grain here, it seems) that I am extremely underwhelmed by a Darth Vader figure as this year's Celebration Exclusive.

You almost have to guarantee that the parts will be a kitbash of various Vaders at best, a straight rehash at worst.

While a voice chip is nice, boosting the price to $15 certainly cancels out any benefit there.

At C2, the first thing I did was hop in line for Sacul. This time around I'm not even sure I'll be going. A figure the likes of which I'd never see otherwise could've easily made that a no-brainer. Yet another Vader just doesn't do it for me...even one that talks to me about being at C3.

As a memento for the Celebration, Vader has some merit. But as a chance to fill in one of those "They'll never make that" figures, this is a letdown for me.

1--Kitster and Wald (since we're two-packing 'em)
2--Tey How
3--ET Senator two-pack
4--Destroyer Droid w/ Force Field accessory
5--R5-A7 (Royal Astromech, and really just an excuse to get a new R5 sculpt)
6--Miniature Federation droids 2 or 3-pack (cleaning droids?)
7--Tendau Bendon (Hammerhead Senator)
8--Swokes Swokes
9--Ann & Tann Gella (running change?)
10--Grimey (Warwick Davis unmasked)

The Jawa.com has been gracious enough to host some higher-res pictures of the first level. Clicky through here to see Cloud City closer than ever before... 

Some figures I'd like to see again, off the top of my head...

Holo Sidious for sure
Muftak (I'm maybe a little biased on that one)
Saga Tusken Raider
Pote Snitkin (with new deco)
Ten Nunb (in red)
Death Star Droid (variant colors)
Ree-Yees (new deco)
Zuckuss
Amanaman
Oola
Jawa & Gonk
Admiral Motti

(and I like the repainted Spirit Obi-Wan idea, it has to be done eventually)

There are many other characters I'd like to see revisited, but most of them could really use a resculpt. After all, we don't want another Bib Fortuna on our hands...

OTC is nearly wiped out from my area as well, indicating a good seller and a successful campaign. In fact, the only stuff that is really sitting here is the Hoth/Repack Saga waves from early in the year. OTC came and left on top of them.

It does make me leery of the lesson Hasbro will take from the success. While repacks may sell (the best of the best of the past nine years, really, the essential characters distilled in their best versions) what I think helped the line more was the instant variety. These were not 3x4-figures-a-case waves. When figures shipped in more than one case, they were mostly one-pers. The figures that did wind up sitting (generals, Bespin Leia, early Dagobah) were the heavily-packed ones. It may have made for a tough time finding figures, but when a new case was put out, chances were someone would buy the whole case. That's what made this line move, end of story.

VOTC was same-old-same-old, first assortment massively overshipped, subsequent assortments were harder to find. It all worked out (just as it does every year), but can't we finally understand (Hasbro and retailers, here "we" means "you") that to continue this practice, the first assortment must be shipped with a wider selection of figures. If that means holding up on sending them out until production can catch up, then you need to do a little tweaking of your lead time. It will result in better sales.

Yeah, I was pretty much on top of Lando in that pciture, so it's a bit of forced perspective I think.

Here's a couple more of the rack for ya, JJ:





And another hallway shot. The door behind Lobot opens, and will lead to the detention cell where Chewie reassembles Threepio:

My present arrived on Friday, and I sent out my side today. Don't worry--no regifting!

(I'm very pleased with my goodies!!)