Phurby, I agree about your debt comments.  I will still have a mortgage for 20 years, but outside of that, I'm just about debt free aside from a monthly credit card bill which could get paid down at any time.

Personally, I do not put toys on the credit card.  Cash only.  And back when I didn't have the cash, I didn't buy the figs.

I have NEVER thought of figures as an investment.  They're mine to keep forever.  The investment is the joy they bring me as I see the collection get bigger and bigger, and great figures like Ezavan finally show up.

That being said....at 10.99 a figure, I will not be buying stuff that is "slightly" new.  I won't buy Ceremony Han, I have not bought any TVC clones, or the ROTS Obi-Wan.  I will not buy the Super Battle Droid.  I will be picking and choosing, which I've never done before.

At 8.99, I think I might be a completist, but 10.99 (or 11.99, in the NYC area) no.  Hasbro's lost me after 16 years.

When gas hits 5.00 a gallon, maybe poeple will start thinking that electric cars are a good idea, and not just liberal kitsch.

Ugh...just looking at some of these is painful.  While I don't really put the POTF2 guys in the "failure" pile, they we OK for the time.  Not great, but they fit into the line.

However, the action feature stuff from AOTC almost made me quit collecting.  I remember my heart sinking horribly when I first saw those.  I was just crused. They are just not what I want from an action figure.  At all.

But you know what?  Hasbro listened to us.  We have super articulation on many figures.  We have mostly neutral poses, and well made soft goods.

I agree...I want to like the EU, but corny designs like this just don't connect with me.

If I don't buy him, it would be the first totally newly sculpted figure on a single card that I pass on in 16 years!

I agree that I think TCW is on cruise control.  Why make new figures when older ones will do?  I think it makes solid business sense.
In fact, it's probably why the line is a cash cow.  Little tooling cost, lots of sales.

It is a shame that they don't go batsh*t crazy with the line, because there are some really cool designs.  Toydarian Soldiers?  Yes, please!

Also, didn't a Q & A say that they couldn't get Savage out fast enough and look for him in the spring?  Or May?  I can't remember.

I was looking at "The Making of Star Wars" book to see something about the Rebel Fleet Trooper.

I never niticed but in the Yavin medal ceremony a very few have the cap on, and a few have the "ammo" leg belt.  Amazing details.

Jesse, you never found the Endor rebel?

I never even saw a boxed picture of this thing...