Has there been any one chain where the ToD figures seem to be showing up? I'm pretty much done with SW for the year so if I hit a store now it's going to be to see if by some miracle they have ToD figures.

A friend of mine said he read somewhere that Toys R Us was getting them in, but the TRU near me hasn't gotten a single new Indy figure in a while. They keep getting more vehicles and Akator playsets, but not individually carded figures.

I noticed that in Target all of the Indy stuff EXCEPT the individually carded figures all have DPCI tags that sport "NCF" before the item description - is this an indicator that the Target computer knows that more figures are still working their way through distribution?

My local WMs are clogged with stuff, but none of it is anything besides the first two waves.

I used to be a completist in that in the 3.75" scale I would get two of every item that was released. One to get MIB/MOC and one to open.

When the TSC (The Saga Collection) line came out after the ROTS movie line, I reduced my purchasing habits to only get a MOC/MIB item if it was a straight-up re-release (no paint-op differences, no sculpting/mold differences). I did not get one to open. So for example, when they re-released some of the Jedi Starfighters from ROTS, I only bought one of each to keep MIB.

Then when the TAC (30th Anniversary Collection) line came out and they turned around and released the same TSC items only in TAC packaging, that's when I finally broke in terms of vehicles. I only purchased the new vehicles to the TAC line, I did not re-buy vehicles, but for some reason, I wanted to keep my Battlepacks and Evolutions collections "complete" so I re-purchased those items in the new TAC packaging.

When the TLC (The Legacy Collection) & CW (Clone Wars) lines came out, I've taken my next step in not buying re-packaged items - I'm not buying any of the re-packaged vehicles and I'm not buying the re-packaged Evolutions sets, although I did pick up a Fett Evolution set just so I had the version with the symbol on Boba's armor. If I can pick some of the Evolutions re-pack sets on sale or clearance (in good shape) I will reverse this decision. Same thing with the Battle Packs since so far there appears to only be three.

With individually carded figures, starting with the TSC "Greatest Hits" figures, I only have been getting one of each figure to keep MOC. I followed through with that in the TAC Legends line and now with the TLC Saga Legends line. I get a few of those Legends releases to open (like the Pit Droids from TAC) or the army builders I wanted to get more of for my squads, but it isn't important to me to get one of each Legends/Greatest Hits figure to open.

With the regular carded figures, that are part of the line's major run (i.e. the 60 TAC figures with coins or so far the 27 BAD figures) I still get two of each.

For me, this is close enough to "collecting them all". Sure it means my MIB/MIP/MOC collection for each packaging style is not "complete" since I don't have EVERY item that was released in that packaging style, but I just don't have enough space or $$$ to justify getting something like the Jedi Evolutions set or the Darth Vader TIE to have in a new box design just so I can thump my chest and proclaim "My TLC Collection is Complete!" - it just doesn't mean that much to me anymore I guess. (not that bragging about what I have ever really did)

I'm actually at a huge cross-roads with the TLC K-Mart Tins - $100 for three tins that I already have with 12 figures I already have, solely to pick them up for the packaging variation seems really silly. But then again, I picked up the Legend of the Saga set which is on sale this week for $17.99. It's at times like this, I wish Hasbro would slow down with stuff, K-Mart really didn't need another round of Tins, they just didn't. So far I've only seen one, so I'm not sure if they really are selling or if they only put out that one and brought the others to the back 'cause the shelf space was already stuffed with the exclusive K-Mart TAC Tins. The biggest decision maker for the tins will be if I can walk into a K-Mart and pick up all three in mint condition with one purchase. So I'm going to check out one more K-Mart and if they have them great. If not. Oh well.

Sorry for the rambling response, this has been something that has been on my mind for quite some time...

Our VTSC IG-88 broke within 10 seconds of removing him from the package.  Of course, Hasbro accepted the figure and within two months we received a super awesome VTSC Endor Leia!

My five year old was so excited to have an Endor Leia instead of an evil assassin droid who came equipped with a rifle, blaster and knife!

That's precisely the reason I made TRU take back one of the IG-86 droids I picked up yesterday, that proceeded to have the leg snap off instead of rotate as the articulation was supposed to.

I think your best bet when dealing with a figure that breaks shortly after being freed from the plastic prison is to just take it back to the store. If all you're doing is "testing" the operation of each articulation joint, I've never had any store clerk deny the return.

Scored most of what I need from Clone Wars Wave 3 today...

1x Plo Koon
2x Dooku
2x Ventress
3x Destroyer Droid
2x C-3PO
2x IG-86 Droid

A friend of mine already grabbed me a Plo Koon figure so now I'm down to just needing another IG-86 so I can have two of them open.

I'm pretty happy I found these, my list of things still to get from 2008 just shrank considerably!

From this past week:

Picked up my opener set of Comic 2-pack Wave 3
Picked up an operner of the Repaint of the Trade Federation AAT
Saga Legends Tan Battledroid 2-pack
Saga Legends Red Clone Officer

3 Peg full of Imp Knights, the Mando twins, even a Swan set and right in front in all it's glory Luke/Emporer.

I'm sorry, but a "Swan set"? huh?

I've not see one single SBD, but Anakin and Obi-Wan warm the pegs here.

I would have thought that too - but when I found Obi-Wan's Delta 7B this morning, I wanted to pick up an extra Obi-Wan to put at the controls of the ship and to my dismay, that same Target I was in did not have a single Clone Wars Obi-Wan figure. It had plenty of the Clonetroopers and SBDs, but no Obi-Wan.

Later in the morning, I went to a TRU and found the same problem.

I'm hoping when I try a WalMart on my way home I'll be able to pick up the Obi-Wan I want.

Sounds like the base is a true disappointment, and I'm not surprised at all.  I guess I'll have to try and make my own "sand area", which I really don't want to have to do.  Does the Skiff stand on it easily, or does it tend to tip over?

I could not get my Skiff to stand on the area easily at all. I might have just been tired and impatient, but I tried several times without any luck.

This could have easily been fixed by them just putting three notches in the cheap plastic shell where the three landing-gear/legs could have slid into.

I'm going to try again tonight 'cause I was looking at it in the display case this morning and I'm totally not happy with how the set looks.