To all:

Well I made it through my first midnght madness!  I thought I would take a moment to share my thoughts.  I spent about $250 and had a memorable time. 

Went to Walmart and got 1-32 fine and had no problem getting the Lava Vader at the target a block away from my house. 

Scalpers were out as I heard them talking about selling stuff.  I understand the concept of free enterprise, but doing so at a release date where others will miss out iritates me.   

I went there later in the afternoon to return army builders as I got too caught up in the hype.  Also, here is what else I bought from a rescue mission yesterday...our first family dog.  His name is Sponge.



I hope you all had fun!


DBK

I rolled my tired body out of bed and roamed to the Target a block away.  There were two guys ahead of my wife and I at 6:30 AM.  We went and got some donuts and coffee and came back at 7:30 AM.  We were about 6th and 7th in line and got ours fine.

There were 36 at my Target and the store supervisor just started handing tickets out.  An older gentleman just looked at his and handed it to my wife !

I have noticed that the bubbles all have a ding or two.  What was the condition of the Vader or Vaders you all got?

By the time I went to the register 15 min. later all the Lava Vaders were almost gone.  I stopped by two other Targets today hoping to swap mine out for better cases and no dice!

All in all it was a neat experience!

DBK

Brent,

I will see what I can do.

DBK

J,

I did not even know there was a variant, what was there was an even split between the two collections.  There were roughly 75 figures to make 3 full sets.

All that was there was the blue version on the Royal Guard, 3 of them.  In my panic I forgot to grab Obi and Bail.  I imagine those will not be too difficult to nab later.

By the time I realized it, the remaining 50 figures were all boxed up by the employees.

DBK

Sweetness, Matthew... 

Is that a blue Royal Guard I see there? I haven't heard many reports of that being found, they've mostly been the red variant.

Also, would you say they had more of Collection 1 or Collection 2 figures? Or an even mix? I'm hoping Target will be the place that stocks more C2 than C1, as they have tended to do in the past.

All,

I took a vacation day today and went shopping at my local  Target in Airzona and low and behold there was and endcap at the front of the store full of ROTS Figures 1-24.

I purchased 25, store management was watching me and as soon as I left the staff broke down the endcap and put the remaining figures back in boxes.  I was waiting for someone to approach me and advise me they could not sell the items prior to 4/2 but that never happened. 

I even tried to use my $1.00 coupon on each figure unsuccessfully.  The cashier advised me to return with the coupon and receipt on 4/2 and they would refund me the $25.00, we shall see.

I was not too sure I was going to collect these but since I got most of the initial release figures in one swoop it made it worth it.

Man, I do not know where to start with the ROTS threads.  Excitement for the movie release date has set in!!!

DBK

Anyone know the dealio on this poster???

DBK

mosnab,

Well the good thing is if they mess up SWS.com will send you a replacement or at the very least refund you so you will at least get a non-mint one for free.

I am leaning towards getting this poster of series 1 below as it is more in the style of posters #2 & #3.  Also, poster #1 is a weird size so you will have to get it matted to fit in a frame.

The series #1 Poster below is 27X40 and there are several on ebaY currently.  Apparently these were only sent to Comic Stores.

Still no poster up at SWS.com .

DBK

I really like the look of the Season 3 poster, and hope to pick it up.  I'm a bit wary to order posters off of SWShop.com though, with the experiences that some have had.  I had hoped to order both this and the ROTS poster through there, but maybe that isn't the best idea.  I'd like to pick up the older Clone Wars poster that is available there as well, I really like the artwork and this series overall, and I think the posters would look nice.  If I only had the wallspace for all of these .  I still want to get the Special Edition posters as well.

There is not anyhting left unsaid about this new series.  Napoleon could sum it up best...Sweeeeet!

The Vader is long over due and the more I think how anoying another Han is because there are so many figures that have not been done, I think again because that parka is dope.  Bespin Lukes fatigue's look great too!

Yet anothe nod to Medicom for the excellence of this line.

DBK