I'm not gonna lie, I'm extremely disappointed in waves 1 and 2.  Yes, there are some nice upgrades in there but let’s face it, there’s nothing there we don’t already own in one form or another.  And who the hell on the Hasbro team has the juice to keep the goddamned Sandtrooper in rotation?  They released one in 2010 that hung around most of last year, we’re getting another in the next couple of weeks and then the 1st wave of 2013?  Someone needs to have their ass kicked.

We just had the 212th Clone Trooper in January 2011 and now he’s back?  Another Vader?  TIE and A-Wing pilots with not ships to support them (that we know of)...plus there’s another TRU pilot pack coming.  Hasbro needs to lay off the pilots for a while.

Pile on top of that there’s no CVI exclusive and the whole presentation today, with only a few exceptions, was a stinking pile of ****.  Even I’m not making excuses for Hasbro this time.  Yes, there are a few figs in there that will sell because they are needed upgrades, but contrary to popular belief, there are still some characters that haven’t been done that would make better choices than these.

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I think the Bilbo, at least, is a 6" figure because if you compare it to the 6" clear SDCC exclusive, it looks pretty identical.



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Highlander is an interesting choice.  I bet we see a remake of that flick a few years down the road.

We are seeing a remake, didn't you hear the news, they cast Ryan Reynolds in it.

And they did make a figure line for an animated version of Highlander back in the day, sometime in the mid '90s.

I'm surprised Hot Toys hasn't picked up a 1:6 license for the series, though.  There have been some 1:6 figures but they weren't that great.

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That's a great score on the Fang Boat.  My Target stocked another round of the 3-packs and the Bravo Vehicles.  No more Delta wave or single carded figures though.

Walmart only had 1 case of wave 1 and never stocked the Bravo or Delta vehicles although they did have shelf tags for them.

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Emma Stone in knee highs. Emma Stone doing homework in knee highs.  Emma Stone doing science in knee highs.  Emma Stone reading the phone book...in knee highs.  End of story.   

The Amazing Spider-Man kinda was....amazing. Had issues but overall I may have liked it better than the first SM.  I definitely liked the Spidey part of it...thought Garfield made a better Parker/Spidey than Tobey did and it was just fun.  I don't even want to think about it too hard right now.

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Over on RS there has been a big debate on ownership and right of use for information and photos posted to their forum.  You can read the full thread for more info, but the basics are that a member returned from a suspension and wanted to remove all of his photos and some of the info he'd posted.  After deleting it he received a permanent ban and his info and pics were restored.  The TOS was amended and during the debate over some of the language, specifically the use of the word "publish" (being taken to mean RS could use forum info/pics in a printed work), PW dropped this:

I recently had to insist that the site be credited for information used from it in a printed book that's coming out, so I have a strong feeling about who receives credit in this case.

Since RS is a collecting site and the only collecting book I know of that's coming out is Sansweet's (well, Kellerman and one other guy are working on books but they're more vintage oriented and not scheduled yet), and I know that Curto and some others are getting contributor acknowledgements, and Curto's "firing" came about the same time as it was revealed he had input on the Sansweet book, I put two and two together to draw a conclusion.

So, maybe not photos, but I'm just thinking that PW feels that the input that went into the book belongs to him since it was someone from his site that contributed.  I don't know, speculation.  Until Curto talks, or one of his friends that knows the full story leaks it, that's what I came up with.

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Edited because, apparently, I can't spell or use proper grammar after 1AM.

My best guess, based on a comment from PW during the new TOS arguments, is that maybe he took some of his photos to Sansweet for this new book, without permission.  Since Curto was, at one point, actually employed by RS (but not at the time he was "fired") I'm assuming PW felt they belonged to RS and without permission, couldn't be used.  I'd also guess he even feels that the stuff contributed when he was a volunteer (and mod) falls into the work for hire category as well.

Don't know if something else came down for the forum ban, but it's the kind of petty stuff PW would do.  Maybe it's because of the Curto/Burns podcast being somewhat of a compeltition to the ForceCast?  But, it's just a real kick in the teeth when he's talking about the "history of the forum" and why people can't remove content they've posted while simultaneously running as fast as he can to scrub any mention of support for Curto and Joe Yglesias.

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