I was under the impression that the primary concern with the increase in price to reissue the big vehicles was the jump in factory wages overseas.

It is also key to know Hasbro uses different factories today than they did 10 years ago, and it has been stated that some of the time the factory itself owned the molds.

Thinking of getting Galaga too if I come across it.  Is Galaxian the same game?  I was all about SI, Galaga, and Defender in my younger years.

Galaga is one of my favorites as well. One of those perfect video games.

Galaga was the sequel to Galaxian IIRC.

Galaxian is a middle ground between Space Invaders and Galaga. The aliens drop out of formation to blitz you, but don't do the fun formation-building at the start of the levels.

Also for the record, if they wrap this line up without a new Sim Aloo, I'm burning the whole collection in one giant bonfire.

At this point, they have to save him for the final Vintage Collection wave, because it rhymes.

Thumbs up on Bumblebee here as well. I stopped watching the Bay movies after the one about the Moon...but this one replaced everything crass about those first ones with gentle sweetness. It worked. All the overt sexuality shoe-horned into the Bay films really didn't sit well with me, either. I found it humorous that we got two scenes of teenage guys taking their shirts off in this one, almost as if to balance out the Megan Fox scenes from previous movies.

I've always been more of a Cliffjumper guy than a Bumblebee guy, so I greatly appreciated his cameo as well.

Truth be told, I probably would never have gotten out to see this if my 9-year old son and I hadn't gotten in the tradition of going to see the Star Wars movies on Christmas break. We needed something to replace that, and he has been learning about G1 Transformers stuff this year, so he was excited (and liked it too!)

I wish we could get comfortable enough with the robots that the movie could be about them (as opposed to the viewpoint of a human they meet) but Bumblebee got us closer to that. A movie set all on Cybertron might be a bit much (that's not what the story is about, after all) but definitely a movie that revolves around character development in the Transformers themselves would be welcome.

I hit the one near me with my boys a few weeks back to see if it scratched the itch left by our lost trips to TRU. It was a letdown, the layout and selection were more like the TRU Express store from the Outlet  mall.

As far as Star Wars, they had roleplaying stuff and the goofy stuff no one asked for, a few Vintage Wave 1 figures, and the Solo Home Media 4-pack (only place I have seen that in the wild.)

It was weirder to see all the Halloween stuff hanging around after Thanksgiving!

 Picked one up at that price as well. Now I have both cardboard Solo playsets for the price of one. And weirdly no Solo figures to go with them, or the desire to get them.

Guess this markdown settles the speculation on if this one will make it to the stores.

Dave Coulier, however, remains dead.