The big presence at my local TRU today?  Toy Story 3.  That franchise has some serious steam behind it, and the movie hasn't been released yet.  And at TRU they've got the full feature store treatment.

As for other movie properties? 

-Prince of Persia is pretty minimal, but I was surprised to see two different figure scales for that line.

-Iron Man 2 has some space but seems to be selling reasonably well.  But since there are so many different Iron Man figures and barely anything other characters it's tough to tell how much turnover there really is.

-I can't say that I've seen anything for the new Shrek.  But then the other Shrek movies didn't have massive toy lines.

-Percy Jackson & The Olympians has some shelf space.  But I haven't seen it really moving.

-Tron Legacy is supposed to yield a light cycle toy.  It looks like it's got the potential to be kind of cool, but I haven't seen it in the packaging.

As for Harry Potter?  They had a toy line that was collector focused for Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix with NECA.  It looked pretty good, truth be told.  But I don't think the sales were solid enough for them to pursue a toy line for Half Blood Prince.

It just seems that most new movie properties don't have the legs to sustain a high quality toy line.  And some of the great toy lines that have yielded movies (Transformers, GI Joe), haven't exactly led to good movies.

There's the whole potential for a Captain Marvel tie-in to this particular plotline.  He was one of the Avengers, too.  It seems like it might a little too ambitious from the outset. 

Going in an  interstellar direction didn't really work for the FF sequel.  Especially since their concept for Galactus was just bizarre.

Based on what we saw in Iron Man 2, they could have set up an Ultron storyline.  The armored drones could have totally gone in that direction.  But the drones were a lot easier to bust up than Ultron should be.  Oh well.

Still waiting....

Up until this past week it's been rare to even see Utris M'toc at retail.  The most common indicator of the EU wave that I've seen in the stores have been the repacks:  Luke, Obi-Wan, Darth Maul, R2 and Chewbacca.  Slapping the pegwarmer label on Utris M'toc at this point seems a bit premature.

I was somewhat on the fence about including a couple of figures on my ANH list. 

First, Bom Vimdim.  Hasbro has been telling us for at least a couple of years now that he's on the way.  My question:  When?  I feel somewhat confident that Bom Vimdim is on the way in the next 12 months, but I also wouldn't be surprised if Hasbro said "Not so fast!"

Then, Owen Lars.  He's been on my own ANH wishlist for years.  The exclusive comic 2-pack with Uncle Owen and cyborg Darth Maul looks like it MAY fit the bill.  So for now Uncle Owen came off of my list.

I've seen it a couple of times as well.  But only at TRU stores.  It's not an exclusive, but that's the only chain where I've seen it in stock.

This is really interesting.

Clearly the figure has been done in the realistic style.

The packaging though is the Clone Wars style packaging.

Very, very odd.

Not really.

This figure isn't part of the Vintage Collection.  Only basic figures that are in the black and silver packaging are part of the Vintage Collection.  That means the carded figures on the Kenner style cards and the select vehicles that will be available in the black and silver packaging are part of the Vintage Collection.

Everything else falls under the SHADOW OF THE DARK SIDE umbrella.  Clone Wars, Legacy, everything.  Any movie style battle packs will be in the SHADOW OF THE DARK SIDE packaging.  The same goes for all vehicles except for those that are being offered exclusively in the black and silver packaging.