Glad to scratch Grey Leader from my 2010 list.

-Yoda - Force Spirit



-Nien Nunb - SA resculpt with removable vest, holster and removable cap




-Sergeant Doallyn



-Ishi Tib (Shasa Tiel)




-Cane Adiss



-Geezum



-Loje Nella - NEW FOR 2011!



-Emporer Palpatine - SA, softgoods with throne & cane



-Sim Aloo- Imperial Dignitary



-Giant Mouse Droid

I found Bom Vimdim and Barriss Offee last night too.  They seem to be the last to go from this wave, because I didn't find anything else either.

Hold on to your hydo-spanners, but I paid 11.99 each.  But this is the NYC area , and I haven't bought much SW at all thsi year.

Got hit with the same kind of prices tonight when I scored Bom Vimdim and Barriss Offee.

Dusting this one off....


Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Vermont
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Colorado
Nevada
California
Hawaii
Maine - NEW!
New Hampshire - NEW!

***AIRPORT ONLY STATES***
Kentucky
Texas

A grand total of:  26, plus 2 airport states, the District of Columbia & 1 US territory - St Croix (US Virgin Islands)

COUNTRIES:
Canada
-Ontario
-Quebec
Bahamas

I think GL's failure can be attributed to one thing:  26% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  It was just a poorly written, badly executed movie.  As such, it has no appeal outside fanboys who already like GL.  I was planning to see it until the reviews came in.  Studios can't get away with bad movies anymore, and in this economy people aren't nearly as willing to drop big bucks to waste an afternoon in the theater.

Similarly, I didn't really have any motivation to see X-Men First Class until the reviews came in.  When I saw so much praise I figured I'd give it a shot.  And it didn't disappoint.

I'd been wondering what kind of rating GL got on Rotten Tomatoes.  26% is pretty awful.

Not sure I see GL as being a second tier kind of character in the DC universe.  There have been some pretty big pushes for some GL storylines that I've seen over the past few years.

And similarly, I had low expectations of X-Men - First Class before that movie got released.  But the reviews came in and they were all really positive.  And when I saw the movie I was more than pleasantly surprised.  While the story may have diverged from the comics, it was good writing that made it a good film.

The ending of last week's episode was about as dark as anything I've seen in this series thus far.  And there were definitely some more shades of that in the season finale.  Without getting into too much detail, I think the plot turns were fantastic.  And it definitely left me wanting to see what happens in season 2.  I may be hooked to the point where I'm going to start reading the novels.

I was VERY surprised to see a case of this wave show up at one of my local stores recently.  And because of that I finally was able to score Jango Fett.  Convenient for me, yes.  But it only serves to highlight just how screwed up distribution really is when a case of Wave 4 turns up like this when Wave 7 is finally starting to show up in stores.

Ryan Reynolds as the star just doesn't work for me.  When I saw him attached to the project, my reaction was "Really?  That's too bad".    Aside from him the cast looks pretty strong:  Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins, Mark Strong, Temeura Morrison, Jeffrey Rush (voice of Tomar Re).  He just doesn't strike me as someone who can carry a movie like this on his own, and I wonder if he was the producer and director's first choice for the role.  He's always come across as more of a smartass than anything else.  And in the comedies that he has done that can work.  On something like this?  Hmmm.

Sounds like there were/are review embargoes until today (which is never a good sign I guess)

That is usually a strategy to keep the reviews from hurting the opening.  IIRC, the movie opens on June 17th and we're 2 days away from that.  The movie probably tested poorly and that may have prompted the embargo on the reviews.

I think a big part of the problem is that the DC properties may have a hard time competing with the Marvel properties.  The DC characters have been around for a long time, but they have always lacked some of the grounding, reality and grit of some of the Marvel characters.  And I think that's one of the big reasons why movie studios have only tried to tackle Batman and Superman up to this point in time.  Jonah Hex might be a DC character, but I didn't get a sense that the film did all that well.