Seriously, Hasbro sucks at this.

All of those figures should be hanging on the pegs the day the movie comes out.

By the time Whiplash was released, I didn't even care about it anymore.

INDEED.

At the very least these figures should be turning up at retail now that the movie has been in theaters for close to two weeks. 

Right now I only see at least 4 versions of Thor between the basic & deluxe lines, a couple of Frost Giants (basic & deluxe), Odin and Loki.  If Hasbro was really interested in striking while the iron is hot, the Destroyer, the Warriors Three and Sif should have all come out right around now.

ROTS is heavily heavily milked and I struggle to come up with 10 figures to list.  I don't get Hasbro's infatuation with that movie but they just continue to pump out the figures.  I think they have totally overestimated the popularity of Clones and Commanders on Vintage cards but they still keep them coming.

Lots of Padme's here to be done too but I'm not as keen on her as EpI and II for some reason.

I get their fascination with it, to a degree.  It was hands down the best of the PT movies.  And it probably had the most action and lightsaber duels of any film.  That translates to a lot of play value, which is Hasbro's bread & butter.

And if you look at the PT toy lines, the ROTS line itself seemed to perform much better than the Episode I or Saga lines in their time.  So there seems to have been a track record of some success there.  Does that have something to do with the leadership in the Hasbro Star Wars team at the time of those releases?  Possibly.

For my own ROTS list I wound up going back to the characters I chose for last year's poll.  There is still some fertile ground for Hasbro to cover there, but probably not as much as some other movies.  I would put ROTS on par with TESB in terms of characters that need to be addressed.  There are very few at this point that from a collector's standpoint NEED to be touched upon.

Damn.  Tunghori got greedy.

IIRC, Hasbro stated that they would be releasing Keyan Farlander on the B-Wing Pilot vintage card in the fall.

K-Mart is definitely an odd choice for a vehicle exclusive.  They've done some figures and battle packs, but I can't ever recall them getting a vehicle.  The packaging will be a selling point for some. 

Will it do better than the Dagger Squadron B-Wing?  It's possible.  I don't know that the collecting community as a whole was prepared to embrace an EU based fighter like that.  A film based B-Wing might do better.

I for one would LOVE to see Hasbro offer this re-vamped Y-Wing in the same fashion as the Target exclusive Snowspeeder in vintage style packaging.  Revisiting this package with the new version of the Y-Wing and the modern renditions of these figures would be AWESOME!

News from The NY Times regarding the next volume in the series, A Dance With Dragons.  Apparently it is now in the hands of the publisher.