A big JD Happy Birthday goes out to Scouttrooper, who turned 14 yesterday!  Just one more year 'til you can get that Learner's Permit to start driving - hang in there!  Then your Star Wars figure runs will be much easier!  Hope you had a great Birthday with many cool Star Wars gifts...

Cheers!

Glad to have you Gecko!  Always nice to have a monopoly on the SW buying in your area, but I wouldn't get too confident about that just yet.  Not many nooks or crannies out there that don't have several SW collectors running around, as you soon may discover.  If you find some others, try to set up a local trading network - that's always fun!

Star Wars wives are pretty cool, huh?  I've got a pretty great one myself, and like to think that she's quite the hottie too!  She's scored me my only Ephant Mon to date...

Enjoy the site and we look forward to getting to know you better...  

I've got the Vintage one, and it was certainly one of the best playsets ever released.  I could definitely go for a new one though, preferably an all-new sculpt which would be equal to, if not better than, the Vintage version.

Of course, we would also need a few more Ewoks to inhabit such a playset...  

I have 1 pet at the moment.  Angel she is a 135lb. hybrid wolf/shepard mix.  I have had her for 11 years.  She is one of the best behaved and intelligent animals I have ever had.

I'd imagine you'd like to recant this last statement right about now, 'eh Sarge?  Total bummer about the Vintage collection damage.    Maybe Angel was just jealous that she never got to play with the cool Vintage stuff too, and wanted to take a crack at it when she finally had the chance...

But like you said, it was really the (blonde) wife's fault in the first place for leaving the collection room door open...  

As for me and my (blonde) wife - no pets at the moment, but we both love big dogs and will probably get a couple in a month or two when we finally get a new house (hopefully).  Probably something along the lines of a Lab and/or Retriever.  I love Huskies/Malamuts too, but they're not really built for SoCal so much...

Congrats Frank!  Glad to see you got a decent amount for all that nice stuff of yours.  Good luck with the Vintage search now...  

I just wet myself in excitement!  

Hopefully that list is accurate, otherwise I just ruined a nice pair of johns for no good reason whatsoever!

Anything OT is awesome in my books, especially the more minor and background characters...  Can anyone say ROTJ 20th Anniversary?!  Though, if true, these figures might not actually make it out until a bit later...  As long as we get them at some point, I'll be a happy dude!

We probably won't know for a little while ('til more product hits retail) what the real breakdowns on the head variants is on the Saga cards (POTJ version/resculpt #1/resculpt #2).  I highly doubt most eBay sellers will either.  To them, any of these new head resculpts is new/rare/a variant/etc...  Not surprising with the less than helpful auction pictures either.

RS finally verified last night that the third RFT head variant is true as well, so we'll really have to pool our resources here to see who finds what in regards to both the IO and the RFT Saga figures.  I'll keep you posted on my finds - one of each so far for me (I'll double check which one's when I get back home).

As for the Amidala Pilot figure, I found a lot of these when they very first hit, and I never once saw one with only the incorrect text printed on the card.  All stickers or corrected versions.  Of course, it's fairly easy to just remove the sticker to reveal the error text, so I wouldn't ever bite on actually buying a variant of that nature.

The Clone Wars line is supposedly going to be coming in all new red and yellow packaging, which I'm assuming will only apply to this specific line, and not the rest of the Saga figures.  I'd guess that it will be akin to the SOTE line, which was exclusively packaged in a purple color, while the rest of the regular line continued on in orange during the same time (followed sortly thereafter by green)...

I'd fashion a guess that Hasbro just might be showing off this "EU" subset line in a week and a half at Toy Fair, since they've let most of their other upcoming stuff out of the bag already.