Amazing.  The Giants are the defending Super Bowl champs and they're going to be completely overshadowed in the NY press by a guy who was traded to the other NY team, a team that he liked less, and may only play for a season or two.  Oh, and that team has really sucked rocks lately.  And is in the same division as the New England Patriots.

Where did that particular image come from?  I see it's posted via someone's imageshack account.

Regarding the deco:  it's consistent with a Gunship that's shown in the Clone Wars Visual Guide.

Glad I held off on some of the vehicles.  I scored  a Homing Spider Droid at Target today, and even with tax the sale price was $17 and change.

One Death Star II environment that might make for a good UBP is the Emporer's throne room.  It's a location for both action and serious exposition.  But Hasbro said something to the effect that a throne might not be in the works.

I finally saw this set in person last night.  And to be honest, I was more impressed with the Hoth Recon battle pack that was in the same case.  I'll eventually pick this pack up, but it isn't a priority for me.

On the Padme set, what are the head wrap and white gown that come as extra gear from?  Are they from some scene I don't remember?  The only head of the three that the head wrap fits on is the Geonosis one.  The gown looks like it is from Sentorial Leia.

The headwrap is definitely for Geonosis Padme.  And if you've seen some footage from Clone Wars there are some shots of Padme where she's wearing some kind of a headwrap.

As for the white gown?  My guess is that it's supposed to be the birthing gown for Padme in ROTS.

I saw the new NFL legends at retail a couple of days ago.  Notably Jack Lambert.  And on cardboard cardbacks.  What gives?

I don't understand why they were "forced" to either move the price to $25 or exclude a fig to make it $20.  Some all-powerful being has decided that a 10% increase to $22 wouldn't be a strong enough margin play?  

It could very well have to do with a couple of things:

-Hitting certain profit numbers.  Executives like to show growth in their numbers.  And sometimes they achieve that goal by cutting costs.

-Oil prices impacting production.  Higher oil prices will affect the cost of running a factory, the cost of the plastic itself, and transportation costs.