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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: Target "Ambush On Ilum" Battle Pack
« on: May 2, 2007, 05:28 PM »
Quote from: jedipurge on May  2, 2007, 05:14 PM
she says that once something gets marked down to $0 that it gets donated to Goodwill.  First I'd ever heard this.  Has anybody else heard of this or was she just saying that so she didn't have look it up or whatever?

When things ring up at $0.00, they should be able to look up the last "good" clearance price (usually 15% of the regular price) and sell it to you at that price, but it is true that Target will dump stuff at Goodwill (or similar charity outlets) if there is anything left a few weeks after it hits "final clearance" (usually 75% off).

It is a standard Target practice (or at least it happens quite often here in MN).  That is why sometimes even though a Target that has tons of something on clearance, they all suddenly diappear at times.

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: C4 Exclusive McQuarrie C-3PO, R2-D2 and Luke Skywalker
« on: May 2, 2007, 01:54 PM »
Quote from: Darth_Anton on April 22, 2007, 10:17 AM
Supposedly the droids will not be offered at all though.

Quote from: Morgbug on May  2, 2007, 01:36 PM
I would expect to hear nothing else. 

Yeah, I agree.  Last time, the timeline went like this...

April 21st - Celebration 3, Day 1
April 23nd - GenCon/LFL finally confirm that Vader (and some other C3 exclusive loot) will be available on-line after the show
April 25th - Vader shows up on SWShop.com

Obviously, I think (like others have said) that they probably aren't going to announce anything in hopes that some folks (like SoCal locals) panic and go to the show... but I still think they will show up on-line afterwards.   ;)

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Feedback / Re: CHEWIE's feedback
« on: May 2, 2007, 09:57 AM »
Received a super-fast payment from Justin.

Quick payment and easy transaction, my favorite kind of deal.    :)

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Great 2007 Collector's Challenge
« on: May 1, 2007, 10:52 AM »
January = $53.91
February = $108.14
March = $195.78

April = $186.39  :(

Year to Date Total = $549.87

Stuff I bought the past month:
30AC Capture of Tantive IV Battle Pack (1 opener)
30AC Jedi Training on Dagobah Battle Pack (1 opener)
Target Exclusive 30AC Betrayal on Felucia Battle Pack (1 opener)
Wal-Mart Exclusive 30AC Treachery on Saleucami Battle Pack (1 opener)
30AC Star Wars Galactic Hereos 2-Packs (4 openers)
400% Kubrick Shadow Stormtrooper (1 opener)
DC Mini-Mates Green Lantern/Star Sapphire 2-Pack (1 opener)

Another month over the $125 budget.   :-\

While I struck out on the 30AC basic figures this past month, I did manage to grab a pile of clearance price Battle Packs along with the Wal-Mart Saleucami set.  The real star of the month was the 400% Kubrick figure, which accounted for just a bit over half of the month's spendings.  Damn my Kubrick addiction...  ::)

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Feedback / Re: LandotheScoundrel's feedback
« on: May 1, 2007, 10:41 AM »
Received another super-fast payment from Ed.

Quick payment and easy transaction, my favorite kind of deal.    :)

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Official Television Thread
« on: April 30, 2007, 10:49 AM »
Quote from: Darth_Anton on April 29, 2007, 10:16 AM
Drive has already been cancled. :(

Drive?  Cancelled?  Now I'll never know how the secret, illegal, cross-country road race turns out...  :(

Did I mention it was about a secret, illegal, cross country road race?  Because they sure as heck mentioned it in the show... we counted 11 different times where a character said "secret, illegal, cross country road race" in the 45 minutes of the last episode I watched.   :P


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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: 30AC Wave 4 - Jabba's Palace
« on: April 30, 2007, 10:31 AM »
Quote from: Spuffy on April 29, 2007, 12:31 PM
I'll wait and see on Luke.  The big thing for me is whether that vest comes off.  If not, then we might have some issues. 

Like Anton said, Hasbro was asked at Toy Fair and they said there that the vest is not intended to be removed.  Here is the quote from Paul in the Toy Fair thread:

Quote from: Paul on February 11, 2007, 08:59 PM
Guys I think somebody was asking Depriest about the "Robe" portion of Jedi Luke's outfit.  He said it was not intended to be removable.  I have a shot on my camera of him messing with it, but it is not really clear. 

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Hasbro Weekly Q and A
« on: April 27, 2007, 05:31 PM »
The latest Hasbro QnA has been posted...

- No new Vader TIE after all? :(
- How do they paint all these figures?
- Baron Fel = Comic Pack :)

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: It's Almost May and Saga2 is Still Being Restocked In Place of 30AC
« on: April 27, 2007, 12:05 PM »
Quote from: Darth Slothus on April 27, 2007, 11:40 AM
the only vehicle I've noticed for the last 5 years most folks have been clamoring for is the cloud car rerelease-- so why is that one not on the list??

Not to side-track the thread, but the Cloud Car has never been released by Hasbro in the Modern Era, so it wasn't eligible for the current poll.  Our current poll features those five vehicles because they have all been released by Hasbro in the modern era and we've seen folks mention from time to time that they would like to see them brought back...

One of the upcoming polls is planned to be "Which Vintage Kenner vehicle would you most like to see get re-released?"  You'll get your chance to vote for the Cloud Car (or the Hoth Rebel Transport) then...  ;)

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: Holiday Pack for '07!
« on: April 27, 2007, 11:31 AM »
Quote from: John C on April 27, 2007, 09:30 AM
Did they put a different head on that Luke? 

Yes, by all accounts it is the Saga-2004 Jabba's Palace Luke head...  kind of a nice change from yet another re-release of the open-mouthed head he had previously.

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Other Collectibles / Re: Gentle Giant Star Wars Kustomz
« on: April 27, 2007, 11:16 AM »
Quote from: Morgbug on April 27, 2007, 10:13 AM
Mikey posted this picture over in the OT maquette thread and you can see the speeder bike in it.  But look at the Vader in there too, I'm guessing that's the next one in this series.  I would suggest I'll be passing on these.

At Toy Fair, folks were saying there was a TIE Pilot/TIE Fighter set as well...

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Almost May & Saga2 figures still restocked instead of 30th TAC figures
« on: April 26, 2007, 12:54 PM »
It all goes back to this info we got from Hasbro last December:

Quote from: Jeff on December 15, 2006, 02:34 PM
Hasbro sent along a little 30th Anniversary Collection Update as part of this week's Q&A:

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Due to unavoidable production delays, the first waves of Star Wars 30th Anniversary basic figures for 2007 will be delayed until March. We are looking at every way to get the figures in earlier, but fans should not expect to find them on shelf on 1/1 as we were hoping. We expect subsequent waves beyond the first to be on schedule shortly thereafter. We'll keep everyone updated as needed, but please be patient. Thanks!


Looks like we'll be seeing the Final 22 repack waves for a while...  :-\

Originally (in Fall-06) they said that the Saga2 stuff would ship through March-07, but I would guess that the reason we are still seeing Hasbro crank out more and more Saga2 remix cases into April (and maybe even May) is because they haven't fully caught up from the initial 30AC delay yet.  This way, it keeps at least a portion of the SW section filled for the retailers to keep making money on...


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Other Collectibles / Disney Star Wars Pins
« on: April 26, 2007, 12:31 PM »
Looks like there will be more Star Wars Disney pins this year starting in May...  (thanks to Sharon for the head's up! :))

I don't have any Disney pins, but I might definitely have to track down Emperor Stitch:



That's just too funny to pass up.   :D

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: 30AC Prices - Sales, Discounts, Price Hikes!
« on: April 26, 2007, 12:02 PM »
For those who haven't seen it yet, Target has some 30AC stuff on clearance already...

Most stores have a clearance price of 30% off the Vader with Coin Folder ($6.98) and the Battle Packs ($13.98) but a few places, including my local Target, have them down to 50% off already ($4.98 for Vader, $9.98 for the Battle Packs).

It was great to be able to grab two more Tantive IV Battle Packs at $10 each.   ;D

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Kubricks / Re: kubricks dead
« on: April 25, 2007, 03:15 PM »
We just got a new 400% figure and there is a new 5-pack box set coming at the end of the month (or early next month). That does not sound "dead" to me just yet. 

Of course, if it gets to be October 2007 and we haven't had any new SW Kubrick announcements, then I'll start to get worried...

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