That Spidey stuff doesn't seem to be moving very well - either that or all of my local stores are very good about restocking only that line. 

It is priced somewhat high.  At $10 per figure I think the Spiderman line has priced out some potential customers and that's why some people are steering clear of that line.

I've been working in the television industry for over 15 years.  Recently I was at a seminar on signal quality with some of my colleagues.  We got into part of the discussion regarding HDTV and what is the best signal quality you can get at home.  And honestly, what people are getting delivered to their homes as HDTV is not necessarily a 1080i or 1080p image.  At least via home satellite and cable systems.  Both cable systems and Direct TV are digitally compressing those HD signals for the purpose of transmission.  They're not devoting anywhere near the true ammount of bandwidth that those signals require for 1:1 transmission.

Where can you get a true HDTV signal?  A few places.  Most of the next gen gaming platforms have HDMI outputs.  And then there are the HDTV ready DVD players, regardless of which format they're using.  And finally there is over the air transmission from local stations.  Believe it or not you can get a true Hi-Def picture at home just by hooking up an antenna for the over the air stations.  And transmission of those signals is now digital, so you won't have hash in the image if you don't have good reception.  Either the signal is solid or it might go to digital blocking or black if the signal quality is poor.

As for the sets themselves?  Plasmas have been marketed as the top of the line, but that's not necessarily the case.  LCD's are almost as good.  But I've heard the most promising things about the DLP sets.  HOWEVER, you may also want to look at a CRT set.  The image quality is amazing.  CRT's are very tried and true and that's what is being used in the television industry for video quality control.  They're not as compact as the flatscreen televisions, but I think you may like the image quality.  Especially when it comes to viewing the set from different angles in a room.

I've been thinking the same thing.  Between manufacturing resources, marketing budgets and shelf space at retail Star Wars is not going to have an easy time at retail.  Hasbro has to devote a lot of those things to Transformers and Spiderman.  Just walking down a toy aisle is going to show you that.  How much shelf space does Spiderman have right now?  And how much more product is there for Spiderman on the pegs and shelves right now?  And in a month the focus will shift to Transformers as the marketing blitz for that movie begins.  The T-formers preview figures are already out.

I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed that Thrawn placed in the poll.  The EU is so expansive that you would think that the top ten would be exclusively characters that have never been made before.  Sure, there have been plenty of other characters in the other polls that have been produced before, but in this case I feel like voting for a new Thrawn is a little bit of a waste.

Got my badge today.  I was surprised since I registered for the show relatively late.

3 out of 10?  Not terrible I guess, but the ones that I'm really attached to didn't place.

I like the idea of upgrading R2-B1 (much like the Red Royal Starship Droid update) and I also like the Animated CW Clone too.

Ditto.  But will they include the charging station?  I thought that was one of the cooler accessories to come with an astro droid.

As for the Clone in the poncho?  I hope they don't just recycle the Luke or Qui-Gon ponchos for this one.