It's a very nice touch to include the battle-damaged panel.

$140

I take it back... 

This one is incredible. The new sculpt really highlights how dated the old one was looking. It's a very nice touch to include the battle-damaged panel. The new Vader card is really nice, and I'm glad there appears to be no changes to Vader so that I only have to buy one of these.

Small stream today, but all good things. I'm fully support moving back to 6x9 cards for all deluxe if they are going to use the standard numbering. That way they physically fit into people's carded displays and star cases. I didn't hate the POTF2 Vader's TIE, but man after seeing this reveal it is crazy to see how dated it really was. The new one looks incredible. We knew the snowtroopers were coming but its still good to get official confirmation. And I'm really happy to hear the Cantina & Stormtrooper set will go back up for preorder. I'm definitely setting an alarm this time to make sure I don't miss them again.

Yay... This is definitely my least favorite of these lately.

The singles I bought from Amazon were also bumped, but mine are back to September 12th. I feel like a lot hit fairly recently, so I guess a little break is ok.

Seeing as that set sold out so fast that not many people got it, I would say that's a no Jeff.

Agree, but I've gotta hope that they will do another production run of the Cantina set (& the Stormtrooper set) closer to release, and that the pre-sales aren't the full run. IIRC, the Jabba's goon four pack also sold out on Pulse for a while, but they later produced more and put them back in stock.

This figure looks great.  It's not a $28 item.  My biggest gripe is that his left hand basically won't hold any of the accessories that he comes with, and the extra hand that you can swap out is for his right arm, so it's basically only worthwhile if you want him to hold the cup instead of the staff or a blaster in his right hand.

I still don't have mine yet, but that's definitely the impression I get looking at it. Hasbro could have easily left out the hand, big gun, and I'd have been fine with it as a regular release. It's a shame the left hand doesn't hold anything. They should have included an additional swappable left hand to help justify the deluxe value. Although they probably would have added $6 more just for the second hand...

Just got notice from Amazon that these should be here on Monday. And I also noticed that Amazon bumped the price on these up to $34.99... 

I never have, but looks like yours may have two right feet, too. Good luck getting it resolved. Hopefully since it is still so now they have replacements that they can send out.