Saw someone pulled the old switcheroo with the tin sets already.  I had been looking for an AOTC tin today, and I was pretty stoked to see Jango and Dooku when I walked down this one toy aisle today.  But then I looked closer and saw that the package was for the ROTS set, and the other figure 2-pack had Mace and Yoda.  Someone apparently was after the Clone Troopers.  LAME.

Started seeing the NFL team 3-packs this weekend.  I honestly don't have a lot of interest in these other than the Giants set.  I saw one of those today, but the paintjob on Plax was pretty bad.  I'm passing until I can find a good one.

The Dallas lineup seems kind of blah.  You would think that McFarlane might have tried to get a TO in the lineup for that.  The Pittsburgh set is okay with Joey Porter being in the lineup, and I know Big Ben was kind of hot as a figure last year.  But I'm not buying another Hines Ward.  The Pats lineup is decent, but really, how much has Corey Dillon even played this year?  It seems like Maroney is getting most of the carries for New England.

I definitely like the concept here, but what other teams are good choices for this kind of offering?  You could probably do a Colts set.  Maybe a Chargers set, too.  But who else, really?

So far I've scored what I set out to get:  both Mannings and as luck would have it today, I found a Titans Mawae.

Anyone buying them for just 1 or 2 figures should wait. They will be re-released on cards or in battle packs quicker than you can say Re-Hashbro 

In a way I agree with this sentiment.  Hasbro has re-released so many figures that eventually this may well happen.  But for the health of the line?  I think if we want to see a variety of product on the market and we *somewhat* like a product, then I think we should try to support lines like the Collector Tins.  Otherwise we may see this kind of variety in the Star Wars line dry up.

A reasonably good score tonight.  One each of the following:

Naboo Solider
Rep Been
Dud Bolt & Mars Guo
Gragra
Holo Darth Maul
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Endor Luke Skywalker
Endor Rebel Trooper (afican american version)

You know what is almost as good as Guinness and will do in a pinch??

Bah!!!  Try this:

I've had "island" cigars about a dozen times and I think the "bang to hype" ratio is way out of whack.  But you have to have one, just so you can say you did it.

The quality doesn't live up to the hype.  The reason being that the state of agriculture on the island has slid pretty far down.  The embargo has definitely had effects on the state of things there.  Should things change politically on the island, I think there will probably be a sort of boom there in agriculture (tobacco, sugar cane, rum, etc) and tourism.  But the political climate has hurt the island.  I know I'd be smoking their cigars if things change, but even with Castro's illness it looks like things are going to remain the same.

The Cardigans Super Extra Gravity