I haven't had one of these in awhile now but I'm need to fill in a few holes in my collection from the past year or so. I need the following figures, Loose and Complete is just fine unless noted. I'd love army builders at Wal-Mart's current $4 clearance if anyone has access to extras.

  * Denotes need for extras
  ^ Denotes need for MOMC
 

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  - THE VINTAGE COLLECTION
 
     -  VCP03: Rocket Fett^ (Totally forgot to order him...)
     -  VC05: AT-AT Commander *
     -  VC06: See-Threepio (C-3PO)   
     -  VC07: Dack Ralter *
     -  VC68: Rebel Soldier (Echo Base Battle Gear) *
     -  VC69: Bastila Shan ^

     - EXCLUSIVE BATTLE PACKS:

          Search for Luke Skywalker (Target) (Clearanced sets only)

    - BOUNTY HUNTERS (Convention Exclusive) Includes:
             - VCP01 4-LOM
             - VCP02 Zuckuss

    - Empire #8: "Darklighter" (Celebration V)
             - Camie Marstrap
             - Laze "Fixer" Loneozner

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  - THE LEGACY COLLECTION

     -  BD32: Spacetrooper *
     -  BD40: Captain Needa *
     -  BD42: Hoth Rebel Trooper *
     -  BD09: Rum Sleg
     -  BD32: Imperial Scanning Crew *
     -  BD33: Hrchek Kal Fas
     -  BD34: Leesub Sirln
     -  BD48: Snowtrooper (Concept Art) *
     -  BD50: Cloud City Wing Guard (Black) *
     -  BD50: Cloud City Wing Guard (Alien) *
     -  BD52: R2-X2
     -  Build-A-Droid: BG-J38
     -  BD61: Shaak Ti
     - Plourr Ilo & Dllr Nep Comic Pack
     - Machook, Keoulkeech & Kettch Comic Pack
     - #3: Kyle Katarn & Yuuzhan Vong (Just need the Katarn not the Vong)

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  - The 30th Anniversary Collection

     -  Rebel Honor Guard *

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  - Power of the Jedi

     -  BoShek *

Quote from: Ryan on February 25, 2012, 02:52 AM

I went out to four Wal-Marts tonight. I wasn't able to find any new figures.

That in itself is crazy.

Nobody should be able to go to four different Walmart stores and find nothing new.

Well there was TPM stuff on the shelves it has just been there for a month or so, I wasn't counting it as 'new'. I still have yet to see a 'Vintage' Maul though. And in all fairness, the Denver area has been **** for toys for at least a year and a half. Which makes it all the more crazy what happened to me today.

My girlfriend found all of Wave 11 for me today, after a price adjustment they only rang up at $4 a pop.

When I was back tonight getting the price adjusted, I stopped by the SW section to see if anything else had turned up that day or if there were any army builders worth buying. I grabbed two Endor Rebels and two Naboo troopers, the Endor Rebels came up at $4 each and the Naboo guys came up at full price. So I asked the clerk why the other ones weren't $4 and she didn't understand either. By this time a line was starting to form behind me while she was waiting on her CSM to help her out. The CSM came over and said that I could have all of them for $4 each and walked away. So the cahier continued to ring them up and the total came up to $19 or something, then she all of a sudden said, "Wait, I did that wrong. I rang two up at $5." So she preceded to start voiding them, somehow she ended up taking off all the two $4 figures and the total for all four figures came up to $10 even before tax. She gave me the new total, and I asked if she rang them all up. She said, "Yup, I just voided the other ones." There was a long line behind me and after trying once to do the right thing I was content to walk away with four more figures for $10.80, about the cost of a single figure normally.

All told in the last 24 hours I've bought 11 figures for a total of $40.80, including tax.

Mon Cal Pilot
General Cracken
Sandstorm Lando
Sandstorm Leia
Jedi Luke'
Two Endor Rebels
Two Rebel Fleet Troopers
Two Naboo Security Troopers

And on top of that my girlfriend's mom bought me another RFT and a Stormtrooper.

All told I've bought at least as many figures at retail in the past 24 hours as I've bought at retail in about the last year... That's pretty crazy.

Following Jack's lucky $4 Delete Scene score, I went out to four Wal-Marts tonight. I wasn't able to find any new figures but I did manage to find two Rebel Fleet Troopers for $4 each.

Quote from: Jesse James on February  2, 2012, 01:42 AM

I think you were looking at the Clone Wars villain-of-the-week, not a Movie Heroes figure...  Savage Oppress.

Ah, thank you.  Cards were all mixed together, Maul was everywhere.  Then he turned pale yellow.  I was confused. 

That brings up something that I found kind of interesting... I don't follow the CW stuff, pretty much at all. When I heard that they are going to do some of the CW figures in the Realistic Vintage style I didn't know if it meant that they were going to completely do away with the Animated CW line. Upon seeing the displays at Target I actually thought that they had just started to put some animated figures in with the Movie Heros line... There were probably at least twice as many pegs for Movie Heroes stuff as there were for CW or Vintage. And with the packaging being virtually identical from the front it took me a bit to realize that there were two lines mixed together. These two look even more similar that last year's Legends and CW cards. If a season SW collector has trouble immediately noticing the difference, an average retail employee doesn't stand a chance. I hope those of you that collect CW are ready to look for everything online...

X-Wings in the EU always got the "they're new" kind of treatment, but I totally agree on Y-Wings...  YW's were always a CW era ship that found its way, stripped to the bones, to the Alliance.  While the cartoon tried to squeeze them into the CW, the films didn't, and I think Lucas **** the bed on that.

And the ARC-170 is anything but an X-WIng predecessor...  Z-95's though?  Again, another moment where Lucas could've given a fan wank with that ship, and to the EU, and to Ralph McQuarrie.  They too may be sneaking into the CW series, but it's not the same as showing them in the PT...

INstead, 100% new designs like Jedi Fighters and the V-Wing.  *shrugs*

Dusting off this thread just a bit...

I really agree with this as well. I'd really have like to see the ship designs from the CW era tie in A LOT closer with the OT. Don't get me wrong, for the most part they are all cool designs, I just don't find them particularly logical for the timeframe.

The Republic had been around for what 20000 years or so? That is a hell of a long time for a spacefaring culture to be around. At some point they had to have come to a technological plateau. I'd think that they'd likely keep the same designs for much longer than the 20 year gap between ROTS and Star Wars. Hell even between AOTC and ROTS ship designs change drastically. By today's standards we tend to keep fighter aircraft in service for 20-30 years at least. The F-16 was debuted in the late 70s and it is still in active service and production today. Considering how much technology has changed since the 1970s, that is really saying something about the longevity of our modern fighter aircraft. There is no way that in the Star Wars universe spacecraft would be phased out service faster than we phase out our fighters today. 

2011 is done & gone so onto the 2012 Great Collector's Challenge. Will it be the last one?

Reference from the past Great Collector's Challenge:

The Great 2011 Collector's Challenge
The Great 2010 Collector's Challenge
The Great 2009 Collector's Challenge
The Great 2008 Collector's Challenge
The Great 2007 Collector's Challenge
The Great 2006 Collector's Challenge
The Great 2005 Collector's Challenge
The Great 2004 Collector's Challenge

Targets around me dropped the Taun-Taun set and the vinty Taun-Taun and Landspeeder to $17.48. I almost nabbed them, but I decided to wait a bit to get them when they go lower.

Wow either these were pulled or every single one of these around me sold within 3 days... I went to two Targets today, both had at least 4 of each sets a few days ago. Today all I was able to find was a single Luke's Taun Taun.

With 2011 all over, I finished just over halfway under my target of $1000 with $479. Not too bad, though I'm over $1000 by about $200 if I count the new flatscreen TV I had to buy this year after my old one died.

I would have gone over for sure if distribution was better at retail. I wanted small armies of the new Rebel troopers but I only ever bought what I saw at retail, which wasn't a whole lot.