So yeah, Christmas is coming. Yay. The full stop should indicate the inflection of sarcasm in that last sentence. I'm not a huge one for christmas, especially where the family gatherings are involved, so I'll be mostly skipping that this year and cursing general lack of availability of Wii, as well as Santa's refusal to bring me an Xbox 360. Miserable fat bastard.
Still, I did buy some new SW figures the other day. For some odd reason, Toys R Us seem to be getting some actual new stock, so they have some decent choices. Still no bloody blue clones though. That's a pain. But I did grab the Luke (with poncho!) and Sandtrooper.
The Luke is a vast improvement on many of the older sculpts. He no longer looks like a muscle-bound pseudo-He-Man, or for that matter a gibbering retard. He just looks like Luke, which is good. He also comes with his poncho, so you can pretend he's a younger, whinier version of Clint Eastwood's man with no name character, as well as the box that Ben Kenobi grabs Anakin's lightsaber out of. Pretty cool.
The Sandtrooper is fucking awesome. Based on the Stormtrooper sculpt used for the Vintage Saga Collection (those ones in 1977-era packaging with four million points of articulation), it's just a fucking great figure and looks great on the shelf, whatever position you put him in (oo-er missus). My only complaint is the rubbery blaster that bends pretty easily. But Hasbro never get everything right.
Before I go, an apology to whoever left comments before: I didn't realize they had to be approved, so they never showed. I've turned off moderation now, so you are free to post without fear of prior approval.
