Week of: April 9th, 2001

Friday, April 13th:

Lando Wave

Well, this didn't turn out to be an unlucky day for me. I found the Lando wave at Wal-Mart Sun Prairie. Aaron is also having computer problems, so he wanted me to let you know that he found two cases of this wave at the Wal-Mart in Berlin this afternoon. All of the figures I saw were of the .0300 variety. Lando is much better than the first. It looks like they reworked his head sculpt adding more detail. His cape is nicely done although I can't see how it is attached. It looks like he comes with the same blaster as the Leia Bespin Escape. Tessek has a good head sculpt and comes with a working holster. Jar Jar has a really long tongue and it doesn't look like it is removable. He also has ball joint shoulders. Even if his tongue is removable, his head is cocked back at an angle that wouldn't look right. R2-Q5 looks to be an all new sculpt, why I do not know. Although I have watched the movies hundreds of times and not seen him, he is pretty cool looking and the Death Star 2 is a nice addition.

Thursday, April 12th:

Server Problems

I am having problems uploading to Geocities, sorry for the late news.

Tuesday, April 10th:

Lando Wave

Steve W. found the Lando wave at a Wal-Mart in the Milwaukee area. This wave includes Lando (Bespin Escape), Tessek, R2-Q5, and Jar Jar Bink (Tatooine with long tongue). They were all on .0300 cards. Hopefully I get a chance to get them before they switch to the .0400 card. He reports that Lando is the best, but the paint jobs aren't as good as the pictures from Toy Fair.