Week of: July 1st, 2002

Saturday, July 6th

Palpatine Wave

Target west in Madison had a case of this wave on the pegs this morning. Unfortunately, all of the new figures had slightly crushed bubbles.

More Han Solo Wave

Hell has frozen over. It is the only explanation why Wal-Mart Stoughton got in 5 cases of these. This store has never carried much for Star Wars and has not had a shipment since April 23rd. Anyway, they don't have room on the 2 pegs for all of these figures so they just stacked the cases in the isle. If you need these, it might be worth the trip since this store doesn't see much traffic from collectors.

Thursday, July 4th

Han Solo Wave

I stopped by Target west in Madison today not expecting to find much. But, I was pleasantly surprised. They had one each of this wave one the pegs. Bobaphat28 reports that the Target in Grafton had them yesterday as well. The Han Solo figure now has the silver droid caller, but is otherwise the same as I the one in the case by himself. Obi-Wan is a figure designed to fit into the Jedi Starfighter. As such, he is articulated in a way to make that possible and he comes with a cloth robe. I think the cloth is too thick looking. Another thing I didn't like about this figure is that his headset wraps all the way around his head instead of only halfway around. It is nice that the antenna fits into the ship. Chewy is the best figure in the group. He comes with C-3PO and a cargo net. C-3PO is in three parts, a head, a torso, and the rest. I wish he had an arm, with articulation, attached to the torso so that it would be more movie accurate. Also, C-3PO is not metalized like past figures and he doesn't look as good because of this. Chewy has a nice head sculpt plus highly articulated arms. They each have ball joint shoulders, swivel elbows, and wrist joints.

Deluxe Mace Windu with Red Battle Droid

Target west in Madison also had one of these on the pegs today and Bobaphat28 reports that the Target in Grafton had them yesterday. It is interesting since this is the first intentional variation to the Saga line.

Palpatine Wave

Shopko east in Madison had these on the pegs today. It has been a long time since I last saw them, but at $7.99 they are pretty expensive.

Wednesday, July 3rd

I haven't been able to upload to the site for a few days so there is a little old news to deal with.

Han Solo Wave

Both Ian and Joel Y. report that Target west in Madison had some of these on the pegs this morning. This is full wave release that includes Chewy and Obi-Wan Pilot. The Han figures had the silver droid caller.

Tuesday, July 2nd

12" Jango Fett

Wal-Mart east in Madison put out a case of these this morning. Their price is $39.96. I was hoping it would be in the $35 range.

Monday, July 1st

Unleashed Figures

Wal-Mart east in Madison and Wal-Mart Sun Prairie both had the Unleashed figures today. Their price is $14.96. These things seem to be pretty easy to find.