Big update time! I took some time to set up and photograph my newest acquisitions that all arrived last week in the mega-huge-ultimate-awesome-make-me-squeal-like-a-little-girl-and-almost-wet-myself-with-excitement box...
Some assorted Clone Wars figures (Robonino came off e-bay and he's awesome):
Going OT, some cool cantina aliens that most of you probably already have by now (bought two Saurins so I can custom one to look like the second one in the cantina):
I love concept art figures so I had to snag the latest two in the line:
The new Walmart exclusive Dewback! I love Dewbacks and these new ones are fabulous. My army building tendencies compelled me to snag two. They're seen here with the moisture vaporator and Sandtrooper from the Lars Homestead set, which I also grabbed:
The old POTF2 era Owen and Beru sculpts are a bit sad looking nowadays, but fortunately the same box that brought me these had the new AOTC wave Larses in it too. Beru rides astride the rereleased mailaway Eopie, which I bought two of for my dioramas:
Here's the other one, hanging with some of his prequel and EU buddies that arrived in the same big box. Great to finally finish building L8-L9:
I love Jabba's palace and have been collecting anything Jabba related, including bounty hunters and palace thugs, so these guys were all must-haves, including an extra Leia that I got by accident during an e-bay transaction mix-up. That's cool - she will be customised into either Jess or Jabba's pod race balcony eye candy girl someday:
Getting to the big stuff now, here's Wedge's X-Wing and a whole pile of rebels that all came in the same box. I was also able to complete a bunch of astromech BaDs and pick up the last astromechs I needed to make my astro droid collection up to date and finished:
Oops! These pilots should have been in that last picture but i somehow missed them. Here they are posed duking it out with my new Imperial scanning techs:
I have an Endor diorama planned so I have been stockpiling ewoks with some serious customising in mind. I grabbed a full set of modern ewok sculpts along with some extras of the latest pair off another trade forum. They all went to the same address as the rest of my stuff so arrived together in the big box. The new AT-ST is fabulous. It puts its progenitor to shame, being bigger, almost over articulated, if that's possible, and so much closer to being screen accurate:
I was truly shocked at how huge the TriDroid was. To convey his true size, he's shown here with a Super Battle Droid that came with a Jedi from one of the Geonosis Arena two-packs that came out last year and some mechno chairs that I plan on doing custom work with. They all arrived in this box too along with a bunch of other Jedi and clones below:
And finally, I really liked the look of the Resurgence of the Jedi battlepack, so I grabbed this one too. The new Luke in it is excellent, and apart from kinda too short legs, he's the best Tatooine Luke yet (yes, another one!):
Wow, what a haul. Seeing it all together I almost felt a little sick, like when you eat too much cake, but I justify it by saying this is the lion's share of a year or more's worth of collecting, so it's not quite so self indulgent and mad as it looks,.. or maybe it is. Anyways, i hopefully just have enough time to recover before the new CW and vintage stuff starts hitting. I saw all of Vintage wave 1 except Leia while in Sydney last week. Seeing vintage cardbacks on the pegs again was a really cool experience, but I resisted picking any up on account of the price tags and because I am still recovering from the shipping charge for all this!!!
