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steved wrote: ....Also, I hear the vintage AOTC range got a pre Xmas release in Australia .. I wonder how long until they grace our shelves?

Did anyone hear if Aussie ended up getting the ROTJ wave?
After all the talk of Australasia missing out on that wave and then having them show up here, it would be no big surprise if we got all of the ROTJ wave and they got all of the AOTC wave.

Hopefully not, but it's concievable. Especially since it sounds like they released the AOTC figures to stores at the exact same time we got the ROTJ wave.

I was just wondering if that very thing had occurred. The timing was uncanny. There's certainly been no sign of AOTC here, nor in the USA, where wave 5 has just hit, the first nonthemed wave with figures from across the films. Distribution over the past month has been all kinds of weird between our three territories.

Nice spotting Rev. I just had a little search for info on that wave5. Looks like it includes 4 OT figures that I'm going to have to hunt down.
R5D4, Stormtrooper, Luke and Yavin Han.

The Yoda appears to be on a ROTS card, so my OT vintage collection can live without that one

Bazzack wrote:..
R5D4, Stormtrooper, Luke and Yavin Han.

The Yoda appears to be on a ROTS card, so my OT vintage collection can live without that one

Yes, those figures from that wave are "must-haves"...especially the R5-D4 (with original card pic, IIRC), and Luke (with 'Escape from Death Star' pic).

They can keep the Yoda on a RotS card though, until they choose to use a decent OT sculpt.

Agreed on Yoda.

R5-D4 uses the BAD mold and has a fairly minimal, clean paint job too, so if you're looking to custom build some droids, he's going to be a great source of white astromech parts. I may pick up a couple with that in mind.

BBTS just put the AOTC Wave into my pile of loot. Sadly they also put $200US worth of Transformers in there as well, and with no funds I had to cancel the majority of the order. Oh well.

Zippo wrote:BBTS just put the AOTC Wave into my pile of loot. Sadly they also put $200US worth of Transformers in there as well, and with no funds I had to cancel the majority of the order. Oh well.

BBTS?

Bazzack wrote:

Zippo wrote:BBTS just put the AOTC Wave into my pile of loot. Sadly they also put $200US worth of Transformers in there as well, and with no funds I had to cancel the majority of the order. Oh well.

BBTS?

Big Bad Toy Store

Sandtroopers.com have pictures of El-Les and Barriss Offee loose. Both figures look superb, although the surprise omission of knee and elbow joints on Barriss may annoy some collectors.

Bazzack wrote:...I just had a little search for info on that wave5. Looks like it includes 4 OT figures that I'm going to have to hunt down. R5D4, Stormtrooper, Luke and Yavin Han...

...now that I've seen good pics...I badly want these two in particular...