Week of: Feb. 12th, 2001

Sunday, Feb. 18th:

Hallmark Ornament

Hallmark stores are now starting to put out their spring ornaments. In this group they have an ESB lunch box with thermos ornament. The price on this set is $14.95. For some reason, I have always liked the lunch box items that Hallmark has done and this piece is no exception.

100th Edition 12" Luke in Janesville

Ian reports that the Wal-Mart in Janesville had seven of these Saturday night. That is a fairly large number considering the price. This Wal-Mart also has a large number of the 12" Darth Maul with Sith Speeders.

Saturday, Feb. 17th:

100th Edition 12" Luke

Wal-Mart east in Madison had three of these on the shelf this morning. This is the first sighting I have heard about in the area, at least at normal retail. Wal-Mart had them priced at $39.84. After talking with Ray H this morning about these, I find out that there is a variation regarding the floppy hat. Some of them have small pegs to hold Luke's binoculars and some don't. I have both versions, so this is real. The one I got from Wal-Mart this morning has these pegs while the one that I got on-line in December doe not.

Aurra Sing Wave

This news is a little late, but Paul V reports that Target east in Madison had two each of this wave on the pegs on Wednesday. I have seen other reports of these being found in Wisconsin as well. I hope that show up in a little higher quantity than the Plo Koon or Biker Scout waves have.

12" Darth Maul with Sith Speeder

It doesn't look like either Wal-Mart east or west in Madison has sold a single one of these since I reported about them on Wednesday. It looks like our area is saturated on this particular set.

Wednesday, Feb. 14th:

12" Darth Maul with Sith Speeder

Chris P reports that Wal-Mart west in Madison had 8 of their 12" exclusives yesterday. I saw a similar number at Wal-Mart east in Madison today. If you missed getting these the first time, it looks like you will have a second chance. Keep in mind that the Wal-Mart exclusives haven't shown up at clearance at other stores like Kay Bee.

Tuesday, Feb. 13th:

I Did It

Yep, I went and did it. I got a tattoo of the bantha skull emblem from Boba Fett's armor. I have been talking about getting this tattoo for quite a while, I'm glad I finally got it. I would like to thank those of you who helped point me in the direction of the needed artwork. I got a lot of good reference material and the tattoo looks great.