Here’s a quick breakdown of questions that have popped up around the Internet:

•Ratts Tyrell will be released later on with some of his little ones or something (per Hasbro).

•No dais will be released in 2009 (that doesn’t mean one won’t be shown at Comic-Con). There simply will be no dais in 2009.

•Gun Ship Gunnery Pod Battle Pack will have two Clone Pilots and ONE, UNO, UN, EIN, ένας; одно… Republic Gunship Gunner Pod.

•Qui-Gon Jinn on Eopie will have his Tatooine desert poncho, and the Eopie will have updated deco. (Qui-Gon Jinn is the Evolutions figure.)

•The cardback seen here and on many other sites is just a mock-up. The shirtless Darth Maul is in the Wal*Mart Build-A-Droid range.

•Initial shipments of the Hoth Rebel Soldier will not have the soft-goods skirt, and that is simply an error. (Hasbro  customer service CANNOT correct this.) Besides, it will be "rare-er", so you might want to not open it up. (I will, but I’m not right in the head.)

•Does the Clone Wars Jabba The Hutt Battle Pack come with the Weequay? Definitive NO.  (Direct from Hasbro!)
 
•Medical Frigate Luke Skywalker is officially nicknamed "Bath Robe Luke" by Hasbro.

•Yes, I did sneak "him" into the showroom for that one photo in front of the Turbo Tank (just for scale, of course).

He travels more comfortably than I do.
(This is the "Rock-A-Billy" version of the figure, which a very skilled
proto painter made. It’s on a modified Order 66 Mace Windu body.)

Few plugs: Thanks to DELTA AIRLINES, the official airline of Galactic Blogger (or whatever); the Molly Wee Pub, the official pub of…; Mr. Black NYC, the official club/event of…; and Hasbro (DDP and BP) for generally tolerating the geek media (even though security kicked me out before I could photograph Littlest Pet Shop).

A real doll (Amanda LePore) meets an action figure (Stormy Sevenspire) @ Mr. Black NYC.
(Sorry, I had to edit out her nip-slip.)

Tremendous thanks to Mr. Black NYC (Google or check MySpace) along with Amanda Lepore,
Jonny McGovern, and whoever needs thanking for all the bar comps. (It was a fun Thursday night.)

While I’m here… Poster Contest Winners!!! Do not despair! They did not get lost in the mail or anything like that. The mailing tubes were shoved under a bed in the guestroom (when a guest was coming to visit) and they have since been discovered. This can be blamed on Galactic Blogger‘s Partner (who would be Mr. Galactic Blogger, but there’s that whole marriage thing that spares him from such misery).

Also, the Show Us Your BMF contest has been narrowed down to TWO finalists. (In all honesty, I had hoped to be able to leak the Turbo Tank earlier, but that’s the prize.) [Blogger's Note: Good job Hasbro on keeping the piece relatively "under wraps" for so long!] A winner will be announced very shortly… I have AD/HD, so choosing a winner is like… let’s ride bikes.

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