The Clone Wars Sgt. Bric Mailaway figure with Battle Mat is now showing up in mailboxes across the nation. Curatola01 reports his delivery today and sends us a couple of photos for your perusal.

The folks at Gentle Giant have announced their next 2 Jumbo Vintage Kenner 12 inch figures to be Darth Vader and Princess Leia Organa! Both come with reproduction vinyl capes and Vader even includes a telescoping lightsaber. Details and photos after the jump!

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From BigBadToyStore: We've just assembled a list of 100 items with prices cut to $5 or less,  there are many Hasbro 3.75" figures from the Marvel, Star Wars, and GI Joe lines, as well as a variety of Sota figures and various other misc items. 

The Target exclusive Senate Guard 2 Pack is available online at Amazon.com for $14.99 each. There's also the Bounty Hunter Pack and Hidden Enemy and Hostage Crisis Battle Packs still available.

We've seen tons of swapped figures over the years, but this particular case of fraud is a little different and devious. To even the trained eye, it looks like there's nothing wrong, but it really does show that stores should keep an eye on things like a copyright date on the package. What happened this time? Well, reader Ed found someone actually found a way to make stores take 1990s action figures but think they're new. More on this disgrace after the jump.

We finish up this special theme week of Target exclusive toys (just released) with Shaak Ti, a retooled version of the 2005 figure.  Her arms are new, and she's recolored-- is that enough to capture your dollars?  Read on!

It's not every day you get a figure with his own trophies, but Clone Trooper Chopper, a new Target exclusive, has a droid finger necklace.  Awesome!  Is the figure otherwise interesting?  Read on!

This R2-D2 from the recently released Target Exclusive Arena Battle sets is loosely based on the 2004 Vintage design, but with a heavily retooled torso and head.  But why is his big eye clear?   Read on!

Fan numero uno, inspiration to a generation of Star Wars fans, and all-around nice guy Steve Sansweet announced today he'll be leaving Lucasfilm to pursue a different direction.

A fan got his hands on Clone Hevy in Training Armor, giving us first glimpse at the cool figure.  But what's really cool are the new figures revealed on the cardback, like a new super-articulated Cad Bane with Todo 360, Ahsoka's astromech droid, a new Obi-Wan Kenobi, and confirmation of a reissue of Hondo Ohnaka! See more at Sandtroopers.com.

Hey, it's the new Target Exclusive Senate Commando figure!  This awesome release is basically the Argyus body with a new head, but that's enough to warrant the purchase!

We've got another story of retail woe (and a return of a real vintage figure to stores) in our latest entry in this ongoing saga of retail theft.  Reader Nik was looking at the new Target AT-ST... and guess what he found?

We kick off this week of new Target exclusives with Shahan Alama, a Weequay pilot with a robot arm!  He's in the new (and popular) Bounty Hunter pack with Robonino and a couple of droids, and made of mostly new parts.  You want him-- admit it.  Read on!

Because I love a good story-- even a good story gone wrong-- we're going to share Reader John's Wal-Mart swap-out story today.  John saw not one, not two, but five Sandtroopers swapped out and returned to the store by a thief and, surprise surprise, the store wasn't too receptive to him trying to help. More after the jump.