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Elsewhere Jessie asked where Sharon and I find our collectibles. For my part, I make regular stops at a Target and a Wal-mart for the new Hasbro items. I try to check a toy aisle 2-3 times a week. If I'm down Disney way I'll stop in Once Upon a Toy (Downtown Disney) where you can find the occasional exclusive. When new Gentle Giant stuff is making it's rounds I often peek into Bad Apple Comics, and when I'm there I walk across the street and scope out Toys R Us. Kay-Bee and K-Mart are also places for the Hasbro fare but the finds are sparse from my experience, and the prices are always higher.

One note, the comic shops can be competitive on the statues and other items they buy from distributors, but typically you'll pay too much for an action figure in these places as most often they acquired those pieces from one of the retailers you and I shop in.

In the past six months I've broken down and started ordering from Entertainment Earth and I've always had luck with Star Wars Shop. In both of these cases some comparison shopping is a wise way to proceed, but I've found good service at both. A benchmark of fair prices is going to be Ebay, on which I've gotten solid reliable deals with seller DrToysCloseouts and lots of others, generally dealing with 99+% positively-rated dealers.

We were talking about Notable and Notorious somewhere up the thread. I finally got to visit the store on Visitor's Circle and have to say it looks like a recipe for failure. Maybe they do Ebay business or they make a living from the autographs, but frankly I found their store to be quite boring. They are chock full of a whole lot of nothing. As for SW stuff, they maybe had a dozen SW pieces, half of which are the MR lightsabers.

I'll stop in the next TJ Maxx I see. There are several Indy pieces I missed.