[jgawne]

These are slowly popping up, and other than the cost (yikes!) they are not bad. Walgreens Drugstore has the blind bags for $4 a pop now. I haven't seen the kits in any stores, but I have found out that Wal-Mart (damn them!) is getting two exclusives: a tower kit and two special figs, and a gate kits with two special figs. Only place I can find those is on ebay, and looks like they are being prices pretty high. No idea on what the actual list price is supposed to be, but the overall cost of the kits is pretty damn high.

I'm not really sure why they made them as 'lego' kits, as you can only really build one thing with them. If they had done one piece for the side of the tower (as an example) it would have been a lot cheaper.

If you find out the WalMart list price I'd like to know.

[jgawne]

AND just to add to this- if you happen to buy a blind bag of Carl, before you open it, check if his hat is in the bag, if not it's a defective pack and you should insist they take it back (by pointing to the illustration of him with the hat on the instruction sheet). Apparently a lot of people have got him missing the hat. like me.

[riot control]

They were originally released last year at Toys R Us. That's where I picked up almost all of mine so far. If you look in the photo shoot section you will see some awesome pics from the photo staff here. Price, will vary, but at my TRU the prison tower w/gate is $74. Walmart here has the Tower for $36 and the gate for $16.

[jgawne]

the Walmart exclusives have different figures which I suspect will be sought after. If you can get the exclusives at your Walmart maybe we can make a deal.