That's what I was thinking. However, until I see a picture of it other than a promo shot, I shall remain skeptical. Lego has been known to play around with editing their promotional pics to make things look even more amazing than they already were.

Interesting ... if nothing else the ones I can't use will go into my minfig parts and be blessed to become something better :o)

I'm definitely getting several Legionarys, Minotaurs and Highlanders to swell the ranks of my ever-growing Chaos Horde, possibly a couple of the robots to add to the Grand Duchy of New York's army (well, the droid section, anyways), several Bandits to add to either the wasteland raider gangs or possibly as a special-operations unit for the Neo-Confederacy. In addition, I'm going to be getting some Stature of Liberties (or at the very least picking up the heads on BrickLink) to add some female Orcs to my Orc population (both good and evil), as well as a couple Aliens and a genie or two..... Definitely some good stuff coming out with the next set. In the meantime, I'm going to continue collecting evil dwarves, royal guards, gladiators and the odd lizard man and zookeeper for my nefarious purposes.

Zookeepers are nefarious?

These figs are great! It's too bad TLG uses the cheaper plastic for them. They don't even feel like ABS! (at least the ones I've seen)

The quality issues for the Collectible Minifigs has been addressed. I personally haven't had many problems with them, especially the later series.

Agreed, they just 'feel' funny.

The zookeeper's torsos make very convincing WWII-style female US Army type uniforms, and I've been using them to help slowly enlarge my Federal Republic of America Army.....

Ah, I see.

Anyone seen these on shelves yet?

In Britian they've been released, seen some on a flickr stream last week, I think. I need the kid with the teddy bear, prolly 2 of them.